Some bartops I have been working on

[dizney]

first custom builds, never worked with wood before here they are what do you think?

[IG-88]

Very cool!  Can you give some more details on them? Dimensions, hardware and software specs ect. ect.?

[dizney]

Yeah sure the 2 player cabs are like 600mm wide 400mm deep and about 500mm tall the last one has a 17" lcd with a PC powering it the other two player is a 15" laptop mod. I am looking to market the units in the UK but it is slow and I want to get it all perfect but I am liking the process.

[retrofuture]

Nice one dizney. We could do with more UK cabs.

Are you looking to supply kits or pre-built cabs?

[dizney]

Looking to do both we are build to order at the moment these are my prototypes. I now have a guy working on a 2 player bartop who works with wood by trade so will get a cleaner finish. He should be bringing the unit around at the weekend so I will post updated pics of where we are. It hurts to say it against my own work but there is a world of difference and thats what we plan to bring to the market at a good price point.

the website is live but not finished yet.

www.freekade.co.uk

also looking to do controllers and other arcade related goodness.

Cheers

James

[retrofuture]

Like the Brian Blessed (Gawd bless 'im) name check!

Any idea on what artwork you'll supply? It can make or break the cabs...

[dizney]

At the moment we have flat paint to keep cost down but I am talking with a print company to be able to offer it but it does really increase the cost, again as it is built to order we hope to offer anything requested. We will be building a few units show what we can offer as options and see how we get on.

Cheers

[retrofuture]

Have a word with Nigel at http://www.arcadestickers.co.uk/. His stuff is really good. His prices and quality are great and he's UK based. All the Jamma+ guys are using him.

[dizney]

Thanks for link will do for sure

[IG-88]

Great idea. Question I have is how do you get around selling them with mame already loaded on them?

[dizney]

they wont ship with roms I plan to play the same game as everyone else and put taito legends and stuff like that on and a fontend compatible with mame set up.

[retrofuture]

 

[dizney]

Still no sign of my final prototype build if there is ever such a thing in this game... Will open a new topic when it gets here, I have all the parts the machine is set just waiting.

In other news does anyone know if the new u-hid is the same wiring as the minipac as I am looking to wire one in but dont have the pin out...

will do a full search as I'm sure on a active forum this has been covered.

cheers for the support so far and hope to have a great bartop to show you very soon.

[apfelanni]

hi , greetings from germany . my name is andreas and i m lurking here for some time now . i really love the project forum , lots of people with incredible ideas .  i m arcade infected for about 3-4 years now , got some fullsize cabs ( upright euro woodys and some candys, naomi , astro , ok babs ) and a few selfbuild cabinets, like 3 bartops and a cocktail table . 


i like the design of ur bartops , very basic and no unneeded nonsens included , like marquees, spinners , balls , pinbuttons etc. did i mention , that i hate 2 mē us style monsterpanels with 500 buttons and 10 sticks ?  the white single player bartop has nice proportions of screen , panel and bezel.  the 2 player cabs could benefit of a larger screen. for horizontal setup i would recommend a 20 oder 21 inch tft. as an alternativ u could narrow the wide to approx. 55 cm around.  i also would avoid drilling and screwing in the frontplexi . doesnt look nice at all and makes disassembling unnecessary complicated.  i prefer cutting a slot in the top and the bottom . this way u can take out the plexi in seconds without any tool. the only thing u have to do is lift the control panel , maybe . u better stay with 1 type of buttons and not 2 many colors . multicolor setups almost look  kiddystyle and not very professional . 






ps. i have to apologize for my horrible english , but its 25 years now i m off scool . the only practice left i have is the usual 100 word onlinegaming vocabulary.

[dizney]

Hi,

Cheers for the feedback I'm not going to lie I would love to have done the plexi like that but I don't own a router in fact my tool set is so little I had to buy a drill and borrow a jigsaw so it is very much a one step at a time with regard to improvements. It seems with every one I build I learn something new or think oh maybe if I did it that way that would be cool, I think that is what I like most about this sort of project.

Not that I have a pro woodworker on board I think you will see some vast improvements even just in how much cleaner the lines are cant wait to get the finished product in hand so I can snap away and get some pics up.

I understand the colour setup I like naomi style layout and colour my self, The two two players were built to order so they picked the colours and the one player was just what I had around from when I got a PC controller off ebay years ago. I want a two player white cab with black buttons and balltops I think that would look very slick.

Cheers