The NEW Build Your Own Arcade Controls
Main => Project Arcade - the book! => Topic started by: danny_galaga on July 04, 2007, 04:46:37 am
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saint, would you consider doing a second edition? i ask this because although what we are emulating is old, the technolgies we use constantly change. also things like software and web sites change.
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I would - I just don't think my publisher would :)
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damn the publishers! damn them to hell!
although i guess they did publish your book in the first place
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damn the publishers! damn them to hell!
although i guess they did publish your book in the first place
So I guess we should just damn them to heck.
Someone call Phil!
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I have a question, why in the book did you not address normal arcade games? IE Jamma boards and such? I would have loved to see a section on how to really restore a cabinet. I know there are sites out there for that but I was just wondering. :notworthy:
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Space. We already had to cut about 75 pages of material I wanted to include.
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Space. We already had to cut about 75 pages of material I wanted to include.
WOW! What kind of stuff did you cut out? :dunno
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I wanted to go into game pad hacking, console stuff, etc... :)
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I am only about 1/4 through your book and its really good. I am in the middle of refurbing a arcade cabinet and making it a muticade sort of speak. I have a 1 to 4 jamma adapter card so I can plug up 4 games. I have pit fighter, street fighter 2 and area 51/Maximum force right now. I noticed in the book that you said you could not use the Happ guns on regular TVs. My plan is to buy a card which transfers the RGB signal to a regular TV set. Would the guns work with this kind of set up?
Right now I am almost at the paint stage. I want to start painting now but since I have a 33" cabinet system there is not enough room inside the cabinet to house all the cards so I have to build a box to house them. I was thinking of creating sliders inside the box and placeing the PCBs onto a 1/4 inch boards so I can slide them in and out. I also still need to purchase a few computer fans to keep everything running cool as I heard the area 51 PCBs do heat up. Still so much work to do yet. I really need to get busy. I hope to knock some of it out today but it is raining so building the box is out. But I can prep everything else for paint and repair all the chips and scratches with wood putty.
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Saint,
I would - I just don't think my publisher would :)
Loved the book. Have you considered a 2nd edition as an eBook? Maybe your publisher would be interested if there are no printing costs involved.
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I am a big fan of the book but that so much of the info is dated. It's very well written I just it was more current.
new publisher? self-publish?
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I don't own the copyright. I wrote it, but they retain the copyright for several years...
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It wouldn't be very intelligent to write an E-Book for MAMErs. They aren't exactly great at respecting intellectual property rights. It would be in the ROM circles in minutes.
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It wouldn't be very intelligent to write an E-Book for MAMErs. They aren't exactly great at respecting intellectual property rights. It would be in the ROM circles in minutes.
>:D
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Saint I hate to say it but your book has already been made into an ebook. it's already in the rom circles/ scene if you know where to look. it's sad to see hard work given no respect.
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I know. Been out there for a long time actually. Wiley goes after such instance legally when they can, but ... e-piracy is out there. :dunno
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unfortunately with all the release groups now it's a losing battle at some point in the future printed books will be a thing of the past and DRM protected digital files/ books will be the only thing available plus I'm sure it's alot cheaper for the publisher as no actual printing is involved.