Author: John
MAME – Glass 0, Perspex 1
I got the perspex on Friday – They managed to get me black perspex so it doesn’t even need painting. I fitted the perspex and it looks awesome – so shiny! I finished taking the computer apart and…
Read More »MAME – Progress Photos
I finally got around to mounting the Subwoofer/Amp and taking a photo of the cracked glass. My perspex should be ready on friday which will rock. The cracked glass 🙁 Subwoofer in place The subwoofer vent will be…
Read More »MAME – Broken Dreams
Damm! The glass in the control panel broke. I guess by sanding it, I caused a fracture which overnight spread across the piece of glass. Maybe I’ll take the glaziers advice and use perspex instead… oh well, we…
Read More »MAME – New sound and grinding the glass
I brought a high speed handheld grinder/engraver, a poor mans dremel to grind the edges of the glass around the joysticks. After about 1 hour of griding the glass looked great. I fitted it into the cabinet and…
Read More »MAME – Glass has arrived
I ordered glass to replace the perspex in my cabinet and it is now sitting in my garage. Its a big piece of tinted glass to cover the screen and a clear piece with heaps of holes for…
Read More »MAME – Software and Hardware decisions
After a little more experimenting, I have found that the slow PC I was going to use is too slow except for the basic games such as Galaga, PacMan and DonkeyKong – I’ve decided to use the slower…
Read More »MAME – Destroying a Perfectly Good Monitor
I got out my tools and took my 20″ monitor out of its case ready to be placed in my cabinet. By complete fluke the monitor had mounting lugs in the 4 corners and so was very easy…
Read More »MAME – Ordering the basics
Inititally i was going to use a modchipped xbox running MameOX but since I had just been gifted a computer that although a little light on power (533MHz Celeron, 64MB, 6GB) should be suitable for the job. Cabinet…
Read More »MAME – The Beginning
Some of you may at this point be wondering what the heck is MAME? MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, it basically will allow you to play arcade games on your computer. Old arcade games actually had…
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