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Miniature Arcade Project
Corbo:
Hi all,
I'm working on a miniature arcade build. I want to build it as small as possible whilst keeping it in proportion and maintaining an authentic arcade feel. I'm blogging my progress here, please feel free to have a look and contribute if you can :)
http://minicade.blogspot.com/
DaOld Man:
Very interesting.
You might want to look at Mala as a frontend too. It is very popular.
Good luck on your project, and posting some pics here would be a good thing too.
Corbo:
Thanks for the tip I'll look into Mala.
I'll certainly post some pics up here, at the moment I'm just sourcing potential parts, artwork and plans. I hope to get some woodwork underway in the coming weeks.
alfonzotan:
--- Quote from: Corbo on April 22, 2011, 05:24:25 am ---Hi all,
I'm working on a miniature arcade build. I want to build it as small as possible whilst keeping it in proportion and maintaining an authentic arcade feel. I'm blogging my progress here, please feel free to have a look and contribute if you can :)
http://minicade.blogspot.com/
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I've been thinking about a similar project myself... one thing that's crossed my mind is to get a cheap (used?) netbook for the innards. That would cover both the monitor and the computer, and depending on the cabinet layout, you might not even have to separate the monitor from the netbook case.
Corbo:
I've considered the netbook option, I have an Atom based one at home I intend to do some MAME testing with as I could remove the 10" screen and hook it up to the 8" model I've got for the cabinet.
I also have a Core2Duo PC kicking around and am looking into putting this into a mini-itx board and using SSD storage. I can get a board which is 170x170mm.
The last option I'm considering is not putting a PC in the cabinet at all. It could just have USB and VGA ports on the back and you could just hook your external laptop/PC up to it when you want to play. I'll only consider this if space or heat becomes a big problem.
What are you thinking about building?
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