![]() I'll chuck some more photos up when it's all finished and playing. It still has the protective covering on it, but when that comes off the photos will show just how sexy and shiny this stuff is. The chrome T-moulding came from (went halves with Blakey on his purchase to save on postage). The buttons are just your average microswitched concave sort, and the encoder is the KeyWiz Max. These have a very short throw (great for shooters) and have a nice big knob on the end (*chuckle*). The joysticks are GGG "OMNI Basic" sticks which are re-badged Suzo sticks. The joysticks, buttons and keyboard encoder all came from "Groovy Game Gear" in the US. Not pictured is the 50% grey "smoked" glass top which will be fastened on later. I can always spray-paint them later I guess. I would have preferred chromed legs, but they'll do. He knocked them up for me and powder coated them for a few bucks. The legs were supplied by a local security welding guy. I can fit every single vertical game supported by MAME plus the tools I need to play them on a 2GB hard disk. These run through SVGALib, so I don't need to install XFree86, which kept the install size down to around 150MB or so for the complete OS, emulator and compile tools. Software wise the unit runs Slackware Linux 9.1 with AdvanceMenu frontend and AdvanceMAME emulator. So it stayed cased, and the bezel was painted black. I originally tried to decase it, but I got a little scared at the thought of an open monitor and kids running around. The monitor is just an old 17" VGA that was left over. ![]() ![]() Video is an old ATi card that was lying around, and it all runs on an old 2GB hard disk. It's running an AthlonXP 1500+ on some generic VIA KT133 board with 512MB PC133 memory (I need the large memory for more recent games like Gunbird2 and DoDonPachi which eat up 300MB uncompressed). 8 months and $100 worth of tool bits later, they're done. A word of advice for anyone who's contemplating working with stainless: DON'T. The Control Panels are 1.8mm stainless steel. As usual it's total overkill for strength, but with my clumsy mates I prefer to make it tougher than it needs. The timber is my usual affair: 18mm MDF panels held together with 40mm pine. I had toyed with the idea of a cocktail cabinet for some time, and after seeing how good Blakey's turned out, decided to give it a go myself.ġ) A vertically oriented monitor for my favourite shootersĢ) Cocktail flip-game capability for games like Galaga and Pacman which allow a player to sit either side of the unitģ) Side-by-side capability for more modern 2-player simultaneous games.Ĥ) Good old Leisure and Allied Industries styled Aussie cocktail cab look - not the awful American style. Last year I built myself a standup arcade cabinet with horizontally-aligned monitor. (Kudos to him too for lending me his slot-cutter for the T-moulding). And that right there is most of the cutting. Now cut the 2 inch arms from the control panel section of plywood. Next, on the other half of the plywood sheet, cut your 3 16' boards for the front and control panel. Now cut down the diagonal line to make your triangle sides. This project is heavily inspired by Blakey's scratch-built cocktail cabinet. Cut the board down the line you drew lengthwise.
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