Win32 Cocktail cab.

[armad1ll0]

Hey Guys

I've dropped out of the scene for some time now and have my MAME upright in pieces for a year now since my move. It's tuff playing in the garage.

Now I want to start a cocktail cab and I've some questions.

1) can someone point me to a Win32 frontend/emulator of choice for a cocktail machine?

2) is there a place where I can look again at the complete list of cocktail games that i'd put in a cab. I've not seen any recent cocktail machines where I'm impressed with a clean classic design and flexibility to use the machine for other things like an browsing/email. I think that it would be pretty cool to have USB ports for controllers to play 6 button fighting games from the landscape side on.

Thanks for any help.
John T.

[loadman]

1) can someone point me to a Win32 frontend/emulator of choice for a cocktail machine?
2) is there a place where I can look again at the complete list of cocktail games that i'd put in a cab. I've not seen any recent cocktail machines where I'm impressed with a clean classic design and flexibility to use the machine for other things like an browsing/email. I think that it would be pretty cool to have USB ports for controllers to play 6 button fighting games from the landscape side on.

I like MaLa (with windows command line Mame) on my Cocktail table as it has cool rotation options. You can get it to automatically rotate the game list when a controller (including USB ones) is touched on that side of the cab, so you can make a selection from any side. And it can change to the appropriate game list for that side too (optional).

You can allocate a button to launch external apps like e-mail and a internet browser too.

I don't know where you can get cocktail game list from.  I just when through them and picked ones I liked

[EDIT]
I have a vertical monitor setup.
Your Idea of having controllers on USB for occasional use on the horizontal side is great. I may do that for occasional use for when my mates come around to play some Atari 2600 classics. But probably wireless so I don't have to have USB ports on the outside

[youki]

You can try AtomicFE too.  It have a Coktail mode too.
(by pressing a button , the FE turn the screen in the direction of the other player, so the second player can choose a game to run too).

You can of course, have selection screens configured for some game to use your coktail in Horizontal mode as well some other in vertical.