About a year ago, I worked at a new/used computer store. More specifically, it had a large "new" inventory, which was used to operate as a standard computer store, and it had an upstairs, which was where the magic happened. Upstairs was my domain. That's where I made my slackware-powered cash registers, compiler clusters, video walls, audio-video systems, and my mamelet.
It wasn't mine exclusively: I was working with a seattle's best barista as my protege. He had the carpentry skills, and I had the software skills, to pull it off: the creation of a half-sized arcade cabinet, using a 15" monitor instead of a TV. The weird part, though, was that he actually did it. We found some plywood, sketched out our pieces with a sharpie, sawed them out, and screwed it all together. We stole a mirror off a wall in an inventory room to flip the monitor's image, just like a real arcade cabinet, and in the end it worked really well. We bought some used arcade machine joysticks from a store called john's jukes for $10 each, and I hacked together a joystick, a usb gamepad and SDL, to make joystick pushes generate X key input events, and then ran xmame fullscreen with the video flipped to look correct in the mirror.
Then I stopped working there, and last I heard they threw it away. I really doubt there's going to be any news on this project, unless I get my act together and do it all over again.
I had a full set of construction pictures, but they were on my old cellphone, which snapped in half, and was then thrown away by the motorola service guys when I asked them to put a new lcd on it. Thanks guys, you did a fantastic job.
Wulf - 2006-11-19 16:07:08
Protege? Bastard.
GISELLE - 2007-07-11 06:08:07
WOW. FACINATING.
Lizabeth - 2011-10-17 18:25:40
And I was just wodnrieng about that too!
Sinta - 2012-12-17 08:32:18
the theme song should be the song they used in the beiingng troop beverly hills!im a 12 year old boy that saw all your cartoons ren and stimpy lost episodes,the goddamn george liquor program,weekend pussy hunt,ripping friends,boo boo runs wild,day and the life of ranger smith and the rest!just great great animation!ps i hope someone buys the goddamn george liquor program.