Adventures in MAME land
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So...decided that since I have a break, I need to do something with it. Instead of the wise choice of finishing the tons of projects I have laying around, I've decided to build an arcade cabinet! I'm not sure of the full hardware specs I'll be installing yet, maybe even just some consoles
Progress & Parts:
And the madman at work
Progress & Parts:
And the madman at work
Shouldn't a mod know better than any body that this belongs in the arcade forum?
Haha, looks good though. Good luck! I like what you did with the front of the control panel part. Very stylish
Haha, looks good though. Good luck! I like what you did with the front of the control panel part. Very stylish
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The cuts aren't exact or entirely straight. I'm planing on clamping the sides together once they're cut out and evening them out with a good sanding.
Took a break from the panels to cut out some of the frame. Hoping I can borrow a circular saw for the 2nd panel, hard to cut the long straight lines with the jigsaw.
If you're not careful the board will snap off when it's almost done getting cut. Luckily it happened on the inside of the control area which will be covered up.
Took a break from the panels to cut out some of the frame. Hoping I can borrow a circular saw for the 2nd panel, hard to cut the long straight lines with the jigsaw.
If you're not careful the board will snap off when it's almost done getting cut. Luckily it happened on the inside of the control area which will be covered up.
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Why are you using a jigsaw for straight cuts? You should use a circular saw for the majority of the cut and then the jigsaw to finish the corners, the cuts will be a lot straighter.The cuts aren't exact or entirely straight.
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Because *I* don't have a circular sawbicostp wrote:Why are you using a jigsaw for straight cuts?
Anywho, couldn't contact a relative with one, so I decided to continue with the jigsaw.
Here are the sides lined up and clamped, ready to be evened out:
After that I screwed them together through the holes I'll be using to screw them to the frame (don't have many clamps)
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Then clamp one of those 2x4s to the part you want to cut and use it as a straightedge.gannon wrote:Because *I* don't have a circular sawbicostp wrote:Why are you using a jigsaw for straight cuts?
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Since I don't have much time to do cabinet work until tomorrow, I decided to do a bit on the other hardware/software.
Currently I'm using my "2nd best" pc that I replaced in late November stripped down. The controller is a standard X-Arcade 2 player refurbished model (works great and wasn't that much more than building my own with cost+time considered).
I'm using ubuntu 6.06.1 currently and am playing around with different boot settings and configs.
With an X session I can't get mame to function properly by using X, but SDL works (doesn't scale though). Might reset all the configs to see if that changes things.
Straight from the terminal I can get mame working with svgalib fine. The main problem so far is finding a good svgalib mame frontend that would work.
I might even give up on my linux modding fun and go for windows since it has more software support all around, but I'll save that for when I get frustrated and give up
Currently I'm using my "2nd best" pc that I replaced in late November stripped down. The controller is a standard X-Arcade 2 player refurbished model (works great and wasn't that much more than building my own with cost+time considered).
I'm using ubuntu 6.06.1 currently and am playing around with different boot settings and configs.
With an X session I can't get mame to function properly by using X, but SDL works (doesn't scale though). Might reset all the configs to see if that changes things.
Straight from the terminal I can get mame working with svgalib fine. The main problem so far is finding a good svgalib mame frontend that would work.
I might even give up on my linux modding fun and go for windows since it has more software support all around, but I'll save that for when I get frustrated and give up
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Well, <s>if</s> when you finally get sick of farting around with Linux (or the extra time spent fiddling with it is more than it's worth) and use Windows, pick up a copy of <a href="http://www.gameex.net/">GameEx</a>. It's free to use (though you get a splash screen when you open it), sorts games several different ways, and can support just about any emulator that launches from the command line. I use it for all of my HTPC's game launching, and Meedio Ultimate takes care of videos and music.
There are some game launchers like AdvanceMenu and Lemon Launcher that would work, but it looks like they're all SDL.
There are some game launchers like AdvanceMenu and Lemon Launcher that would work, but it looks like they're all SDL.
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