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Control panel review - 4 player with spinner
Zebidee:
--- Quote from: vidmouse on May 19, 2007, 10:04:16 pm ---I picked up a DM guide awhile back but around here, it wasn't that great of a deal. I seem to find a lot of them at Half Price Bookstores or used bookstores.
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?? Dunno, I'm just going on what someone who works in one of those bookstores said. But they were talking about the original AD&D 2nd Ed. harcover books, not later versions or re-prints etc. ??
--- Quote from: vidmouse on May 19, 2007, 10:04:16 pm --- I pulled a 40GB out of my main desktop, it should suffice over the 8GB drive I have in the cab now. Probably a Sunday night chore after the kids are asleep... :)
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Heh, good luck. But if you are doing the work, why stop at 40GB?
Last night I finished fitted the "Big Red Button" to turn the cab on and off automatically! Now this cab is officially finished! Check it out .....
http://scarvell.net/wiki/index.php?title=GALAXY_ARCADE_CLASSICS_GAMES_CABINET
vidmouse:
--- Quote from: Zebidee on May 21, 2007, 02:28:51 am ---
--- Quote from: vidmouse on May 19, 2007, 10:04:16 pm ---I picked up a DM guide awhile back but around here, it wasn't that great of a deal. I seem to find a lot of them at Half Price Bookstores or used bookstores.
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?? Dunno, I'm just going on what someone who works in one of those bookstores said. But they were talking about the original AD&D 2nd Ed. harcover books, not later versions or re-prints etc. ??
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This is what I've got (see picture); not sure if it's 1st printing or not... picked it up for $2 at a library book sale.
Cool site on your Galaxy cab... are you trying to use it to sell your cab as you said before?
As planned, I fiddled around with my hard drives last night... unfortunately the BIOS on my motherboard cannot recognize drives above 8.4GB -- which explains a lot, I've actually been using a 17GB drive all along and didn't realize it... I loaded Western Digital's EZ-BIOs onto my system and now it can recognize it, but I still had some problems in loading up Windows. And, for some reason it will not recognize the 40GB at all. Hmm... may have to retry that one now that I have the EZ BIOs loaded. More fiddling to do...
Why stop at 40GB? Because that's what I have, that's all. Part of this for me is to see how much I can squeeze out of the parts I already have without having to buy too many new PC parts or cab parts, etc. Admittedly I've probably already spent more in making my cab because I made it from scratch vs buying a husk but that was part of the challenge/fun. Maybe at some point I'll upgrade the PC to a P4 but I'm not ready to give up on my PII yet.
Zebidee:
Yes, I'm trying to sell the cabinet. I'm planning on using this site as a reference. I haven't advertised it anywhere specifically yet, but going to. And if nobody wants to pay me enough for it I'll just keep it! I've been pimping it up for selling, but now I love it even more! It means I would have to ship it OS in a few months though.
Re the AD&D books, value is always whatever the two people agree. I reckon that you got yourself a bargain. I've seen amazing stuff at cheap prices, just helps to know the value to you.
I couldn't see a pic?, but I mean the one with a huge demon on the front, with a flaming sword if I remember correctly. It is in a box somewhere. But mine is so dog-eared from playing at school that it is worth more sentimentally to me. So no, you can't have it for $2!! :) I still think (fantasise?) that I might play again one day (when I retire!)
vidmouse:
I guess it would've helped if I'd remembered to attach the pic ::)
But you guessed it right anyway. I think mine's in better shape
but who knows what print rev it is (forgot to look last night
when I got home)
I didn't ask before but I'm assuming by shipping OS you mean
OverSeas... ouch, that's gotta be expensive. Maybe you can
dissassemble it? I bet the weight is one thing but the bulkiness
may incur extra charges? Assuming you don't sell it...
I think I know what I need to do to get my HDD working now...
had to load in the EZ BIOs so my system could recognize the
larger HDD and then manually used fdisk to set the DOS
partition, format c, then setup. Found a Microsoft help note
that worked. I'm not done yet, as I erroneously copied over
my startup disk to my HDD, but I'll try again tonight without
doing it. I think something that was screwing me up before
was that I didn't restart the pc after partitioning and before
formatting, something it tells you to do but allows you to
not-do.
Don't know if that made sense... may post a procedure
later...
Zebidee:
Sounds like you have solved the HD issues! Yes, I remember that older PCs have problems with big HDs.
I'll be shipping half a container I think. Anyway, it won't be the only thing I'll be shipping, so I'll manage :) Besides, there'll probably be lots of people to play it in Thailand. I have another Galaxy cabinet with an arcade monitor & Soul edge II, so I'll be shipping one at least.
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