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richard:

 Hello all,
Got a few questions witch I hope You can answer. I have an deffender cab That I am turning into mame machine (The only thing left of cab was the cab and marque)
First question I need a coin door does not need to be operational I saw a door at happs but it was single coin and size was way to small they have a two coin but don't give dimensions for it I need one about 12 1/2" *10 1/2"is this standard two coin size?
#2 as the marque back lite is missing I was thinking of using a black light has anyone tried this and does it look good?
Last question I have a micro atx with a via c3 800 MHz 1 gig of ram and a Gforce mx 440 pci 256 meg video card I have read that even a lesser machine can run  mame but this one can,t even play a DVD without dropping frames under both xp and Linux so do you think this can handle games up to about the late 80s my wife and i are 40 something and love the old games.
 Thank You for any Help.


     Richard

xmenxmen:

#1 - why not just check ebay and buy a use one.  Much cheaper and possible also working and identical to the original defender.

#2 - Now sure about black light, but all you need is your typical cheap homedepot counter florescent light for the marquee.

#3 - that pc will work fine for defender and like games.  Also consider an older version of mame, like .6x or .8x.    You can run either OS and get full speed.  Ideally, you best bet would be either DOS, win98 or linux.

richard:

 Thanxs Xmen
as for coin door just looking for something nice to fill hole prob. gona stick keyboard ,mouse ,and cd drive in hole behind door. I ask about pc because I had about 10 years ago a amd 450 MHz 128 meg ram no name 64 meg vid card that played dvd so much smoother just droped ocasional frames. this machine makes me sea sick from frame drop (un-watchable) dont know if this will be a factor with mame but like i said we are into old games. black lite is just becaues I'm a produte of the 60s and thought might look cool behind original deffender marque.

Green Giant:

Check ebay.  Tons of old coin doors on there for a good price.  You might have to repaint them but otherwise good.

Also, the blacklight probably won't be bright enough to show anything for the marquee unless it is pitch black.  You could try and implement the blacklight somewhere else though.  If you browse around here you will see people like adding new light features.

richard:

 P.S.
paint goes on this week end, after close to 1 lb of wood putty and a buttload of sanding. I'll try to get some pics up soon :applaud:

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