theclassicalgod

Yeah. I'm probably going to go coin-op just to amke it seem a lot more realistic. Add a button or two for freeplay somewhere on the control panel or inside the coin door. I have a Knoppix DVD that I recently got ahold of, but its a direct boot off the disk. I'm not too farmiliar with compiling anything for lunix. I rarely use it. I am a quick learner, but its just a matter of finding the recources to learn the basic things needed to do this.(most i've done was javascript, HTML, Actionscript, and C++.. only one of which a real programming language) I understand what's being said, just haven't got a clue on how to go about doing it. @metatron - any help you might be able to give me on building the actual cabinet in a better way would be great. I found one or two sites with the plans they used to make theirs but I dont really see how they are put together compairing to the pictures they had during the process of building. I got one from http://users.adelphia.net/~seanhat/arcade/ .

what about formating?.. there hasn't been an MS OS that I haven't had to format at LEAST once for in the course of a year. Are they going to make you buy another copy of vista for the same machine just because you ended up with a bad virus that was going around? If I end up with a virus... I spend about 3 days reading up on how to get rid of it. Once it's gone, over the next week, the stability of the OS drops to next to 0 and i'm prety much forced to format since repair doesnt seem to do a whole lot.

For a few years now.. i've been thinking about making a fullout arcade cab(or restoring an old used one). I saw an episode here recently with the bartop cab that was made. I'm going to make the computer completely dedicated to this function and figure that running windows(or even linux had crossed my mind) would take a bit of time to get up and running every single time, especially seeing as this thing is going to be made out of scrap pc parts and not to savy in the speed/power area. I decided I wanted to go with DOS since I found there are a few front-ends out there that support it. I haven't used DOS in at least 5 years and that was running through windows. enough babble.. on to the question.. Is there a way to run just straight up pure DOS from the boot still?

yeah, I found with a forum search when I searched for episode 4. I'll admit, i'm no genious... nor am I retarded (though, the state of New Jersey's school district may say otherwise) But, i'm haveing a bit of trouble understanding the pictures available to download. I see that they're measurments, but can't quite make out what is what. any help anyone can give me? I'd be more than happy to help create something a little better for people that don't get what they're seeing(like me) when I finnish with it. Possibly some 3d renderings to get a 360 view with flash with the measurements as well. Just an idea. I can do the 3d part no problem, but the flash part i'd need help with.

I started watching recently(updated DivX and it opened a page with an episode.. been hooked since.) Heard there was a past episode that a mini arcade cab was built, did a little short search for it... found it. I watched very attentivly since I had been looking to do something like this for a little over a year now. Anyone have any idea where the plans for this thing ended up? oh.. and... everyone on the show rocks.. lol one more thing.. hope that hand heals ok Darren