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Advantage of cabinet with internet access?
DaveMMR:
--- Quote from: UFO on August 25, 2013, 08:10:32 pm ---Every time someone gives me an email address of @aol.com, I say "really?"
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My clients at work are mainly lawyers and I'm floored by how many of them conduct business with an AOL address. As far as professional appearances go, I liken it to handing out business cards written in crayon.
At any rate, my old cab was connected to my home network so that I can troubleshoot and update software and settings remotely. So much easier than pulling out the keyboard. I never worried about viruses/malware/etc. because the only thing on the drive, besides Windows, were the games and frontend software - all duplicated on my main computer's drive. And you really couldn't browse the web on that machine comfortably anyway.
The only this is that I actually went with a wired connection as I didn't want to install the software for the wireless adapter I had and risk it bogging things down with its constant annoyance. I don't know what you have really but something to consider.
icecube45:
--- Quote from: DaveMMR on August 25, 2013, 09:43:53 pm ---
--- Quote from: UFO on August 25, 2013, 08:10:32 pm ---Every time someone gives me an email address of @aol.com, I say "really?"
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My clients at work are mainly lawyers and I'm floored by how many of them conduct business with an AOL address. As far as professional appearances go, I liken it to handing out business cards written in crayon.
At any rate, my old cab was connected to my home network so that I can troubleshoot and update software and settings remotely. So much easier than pulling out the keyboard. I never worried about viruses/malware/etc. because the only thing on the drive, besides Windows, were the games and frontend software - all duplicated on my main computer's drive. And you really couldn't browse the web on that machine comfortably anyway.
The only this is that I actually went with a wired connection as I didn't want to install the software for the wireless adapter I had and risk it bogging things down with its constant annoyance. I don't know what you have really but something to consider.
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The internet card I have works straight out of the box, My only goal now is the online scoreboard, via some autohotkey perhaps?
kuehnau:
--- Quote from: icecube45 on August 25, 2013, 05:01:17 pm ---Hello! I'm almost done with my first build and have a spare wifi card lying around, would there be any advantage to installing it into the machine?
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There's a version of MAME that includes internet access and "live" game play so people can drop in and out. Furthermore, if you don't have a version or copy of a rom someone is playing, it actually lets you download it from them.
I used it a few times to play TMNT online with a friend. Not the best software, but it works better then some versions of MAME I've tried to use.
paigeoliver:
Once I complete a build I never upgrade any of the software.
Don't fix what isn't broken.
If you continually upgrade your mame cabinet then it will either continually develop problems or eventually your old rig will start skipping frames on a newer mame version.
keilmillerjr:
I think internet access would be less useful, and lan access would be very helpful. Like others said, remotely update your cabinet.