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| firedance:
Hi All, Following on from my thread in monitor/video - http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,165481.0.html i've started this build thread, given my track record it may take a while to get to the finish line but hope it may help/inspire others along the way :) been looking at thin clients as a alternative to raspberryPi's, yes the clients are bigger but much smaller than a regular SFF or even USFF PC, so here it is in all its naked glory - Dell Wyse Dx0Q (5020) - 4GB ram 32GB Flash, £25 delivered from eBay and no it doesn't run "Crysis" ;D , in the pictures there is 1 thermal pad showing, the other one is stuck to the removed lid ;) more information can be found here - https://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/wyse/d/dx0q/ i also test fitted a 120Gb SSD inside the case, yes it's a little tight but does actually fit, just, the sata cable is a little long at 30cm but that's all i had to hand to test. it struggled with Windows 10 but zips along with windows 7, did lower the resolution to 1280x800 to help it along, the widescreen monitor i mentioned in the other thread as a max resolution of 1440x900 anyways. even with the coinops "pinball vs Arcade" build there is still about 3GB or so left so plenty of space to add a few many vertical games for mame that aren't there, such as "halleys comet" that i can remember from my younger days. still some testing to do and planning the bartop but hey it's a start :) |
| Drnick:
This intrigues me as we have about 800 of these at work which have now been replaced with Surface devices. Let us know how it plays, Was looking at throwing a linux build on one I have but if Windows works :) |
| firedance:
Thanks for your interest :) Just done some basic testing - Windows 7 home premium 64bit - 1280x720, monitor i'm using is 16:10 ratio, looks squashed on desktop but in coinops it fully fills the screen and seems to be in the correct aspect ratio, yes i got a ruler out and measured the circles on screen to check they were round ;D, will have to tinker with coinops as i've only just started using this frontend. cold boot to desktop takes 24 seconds (includes the dell bios), have done the no gui boot via msconfig, once it's all fully up and running i'll shell it anyways. loading Coinops takes 7 seconds picked 1941 game as it was first on the list, takes 10 seconds, may take less time to quit then start again, will have to test further. kept "glass" and "glowing scanlines" on in coinops, tried 1941 and dodonpachi both run 100% in mame (press f11 for onscreen FPS), then tried raiden fighters 2, started off ok then the FPS was all over the place, need more testing again. if there are any games that you'd like me to try that are vertical then let me know :) only briefly played with the pinball side, seems to play at full speed at 1440x900, again will tinker at some point :) never had a RaspberryPI so can't compare but so far i'm impressed for so little money at what this can do, not tried any other systems on it yet tho such as N64 or PS1, that's for another time. |
| firedance:
Once i had windows installed it didn't install any LAN drivers, a quick google later on another PC, found the drivers that seem to work ok even tho they might not be the correct ones - https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-uk/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=62p6c it also couldn't find the graphics drivers so was limited to only 2 resolutions, neither of which were widescreen, these drivers work a treat - https://www.amd.com/en/support/embedded/amd-embedded-g-series-processors/g-series-apu |
| slickam:
Have you thought about leaving it no name themed and just making it yellow with a bold, lower case "arcade cabinet" marquee in Helvetica font? That's always the first thing I think of when someone posts a no name project. https://www.cpacanada.ca/en/news/pivot-magazine/2020-02-25-no-name-ad-campaign |
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