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Preserve the Classics OR It's Just Particle Board
shardian:
100% detailed dimensions have been done for a few cabinets. It is a VERY involved procedure. Spriggy has been modeling a 100% accurate T&F cocktail.
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=24005.msg195812#msg195812
It would be neat if every, or at least the top 100 or so, machines could be thoroughly documented to the point you could hand the plans to a carpenter and he could build the whole thing, including a metal CP.
I have the Mikes Arcade Midway cocktail plans and they are done in that way, including assembly instructions.
ChadTower:
It would be very involved if you needed every joint and miter to be an accurate reproduction... but if you wanted it to look accurate, but the joinery and such could be different, would it really be that hard? I guess the cabinet with curves would but but there are plenty of them that don't have curves.
EDIT: jesus, that's what I get for posting while on the phone. So many buts in that post. :banghead:
paigeoliver:
I wasn't suggesting earlier that you should just mame every classic cabinet in site. I was more talking about a few realities that arcade games face right now.
#1. The guys who were kids during the classic era are starting to age past being interested in this stuff. This is just now starting but will be a bigger issue in the future.
#2. All those mame cabs that we all built and the even larger number of uber-in-1 jamma boards floating around has killed most of the home market for the single dedicated machine.
#3. The electronics are now failing and the industry is nearly dead. Almost no new arcade games are made now. Dynamo wasn't even making cabinets anymore last I checked. We get a lot of our parts through the distributors that sell to commercial game operators. The death of commercial game operation will mean that eventually there aren't going to be all those easy parts flopping around for us to order.
This is the long decline. There will always be some games around, but most of them are going to die in the next 20 years, regardless of any individual efforts on our parts. Of course there is also a huge upside to this, and that is that no one is making YOU lose interest and thus you can get all the games you want, and cheap too.
SithMaster:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on February 08, 2008, 03:06:26 pm ---It would be very involved if you needed every joint and miter to be an accurate reproduction... but if you wanted it to look accurate, but the joinery and such could be different, would it really be that hard? I guess the cabinet with curves would but but there are plenty of them that don't have curves.
EDIT: jesus, that's what I get for posting while on the phone. So many buts in that post. :banghead:
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So what if its involved. People have been scratch building cabs for a while and they dont seem to mind. As long as the outside is the same it shouldnt matter. You dont see people commenting on how sweet a joint is on the inside of a cab.
CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: SithMaster on February 08, 2008, 05:54:25 pm ---So what if its involved. People have been scratch building cabs for a while and they dont seem to mind. As long as the outside is the same it shouldnt matter. You dont see people commenting on how sweet a joint is on the inside of a cab.
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I dunno ... Knievel has some sweet joints ...
;D
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