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  mame > the cabinet Friday, July 25, 2008
The MAME Cabinet

Right now I have the cabinet set up as a "The Simpsons" cabinet. I aquired my Simpsons Marquee for an ungodly amount of money on eBay. One of the nice things about eBay is that you can find practically anything. The pitfall is that you might have to pay practically anything to get it.



I will probably convert the marquee to something a bit more appropriate to the early 80's. I'm a big fan of the Simpsons, but something like a custom MAME marquee or a marquee of a classic would look much better.

My cabinet sports a 19" monitor (no name brand that I got with a Dell I ordered). The CPU is a generic AMD pentium I knock-off, 233 MHz, 64 Meg RAM. Still, I can play all the games that I want to emulate (basically, all the games from the 80s).

I've got a good control panel (see the control panel section), and a series of control buttons underneath the control panel. These buttons are used to coin up, pause the game, and exit the emulation. The trackball works as a mouse when I'm in windows. However, if I'm using the spinner (also a mouse device), then the track ball is disabled. One of these days I'll get around to figuring out why I can't have two mouse devices working at the same time.

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