I have missed alot in 2 years

[leskowitz]

I am getting back to making another Mame cabinet.  It has been 2 years and 2 children later.  I have money  now, so can anymore tell me a good cabinet to use as an example before I start my next project?  I have a final fight cabinet ready to go.  I see that there are over 500 examples, in my day it was 30.  

It is good to see that Saint is still around.  He is Good people.

[SirPoonga]

I based mine off of Scott's Unicade and my junky double dragon cab.

[leskowitz]

I just bought an IPAC.  Note to all, their credit card vender needs to update their page for Americans users.  They are the only site I have seen that does not ask what type of card you have.  That makes you wonder if it is safe.  And that passcode crap threw me for a hoop on my Visa card.  Remember, for Visa, it is the number on the back not the front.

I have the hagstrom LP24 on my 2 machines now but I think I bought the wrong one years ago.  If I remembered right there was a fast or slow switch.  I believe I bought the wrong one, -slow.  Anyone know how you can tell the difference?  The thing always screwed up (buttons did not work) so in catching up on my reading today I see the IPAC is easy to use and works well.  

Now, it is time to upgrade the computer.  My old one crashed about year ago.  No more jacking around anymore.  Sometimes it is good to wait, computers are so fast and cheap now.  You newbies are lucky.  I pieced my old one together because computers were more expensive years ago.  

[Howard_Casto]

lol Beleive it or not, I became interested in this hobby about 2-3 years ago, but I didn't build my cab until last summer becasue, quite frankly, I couldn't afford to.  Computer prices help definately, but what got me was some of the amazing developments in emulators.  Let's face it, at one point mame was slower than dirt(alot of that had to do with the fact that powerful cpus weren't available yet), but now it's a lean, mean, emulatin machine!  Plus impact, modeler, s11, u64, and daphne with ripped laserdisc support.  It's frightengly becoming alomst main-stream.