Space Invaders returning to arcades...

From: Bryan Pope <bpope_at_wordstock.com>
Date: Fri Dec 5 13:40:47 2003

And thusly Jason McBrien spake:
>
> My brother-in-law's MAME cabinet features a 27" screen, dual
> multicontrollers, coin box, car stereo with decent speakers and subwoofer,
> plays MP3's and movies, SERVES MP3's and movies to the rest of the house
> (controlled by his iPaq over WiFi :) and plays all the classics, and cost
> less than $1000. Of couse, building it all and writing the custom software
> took a while, but it's a sweet machine.
>

Sounds like a nice spring project!! Is there any good places on the web
that sell/have plans for arcade cabinets?

How does it serve the MP3s? Over ethernet or something else? Is the 27"
screen a normal TV put on its side?


> I wonder what's in those new boxes.. Think it's just an embedded micro
> running an emulator? Fewer parts == cheaper to build.
>

It will probably be hard to find the board!

Cheers,

Bryan
Received on Fri Dec 05 2003 - 13:40:47 GMT