Cocktail Cabinet

I'm not intending to use this with a dedicated pc at this stage, the wires are going to trail out the back and connect to my desktop. I'm using AdvanceCD to boot and with a custom control scheme the whole thing 'just works'

I've started construction of the cabinet, the basic cutting and screwing took me about 4 hours this morning. It's built from 12mm MDF in a bid to keep costs and weight down.

I've yet to order the parts for the control panel; at the moment I'm testing with an Asciiware PSX pad which is doing the trick nicely

Dragon 32

A friend recently donated his old Dragon 32 to me, presumably feeling that it would be in a good home. I used to have one way, way back, in fact I believe Dad bought mine for my 12th birthday. I sold it years later for bugger all, during a state of unemployment after dropping out of university and now I bitterly regret it. Not the dropping out, or the unemployment, they were kind of fun for a while.

It's obviously way too much trouble to actually play games on the beast as it's primarily a tape system, and they were a sod to load even when they were new, consequently I've turned to emulation, specifically this one, which works very nicely on a Xubuntu pc I'd got laying around going spare. I've had a real blast playing through some of the oldies; Pettigrew's Diary; Starship Chameleon; Morocco Grand Prix; Franklin's Tomb.

God, they were primitive, but so much fun back in the day. I've even bought some off eBay this week, just so I can own them again.

Arcade Cocktail Cabinet

I have a new project in mind, a MAME arcade cocktail cabinet.

I don't have the space for an upright cabinet in my games room, but I could make use of a cocktail style one. Today I picked up the first part, an LG 17" lcd monitor, for the princely sum of £40. I've ordered some cheap Logic 3 psx pads to dismantle and form the basis of the controllers. Next I'm going to order some Happ parts and start constructing the cabinet

Treasure Hunt

Todays treasure hunt netted me:
Gun
Hitman Blood Money
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin
Jade Empire
Legacy of Kain: Defiance
LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance
D&D Heroes
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

all for the XBox, £17.91

Treasure Hunt

Sonic & Knuckles Collection, for the PC, because I'm a Sega whore

Treasure Hunt

Game Cube, £15

A black one, because I didn't have one in that colour

Treasure Hunt

Dreamcast

Virtua Striker 2 ver 2000.1

Playstation

Army Men: Lock 'N' Load

PGA European Tour Golf

WRC Arcade

N-Gen Racing

London Racer

TOCA 2 Touring Cars