Is retro computing cool enough for Cyber Cafés?

[leirbag28]

@Delta

I too have had this idea....for a long time....I hope to open a Cafe here in New York as well.


With Amigas!    here is what I recommend. Make or buy yourself  2 or 3 Arcade Cabinets and put Amigas in each one. Pinball Fantasies (CD32 version....runs on an A1200 as well) and another with pinball illusions or SlamTilt (CD32 versions where possible). With Slam Tilt get yourself a PC keyboard adaptor (so that you wont mess up the Amiga keyboard)  and attache Joystick Buttons to the keyboard equivalents on the PC keyboard thats now attached to your Amiga. (it is to control the launch of the ball and flippers etc...) for the CD32 versions of the games you can attach larger arcade buttons to the CD32 pads circuit board (it is possible to do this without totally damaging the CD32 pad)


I once made a fully functioning Pinball Fantasies that accepted Quarters and ran very well.

This way no one can mess with the Amiga OS and delete stuff.

Also you can have 2 fully loaded A1200's with 68030's and 128mb of ram each for internet use....particularly AmIRC with Kuang 11 and all sorts of hacks..............dedicate it as soley an IRC-ing machine that way it shines.

add USB ports to each one so tha no one complains that you cant transfer stuff..........also add Compact Flash Drivers and leave a Compact Flash adaptor attached.

Fun fun fun!

[leirbag28]

@TjLaZer

THats great stuff!

But you can do the same thing using SCALA and a Larger menu with larger fonts to execute the Games!  You can Put SCALA MM400 in your startup Sequence so that it goes straight into SCALA instantly without booting Workbench, and then have it execute WHDload games from a Menu that you creat yourself..............and different pages for different Games!

Ive done it before to execute my favorite games like SlamTIlt and Ruff N Tumble right at bootup. its kind of like that RainBoot thing, because you can also make your own Boot Intros.