Comments on: Mame News: First milestone achieved !!

By: defender

defender — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:11:59 +0000

Sometimes I look at http://www.arcadecontrols.com forum.

So you installed Fedora 7 (DVD 32 bit version ?) and frontend AdvancedMenu with AdvanceMame?
I’m looking for the smallest linux distribution for mame cab for make fast and small mame-cab system.

By: dafdaf

dafdaf — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:36:08 +0000

What a coicidence ! – I bought my cab from the same guy !

To answer your question: At first, I tried an old motherboard with an AMD-Duron. But unfortunately it was broken. That’s why I got a cheap (?) AMD64 board 512MB RAM. Definately a waste of money. – A PIII would have been enough. Especially since I’m mostly playing games from ’80 – ’84. The build in harddisk is some old 80GB piece I found in a drawer…

I the beginning, I was planning to use a CF too but then I got the idea of using the arcade cab as a internet kiosk mp3-player and therefore I need more hdd-space. But first I’d have to get a bluetooth keyboard trackball. – Or something similar….

Unfortunately I don’t know any good forums. – I’ve been searching around a couple of times but didn’t find anything *really* good/helpful.

The Asteroids panel looks beautiful !! – I think I’ve got to upload a pic of mine too. – Now that’s finally finished….

By: defender

defender — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:11:15 +0000

My Zaccaria cab is from :
http://cgi.ebay.de/Zaccaria-Gehaeuse-Jamma_W0QQitemZ140180432408QQihZ004QQcategoryZ34780QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting

(or auction nr: 140180432408 at http://www.ebay.de -Zaccaria GehÃ¤use.!!!Jamma!!)

What is your hardware specyfication (CPU, RAM, HDD, MB etc.).
I plan to use MAME with 80′ games, so probably it will be PII / PIII , 256 RAM, 2,5 GB HDD or CompactFlash via CF->IDE adapter:
http://www.gotronik.pl/sklep/product_info.php?cPath=22_37&products_id=40

Do you can reccomend any linux-based arcade forum?

Thanks for your opinion. I made another panel http://www.francmuz.webd.pl/panel2/DSC05043.JPG
So it’s time for real cab now ;-)

Regards
Defender

By: dafdaf

dafdaf — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:25:34 +0000

The cab runs a standard installation of Fedora 7 with the only modifications being a custom kernel with RivaFB drivers.
The Frontend is run by advmenu and the emulator is advmame.
*very* nice job on the Defender panel ! It looks amazing !

Btw: where did you get your Zaccaria cab ? I’d like to build another machine and am starting to look for a cab…

By: defender

defender — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:13:03 +0000

Hello,
Great job. What linux distribution you put to your zaccaria cab?
I bought same zaccaria cab and will do exactly the same: Mame linux frontend. I bought pushbuttons and joystick at arcadeshop.de too.

http://www.francmuz.webd.pl/zaccaria/2.jpg

My first control panel was Wilisams Defender – styled panel for 2 players:
http://www.francmuz.webd.pl/panel/final1.JPG

I thinked about build complete Williams Defender replica cab, but I decided to buy original arcade cab, well – universal Zaccaria cab.

Regards
Defender