FS: Tempest MAME in WA

[Paladin]

Asking $250 for a Tempest upright running MAME just north of Seattle.  I just posted this on the local Craigslist, and figured I'd toss it up here as well.

NOTE to all arcade collectors - everything that has been done to this machine can be undone.
The cabinet can be converted back to an original Tempest at any time. How do I know this? I just did it!

After restoring a couple Tempest machines, I got tired of the old hardware breaking. Each time I had to find and pay someone else to fix it. When I got another machine I decided that instead of having the 20+ year old original hardware inside, I'd put a PC and computer monitor in it.

The reason I'm selling it is because I got yet another Tempest and decided to combine the best parts of two machines into one. I'm keeping the nicer restored cabinet with original hardware, and selling the second cabinet with the PC and computer monitor.

HARDWARE:
Sony vaio PC with P4 (2ghz celeron I believe), 2 gigs RAM, and 60 gig HD. The PC is still mounted in its origianl case, and I'm including the original Sony system recovery disks.
The monitor is a ViewSonic PF790 19" monitor that I removed from the case and mounted to a wood panel, then to the arcade.
Sound is from a PC speaker setup that connects to the original 6x9 mono Tempest speaker.
The original Tempest spinner, fire buttons and lit LED player buttons are controlled by an Ultimarc Mini-PAC USB controller.
There is a new reproduction marquee overlay on top of the cabinet, that's lit with the original florecent light fixture.
The PC, monitor, speaker and marquee light are plugged into a power strip inside the coin door.
There is a PC fan in the back of the cabinet that pulls hot air out of the machine.
The coin door lights and control panel LEDs are powered by 5volts from the PC.

CABINET
The cabinet has some peeling art, nicks and scratches. It has no wheels or leg levelers, it sits flat on the ground. On the left side is a dent that bends inward near the control panel. This is the worst damage to the cabinet, but the dent doesn't look as bad now as the last picture below, becasue I was able to flatten it out a little more. I put a wooden box on the back door to make sure the PC monitor cleared the door. I then added an 80mm PC fan running at 5 volts to pull hot air from the cab. The fan spins so slow at 5 volts that you can't hear it, but fast enough to help get hot air out. The coin door lights are powered with 5 volts from the PC, as are the two LED player buttons. The original Tepest spinner is hooked to an aftermarket optical sensor which sends the signal to a Mini-PAC control board.

To use the cabinet, you open the coin door and turn on the power strip. The machine boots up into Windows XP, then starts Tempest. Tempest plays just like the real thing, except you don't need quarters. To quit you press the player 1 and player 2 buttons at the same time, and the PC will shutdown. You then open the coin door and turn off the power strip.


Please note that although the monitor is safely mounted in the cabinet, the PC, speaker control and power strip aren't screwed down. This means that if you buy the cabinet the PC, speaker unit and power strip will have to be taken out for transport, and you'll have to be able to figure out how to put it back together. If you are familiar with PC's this should not be a problem, as the plugs pretty much only work one way.