How did you find BYOAC?

[Santoro]

My story is prestty simple:

1) Saw Aaron's Millipede Mame machine article in Scientific American
2) Googled MAME
3) Found here

[Yander]

It all started when I discovered MAME and thought it was the coolest thing. Especially how it emulated every aspect of the game. I thought it would be cool to have an arcade game so I checked Ebay and found a MAME cabinet. I thought it was the coolest thing but could never do it.
Over a year or two later a much wiser me was trying to get the drivers to work with my NES pad hack and stumbled arcoss this site. I remembered the one on e-bay said I can build one of those, so two months later I started.

[SoundDoc]

I (and my wife) have had people over every weekend for years, it usually ended up with me and the guys playing Golden tee PC, which got tireing with the mouse, so I started looking for a trackball, and came across MAME again. a week later, Gigs of HD space later, and 4 wireless wingman rumblepads later we were playing TMNT on the bigscreen until 5 in the morning... One thing led to another and I decided that what I really needed was a cabinet to put it all in, so I Googled out there for "cabinet Plans" and somewhere in the list I hit this goldmine. People doing the same thing I was! How cool is that? Its been a couple of years since, much thiought since, and I'm now starting a cab!
It fell into my lap a week ago, with a dead monitor and a MK2 board. A CRT swap later, and I'm getting ready to take the plunge and pick up the interface (most likely ultimarc) and the rest of the goodies (www.therealbobroberts.com).

I thank you Saint for the incredible site! My wife on the other hand has a few other choice words......  

SD

[missioncontrol]

Google....I don't remember the search terms but it had to do with building an arcade cabinet and arcade controls then read Saints book and signed up

[blue]

Google search when i found out what MAME was, been hooked ever since...

[Jkawch]

Project Arcade....great book. I had never even heard of MAME or any of this until about a week ago. Bought the book at the local chapters (just happened to fluke see it), now Im hooked.

Ive already got the plans/wood/computer ... saving up for the happ 19" svga (tough when youre up in the great white north).

Thanks John St. Clair!