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Built the cab, now my computer
shmokes:
I've been thinking of this a bit lately. I'm not going to do it cos I'm not THAT interested in it, but it's interesting all the same.
Lots of people who don't have the space or $$$ for a full-size cab build a standalone controller. Why not mount a little motherboard (I'm thinking a shuttle N-force2 board since it's small, but not crippled like those mini-ITX boards -- good video, great sound) inside the control panel and instead of having just one cord coming out the back (USB) you could have two or three (Power, S-Video -- USB maybe so you could hook up gamepads or something). All you'd need is enough space for the Motherboard, a hard drive, and a little power supply. I believe that most two player panels have plenty of room for this.
It would become a completely enclosed Mame console that could quickly hook up to any TV. Take that Nintendo! Speakers could even be mounted inside the panel. Or you could have outputs on it.
CitznFish:
--- Quote from: shmokes on April 02, 2003, 01:15:50 am ---I've been thinking of this a bit lately. I'm not going to do it cos I'm not THAT interested in it, but it's interesting all the same.
Lots of people who don't have the space or $$$ for a full-size cab build a standalone controller. Why not mount a little motherboard (I'm thinking a shuttle N-force2 board since it's small, but not crippled like those mini-ITX boards -- good video, great sound) inside the control panel and instead of having just one cord coming out the back (USB) you could have two or three (Power, S-Video -- USB maybe so you could hook up gamepads or something). All you'd need is enough space for the Motherboard, a hard drive, and a little power supply. I believe that most two player panels have plenty of room for this.
It would become a completely enclosed Mame console that could quickly hook up to any TV. Take that Nintendo! Speakers could even be mounted inside the panel. Or you could have outputs on it.
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how would you get MAME (or anything for that matter) on the hard Drive. No CDROM. Maybe through a network port? preinstall on HDD before placing inside controller? But then updates would suck.
Valiam Arkais:
Can anyone suggest a full-sized all-in-one computer deal, that is near the same price (under $200)?
JuddWack:
the miniTX boards didnt seem that expensive to me. LIke $140US? How much would you recomend spending on a regular sized CPU. I dunno where to buy the stuff. i went to a computer show last weekend looking for a Thunderbird 1.4 and everybody was looking at me like a idiot. Also a ATI rage fury pro and nobody knew about them. Did I do something wrong?
SNAAAKE:
--- Quote from: valiamarkais on April 02, 2003, 12:15:44 pm ---Can anyone suggest a full-sized all-in-one computer deal, that is near the same price (under $200)?
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You always get more if you build your own but this sounds like a fair deal. :)
http://www.pricewatch.com/1/43/4783-1.htm
Under $200 for complete system with 1.3 duron cpu.. :D