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very small cabinet :)
Dave_K.:
You know you may have stumbled on to something here.
bowmand1:
Dave, you so craaaazy. ;D
if only I had money. Then I'd have a MAME machine on my desk. <sigh>
But, seriously... if somebody actually makes one of these... POST PICS!!!!
I love this message board --Dave_B
Lilwolf:
Tabletop cabinets are pretty popular. I was thinking of making one a bit ago.
I've then considered moving it smaller. I work with embedded computers in manufacturing. I've had mame in a box 3 inchs square before (that I could drop from 10 feet). But the monitors usually suck...
I considered also making a car version. I was going to take one of the slower machines we can't use anymore and turn it into a MPeg player for my car. Then decided that to add a LCD screen by hacking an old notebook and adding mame.... for stoplights only of course. Then add a DVD player.
my wife said I could only do it if I moved it to the backseat for the kids... but what fun is that!
ErikRuud:
Let the wife drive, and sit in the back!!!!
Dave_K.:
Lilwolf, so the embedded mame machine was just a prototype? How fast could it play simple games like pac man and robotron? How much power did it require? I already have a pair of VERY small backlit lcd displays (for a head mount display) I could hack for the monitor (or just buy a cheapo lcd pocket tv).
Or how about this....hack one of those game systems that runs a complete mame type emulator inside an N64 type joystick (I forget the name of it).
I think this is very do'able (on a very small scale...smaller that the bartop type machines we've seen already).
-Dave