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Out of Control.

March 8th, 2012 by

The most important part of this project is the control panel. While MAME is able to emulate all of the major controllers, like Wheels, pedals, flight sticks, trackballs, spinners, and joysticks. I’ve decided to build…

Sounds like…

November 4th, 2011 by

The Atari primal rage cabinet featured Atari CAGE: Total Immersion Audio.This meant it had 4″ stereo speakers above the screen and a sub-woofer in the lower cabinet next to the coin doors. This was intended…

Bezels and Negative Space.

October 31st, 2011 by

One of the major flaws in using a widescreen monitor to play vertical classic games is the wasted screen space. MAME is able to push graphics to that empty space.

The Brains.

October 21st, 2011 by

This cabinet will run MAME with a front end. Typically MAME can run on fairly wimpy hardware. I happened upon a salvageable HP DV9700 series entertainment laptop. I think it’ll do nicely. Here are some…

On a diet.

October 16th, 2011 by

This cabinet was fairly massive, as it originally had a full size CRT in it. Arcade purists will say its the only way to go to get the “feel” of an arcade game.That being said,…

All the Rage

October 1st, 2011 by

Project: Quasicade This is the first post of many, I’m building a chronicle of a conversion of a 1994 Atari Primal Rage cabinet into a slimline Multi-Arcade Machine Emulator (MAME) cabinet. A few months ago…