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Donkey_Kong:


--- Quote from: st on March 19, 2009, 06:09:56 pm ---That's great  :)

The surface tension table appears 3 times in that list!

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Yea, st is all over that website.  Nice going!  That table is very nice though, wish I had that kind of talent.

xtravbx:

I went w/ a cocktail table to save on room, and it doubles as my coffee table in my living room.

I will have both an upright and keep my cocktail, one day.

Turnarcades:

I admit I'm not a big fan of cocktail table as I get bad-ass backache, but if I had to I'd get one from our very own st. I love both designs, but prefer the actual table design of the series 1 table, shame it's not available locally anymore.

Quick question st - how is the viewing angle on your cabs? Most LCD's I've tried suffer from ghosting or inverting when viewing them at the angle a cocktail cab requires. Any pics?

Blanka:

When using an LCD for a coffee table you can do 2 things:
1: If you're on a budget and use a TN display, mount it UPSIDE DOWN and use the video-card driver to feed it a 180 degrees rotated desktop. TN's are much worse from below than from the top!
2: Use S-IPS or S-PVA panels, and coffee-table angles do not affect image that much.

surface tension:

Craig

The viewing angle on these is superb. I use Samsung 178 x 178 degrees screens... but worth every penny.

As far as seeing it... you can see it in the flesh in July at Insert Coin.  :)

For the very early mk1s, I used to do as Blanka suggested... physically mouting upside down and flipping in software. But it was too dirty for an item at that cost and I had MAME do some funny things. Plus when it booted, everything was upside down... and that didn't look good!

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