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I thought of an idea. A self-contained MAME control panel
Jakobud:
Yeah this idea has been brought up before and several people have made something like this. I had the idea back in October and was gonna do it with the mini-itx boards, but honestly those boards just don't have enuf punch for the Mame games I wanted to play. The 933Mhz one is equivalent to about a P3-400 I've heard. So you are definately limited. But still nice boards for the size.
Those Shuttle boards might work. Although they are quite a bit bigger than the mini-itx ones. But at least you can add your own chip to it and have a kicking one.
IIOIOOIOO:
http://www.essencompu.com/nupplysingar.asp?ID=3288
Go find this... they're sold out most places. Or find the BioStar microatx built of the same chipset. I tell you this because I am kind beyond measure. To hell with shuttle and their noisy ass systems.
You need to do a good job ventilating this thing with an AMD cpu in there etc etc. Think air channeling and big-slows.
Malachai:
www.mwave.com has mini-itx boards in different speeds (533mhz-1ghz I think). They start at around $90 + ship. Check out the Shuttle boards there too. They have some of the mini Flex boards, no integrated CPU.
AceTKK:
--- Quote from: IIOIOOIOO on May 21, 2003, 01:35:56 pm ---http://www.essencompu.com/nupplysingar.asp?ID=3288
Go find this... they're sold out most places. Or find the BioStar microatx built of the same chipset. I tell you this because I am kind beyond measure. To hell with shuttle and their noisy ass systems.
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Yeah, but that's an ATX board. The whole point was to use something smaller that can fit inside the control panel.
-Ace-
gtjoe:
--- Quote ---Yeah, but that's an ATX board. The whole point was to use something smaller that can fit inside the control panel.
-Ace-
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An ATX board is 12"x8". How tiny is your control panel?
I would think a 2 player cp has to be at least 20"x10" to be useable.