Ultra mini MAME cabinet

Posted by powerjaw on September 10, 1999 at 01:04:48:

A long time ago I wrote a little doc on how to convert a 5" CGA monitor to work with arcade machines. (The article can be seen at http://www.spies.com/arcade/conversion/SamtronCGAtoArcade )

After seeing that counter-top MAME cabinet on the Arcade@Home site, I got to thinking that I could probably one-up that by using this 5" monitor and maybe the guts of a laptop. The 5" monitor uses a 12v DC power supply, so I wouldn't even need a bulky supply and isolation transformer (ack!). Has anyone used a laptop for their cabinet? Pros and cons?? I could probably pick one up cheap that had a bad LCD display, since I'd be connecting it to a monitor anyway. Do most laptops have regular VGA ports?

Tim

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