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Zebidee:


--- Quote from: vidmouse on May 23, 2007, 08:29:22 am ---Alone in the Dark sounds like a great choice--heard
the game was spooky though---

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That's why I want to 'port it to my cab - perfect environment for a spooky game!


--- Quote from: vidmouse on May 23, 2007, 08:29:22 am ---reminds me that I also wanted
to try System Shock 2, another spooky one.  I know I said FPS's
can make me a little nauseous but I'm hoping w/ some like SS2
that the fact it's more RPG than FPS will help.

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Guess that is another I'll have to try eventually.  Now, this is why I built my cab on a Windows XP Pro platform - to get the most out of games compatibility.  It is pretty good with *most* old dos games, esp. if you use Dosbox, but sometimes little things can cause probs (eg sometimes sound problems).

If you want, you can also run Freedos which is pretty "mature" as an OS now and gives very good multi-OS choices  - so you can run win2000 and FreeDOS, for example.


--- Quote from: vidmouse on May 23, 2007, 08:29:22 am ---You can delay your listing on Ebay so that it will list at the
time/date you want it.  I usually aim for 10pm on Sunday's
but I'm not sure what an optimum time is.

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That's a great idea!  Thanks :) I might aim for  about 9pm though ....

vidmouse:


--- Quote from: Zebidee on May 24, 2007, 12:38:19 am ---Now, this is why I built my cab on a Windows XP Pro platform - to get the most out of games compatibility.  It is pretty good with *most* old dos games, esp. if you use Dosbox, but sometimes little things can cause probs (eg sometimes sound problems).

If you want, you can also run Freedos which is pretty "mature" as an OS now and gives very good multi-OS choices  - so you can run win2000 and FreeDOS, for example.

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For awhile I was running a dual partition on my desktop... reserved about 8GB for Win98 and 30GB for WinXP stuff...  I really only needed WinXP for my photos and desktop applications vs gaming.  Haven't found a lot of games that DON'T work on Win98... for me, my system hardware has more constraints (processor speed, memory, video memory, etc).  My cab is exclusively Win98SE now...  originally I had Win98FE but upgraded when I did all this hard drive stuff.  Part of the reason for the upgrade?  I _think_  that some USB hubs require it, and I want to be able to mount a 4-port hub (similar to what you have on Galaxy) under my CP.  Haven't tested it yet though.

Been searching through old PC Gaming magazines for titles that came out around 1998 - 2002, about the heyday for my PII hardware... even the ones that got poor reviews might be worth a look on an arcade machine.  Some of them got poor reviews because the game didn't have "staying power" -- ie you couldn't play for hours and hours on-end.  But, on an arcade, I don't think that's much of a problem.  Some more titles I'm considering looking for:

Echelon (by Bethesda softworks) - a space sim/shoot em up
Pearl Harbor:  Defend the Fleet (this one got a real low score but I think the concept for an arcade shooter, taken at face value, is good)
MS Train Simulator


Zebidee:

Well, on a PII win98 is probably a better choice as it is less demanding.

You know, I think it would be worthwhile making a list of PC (and other) games that port well to a cab environment.  Could be worth a new thread ...

I bought a couple of USB hubs with a transparent case, all in one row, because one I saw how simple they were, it was immediately obvious how to mount it.  I carefully drilled a hole in the hub case and put a screw in the middle.  Butted a piece of wood behind it to provide some resistance to the force when a device is plugged in, and made sure that there was no other rotational movement. 

Make sure that you use a powered USB hub if you are adding 4 ports.  You can probably get 5v from internal power, but 'safer' I guess to use the supplied PS for the hub.

My cab is on ebay now.  I don't want to violate any thread rules by posting a link in the wrong place, but search ebay.com.au for GALAXY MAME and ARCADE and see what you find.   ;)


vidmouse:

Kind of already started one, albeit that was not my original intent...

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=66711.0

I'm using a non-powered hub on my desktop now, but two of the devices
connected to it have their own power, so I guess that doesn't count.  Thanks
for the tip.

 :D  Just got Asteroids to run at a decent speed finally by tuning the audio
sample rate down to 22050... don't know why it bogs down so much on my
system at 44100.  As a side effect I think Smash TV got faster too.

Huh... a search for galaxy mame turned up no results on ebay.com...
the domain for Australia is different, something like ebay.com.au
I doubt very many US buyers would even see this... I found it via a search
on Google.    You might want to contact Ebay if you are interested in
broadening your selling circle.



Zebidee:

It is advertised on oz http://www.ebay.com.au, not US - I doubt US buyers would pay the freight  :)

Will see how it goes .....

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