Well, it has been a bit since I updated this particular page, hasn’t it? The keyboard I mentioned below worked, but it wasn’t viable for this project. I was looking for a model that had a small encoder hooked to mylar sheets, like this: What a hack. I had to […]

I have so got to get me a digital camera. Found a junk AT case at the same place I got the keyboard from. I’m going to carve it up and modify it to accomidate the cabinet. Pics when I can. FYI, I usually update the sections as I do […]

Bought a keyboard today from the computer dude down the street. Cost me a total of $3.00. Going to hack it for the interface. Not quite sure yet, but I’ve gotten some pointers from Arcade Controls, which has quite a bit of information.

I think I’ve found what I’m going to use as the frontend. It’s a program called Dialog, which makes pretty menus. Time will tell. The site has some nice screenshots. I’ve going to see what I can do, and I’ll give it a shot.

Like I said on the opening page, I’m not sure what motherboard I’m going to use. My first intention was going to be to use an old 486 to power this, but after compiling xmame, I found that the little 486 that could, well, couldn’t. Perhaps it’s because of the […]

Well, so far it’s really simple. The box is using Slackware Linux version 8.0, running XMAME .56

I’ve been updating my site in general over the last little bit, and haven’t worked on my box as of yet. I’m in the process of sketching some blueprints for the cabinet. I’ve got a really good idea of what direction I want to go, but it’s going to depend […]