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Saturday, 26th June 2004 at 9:01AM (1609 days ago)

I'm still chugging along on the design for the cabinet, i'm in the midst of getting all the dimensions for the different pieces of hardware i'm using so I can work out the right size it needs to be.

iMame!

I'm still very much excited about this project, and can't wait till it finally sees the light of day. I'm still trying to hunt down someone to be able to laser cut our logo into plastic or something similar so I can make a nice stencil which can be reused. If you know of anyone, i'd appreciate it. I've been having a look around at what other people are doing with MAME cabinets, it's quite cool to see their results. I'm definitely going to route the edges of the cabinet instead of using t-molding, it gives a nicer finish and doesn't look as tacky.

I'm thinking once i'm done i'll set aside a separate area of the site dedicated to the cabinet and even put the plans up for other people who might want to build their own. Might even see if I can get the cabinet to post the latest scores as well as top played games!

Have a great weekend!

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mathew h.

Saturday, 26th June 2004 at 10:20PM

i'm sure you can do that with applescript or sommat.

-m

Russell Smith

Sunday, 27th June 2004 at 7:22AM

After I read about you starting work on designing the cabinet, I went out looking for OS X CAD software. I found this http://www.sketchup.com/ It's one of the coolest apps I've seen in a while. I'm going to use it to design a MAME table with a monitor and controller on each end. Kind of like the ones they used to have in Pizza Huts. But of course I'm going to try to make mine much more modern looking.

zeen

Wednesday, 21st July 2004 at 11:15PM

use a sign writer who does vinyl for the logo maybe? it's cheap stuff, just needs to be cut.

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