<News> Build Your Own ... Trash-80 arcade machine?

[saint]

(Front page news discussion thread)

[MinerAl]

I have 2 or 3 CoCo3s lying about...

I may need to make a Donkey Kab!

That's some cool old-school foolishness.

[FrizzleFried]

Nice!!  ...and to think of all the crappy ports of DK that have come out...

[MaximRecoil]

[vrf]

What system is that?

Get out the Dremmel and that might make a cool little MAME tabletop. 

[MaximRecoil]

What system is that?

Tandy Radio Shack TRS-80 model III.

AKA "Trash-80".

[vrf]

funny, I swear my TRS-80 just hooked up to the TV...

Anyhow, is that a real MAME cab? Looks like a rendering.

[MaximRecoil]

funny, I swear my TRS-80 just hooked up to the TV...

Anyhow, is that a real MAME cab? Looks like a rendering.

I did it in Photoshop, starting with this picture:



The original TRS-80 (Model 1) did hook to a TV or separate CGA monitor, as did the Model II. I don't know if they made any Model III's without an integrated monitor or not. We had a boatload of Model III's at our school when I was a kid in the early/mid 80's, and they all had integrated monitors. Some of them were beige and others were silver/grey.

[horseboy]

Nice photoshopping skills, Maxim. 

I hope you didn't photoshop in a Nintendo joystick, though. Those damn things break all the time.

[vrf]

And are you going to build it? 

[MaximRecoil]

And are you going to build it? 

Not likely. I've always thought the TRS-80 Model III would make a cool basis for a bartop emulation machine, but it would be a lot of work. You'd need to replace that monochrome monitor with a color TV/monitor of some sort of the same size (12"), unless you only planned to play Space Invaders or similar B&W games. Then you'd need to hack in a mini-ITX motherboard or something. Getting real arcade controls to fit in that shallow keyboard area might be difficult too. It could all be done, but probably not by me.