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Title: <News> Build Your Own ... Trash-80 arcade machine?
Post by: saint on April 04, 2007, 12:35:59 pm
(Front page news discussion thread) (http://arcadecontrols.com/arcade_main.php#2283)
Title: Re: <News> Build Your Own ... Trash-80 arcade machine?
Post by: MinerAl on April 04, 2007, 12:44:40 pm
I have 2 or 3 CoCo3s lying about...

I may need to make a Donkey Kab!

That's some cool old-school foolishness.
Title: Re: <News> Build Your Own ... Trash-80 arcade machine?
Post by: FrizzleFried on April 04, 2007, 02:08:31 pm
Nice!!  ...and to think of all the crappy ports of DK that have come out...

Title: Re: <News> Build Your Own ... Trash-80 arcade machine?
Post by: MaximRecoil on April 04, 2007, 07:22:18 pm
(http://maxim.skyphix.com/trs80dk.jpg)
Title: Re: <News> Build Your Own ... Trash-80 arcade machine?
Post by: vrf on April 05, 2007, 12:00:00 am
Quote from: MaximRecoil on April 04, 2007, 07:22:18 pm
(http://maxim.skyphix.com/trs80dk.jpg)

What system is that?

Get out the Dremmel and that might make a cool little MAME tabletop.  ;D
Title: Re: <News> Build Your Own ... Trash-80 arcade machine?
Post by: MaximRecoil on April 05, 2007, 12:05:12 am
Quote from: vrf on April 05, 2007, 12:00:00 am
What system is that?

Tandy Radio Shack TRS-80 model III (http://www.old-computers.com/MUSEUM/computer.asp?c=18).

AKA "Trash-80".
Title: Re: <News> Build Your Own ... Trash-80 arcade machine?
Post by: vrf on April 05, 2007, 12:07:22 am
funny, I swear my TRS-80 just hooked up to the TV...

Anyhow, is that a real MAME cab? Looks like a rendering.
Title: Re: <News> Build Your Own ... Trash-80 arcade machine?
Post by: MaximRecoil on April 05, 2007, 12:19:23 am
Quote from: vrf on April 05, 2007, 12:07:22 am
funny, I swear my TRS-80 just hooked up to the TV...

Anyhow, is that a real MAME cab? Looks like a rendering.

I did it in Photoshop, starting with this picture:

(http://maxim.skyphix.com/trs80original.jpg)

The original TRS-80 (http://www.old-computers.com/MUSEUM/computer.asp?st=1&c=409) (Model 1) did hook to a TV or separate CGA monitor, as did the Model II (http://www.old-computers.com/MUSEUM/computer.asp?st=1&c=243). I don't know if they made any Model III's without an integrated monitor or not. We had a boatload of Model III's at our school when I was a kid in the early/mid 80's, and they all had integrated monitors. Some of them were beige and others were silver/grey.
Title: Re: <News> Build Your Own ... Trash-80 arcade machine?
Post by: horseboy on April 05, 2007, 12:25:22 am
Nice photoshopping skills, Maxim.  :cheers:

I hope you didn't photoshop in a Nintendo joystick, though. Those damn things break all the time.
Title: Re: <News> Build Your Own ... Trash-80 arcade machine?
Post by: vrf on April 05, 2007, 12:27:51 am
And are you going to build it?  :)
Title: Re: <News> Build Your Own ... Trash-80 arcade machine?
Post by: MaximRecoil on April 05, 2007, 12:38:40 am
Quote from: vrf on April 05, 2007, 12:27:51 am
And are you going to build it?  :)


Not likely. I've always thought the TRS-80 Model III would make a cool basis for a bartop emulation machine, but it would be a lot of work. You'd need to replace that monochrome monitor with a color TV/monitor of some sort of the same size (12"), unless you only planned to play Space Invaders or similar B&W games. Then you'd need to hack in a mini-ITX motherboard or something. Getting real arcade controls to fit in that shallow keyboard area might be difficult too. It could all be done, but probably not by me.