4 player cocktail cabinet project!

[wolf510]

Greetings everyone!

This is my first post and I am proud to announce that I am starting my first arcade project! Currently I am looking at using an old Pentium 3 comp running Win 98 with a 19" CRT monitor. For the case, I am looking into buying the 4 player cocktail cabinet that they just released at mameroom.com because my wood working skills are less then great and I don't have the floor space to build my own. For a front end I am currently playing around with MALA since it does a pretty good job at rotating the screen to the original orientation of the rom. How cool is that!!! I am thinking about using MAME32, Nestopia, ZSNES, Fusion, and VisualBoyAdvanced for my emulators.

I look forward to showing off my project to everyone and picking the brains of the more experienced! Please feel free to give me some constructive criticism since I am completely new to this and welcome everyones insight.

Justin

[IG-88]

What are the specs of the comp you are going to use? Is it running Mala OK?

[wolf510]

I am not sure yet. I am looking at a 2.4GHz Pentium 4 with 1 gig of ram and potentially a relatively low level graphics card. Why is MALA hell on system specs? My main that I am experimenting with is a gaming rig so I can't tell how well MALA will run on a slower comp. But on my 3.6 Ghz duelcore AMD processor with 2 gigs ram and 512mb video card it runs like a champ.

[IG-88]

Don't know why it takes alot of computer to run it right. I've just heard that it does and I've been curious to see how low people can go with it.

[wolf510]

Cool. I just got a hold of a 2.6 GHz Pentium 4 with 512 MB of ram. I'll let you know how well it works when it shows up in a few days.

[Franco]

Good luck with your project! 

The PC im using in my cocktail is pretty much the same spec as yours (2.8Ghz P4, 512MB RAM) and it runs Mala/MAME perfectly so I imagine yours should work well too.