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A Mame machine in an antique buffet - USB probs solved (I think!)
drventure:
Hey, no worries. We had a great break, she's back at kindergarten now. I've got a couple lines on possible positions, so it's good.
I should have some pics of the mounted frame and switch up soon.
Still gotta get my brackets and pinball plunger back from the plating shop. Then those will be going in also.
saurian333:
--- Quote from: drventure on January 04, 2010, 10:44:17 pm ---2) you lost your job right before xmas and are kind of preoccupied with finding something else quickly :(
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I'm sorry as hell to hear that, man. But good to hear you might have something lined up already. Good luck on the job search; I know it's not easy.
Your cab is shaping up to be not only among the coolest arcade cabs I've seen, but one of the best steampunk projects I've seen! I love the brass work. Can't wait to see that monitor mounted and lit up. Everything looks extremely cool!
One more point on the backlighting (amBX) for the monitor -- I'd suggest mounting the lights to the back of the monitor itself, since you plan to rotate the screen. amBX won't take into account the fact that your monitor is rotated (unless the OS does the rotating instead of MAME), so you'd be getting lighting effects on the sides that are mimicking what are really the top and bottom of the screen. If the lights rotate with the monitor, at least they'll stay with the right area of the screen.
I know you're not nearly that far yet; just another thought that came to me when I was reminded your screen is going to rotate.
RayB:
--- Quote from: drventure on January 04, 2010, 10:57:12 pm ---
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LOL, I saw this set and thought you made a matching Pool Table!
drventure:
--- Quote ---LOL, I saw this set and thought you made a matching Pool Table!
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Now THAT would be cool!
drventure:
Ok. Guess I have saurian333 to thank for this one.
I was just poking around the ambx site. Turns out they have an SDK. Plus, you can get those ambx start kits for 30$ at kmart and sears (check it out through google shopping).
PLUS, the SDK has an ambx hardware simulator, so you don't even need the hardware to write code for the thing!
Short version of the story. While I don't have even the 30$ to throw at something like this right now, I can still hack around at the SDK and see what happens. Maybe a Mala plugin?
According to the docs, the SDK is C++ only, but I've never let that stop me before :)
I think those screen-color-coordinated glowing trackballs are in my near future (BWAH HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!)
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