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Stingray:

I have a regular wired keyboard inside my coin door. I very rarely use it, which is a good thing since it's a royal pain in the tookus to fish it out from below the coin bucket.

-S

pmc:

I did a drawer under the CP and have a $15 keyboard and mouse inside. I actually love that feature now (I waz skeptical in the beginning). Sometimes when I'm working on something, I sit on a stool in front of the cabinet and read this board, download new software, use other software, and generally use the machine as full PC. Considering the snail's pace of late-stage development of the cabinet, the key/mouse get used quite a bit.

Installation was easy which suprised me. I was worried about getting it right. I used drawer rails from Home Depot and a piano hinge, and it looks OK.

It's wicked convenient and totally self contained. I'd do it this way again.

ErikRuud:

Right now, I just have a keyboard inside the door.  I am considering either a wireless one, or possibly one of the "Indestructible" rubber ones that is only about 1/4" thick.



1Up, KaZaa Lite!  

Ghoward:


--- Quote from: joeblade on April 04, 2004, 11:01:24 pm ---
I was originally planning on having some old computer emus on my cab aswell (C64, amiga etc), but a lot of the games would require some key to start the game that may not be mapped to a CP input (anything that requires a keyboard (as opposed to a joystick) during the game will definately not be loaded on the cab).


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I have a keyboard draw on my cab, it's great as I also play C64 games on it too. I also use it for picking games to play in Mame as I use Mame32.

For me it's the fastest way to get to the game you want you just start typing the name of the game and it takes you to it.

Gary

Sasquatch!:


--- Quote from: JustMichael on April 05, 2004, 10:53:01 pm ---I have a wireless Keyboard and mouse (RF) for the cab when I need them.  I also have the cabinet hooked up to the house lan so that I can update things remotely (like roms & mame).
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This is my setup exactly.

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