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Arcade 1Up's Ikea cabinets
yotsuya:
Buy what you dig, bros. Buy what you dig.
Lilwolf:
After watching the assembly video, I wish we knew what was inside that controller. I'm really hoping I can hack that monitor into a VGA or hdmi cable. Controllers I'm sure it will be ok with.. Hopefully it wont' be too hard to hack to a pi or pc.
Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: Lilwolf on July 30, 2018, 10:59:13 am ---After watching the assembly video, I wish we knew what was inside that controller. I'm really hoping I can hack that monitor into a VGA or hdmi cable. Controllers I'm sure it will be ok with.. Hopefully it wont' be too hard to hack to a pi or pc.
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Hey man, long time no type. That ribbon cable between the lcd and control panel is what I was getting at earlier. That's a lot of wires, so it makes me think it's the input wires feeding to the motherboard attached to the lcd…. one for each input and a ground. If not then that's an awful lot of wires to run to the cp... all that's needed is +V, Gnd, R,G,B, and sync. So the only way the main board is in the cp is if the lcd driver board is also in the cp, and then you gotta wonder wtf the large box attached to the lcd has in it aside from a power jack and a socket for the ribbon cable.
shaolindrunkard:
Funny, I was already working on something like this before I even knew these existed.
ivwshane:
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--- Quote from: leapinlew on July 29, 2018, 11:24:38 am ---It's a fair point.
The best part was the Gateway Country store employee part. I bought my 2nd "real" computer there. A P2 400mhz. I had to finance it for a year.
Good times.
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I managed the store in Albany (Latham) NY from when it opened in 1997 until 2000. Best job I ever had. We had two training rooms with a dozen computers all networked together in each. We came in early on Sunday's and played Command and Conquer Red Alert and Quake II on the lan. Fun times for sure. I got out to start a career as a financial planner, to get out of the retail grind. Holidays, weekends, inventory...yuck. ;D
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I used to work at gateway computers too! It was a very fun job. We used to play doom III against each other all the time. I remember I set up a shoutcast server from home and streamed my music to the store using winamp. I did sales and even did some training classes for a bit too which introduced me to the more advanced things excel can do. It sucked when they closed and I was laid off, I still have one of their wooden rocking chairs too! What was great ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- them is that it was more than just computers but rather solutions. Their media center PC and music streaming setup was ahead of their time.
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