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Hopefully a fun read: my ordeal setting up my MAME pc

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Zebidee:
A few, in states ranging from fully operating "arcade classics games cabinet" to working normal arcade game (PCB only) to cabinet shell only ....

You should come and have a look if you get the chance.  I am in the mood for selling stuff ;)

That yellow one is a cab I built as a custom job (paid) for my best friend.  He's currently enjoying it :D

It is a favourite, as it is ultra-retro style (original LAI mid-80's) and the laid-back monitor is good for pinball.

It also has DVD drive and control panel mounted into the door, which is mega-handy for ripping music etc.  Uses Magstick Plus Joys.  Powered by P4 3.0Ghz with 40GB & 200GB hard drives.  Runs pretty much everything that the Galaxy Cabinet does (Mame, Zinc, Kawaks, Future Pinball, Doom, Virtua Tennis, Flysims, Daphne), using Windows XP PRO with a "Windows Are Hidden" joystick-driven FE interface.

Anubis_au:
The yellow cab was built from scratch? Nice work!  :cheers:

What size monitor is in that baby?

It looks sort of like a lowboy but with a bigger screen. I sometimes wonder if you couldn't take the design of a smaller cab and scale to fit a larger screen...

Zebidee:

--- Quote from: Anubis_au on June 02, 2007, 03:53:54 am ---It looks sort of like a lowboy but with a bigger screen. I sometimes wonder if you couldn't take the design of a smaller cab and scale to fit a larger screen...

--- End quote ---

That's what this is!  It originally had a 26" monitor in it, but i replaced it with a 25" Loewe TV (SCART).  It is only about 5'6" or 165cm  high.

Speakers sit behind the mesh grill above the monitor.

Because the monitor sits quite low, it is really good for playing pinball.  It is very good for most other games too.  If you have a low stool to sit on, it is a bit like playing a cocktail except you can see the screen better, more like an upright. 

Reckon the style would be easy to copy if you want to make something similar.

Anubis_au:
Did you draw up any plans you could share?

gse123:
I completely sympathise! I had similar nightmares when I initially tried to get my PC hooked up to a scart TV via AVGA. I spend many an hour trying to figure out what was wrong with my TV or AVGA card until I realised that the scart-Vga cable I thought was ok was in fact a complete dud. I got Keene Electronics to make me one up and it worked perfectly first time.

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