Posted by Senor Y. on 23, 2001 at 12:23 PM:
In Reply to: Questions posted by Mojo2000 on 23, 2001 at 8:26 AM:
: BTW, my I-Pac took a mere seven days (not seven business days, seven ACTUAL!) to travel from England to Western Canada, so it shouldn't take you long to receive yours.
GOOD! I'm ready to finish this thing :>
: You might want to include Forward and Back switches at your inner pages to make navigation a little friendlier. Or not.
Yes, I know -- my HTML skills are lacking ;>
: 1) Why would you make a switch to alternate between credit buttons and coin buttons? To force people to put in credits if you saw fit? (In case you didn't know already, you can wire both the coin drops and the credit buttons to the I-Pac's coin inputs together...)
To make people pay -- yes ;> I usually have large gatherings at my house -- I figure if I can switch people will pay for sure.
: 2) That's an odd asymmetry between the 1P and 2P buttons. Was it planned like that!?
It was planned around the original controls ;>
: 3) It's also interesting to see the material you used for the control panel. What was it? Just white paint on metal?
The material I used was white contact paper with a layer of Lucite to protect it.
: 4) What did you do with the old controls?
Old controls I still have. One of the cherry switches on the buttons is screwed other than that everything is in tact. (a little dirty) but in tact.
: Finally, the hardware you were using is gradually NOT becoming overkill for MAME purposes. You know about Taito F2/F3 games, STUN Runner, Galaxy Fight, Rampage World Tour and all those CPU hogs.
I figured as much :>