John, which machine? The one by the garage door that is a real arcade box
and screen with a PC in it was Jeremy Herrman's.
On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 9:28 PM, John Lewis <oflameo2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am pretty sure Chad built this one.
On 10/22/2016 09:09 PM, James Keener wrote:
Not to poo-poo anyone, but is the Arcade ours or just on loan from
Jeremy? If it's ours, I'd be OK upgrading it:) I like playing it from
time-to-time when I stop in.
On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 9:04 PM, Eris Symms <eris.symms@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Missed the USB controls part. Either way, I can drop off the pi tomorrow.
Eris
On Oct 22, 2016 9:03 PM, "Eris Symms" <eris.symms@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I can provide the pi 3 and the retro pie image but I don't know much
about mapping the physical buttons via gpio.
Eris
On Oct 22, 2016 9:01 PM, "John Lewis" <oflameo2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I think we should replace the whole thing with a Raspberry Pi 3. I am
willing to go in for half of a New Pi and a hdmi to vga converter.
On 10/22/2016 08:33 PM, Simon Heath wrote:
So I've figured out how to take the arcade machine apart enough to
actually do stuff to it, if we want. Turns out that the computer in
it is *really* old, like, Pentium 4 with 512 mb of ram. I'm kind of
amazed it still works at all. But I tried at least seeing if I could
get Linux or something to boot on it, and it's too old to boot off of
a USB drive. And I don't really feel like burning a CD just to see if
that thing is salvagable. It's running an old version of software
called Maximus Arcade.
There's a pile of custom wiring to get all the inputs and outputs
connected to the computer, but it LOOKS like the joysticks end up
plugging into a USB input, the monitor is VGA and the sound is just a
3.5 mm jack.
So the question is, what do we want to actually do with it? Our
options seem to be:
* Just update the software to a new version of the same thing
* Keep the same computer but put Linux on it running MAME or something
(maybe http://www.lakka.tv/)
* Just replace the thing with a RPi
I'll play around with different programs and see if I can find one
that works significantly better than what we have.
On the more hardware-y side, I really want to cover the gaping holes
next to the coin acceptor with something... maybe plastic with cool
laser-cut designs and LED backlighting. The sides of the thing are
also just aching for paint and/or decals. Anyone have any good
suggestions there?
Simon
