Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: abbzer0 on June 06, 2008, 01:03:58 am
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Hello - I just wanted to share a great post that I saw on rec.games.video.arcade.collecting. The guy did a really nice job on a Mame font-end. Below is the original post he made:
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Hey,
After collecting for about 15 years, I finally decided do a MAME cabinet
for my 20th machine - in a restored burgertime machine for all the
classic vertical games from 1979-1985ish (which is essentially games
that are in low-res & use 1 to 2 firebuttons. I wrote a front end
script using scala infochannel designer and its only about 200k. I'm
trying to modularize (right now the script is very tailored to my
environment) the script & install procedure in case anyone wants to use
this for a strictly vertical mame cab @ 15khz and a 15khz solution like
the ArcadeVGA. If anyone is interested, lmk and I'll see if I can make
a click'n'go install procedure.
It also supports avi previews of the games & a jukebox.
Details / HW setup / Requirements here:
http://matthewdesantis.homelinux.org:8080/mamecabinet/
-Matt
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that is IDEAL for a possible upcoming cabinet of mine (probably in the FAR future, but still....) very nice find! :applaud:
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I can't get the page to load. Will it work for anybody else?
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Works fine for me. Looks pretty standard, really the only cool thing is the small program size...
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Works for me too.
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I still can't get it to work. I get the "connection has timed out" message :banghead: Oh well. Is it Linux based?
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Oh well. Is it Linux based?
Interestingly no. It requires 98/XP/Vista to run.
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That's not a bad looking front end
dm
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Could somebody DL it and email it to me? I've tried everything and it will not open. :hissy:
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Could somebody DL it and email it to me? I've tried everything and it will not open. :hissy:
I was going to do it for you but I don't see a link to download it anywhere. It's just some screen shots.
Encryptor
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Well, if you can find it send me a PM and I'll give you my email address.
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I can't get the page to load. Will it work for anybody else?
Your work probably has port 8080 blocked...
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Actually it's my home computer. I'm using Firefox. Would that block the 8080 portal automatically?
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Actually it's my home computer. I'm using Firefox. Would that block the 8080 portal automatically?
It shouldn't. I use FF myself. It's probably something else. Perhaps an overzealous firewall or something is blocking it. The root is registered to DynDNS, that might have something to do with it.
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Yeah, it's a little too specific in features, but kudos for the small size. Eliminate the 'expected' mame directory and add the ability for unlimited games and it could be a winner for many who don't want to go through the trouble of other emus and designing the GUI interface, etc.