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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: Plaz on October 25, 2007, 12:46:07 AM

Title: Minimig and Mame
Post by: Plaz on October 25, 2007, 12:46:07 AM

My bare board arrived from Xenepp (http://www.amiga.org/userinfo.php?uid=15646) in the UK, so I posted a couple of pictures to the gallery. For those who thought I might be kidding when I mentioned making a Mame arcade cabinet my Minimig custom case in an earlier thread, I've taken the pictures of Minimig lying on top of the 4 player Mame control panel I finished this past weekend to show I wasn't kidding :-). I still have to build the upright cabinet. Not sure how long it will take me to finish both projects though, free time is short these days.

Plaz

(http://www.amiga.org/gallery/images/173/1_3527.jpg)

(http://www.amiga.org/gallery/images/173/1_3528.jpg)

Title: Re: Minimig and Mame
Post by: tokyoracer on October 25, 2007, 01:36:54 AM

Wow what can I say, that is an amazing bit of work!

Title: Re: Minimig and Mame
Post by: little on October 25, 2007, 02:32:12 AM

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I mentioned making a Mame arcade cabinet my Minimig

Then it would not be a mame arcade cabinet, it would be a minimig arcade cabinet since there is no way a minimig could run mame, if enough people get interested it might be used to emulate arcade hardware using the FPGA, but still would not be a mame arcade cabinet.

Title: Re: Minimig and Mame
Post by: ajlwalker on October 25, 2007, 02:43:45 AM

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little wrote:

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I mentioned making a Mame arcade cabinet my Minimig

Then it would not be a mame arcade cabinet, it would be a minimig arcade cabinet since there is no way a minimig could run mame, if enough people get interested it might be used to emulate arcade hardware using the FPGA, but still would not be a mame arcade cabinet.

That's the great thing about a cabinet.  You can fit more than one video source in it. :roll:

Title: Re: Minimig and Mame
Post by: Plaz on October 25, 2007, 04:07:05 AM

Of course it's a Mame cabinet, with a AMD mother board at it's heart. But now it can also have a Minimig installed that can share the control panel inputs and the display. I could have UAE on the AMD, but having the Minimig as the Amiga source would just be "cooler". When I put this design together, I planned it to also house a PS2 and Dreamcast using the Mame controls. Now that the project has been delayed a couple of years, I may change that up a bit. As time goes by all the internals can be changed run off what ever the next cool thing is.

As ajlwalker mentions, big cabinet, lots of space for lots of interfaces tied to many sources.

Plaz

Title: Re: Minimig and Mame
Post by: alexh on October 25, 2007, 08:46:32 AM

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little wrote:
Then it would not be a mame arcade cabinet, it would be a minimig arcade cabinet

Mini Amiga Multi-purpose Entertainment CAB. See still MAME ;-)

Title: Re: Minimig and Mame
Post by: weirdami on October 25, 2007, 09:09:35 AM

There's enough controls to play Gauntlet.

Title: Re: Minimig and Mame
Post by: coldfish on October 25, 2007, 11:12:02 AM

Ive built several MAME cabs in the past, I even had one with an A500 mobo wired to Jamma.  Very good for those Amiga based arcade style games, Speedball2, Rodland... ect.

I always use a Win/PC as the basis of a MAME cab, it's less hassle than exotic hardware and has loads of emulators.  Full size arcade cabs are great if you have plenty of room, which I no longer do. :o(  

Now I'm happy with my little GP2X to do the lot.