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TOTAL Impulse MAME Cabinet

(or, the tale of how I spent a lot of time and money creating a large piece of furniture on which I can play literally thousands of "classic" video arcade games using emulation software)

Most sites of this nature use this space for an introduction to the concept of MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator), its nature (computer software that emulates classic video arcade games), its history (on December 24th, 1996, Nicola Salmoria began working on his single game emulators … etc, etc.  See www.mame.net), how the author played with MAME a few years back (1997 or so) but pretty much forgot about it until recently (fall of 2000) when he discovered that people were putting PC's running MAME inside actual video arcade game cabinets to recreate the true arcade experience (whoa, cool!) and decided that he just had to have one.  However, most of those sites would split that whole discussion into more than one sentence…

If you'd like to see those types of sites, I'd like to direct you to the Build Your Own Arcade Controls (BYOAC) Examples page.

This section of Mycroft's Home will discuss the cabinet used, how it was refurbished and modified, the use of authentic arcade controls, how they were interfaced to a PC, the computer, monitor, and audio system, the custom marquee, show off some photos, share some final thoughts, and point you towards some relevant places on the Web.

Go on to the Prelude