The new Minicade!

[menace]

A circle template and a jigsaw--just line the edges up with the tangents of the circle and trim off the excess.

[ErikRuud]

Menace,

Nice mini!

The imploding icons background was reated by ROM for his Fusion cab.

http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=13;action=display;threadid=7412;start=0

[Lance]

A circle template and a jigsaw--just line the edges up with the tangents of the circle and trim off the excess.

Is this circle template just something you built?  Can you describe it?

lance

[menace]

Its just something i picked up at staples--has a number of circles ranging from 1mm to 30mm--look in drafting section.  failing that you can use a compass (the drafting kind) set your radius to 1/2", scribe two lines from each edge so they intersect, then put your compass on the point where they intersect and draw another circle--this should give you a half inch radius fillet that is tangent to both edges.

[pcdoctor]

Found this in my email from Game Cabinets.
I think your Minicade looks much better!

[menace]

The imploding icons background was reated by ROM for his Fusion cab.

thanks, I was wondering where I picked that up!

I think your Minicade looks much better!

 Much appreciated!!  Here's is the final picture before it gets shipped off to her parent's <sniff,sniff>

Can't wait to build my next one-woohoo!

[mozzer]

The finished product looks great!

[pcdoctor]

Who is getting this games?
Your mother in law or whose mother?

[menace]

her mom--she has about 50 of those little dollar store digital games around the house and jumped at the idea of having all of them in one box--figured the nephew would like it for when he goes to grandma's as well.

of course--it will have to be tested at every visit...just to make sure its running correctly....

[Stingray]

That's really cool! My brother in law likes my cab so much I'm considering building him a little bartop for his apartment. I don't know if I could give it up if I built it though.

-S

[HagHore]

Very cool...must...have...one...!!!

Looking at the picture makes me sad though, such a pretty little mini but no bezel art...makes me wanna     j/k  

[Ed ONeill]

Nice job .

I have been contimplating building a mini out of my laptop.

You have given me inspiration menace

I haven't started building my cab, so I was thinking baby steps....Start small finish big.

Just my 2 cents
ED

[pcdoctor]

Ed, are you following me?
Nice to see your name as usual!

[Ed ONeill]

yea I've been bored..so I figured hey let me follow pcdoctor around

Hey you know I just found out about mame in dec and you and a few others pointed me here ...so I guess in reality I am following you.

what do you think about me practicing on my laptop...I mean building a  laptop mame machine

Signed
ED

[GadgetGeek]

Looking at your wiring, it looks like you just spliced all the power leads together instead of using a multi-strip.  Was the powersupply unplugged when you snapped that pic or did you pop open the power supply and wire it up directly?  I can see where doing that might save you about an inch or so at the back of the cab.  Seeing all the parts for my project piled on a TV tray while I'm testing the system, I'm wondering how I'll fit it all in.
Thanks

[menace]

Thats what i did--i drilled a hole in the power supply and tapped the power leads to come right into a main block--did the same thing with the monitor--this eliminates like 8 or 9 feet of cable as well as the space for the plug ins--also, if you're using an AT power supply and dos--its 1 button off, 1 button on--for everything.

To get everything to fit, i would suggest laying it all together, keeping in mind you can work in 3 dimensions if need be (screw hard drive to side wall) and see what you come up with.  The dell optiplex board i used was ideal as it was thinner than it was long so it layed on the bottom perfectly.

[IG-88]

Menace! How about a 10 yr old post reply      I can't believe it's been this long since you built this! Reason I am posting is because I wanted to know the fate if this bartop. Is it still running? If not what happened to it? Just curious. I got one that is going on 8 and am honestly surprised it lasted this long!

[menace]

Wow-now that's a necro-thread revival!  So this guy sat at the in-laws for I'd say 6 years or so--got lots of play but then they downsized and figured maybe it should go to a better home.  So I got it back, re-worked it, updated it a bit and then sold it--not sure where it is now to be honest--hopefully still running somewhere....

If memory serves I ran vantage mame on it and my pc requirements were ridiculously low (I think my microwave might have more computational power than that pc did...)

[IG-88]

Thats cool! Mine is running DOS mame with Game Launcher on a 300mhz with like 64megs of ram. It was the very first one I built and haven't had the heart to get rid of it.

I remember when I built it, all I had was a well used PC that I rescued from somewhere. I also remember thinking that it was probably a waste of time because it surely had a lot of hours on it and would likely die in a month. But I'll be damned if it is still going. All I've had to do is change the motherboard battery.

I should start a thread on the main forum asking about old cabs that are still going strong....