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Oh yeah, I'm lookin for a cheep coin door, if only for the visual effect.

I'm at the point where I have the computer system booting up and running. Still need to make some O/S tweeks to allow start up and shutdown without a KB & Mouse. Looking into moding the bios splash screen too.

Also have my controls mounted on a test board and wired up to a GP-Wiz, that seems to be working OK now, after some innital difficulties. Still have to do some 'placement' tests before I commit to a layout. It is rather tight for two players. 

Currently playing around with a 'Mame logo surrounded by screen shots' marquee thing across the top of the monotor panel, I don't really like the print quality from the inkjet printer. Need to explore some other options for this. Also I'm getting some light bleed along the top edge of the monitor. May even decide to kill the backlight idea.

I've got a 21" tinted glare filter to mount inside my plexi panel too. I'm liking the idea of hiding the admin buttons under this hinged panel too.

Really need to get me some of that black marble contact paper the guys here like so much for my temp panel.

"That just screams Itallian" ;D

severdhed:
i changed the bios splash screen, windows boot screen, and loaded the frontend (MALA) as shell, so the windows desktop never loads.

your keyboard encoder is a keyboard, according to windows anyway, so as long as your control panel is connected, the pc shouldnt have any "no keyboard" erros. you dont need a mouse connected for windows to boot. (if you decide to add a trackball, windows will see that as the mouse)

i couldnt get decent results with a printed marqee, so i cut mine out of posterboard and a tranlucent layer behind...that way only the cut out layer lights up...cheap, but is ok until i can buy a real marquee.
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Got the bios thing working, sort of. The picture is kind of small, centered in the middle of the screen. I was hoping for a big, full screen display like the previous Intel one. Hey, it's still better than looking at their logo every time I boot up!

My encoder is actually a 'gamepad' encoder (GP-WIZ) that connects to the USB port, I am considering putting an previously 'hacked' KB thingie into the ps2 hole just to avoid the boot up error message. It's not like I 'haaave' to use it.

Neat idea for your maruqee SH.  Cheep and effective! I wonder if you could get one of them clear things with the different colored waters/oils in it mounted up there. (sort of like a wide lava lamp in a frame) Then when the light shines through, you'd get a cool moving psychadelic lightshow effect?

Going to hit this project hard over the coming weekend, get some newer pictures and post a proper 'project anouncment' some time next week. I'd really like to get some feedback on my Control Panel options and some Fit & Finish advice so I can get steered into the right direction to finish this up sometime this winter.

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