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slamminsam:

--- Quote from: ark_ader on July 08, 2013, 06:59:48 pm ---An Aquarium?

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I did a mockup of a showcase style cab with the pc components submerged in an aquarium full of mineral oil, but it just seemed to impractical to go any further than the design stage.

paigeoliver:
I wonder how well that would work? I have a Space Invaders with the blacklight, moon and backdrop and have thought about coming up with some way to jazz that area up a bit more, although I was thinking something more along the lines of "plastic mothership up top".


--- Quote from: ChadTower on July 08, 2013, 04:40:45 pm ---
--- Quote from: thatpurplestuff on July 02, 2013, 04:55:27 pm ---One idea that I thought would always be cool but would require completely custom software to use effectively is to have a standard mirror cab that uses a half-silvered mirror with a second monitor behind it that would only be visible when it was lit up (ie displaying something)... you could make your own custom games that used both monitors, emulate games like T2 and Space Invaders and have the monitor display the correct background, maybe use it for menus and stuff so while navigating around the screen would appear closer than when you actually load up a game.

It would be a completely pointless novelty for the most part, but could also be really neat if done effectively.

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Actually... I have a decent Asteroids Deluxe that I am going to totally restore and maybe 'upgrade' (within the spirit of the design).  One of the ideas I have kicked around is replacing the cardboard backdrop with an LCD.  Maybe with a plastic overlay that still has some UV reactive objects on it and then the LCD itself would of course be animated.

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lcmgadgets:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on July 08, 2013, 04:40:45 pm ---Actually... I have a decent Asteroids Deluxe that I am going to totally restore and maybe 'upgrade' (within the spirit of the design).  One of the ideas I have kicked around is replacing the cardboard backdrop with an LCD.  Maybe with a plastic overlay that still has some UV reactive objects on it and then the LCD itself would of course be animated.

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Omg. ChadTower, you've done it again. The potential for this...is amazing. & you're one of the people here who can pull it off.

telengard:
Some crazy ideas:

- 1 cab, 2 monitors (vector & raster)
- Cab that can also do mirroring (think space invadiers, asteroids deluxe) with artwork projection in addition to std display games.

~telengard

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