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| Jack Burton:
Hey, I was reading thread a while back about a guy who bought a Food Fight cabinet and installed an Atari 5200 into it. It reminded me that back when I was a little kid I always wanted to build a cabinet for my NES and play old arcade games in it. I guess I had the itch for MAME before it even existed. So who was awesome enough to actually do this back in the day. Anybody here take their brand spanking new Magnavox Oddyssey and stick it in a wooden box + television to make their own DIY Pong cab? Or how about the Fairchild channel F? It would have resulted in a multi game cab. I don't know much about early computer gaming, so how soon could one have conceivably put a PC in a cab, hacked up a keyboard, and started playing? |
| coltchillin:
i don't know, but i do recall i modded one of these when i was 12, i rotated the controls 90 degrees and used double sided tape to stick it to my desk in front of my tv, this way i had a cp with a stick and one button to the right.... |
| Thenasty:
Back in 1991, I gutted my C64 and re-wired the controls into the CP of a Donkey Kong Cabinet. I had to modify some of the games using a HEX EDITOR to change some of the WORDINGS from "Push F1 Key to Start" to "Press 1 Player Start" to Start a game. Also customized a Menu that when you select one of the Game from the list, the only way to LOAD it is to INSERT COIN ;) Sold it back in 2000.....Thats when I had my MAME Cab ready for playing... |
| ArtMAME:
Back in the day, we lived in Panama and I had an Atari 800 home computer system. It had tons of arcade classic games. Circa 1983 to 1984 we hired a carpenter to do some work on the house, so I got him to build me an arcade cabinet modeled after a Phoenix cabinet (I think). I stuck a 13" Sony TV in the cabinet and hooked up my Atari 800. I held the original Atari joystick on the CP with one hand, and moved the joystick with the other. I did not have the engineering skills at the time to properly attach the joystick onto the CP, it was very pitiful... but it was a MAME cabinet, and I was re-creating the arcade experience at home, and it was back in the day!!! We moved from Panama to the US in 1985. The cabinet stayed behind... :'(... don't have pics either... :'( :'( but I still have the TV and the Atari 800 system... ;D. Now that I am quite proficient at building MAME cabinets, I may resurrect the Atari 800 and put it in a MAME cabinet again some day... |
| NoOne=NBA=:
All my early projects were just custom CP's. To me, the housing was secondary to having realistic controls. I had a "real" control panel on the desk, with the TV in front of that, so it was almost a cabinet. My first project was in 1980. I tore apart an Atari joystick, and wired up a 5-button panel to play Asteroids properly on my 2600. I later modified that one so that it would hook to a Colecovision for Space Fury as well. My next one was a CP for playing Video Pinball. That one had flipper buttons on each side, and nudge buttons on the top where your thumbs would rest. I followed that with a custom 2-stick, top-fire layout to play Activision's Robot Tank, so that it would play like Battlezone, instead of using only one joystick like it was programmed for. I created button panels for Decathlon, a 2-stick setup for 7800 Robotron, and adapter boxes to hook my Atari-compatible CP's to my TRS-80's analog joystick ports. My masterpiece was a fully cannibalized 2600 that I bought specifically so that I could remote all the controls to create a control panel for Activision's Space Shuttle. |
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