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darthpaul:

I am going to present to Management at my job, the positives of having some type of employee recreation to boost moral and to let me build a MAME Cabinet for the employee lunchroom.
I pretty much have the cabinet design done as well as the control panel and some rough artwork.
Here is my question, all permanent employees use an ID card with a UPC bar code on it to access software needed to complete their jobs. I would like to be able to use a bar code scanner to read that bar code and use it the same way as you would by entering a coin or token. Is there a way to get MAME to recognize that scanned card as a coin key press?

   

CoryBee:

I love this idea, and yes there is a way. I did something a couple years back with a combination of joytokey.

darthpaul:

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

paigeoliver:

You absolutely do not want to install a bootleg game cabinet at your place of employment if it is someplace large enough to have upc bar code IDs. Install a Pac-man on free play.

MTPPC:

First, Why do you want to bring your personal interest to work?Second, do you think employees want to be "logged" playing videogames? 3rd, Why do you want to bring your personal interests to work?

This is a bad idea all around.

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