Posted by paige on 3, 2001 at 1:11 AM:
In Reply to: Just curious - what type monitor, front end, etc *NT* posted by robert mcelwee on 2, 2001 at 8:33 AM:
I have a Namco Pacman Cabinet, (That was painted black). I am using a 19" PC monitor mounted Horizontally. I am not using any front ends, I just run the emulators directly. I will probably make my own front end once I finish downloading games. I have 2 control Panels. One with 2 buttons and a trackball. (Real arcade ball hacked to the electronics on a Compusa crystal trackball). The other panel has 2 joysticks, 4 buttons per player, and 3 other buttons.
I still have a few things that I want to do.
Repaint cabinet yellow.
Get a real Pacman marquee.
Wire up the coin mechs.
Rewire my controls to use an encoder instead of the keyboard and mouse hacks that I use now.
Figure out a front end that is system neutral. (It just shows the games and screenshots, (without sorting them by emulator or system).
I also have a logitech wireless mouse and keyboard that I use on this system.
The PC specs are as follows. (The PC in here is overkill, but it was the most suitable out of the PCs that I own to use).
Full Tower Case w300 watt PS
Gigabyte Brand Mobo
Athlon 650 (Slot A)
256MB PC133 Ram, (I had 512 but I always got errors, all the dimms tested OK individually but together tested bad, I think it is a power supply issue)
Geforce2 MX 32MB, (Good price and performance combo).
Soundblaster Live X-Gamer powering Cambridge 5 Point speakers. (All 5 in the cabinet, I am going to switch over to something else though).
Linksys 100MBS Network Card
Compaq oem 56k hardware modem
Avermedia TV98 Tv tuner card. (Used for playing N64 games, but I haven't wired up N64 controls yet).
6X Generic DVD rom drive and TDK velociwriter 8X cd burner.
2 Maxtor 30GB hard drives.
A total of 9 USB ports, (counting a USB hub that I worked into a drive bay).
12 Fans inside the case.
When I finish this project a lot of the hardware on this PC is coming out.