Posted by John Pursglove on 8, 2000 at 10:27 PM:
In Reply to: Re: emulator question, and details on my project (long) posted by Rocket2600 on 4, 2000 at 6:39 PM:
Hi, I have an AMD k6-2 333 and 128mb RAM in my cabinet and Galaga 88 runs flawlessly. It's my wife's favorite game so if it doesn't work at full speed I would here about it!
: : Hello, All.
: : A quick question, and then my project details for wholever wants to read them. This is so much fun! If only RL didn't get in the way!
: : I have a used PC I picked up an promptly dropped an ATI Expert 98 in, thanks to Brian Lewis and Mr. Salty for there great web pages. I have only a P-133, though. It works great except for 3 or 4 games I would really like to have. Bubble Bobble, Joust 2, and (sigh) Galaga '88. I think for G88 I need something like a PIII, so forget that (sigh). How much horsepower do I need to run the first two? Anyone know the minimum?
: Hi,...I have a P-233MMX with 64 megs of ram for my cabinet and it plays the Bubble Bobble and Joust 2 at full speed. The Galaga 88 is still slow on it. It runs fine on my PIII 600 with 128 megs, but I'm not putting my main PC in a cab. I'm not sure if Galaga 88 would be faster on a Celeron 400+ or not. If anyone knows please post. This is what I thought about upgrading my cabinet PC to boost the speed since the Celeron's are becoming so cheap. Also the more memory you have the better. Good luck, Game On!
: : I am chugging away at my mame project, an esoteric arcade concersion with just a 4-way joystick and 2 fire buttons. My goal is to get a cab that just plays 'classic' maze games and shooters, Pac-Man series, Galaga series, Mr. Do's series, rally-x, whatever. Just a real 4-way wico joystick
: : The cabinet is an old Food Fight made by Atari Ireland in a cabinet that is _identical_ to the gyrus cabinet.
: : So far I've gutted the cabinet, stripped of the cp and the sides. Built a new cp. Rotated the monitor. Next is to build my vga-arcade monitor cable, as per the directions on the most excellant pc2jamma page. I am taking the coward's way out and hardwiring everything.
: : Next, build the shelf to house the pc inside, rewire my Act Labs PowerRamp to the controls, and then worry about finishing details.
: : One downside was that in order to make room for the vertical monitor I had to remove the flourescent light for the marquee. I can still wedge the marquee in, but it will be plain paper.
: : Pictures will be posted as soon as I finish this roll of film and get a picture on disk.
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: : Later Dudes,
: : --Fiver
: : , a 4-way joystick & 2 fire button, 1-player