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On a slow boat from China.. (It's in!!!)
Singapura:
Okay guys, let's get back to the topic. Off course you're allowed to give criticism! I don't like the plastic blue film too much myself but most Asians love that stuff and it's built for the Asian market. I've had some trouble tuning the monitor because there's no manual with it It appears to be a modified Wei-Ya but I'm still not too sure about that. The factory was most helpful and even sent me a few pages from their own manual, translated by the sales-lady. I will order a j-Pac and replace the 1000-in-1 with a mamed PC because most games I like aren't on the board. The second CP is getting a trackball. I'm working on a way to quickly replace the CP's so I have one with two joysticks and one with a trackbal and a 4 way.
pinballwizard79:
"Ive said it before & I will say it again, man I love being a turtle"
anyway, for $750 I would buy this cab in a heartbeat......do the sell to the US....?
ark_ader:
--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on June 29, 2008, 01:40:36 pm ---ark_ader's comments are condescending, filled with mockery, and just plain ignorant.
Very sad indeed.
China is a very large place, making tons of stuff for USA and other countries.
While there may be some companies in china that produce some inferior
quality... there are a lot more that are producing top quality parts and
devices.
China has over 2000 yrs worth of history that can be traced back, as a lot
of it was documented very well. As far as I recall, they invented gunpowder.
They had devised incredible herbal medical treatments that cured many complex
ailments - without the need for surgeries... some of which is being
synthesized by western drug companies today. They also were the
home to the most advanced martial arts systems ever devised. Most of which
were copied by just about every other art - but pretty much watered down
compared to the real depths of Chinese arts.
They also have an amazing collection of artists. Such amazing detailed pieces &
sculptures. Hand carved dragons scaling massive posts. Incredible pottery
techniques such as Cloisonne.
Hmm - from wiki:
Among the scientific accomplishments of ancient China were paper (not papyrus) and papermaking, woodblock printing and movable type printing, the early lodestone and magnetic compass, gunpowder, toilet paper, early seismological detectors, matches, dry docks, pound locks, sliding calipers, the double-action piston pump, blast furnace and cast iron, the iron plough, the multi-tube seed drill, the wheelbarrow, the suspension bridge, the parachute, natural gas as fuel, the escapement mechanism for clocks, the differential gear for the South Pointing Chariot, the hydraulic-powered armillary sphere, the hydraulic-powered trip hammer, the mechanical chain drive, the mechanical belt drive, the raised-relief map, the propeller, the crossbow, the cannon, the rocket, the multistage rocket, etc. Chinese astronomers were among the first to record observations of a supernova. The work of the astronomer Shen Kuo (1031–1095) alone was most impressive, as he theorized that the sun and moon were spherical, corrected the position of the polestar with his improved sighting tube, discovered the concept of true north, wrote of planetary motions such as retrogradation, and compared the orbital paths of the planets to points on the shape of a rotating willow leaf. With evidence for them, he also postulated geological theories for the processes of land formation in geomorphology and climate change in paleoclimatology. Yet there were many other astronomers than Shen Kuo, such as Gan De, Shi Shen, Zhang Heng, Yi Xing, Zhang Sixun, Su Song, Guo Shoujing, Xu Guangqi, etc. Chinese mathematics evolved independently of Greek mathematics and is therefore of great interest in the history of mathematics. The Chinese were also keen on documenting all of their technological achievements, such as in the Tiangong Kaiwu encyclopedia written by Song Yingxing (1587–1666).
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Great! Thanks for that, maybe a link in future would save all that cut and paste. I do know some Chinese history, and watch the Discovery channel. I haven't seen an episode that details arcade cabinet design and manufacturer, since the CHinese government in the past kinda hated gambling machines of any sort. Heck they hated classical and western music at one point.
Now that you have indicated that China is a great superpower, based on generations and generations of skilled craft, linked ties with many countries, outputting huge amounts of products for Wallyworld and K-mart, can you please just answer me one small question:
What point are you trying to make with that post?
We are discussing a cabinet that was made in China for a customer in Singapore that was over $750, which looked on the pictures as something you would buy at Pier 1 Imports. I was almost surprised that the cab did not come with matching bowls and dishes.
I applaud Chinese skills and ingenuity, hate their Human Rights Issues, and would love to go to Hong Kong and buy some cool gear you cannot get in the shops over here. I do not applaud the workmanship that went into Singapura's cab, as he has just finished telling us he wants to MAME it and rework the CP. He shouldn't have to.
I'm sure that will leave a bad taste in many mouths for my honest comments, and I would like to take this opportunity to get back to the thread with a question for Singapura:
Are you going to add some padding to the CP, and utilise a low stool for operation, or are you going to augment the CP to make it higher for stand up use?
Singapura:
I'm not going to rework the CP because it's badly made but because I want a trackball in it and already had one waiting. I do want to customize it but am currently enjoying playing on it too much. The cab is exactly high enough to sit in front of it with my legs under the CP and I'm not a short guy (1.82m). There's no need to raise or lower it. I haven't seen too many stand ups here (or in the rest of Asia for that matter) unless you count shooters. By the way, I found out that the marquee is lit! The joysticks are Zippy sticks which are sold by OzStick and can be switched.