Archive for March, 2011
Yea, I haven’t blogged in a minute
by Aneal on Mar.17, 2011, under MAME
Sorry if you’re hanging on my every word here at my little blog. I really haven’t been moving electrons around lately. Haven’t had much inspiration for working on any projects (coding, building, hacking, nothing). There are a few things on the horizon though that I’m sure none of you are interested in. (Isn’t it cute how I still pretend like anyone reads this blog?!)
I’ve got an arcade cabinet that I traded a few older busted cabinets for. It’s some newish Street Fighter cabinet with a gigantic control panel and an equally gigantic 33″ Arcade Monitor. I’m going to basically gut this machine and build a MAME cabinet out of it.
For those of you who are unaware of what MAME stands for, it’s a “Multi Arcade Machine Emulator”. Basically I’m gonna shove a PC into the body of the cabinet (along with a kicking sound system), load a bazillion classic arcade ROMs onto it, find a tasteful front-end and start rocking the classic arcade machines. Now keep in mind that I’ve been dabbling in the arcade business for several years now and I’ve actually owned Ms Pacman, Galaga, Mortal Kombat etc. This machine however will have literally hundreds of games built into one cabinet.
Not only that, but I’m currently working on building a custom PHP Jukebox software app to let the cabinet double as a jukebox. I know there are several out there, but none that I’ve seen so far are up to my liking. I’ll just write my own, and it’ll rock.
Might have another website client too. Seems a wedding event planner is a friend of a friend and needs a serious web update. Dude, the site is literally covered up in. Scary!
More later as I find inspiration to write.
