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MAME Cabinet

Well, talking to some #llamasoft people got me thinking… I should just replace the monitor in my MAME cabinet with a real, decent sized one. So I think I’m going to see if the Vision Pro 27″ SVGA Universal Mount Monitor from Happ Controls. It’s US$349.95 for the tube, plus another $13.15 for the monitor bezel. As long as it’ll fit in my cabinet, I think I may go that route… It’d be a great, massive display which would actually accept a VGA signal.

Hrm… That really would polish off the cabinet…

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Painting…

Blah. I kinda screwed up in painting part of my MAME monitor. I didn’t paint enough of the bezel, so when one looks into the monitor at a very low angle, there is still some beige visible. I’ll have to fix this another day. :(

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Arcade Update

Well, the plans to run AdvanceMame under Linux on my arcade game are now out the window. It just seems too complex for what I’m wanting to do.

I’m now going to try it with FreeDOS for sake of simplicity.

If things go according to plan, I’ll have the whole thing (nearly silently) running off of a CF card by this time next month. (Waiting for parts…)

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Leenucks

Gur. I’d forgotten what a pain in the ass it is to get anything working under Linux. I want to install one silly app and the requirements become a strawman diagram. :\

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Stuff done today…

Well, since Kompressor has taken his site down, I have mirrored it here.

I also just finished upgrading the hardware in my MAME cabinet. The Slackware 10.2 discs are coming down via BitTorrent right now, then I’ll get to work on redoing the software. I’ll also try and get some good photos of it once it is done, too.

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MAME :(

Crap. The sound card in my MAME cabinet just died.

I’ve got plan to replace the innards of the machine, but I was hoping things would hold out through tonight.

Ah well, no MAME cab for a few days…

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Clocks…

I think that most of my clocks, and most assuredly all the clocks that matter (car, computer, phone, etc) will automatically compensate for the leap second tomorrow.

This is a good thing.

The other clocks (microwave, stove, bathrooms, etc) aren’t accurate enough to matter.

I like the whole clock-set-via-GPS-and-WWVB thing. Now, if only the VCR in my office would actually automatically be set correctly. Today it is three minutes off. Last week it was hours off. I think Comcast can’t send a proper time signal.

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