Mame In A Briefcase Project....

[PsychoMameFan]

Sup All...
Now that I have a whole lot of free time now I figured I would start on a project that I have been thinking about for some time now. I'm a sucker for any classic arcade game (as well as my wife). We have 8 of our own cabinets here at home (Ms. PacMan, Galaga, Frontline, Star Wars, Burger Time, Zaxxon, Q-Bert, and Track and Field). I want to be able to play when I am not at home and/or on the road. This is where my next project came to mind.

Mame In A Briefcase.

First the technical side...

I want to be able to run Mame32, games between 1979-95.I am looking for ideas/opinions here on which direction I should go. I'm thinking either a mATX (nForce 2 chipset) or one of those Via Epia (mini-itx) setups. Speed wise if I go with a mATX, I would stick with an AMD 2400+ XP (Can I go less?). If I go with the Epia's, I am looking at a VIA EPIA CL 10000. I would load either with 256MB ram and use the onboard video/audio. Can I avoid using a keyboard all together? I figured I would use 2 USB game pad

[Nephus]

if I were you, I'd stick with a hard drive and make a usb port easily accessible for a keyboard.  I mean, you're basically making a semi-portable computer... why not be able to use it as a computer?  You can get really tiny keyboards that could be stored under the control panel (There was one called the Happy Hacker keyboard.. dunno if they still make it)

[Mr. Dude]

you might wanna check this out.....  http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=10;action=display;threadid=20563;start=msg171945#msg171945

[Ed ONeill]

Yes Mr. Dude is right check out my project  ....LOL

and if you need any qustions answered by all means ask

Signed
Ed

[Mameotron]

Cool.  That's an awesome idea, I'd love to see you do it.  What a great way to Mame at work!