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Title: Tablet Arcade builds? I know you all seen the Icade but what about other Tablet
Post by: extendedplayarcade on March 28, 2011, 04:47:28 pm

Just wondering if anyone has or is building a tablet arcade system cabinet and all. 

But it would be nice to just put the tablet in and charge it while you play.

I tried youtube and found this Mameta.mov (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7kmb6no3us#)

Plexi glass monster.  Looks like he is using mame32.  But it doesn't look like you can take the tablet in and out with ease.


and I know you all seen the new icade

(http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/zoom/e762_iCade.jpg)


let me know what your thoughts and ideas are because i was thinking of building a new video editing computer and match it with a tablet (not sure which one yet but i don't think i will get an ipad)

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Title: Re: Tablet Arcade builds? I know you all seen the Icade but what about other Tablet
Post by: Gray_Area on March 29, 2011, 10:28:13 pm

That's MAME32 all right. But he has a stylus to select games.... Someone needs to clue him in on front ends. Nice machine, though.

Title: Re: Tablet Arcade builds? I know you all seen the Icade but what about other Tablet
Post by: bobotech on March 29, 2011, 10:34:40 pm

I have an old Thinkpad X41 that is a tablet pc.  I wonder if it could be made into something neat like that.  Its only a 1.6ghz centrino though, no dual core or anything fancy.  Runs windows 7 fine though with 2 gigs of ram.

Title: Re: Tablet Arcade builds? I know you all seen the Icade but what about other Tablet
Post by: Paul Olson on March 30, 2011, 12:55:50 pm

I think I might try to make something like that for my Eee Slate this summer. Should be a fun project. It has an i5, so it should run really well. I could even keep an external harddrive in the little cabinet.