Well, after looking around the net one sunny day I stumbled
upon MAME.
For those of you who are not familiar with this powerful piece
of software, it is basically an emulator that allows you to
play all your old favourite arcade games from the 70's right
up to and including the modern arcade games of today!!!
There appears to be an absolutely thriving community who pay
tribute to this wonderful program and nowadays a large
percentage of those devotees of the program build their own
arcade cabinets on which to play their games.
After breaking a keyboard :) playing one of these games I
decided to build my own cabinet.
Now I'm not much of a carpenter and so I have gone down the
other route, in that I have purchased an old Electrocoin "Silverline"
cabinet and intend to restore it to it's former glory.
This website will chronicle my exploits, thoughts,
successes and failures (hopefully not too many of the later).
I have created an on-line diary (click
here) where my daily thoughts and ramblings
can be found along with photographs of my progress.
Below are a couple of photographs I have taken of my pride
and joy still with its monitor in place and prior to any major
refurbishment.
It's in a very sorry state at this time... but all it needs is
a bit of t.l.c and it will be a real kick-ass cabinet!
If you click on any of these photos - They will take you to
the diary entry for the day I took them.
Thank you for visiting. Please check back regularly as
the
project diary is
updated daily.
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