Has this been discussed before??
http://amstrad.eu/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=5176&forum=31 (http://amstrad.eu/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=5176&forum=31)
The first arcade machine with a keyboard. However the joystick is a bit uncentered though. Nice variation :)
Well, any arcade machine with a mame pc inside has a keyboard and even a mouse connected somewhere. Some people put it inside the cabinet, some other people add a sliding tray under the joysticks.
And some (like me) have never seen such stuff in a real arcade hall :laugh:
If well done with a nice arcade-like menu and a removable disk or an remote connexion, the MAME Cab will never need Keyboard or Mouse. Stay definitively an arcade machine with joysticks only as input. (it's not mister coffee :D )
My Mame cab doesn't need a keyboard, I do have two USB sockets in the side, in case I want to plug a keyboard and mouse in, to do mods to it though :)
It's like getting PS/2 ports.
You definitively need Keyboard and Mouse to update your MAME Cab too... Definitively showing "computer stuff" on it.
My retro collection already takes up too much space without going and putting a small CPC in a large wooden box :)
Bryce.
Quote from: Bryce on 09:29, 18 September 12
My retro collection already takes up too much space without going and putting a small CPC in a large wooden box :)
Bryce.
Yeeees, but after all you do that with your clothes, don't you?
That said, I think it's lovely, but I were making it I'd also put a normal MAME PC in it, indeed it's somewhat of a large thing to have around...
I, too, have a keyboard and trackball connected to my cab. I rarely use them (so I'm thinking of actually pulling the keyboard to use with my Pi), but there *will* be a time when you'll need it for one reason or another (oh, the fact that I use XP to make it lightweight doesn't help much either)
Quote from: Bryce on 09:29, 18 September 12... a small CPC in a large wooden box :)
Bryce.
And what about all those homemade expansions of yours, χμμμμμ? :D
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Quote from: Bryce on 09:29, 18 September 12
My retro collection already takes up too much space without going and putting a small CPC in a large wooden box :)
Bryce.
A CPC-woody could be kind of cool :)
Quote from: Gryzor on 12:42, 18 September 12
Yeeees, but after all you do that with your clothes, don't you?
Well then I'd have to put a door on the side to store other retro stuff inside.
Bryce.
This way you have just to bring a single box to a meeting and it's 'all inside' from Atari 800 XL till 6128 Plus ;) :) :) :)
Quote from: Bryce on 16:00, 18 September 12
Well then I'd have to put a door on the side to store other retro stuff inside.
Bryce.
Well... this would be a great idea. A cut-down version of the monstrous it-plays-everything project we had seen a while ago, only neater and contained.