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dexxy:

I wanted to say hi to everyone, I'm so happy to have found BYOAC!

I remember seeing my first gaming machine (corner store got a Space Invaders back around '78 and I was hooked from there)

I have been gaming since just before the Apple II, TRS 80 , in fact we used to play star trek on an old ibm mainframe at high school (load the mark sense cards,  run the process, enter moves on the dip switches, punch the execute button, and run to the printer to see what was going on).  take that :)!  So I got into gamedev with the Apple II's.   Fast forward many moons and I am finally building a mame machine. 

My first machine is going to be pretty close to neon mame's design.  I was going to go a bit crazy but decided to keep it middle of the road for now.  I have all my ultimarc stuff and trim etc.  I just have to get the wood to start.   (I built a mechmate cnc machine so I can do all my work on the computer and then just have the machine do the cutting whis is cool, btu I still need to get  a table saw for the angles.)

Last night I picked up a sega Indy 500 dual for a really good deal.  Got it home without breaking my back (man it is heavy even split apart). With some tweaking it is running great!  So the debate is how to get it down into my basement.

I also have a williams fire machine that I shopped (plastics were all good), put on new rubber, had some electromagnet and chip problems that were pretty easy to fix).  Runs like a dream.

Anyways, as u can see I'm happy to be here and will start a project thread as soon as I get cutting.  (still debating lcd vs crt) and size.

Thanks and looking forward to some great chats!

Dex



 


BobA:

Welcome to BYOAC.  Sounds like you are an oldtimer with the TRS80 and Apple II.   I remember adding a disk drive to my TRS 80 and between the added expansion and drive it was about $1000.  I sold my TRS 80 for about $1500 back when and got into CP/M with 8 inch drives.



nox771:

I would be interested in following your build thread, especially with respect to the CNC work.  I'm currently building a 8020 based CNC (a modified FLA100 design), and I'm not sure what direction I'll go on software.  I'm thinking Sketchup for design, and Vectric and Mach3 for driving the thing, but I'd be interested to know what you use on the software end, and any issues/problems that come up on milling CPs and such (although CPs should be trivial for such a machine).

Donkey_Kong:

Welcome dexx

I remember I was knee high to a grasshopper staying at my aunt's in Grand Junction Colorado (probably like 1982-83) and she had a TRS-80 and you had to program a game if ya wanted to play. She had a book of games and I think it was either a poker game or black jack and I got busy with teh coding (I was about 7-8 yrs old). It seemed like it was hundreds of lines, maybe 1000's. Pretty sure it was going to take a decade to complete at my wicked wpm. My aunt couldn't take too much of it before she scooted me out of the way and she friggen wailed out that code like a got damned woody the woodpecker and before ya know it I was knee deep in a hand of good ole black n white text 21. Seems like we actually had to do a little debugging first, couple syntax errors on a few lines. Anyway, didn't take long and I was back in front of the TV watching Revenge of The Nerds over and over all day via satelite. "PANTY RAID...naaaaaeeeehaaaaaeeeeeehaaaaaeeeeehaaaaaaeeee"


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yotsuya:


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You should just CNC yourself a 3' x 5' one and hang it on the wall!  :laugh:

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