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Title: Look at the degree of slant on this cab
Post by: spidermonkey on December 13, 2003, 02:21:57 am

Yikes ! My wrists are aching just looking at it.

Title: Re:Look at the degree of slant on this cab
Post by: menace on December 13, 2003, 07:58:41 am

I see no cab-forgot pic?

Title: Re:Look at the degree of slant on this cab
Post by: Jakobud on December 13, 2003, 08:02:12 pm

It hurts my eyes to look at such a blank screen!

Title: Re:Look at the degree of slant on this cab
Post by: paigeoliver on December 15, 2003, 05:25:50 am

I can't see it, but I own some pretty slanty cabs. The panel on my Amazing Mame is about 40 degrees, and the panel on my Mame Firebird is like 75 degrees (darn close to vertical).

Title: Re:Look at the degree of slant on this cab
Post by: Magnet_Eye on December 15, 2003, 11:31:47 pm

HOLY COW! It's slanted so far it's off the screen!

Title: Re:Look at the degree of slant on this cab
Post by: Thenasty on December 16, 2003, 01:17:38 pm

first time i ever saw a slanted invisinble MAME cab. I gotta get me one .  :o

Title: Re:Look at the degree of slant on this cab
Post by: Brad Lee on December 16, 2003, 04:49:25 pm

Quote from: Thenasty on December 16, 2003, 01:17:38 pm

first time i ever saw a slanted invisinble MAME cab. I gotta get me one .  :o

I could probably 5 or 6 before the wife started bitchin :)

Title: Re:Look at the degree of slant on this cab
Post by: spidermonkey on December 17, 2003, 01:08:07 am

http://www.imhz.com/mame/oldnews.htm

What a dumbass I am. ::) Although I'm embarrased I did get a good chuckle at all of the replies.  Funny stuff. ;D

Title: Re:Look at the degree of slant on this cab
Post by: Tailgunner on December 17, 2003, 02:49:26 am

I've been wondering how long it'd take you to notice. ;)

That's approaching a good slant for a driving/yoke panel, but it's a bit much for a joystick/trackball/spinner panel. Somewhere between level and 20 degrees is about right for a regular panel.  

Title: Re:Look at the degree of slant on this cab
Post by: ErikRuud on December 17, 2003, 03:47:13 pm

Aside from the extrem angle, the CP construction appears to be very much like mine.

I think this photo may help explain the extreme angle.:
http://www.imhz.com/mame/images/frust.jpg

Title: Re:Look at the degree of slant on this cab
Post by: Dartful Dodger on December 18, 2003, 01:16:36 pm

Without the pictures I was figuring, the slanted the better, it keeps people from resting their drinks on it.
But now I see, one of the pictures has a paper cup balancing in the groove between the monitor and the CP.

If you build it, the beverages will come.  So it's just as important to have a flat cp, so it lowers the chances of the cup falling over and the drink wont become a river running down the CP causing more damage.

Title: Re:Look at the degree of slant on this cab
Post by: menace on December 18, 2003, 01:38:31 pm

I'll never knock a guy that has his priorities straight..

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Incredible progress!  Finalized my divorce, got a house, and (the most important thing) got my MAME machine out of my parents basement and into my game room.  Added a light gun, got it on the internet, and started on the artwork.  Here's a  pic...

way to go dude!! although that slant would kill me... ;D

Title: Re:Look at the degree of slant on this cab
Post by: AlanS17 on December 18, 2003, 02:16:45 pm

I know the topic of slant has come up before for being important for ergonomics.

However, I've had my totally flat CP in use for 3 or 4 months in a frat house now and nobody has ever complained (and we're talking about 100's of people who have played it). It's not just the the slant, but also the height that matters for comfort. I think the height on mine is somewhere close to perfect like those old SF machines.

Of course, the CP is so big and flat that I HAD to install cup holders. I would find 7 or 8 drinks sitting on it at the end of a party!  :P

Title: Re:Look at the degree of slant on this cab
Post by: SirPeale on December 21, 2003, 10:27:16 pm

Stupid page is built for IE.  Can't view the pics in Mozilla.  But I found the DIR okay, that is quite the slant, eh?

Title: Re:Look at the degree of slant on this cab
Post by: OSCAR on December 21, 2003, 11:25:13 pm

I even find the slant on my Guerrilla War (dynamo cab) to be uncomfortable and distracting.  I can't play on that cab too long.  I much prefer a flatter control panel like on my MAME upright or multi-williams Sinistar cabinet.

(http://www.oscarcontrols.com/guerrilla/cp-front.jpg)

Title: Re:Look at the degree of slant on this cab
Post by: paigeoliver on December 25, 2003, 08:01:09 am

Aw, you can get used to almost anything. I play on cabs with 30-75 degree slants all the time. My maze has a slant between 30 and 45 degrees, as does my Time Pilot cocktail, and my Space Firebird has a nearly vertical panel. All those are straight from the factory too.

Although it might be a lot more of an issue with larger panels, all my games have smallish panels.