Main > Project Arcade - the book!
Get ready for the great flood !
jonm:
I knew absolutely nothing about this stuff. About 1 week ago, I downloaded mame, 10.5 gigs of roms, and bought the book. The book is really good! Its great to learn the differences and pros and cons of the different hardware (leaf switches vs microswitches and so on.) I will admit that I work in the computer industry so the electronic parts (like the keyboard emulator) already made sense to me. Anyway thanks for a great book! I got it for a bargain on amazon ($17.99!) I'm already laying out paper versions of a control panel, and yes I do want a 4-player version (mainly because my buddies and I love the old 4 player Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game). I'm thinking of setting up player 1 and 2 in the center with 6 buttons and players 3 and 4 on the outside edges with 4 buttons.
GameOver:
I wouldn't say it's a mid-life crisis, HC, us old timers were playing these games before you could say 'Space Invaders'! This was just the next logical step - get married, house with white picket fence, 3 kids, a dog, and a....full size 2 player upright mame cabinet with a 24" screen!
Say hello to my old friend....
Shape D.:
Wow!!!!! youre friends with a guy who owns an atari shirt!! Sweet!! ;)
tetsujin:
--- Quote from: saint on February 04, 2004, 06:12:38 pm ---Heh :) Unfortunately, I don't know enough to write that book! It would be really short.
Page 1: Beg.
Page 2: Turn to page 1.
--- End quote ---
Heh, a little different with my girlfriend. She was the one who had the initiative to suggest we go ahead and build a cabinet.
The book's great stuff. We were tossing around ideas and I happened upon the book in B&N. It's very helpful! But as a result of reading it I now have a burning desire to own a real vector graphics machine. :|
RTSDaddy2:
I'll start with the back end of my thoughts first...while a newbie, I am grateful to all here that have helped us. Though this is our first cabinet, I hope to be able to give back to this community as time goes on.
Now the beginning. About a year and a half ago, I saw these beautiful home made cabs start turning up online. I thought three things:
1) man, that's a beautiful cabinet!
2) I always wanted one, never thought of building it though, &
3) how do you do it?
I'm not a handyman / woodworker. Looked at some of the plans and - esp with wiring - thought "that's way out of my league." Then Saint wrote the book around this hobby, and once we read it, my wife and I agreed this was something we could do together (yes, I AM a lucky man - her idea as much as it is mine). She has helped me conceptualize it from pieces all the way to marquee and side art.
Yesterday when I was in Dad's shop applying the second coat of paint to a side, and puttying over some holes I'd missed, I realized again what a true labor of love these cabinets are. Done properly, they are (to me) free-standing pieces of art...and are as beautiful outside as anywhere else.
A post that was a bit longer than I meant it to be, but I guess I wanted folk to know that I didn't sign on just to be here and gone!
RTSDaddy2
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version