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Title: Can you cram a 27" SVGA monitor into a Ms Pacman cocktail cabinet?
Post by: AlanS17 on May 17, 2005, 12:58:40 pm: I wanna build a cocktail cabinet based on Ms Pacman dimensions, but I want to be able to use my 27" SVGA monitor. Anybody try anything of this sort?
Title: Re: Can you cram a 27" SVGA monitor into a Ms Pacman cocktail cabinet?
Post by: whammoed on May 17, 2005, 01:41:03 pm: Won't be possible with the MS pac dimensions. It would have to be increased in size. I have a 27" in a mspac style cocktail. I found 24.5 x 25.5 inside dimensions are enough to accomodate the monitor and brackets and leave room for the panel clamps.
Title: Re: Can you cram a 27" SVGA monitor into a Ms Pacman cocktail cabinet?
Post by: AlanS17 on May 17, 2005, 02:00:29 pm: Can you post a picture of the thing?
Title: Re: Can you cram a 27" SVGA monitor into a Ms Pacman cocktail cabinet?
Post by: whammoed on May 17, 2005, 02:01:15 pm: http://web.tampabay.rr.com/whammoed/whammocade/whammocade.htm
Title: Re: Can you cram a 27" SVGA monitor into a Ms Pacman cocktail cabinet?
Post by: AlanS17 on May 17, 2005, 02:02:20 pm: Where did you find those itty bitty trackballs, and how much did they cost? And does that thing have a ticket dispenser?
Title: Re: Can you cram a 27" SVGA monitor into a Ms Pacman cocktail cabinet?
Post by: AmericanDemon on May 17, 2005, 07:15:42 pm: Alan, I'd be more than willing to take that 27" SVGA monitor off of your hands. ;)
Title: Re: Can you cram a 27" SVGA monitor into a Ms Pacman cocktail cabinet?
Post by: paigeoliver on May 18, 2005, 04:58:39 am: Whammo! you aren't the ONLY 27" cocktail, I have one as well.
Title: Re: Can you cram a 27" SVGA monitor into a Ms Pacman cocktail cabinet?
Post by: daywane on May 18, 2005, 08:53:49 am: its not the size that counts.
its how you use your joystick. at least that's what I have allways been told. :-[
now I fell small with my puny 19" :-\

Man, I crack myself up ;)
Title: Re: Can you cram a 27" SVGA monitor into a Ms Pacman cocktail cabinet?
Post by: AlanS17 on May 18, 2005, 10:16:56 am: Quote from: paigeoliver on May 18, 2005, 04:58:39 am
Whammo! you aren't the ONLY 27" cocktail, I have one as well.

Yeah, but yours is ginormous! ;D

Can you take a picture with someone sitting at it so we can get a sense of scale? I bet you could use yours as a breakfast table. (A really cool breakfast table.)
Title: Re: Can you cram a 27" SVGA monitor into a Ms Pacman cocktail cabinet?
Post by: whammoed on May 18, 2005, 10:19:16 am: Quote from: paigeoliver on May 18, 2005, 04:58:39 am
Whammo! you aren't the ONLY 27" cocktail, I have one as well.
OK.........
Title: Re: Can you cram a 27" SVGA monitor into a Ms Pacman cocktail cabinet?
Post by: AlanS17 on May 18, 2005, 10:20:52 am: Quote from: whammoed on May 17, 2005, 01:41:03 pm
Won't be possible with the MS pac dimensions.
Title: Re: Can you cram a 27" SVGA monitor into a Ms Pacman cocktail cabinet?
Post by: whammoed on May 18, 2005, 10:22:38 am: Quote from: AlanS17 on May 17, 2005, 02:02:20 pm
Where did you find those itty bitty trackballs, and how much did they cost? And does that thing have a ticket dispenser?
They are 2 1/4" trackballs.
Title: Re: Can you cram a 27" SVGA monitor into a Ms Pacman cocktail cabinet?
Post by: whammoed on May 18, 2005, 10:23:36 am: Quote from: AlanS17 on May 18, 2005, 10:20:52 am
Quote from: whammoed on May 17, 2005, 01:41:03 pm
Won't be possible with the MS pac dimensions.
Title: Re: Can you cram a 27" SVGA monitor into a Ms Pacman cocktail cabinet?
Post by: AlanS17 on May 18, 2005, 11:05:56 am: Quote from: whammoed on May 18, 2005, 10:22:38 am
Quote from: AlanS17 on May 17, 2005, 02:02:20 pm
Where did you find those itty bitty trackballs, and how much did they cost? And does that thing have a ticket dispenser?
They are 2 1/4" trackballs.
Title: Re: Can you cram a 27" SVGA monitor into a Ms Pacman cocktail cabinet?
Post by: AlanS17 on May 18, 2005, 04:29:53 pm: Ok I've determined that if I were to expand the dimensions of a cocktail cab to fit this monitor then it would no long fit through the doorway into my game room. Therefore, I'm just gonna stick a 19" monitor into a cocktail cab and build a classics MAME machine.

I will likely be building the 27" SVGA monitor into a TMNT cab as originally planned. That's a project for a much later day, though. I'll be doing the cocktail MAME cab first. That one will make it up the stairs and into the game very easily.