Amstrad Arcade

[Gryzor]

Has this been discussed before??


http://amstrad.eu/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=5176&forum=31

[TFM]

The first arcade machine with a keyboard. However the joystick is a bit uncentered though. Nice variation

[McKlain]

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.

[TFM]

And some (like me) have never seen such stuff in a real arcade hall 

[TotO]

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 )

[Baggers]

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

[TotO]

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.

[Bryce]

My retro collection already takes up too much space without going and putting a small CPC in a large wooden box

Bryce.

[Gryzor]

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)

[rexbeng]

... a small CPC in a large wooden box

Bryce.

And what about all those homemade expansions of yours, χμμμμμ?


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[ivarf]

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

[Bryce]

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.

[TFM]

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     

[Gryzor]

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.