yet another bartop arcade

[ste]

its going ok, got it sanded down today and first coat of paint.





think i'll paint it black or white or both! havent decided yet.

it looked like this this morning



atleast it looks better then it started hehe!

[ste]

so i decided to paint the whole thing red again, i uploaded a youtube video of the guts aka insides of my bartop, i am running a jamma psu with emi filter rgb convertor blue elf 2009 and a 22" hp pc monitor.

[Nimbus]

Nice. I picked up a Blue Elf and a monitor adapter just like the ones you have in your machine a few months ago. I haven't had a chance to use them yet, so it is nice to see that they work well together. I'll probably be sticking mine in a custom "low-boy" or Candy Cab clone. I am even more excited about it after seeing the board running on your machine! Looking forward to pics and vids of the finished project!

Does the board work well on a widescreen monitor? I am just worried that it might stretch the screen unnaturally with a 16:9 monitor. Does it work well like this or should I still use a 4:3 monitor? That would make my monitor searching a heck of a lot easier since 16:9 monitors are everywhere now.

[ste]

hey, im using a 23" monitor and i cant see any screen stretching at all ! it looks great, i havent tried it on a 4.3 monitor because i havent got one but im sure it will work just as well. i think as long as the monitor has VGA your good to go!

and candy cabs are sooooo nice, i was looking at one on ebay but he wanted £750 for it! 

if you need any help setting up e.g. which wires go where just ask!

[Nimbus]

Thanks for the reply! Nice to hear that the picture looks good with a 16:9 ratio. I may be picking up a 29 inch 4:3 CRT monitor for this thing later this week. If I get the monitor, I will definitely build a candy cab clone for it. Yeah, candy cabs are expensive, even when they're used cabinets. I will save a lot of money making one myself.

If the CRT monitor deal falls through, I will grab a 28 or 32 inch widescreen LCD and make an ultra-thin modern looking cab for it.

Either way, I can't wait to get this started!!

Keep us posted on your project.