The NEW Build Your Own Arcade Controls
Main => Project Announcements => Topic started by: Dread In The Shed on March 19, 2021, 12:40:25 pm
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If you like reading here is the info on what im planning on building
http://allincolorforaquarter.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-first-coin-op-laserdisc-game-and.html
Now let me set the stage...
Its over 20yrs ago, I'm in a small illegal gambling room hidden inside a false wall of an asian pool hall in my neighbourhood..
John the butcher is playing the cherry machine, Still wearing his dirty apron, the room has a vile smell of blood and cigarettes.
The owner opens the door and wheels in a new machine, Quarter Horse, the first laser disc game in the world!
True Story...My name is Mike but most just call me Dread. I have been building arcade machines for almost 10 yrs. My first build was a Metroid themed bartop that still gets played daily.
A lot if not all of my building skills is a giant stewing pot of all the information amassed on this site, for that I thank everyone.
With life now a bit slower I have decided to jump on line to start documenting my builds.
So back to Quarter Horse, first it was a quite hard to get my hands on a copy. As its a laser disc game I wasn't having any luck.
I finally found a version in 2019 that is being run in South America today in some of the gambling houses and spots.
I paid a pretty penny for the copy, I haven't tested it yet, more to come on that later.
This version has taken the original laser disc videos and turned them into AVI and runs on a modified Window's XP OS.
My plan for the build is simple, I have a bunch of small monitors I have been buying over the years (I'm a monitor hoarder) I'm going to do single screen but instead of styling it like a cabinet I want to build it like a Japanese Pachislo machine with a top "Marquee" and a bottom "Display" with game/selection buttons across the center below the monitor.
I will be updating this often so follow me on my build... let the races begin!
The Dread In The Shed
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So you are building a version of Quarter Horse that will play laserdisc games or is this a general MAME build based on the Quarter Horse cabinet?
That middle design on the flyer with the two monitors is interesting... probably not too practical but interesting nonetheless.
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Its not running a laser disc or mame
Its uses a Hard Disc system running on a windows xp machine, using the laser disc videos converted to avi
Yeah its pretty crazy cab, I have never played it on a 2 monitor set up, only the single units.
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Got my hands on this beauty, its a relic from the past.
I figured why try to run a Virtual Set up of XP when I can just run it on the original platform.
Im wrestling with the idea of using some of the original promotion graphics or if I should just design something new.
Leaning towards a new design.