[edit] Beginnings

Sandb acquired some kiosk stands discarded by his employer. They look ideally suited to make Arcade Machine.

[edit] Brains

In order of preference

Xbox (1st gen) is a great platform, it's cheap and fast enough for MAME and other emus, it has USB-compatible ports (with a different form factor) for joysticks
- a secondhand xbox needs to be acquired, should be available for 25 euros
- video out to VGA converter needs to be built
Small Linux box with MAME can easily fit into the bottom cabinet with room to spare.
'real' hardware
- I(Koen)'m planning to donate a Sega Mega Drive if we're going to use it.
- Maybe an Amiga can also be build into this retro gaming system if Impy likes to participate.
Gameduino could be nice.

An Arcade machine should be CRT based, but LCD seems only feasible option.

We need some brainstorming on what kind of controls we want on the panel.

Controller options:

Buy one
Tom2 can provide happ arcade controls consisting of 2 joysticks, 14 buttons, player1/2-button. See pictures for a preview.

A USB Joystick is also available for this project. This joystick can be tested using these commands:

sudo apt-get install joystick
jscal /dev/input/js0
jstest /dev/input/js0

Options to hook up buttons:

Low-quality speakers for playing 8-bit music are needed. We should hide them somewhere (bottom of the controls panel?).

Existing backlighted panels (especially on top) can be used for some tacky artwork/whitespace logo. Vinylcutter at timelab can be used for this.