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Mick's Arcade Cabinet
My own GNU/Linux-powered MAME cabinet!
In January 2006 I started building an arcade cabinet. I got it sort of finished in time for LugRadio Live 2006 on the 22nd and 23rd of July where I gave a short talk about it and let everyone play their favourite games on it. It's built of mostly recycled computer parts and timber that would've otherwise ended up in a skip. It runs Pieter Hulshoff's excellent mamed front end (v0.7 slightly modified http://www.mameworld.net/dutchmamepage/pieter_hulshoff.htm) and xmame on Ubuntu with about 5800 games of which I have about 120 in my Favourites category.
It's now May 2007 and I've done very little work on it since then. I hope to do a bit more work before LugRadio Live 2007 and perhaps write a bit more about it. I've taken the original webpages that show various stages of its construction. They mostly show off my obsession with rewiring!
Page the first - in which I design and build a cheap and cheerful control panel.
Page the second - in which I find a new keyboard controller and I start to build a cheap cabinet.
Page the third - in which I add a monitor shelf, a slide-out keyboard drawer, and a monitor bezel.
Page the forth - in which I add more shape to the cabinet and I wire in a new control panel.
Page the fifth - in which I add dual PlayStation2 controllers to play 4-player Gauntlet II, wire in the additional buttons, and mount the new control panel.
Page the sixth - in which I rewire the control panel with CAT5 and solderless breadboard, set up a mamed front end, and generally get everything working.
Page the seventh - in which (some time later!) I do some much needed updates and present some of the features.
Page the eighth - in which I add a front to the control panel.
I'll keep adding stuff as time goes on!
