MAME – Glass has arrived

I ordered glass to replace the perspex in my cabinet and it is now sitting in my garage. Its a big piece of tinted glass to cover the screen and a clear piece with heaps of holes for…

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MAME – Software and Hardware decisions

After a little more experimenting, I have found that the slow PC I was going to use is too slow except for the basic games such as Galaga, PacMan and DonkeyKong – I’ve decided to use the slower…

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MAME – Destroying a Perfectly Good Monitor

I got out my tools and took my 20″ monitor out of its case ready to be placed in my cabinet. By complete fluke the monitor had mounting lugs in the 4 corners and so was very easy…

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MAME – Ordering the basics

Inititally i was going to use a modchipped xbox running MameOX but since I had just been gifted a computer that although a little light on power (533MHz Celeron, 64MB, 6GB) should be suitable for the job. Cabinet…

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MAME – The Beginning

Some of you may at this point be wondering what the heck is MAME? MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, it basically will allow you to play arcade games on your computer. Old arcade games actually had…

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