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FrizzleFried:



SithMaster:



Move along, move along.

edit- so is Saint going to have this rulebook printed or will it be pdf only?

brandon:


--- Quote from: SithMaster on February 06, 2008, 07:59:59 pm ---

Move along, move along.

edit- so is Saint going to have this rulebook printed or will it be pdf only?

--- End quote ---

Its going to be an appendix in later revisions of his book :D

jlfreund:

My 2c - the lifetime of a cabinet is 10-20yrs.  It may seem relevant to discuss the preservation of these dying cabinets now, when most of them are at end of life but still barely salvageable.

But in the long term, this community is really going to be about preservation of the code.  The software is the thing that needs to survive forever.  We only need the cabinets and the hardware to survive just long enough to get the software emulation to 100%.

Once that is done, no one will care in 50 years from now what happened to the original cabinets between the years 1980 - 2020. 

Jason

CheffoJeffo:

I'll disagree with jlfreund to some extent and choose agree with Xiaou2  :dizzy: ... for a number of games, the original hardware is an important component of preservation.

And, to be consistent with my preservationist leanings (although those leanings are not nearly as pronounced as they once were), I give fair warning of an upcoming project I have in the queue that will convert a gutted (e.g. absolutely nothing original left) Xenophobe into a horizontal trackball/spinner MAME cabinet. If you want to pay me what I paid for it and haul it out of the basement, then come and get it.

No rush, though, I don't seem to be ripping through my projects like Knievel does ...


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