Posted by Tiger-Heli on 6, 2000 at 7:40 AM:
In Reply to: Re: Cocktail control panel ideas posted by Munich on 5, 2000 at 6:40 PM:
: Thank you for the feedback. Missile Command is one I had not thought of because I always stunk at it! I'll have to see tonight whether or not my machine will support it. The problem is with the fixed freq. monitor in conjunction with an old video card (intense3D 100). Many of the vertical games show a scrambled screen when the monitor is set to be horizontal. I don't know about reverse (horiz games on a vert monitor).
I forgot you were dealing with a fixed frequency monitor. I have a 17" multisync horizontal, but I don't rotate it for the vertical games (but I play them at a different resolution). With fixed frequency, you would have to play with the screen settings on the monitor and that could be a pain in a cocktail cab. Advance MAME may help with this, although I personally have never been able to set it up correctly.
: Outrun is definately out of the league of this computer, but pole position isn't!
Try Outrun on it! I have a Pentium 200 MMX with 48 Meg Ram and 4M PCI Video cheap Yamaha ISA sound and Outrun runs (as best I remember) at about 90% at frameskip 11. It's fun to play although I have to use the mouse due to no dedicated spinner or arcade wheel hooked up.
When I told him, he wound up giving me a NBA Jam Extreme cabinet for free! All I had to do was drive 2 miles and pick it up from his house. It came w/o a PCB, but it has a 25" monitor, and 4 sticks with 4 buttons each. That's going to be NEXT project -- a PCtoJAMMA conversion. I uploaded pics of it to KLOV.
Too Cool, BTW, when did you upload the pics. I have sent numerous E-mails to Keeper@klov.com and klovadmin@klov.com over the past two weeeks and have not received any response (although he used to respond within one day).
: In the meantime, I am actively looking for a PCB for this game. If you have one to sell, please let me know. I'd like to see what this cabinet was meant to do!
Try E-bay (under collectibles: coin-op arcade) or RGVAC on the newsgroups.