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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…