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Significant Others beware ! Here comes the Time (wasting) Machine...
thijey:
@wilno : Maybe I'll try something like that, but the distance between the eye and the screen is merely 18 inches and while playing, it even felt a little close. I'll see with the final assembly, but thanks for the advice.
@JZSlenker : thanks ! I try to take as many pics as I can, but I tend to want it completed asap and forget the camera. Still, not too bad 'til now ;)
@thatitalian : yes, what was a bummer at first (no 4x8 available, so had to use 5x5' instead) turned out to be a good thing to spice up a design that was a little too simple. For my personal culture, what's an UAII ? (what means the acronym ?)
I'M using a 19" Philips Brilliance 190P. Maximum resolution is 1280x1024, but it has proven reliable and colors are still very crisp. Plus it has 2 USB slots on the side in case one would want to plug 1 or 2 controllers for 4-player action.
thijey:
Didn't have much time these last few days to work on the cab, but at least I could find a few minutes (yeah right, a "few"...) to make the adjustments on the CP and marquee. Turns out resizing the whole thing and changing a few disposition details wasn't enough for my tight schedule, so I came out with these instead.
There will be a real clock in there, to remind the player that while the girlfriend is waiting, the clock is ticking...
Cakemeister:
You don't speak English, you just read and write it? You do a good job!
BTW the idiom is "laugh your a** off" not "laugh your a** out". "A** out" is another bit of slang meaning "in deep trouble".
Good luck with your project!
deepblue:
C'est Bon! Nice to see yet another Canuck builder on here (I'm outside of Toronto).
You've done a long in 3+ months. I just hit the 2 year mark and am almost done :)
This board will be able to answer any and ever question you've got about the hobby.
Looks great so far, keep us posted with pics!
thijey:
--- Quote from: Cakemeister on April 15, 2010, 06:01:36 pm ---You don't speak English, you just read and write it? You do a good job!
BTW the idiom is "laugh your a** off" not "laugh your a** out". "A** out" is another bit of slang meaning "in deep trouble".
Good luck with your project!
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Subtle difference, I'll try remembering this one. ANd thanks for the english, and although I speak it, I still have that damn french canadian accent I could never get rid of. My written english is better, thanks to all those authors I've read (many thanks to Asimov, Baxter and, shame on me, Rowling ...)
--- Quote from: deepblue on April 15, 2010, 09:47:31 pm ---C'est Bon! Nice to see yet another Canuck builder on here (I'm outside of Toronto).
You've done a long in 3+ months. I just hit the 2 year mark and am almost done :)
This board will be able to answer any and ever question you've got about the hobby.
Looks great so far, keep us posted with pics!
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I must say all the people on this forum are so creative and generous in their comments and contributions, it's amazing. No way such a hobby could exist without all you guys sharing ideas. One that blew me off last week is The no18 Arqadium Engine by drventure. You guys are all inspirations and because of you, I'm becoming a hero among my friends as being "the one who dares do that". If they knew all the help you can get... Anyway, thank you BYOAC Forum for existing !