The Month of MAME: The Cabinet
Monday, November 5th, 2007 running time 16:01
A month of MAME? Absolutley. David has a dream of building a superior classic arcade game emulator, so we're building a full size cabinet from the ground up. Get your quarters!
David has a dream. He wants a full sized MAME cabinet for the Revision3 offices... or, better yet, the studio where we'll be shooting Systm in the near future.
Don't know what MAME is? It's an emulator... the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, to be more precise, which recreates the hardware of classic arcade games in software.
You can certainly run MAME on your desktop PC, Mac, Linux or Windows.
David wants the full arcade experience, which means we'll be taking the fine software put together by the MAMEDev team, and putting it inside of a full sized standup arcade game cabinet.
Which means David and Patrick are neck deep in carpentry and MDF in this episode.
Want to play along at home? David has put together a PDF file with a drawing of our case, along with all the dimensions, tools and supplies!
In Episode 2 of our Month of MAME, David's gonna wrestle with displays, Patrick sets up the audio while Brendan mounts the computer.
Stay tuned!
Highlights
box office
(
2:46, 2:46
)
computer hardware
(
14:46, 14:46
)
operating systems
(
1:19, 1:19
)
Mastic
(
12:40, 12:40
)
box office
(
2:46, 2:46
)
computer hardware
(
14:46, 14:46
)
operating systems
(
1:19, 1:19
)
Mastic
(
12:40, 12:40
)
Automatically Generated Transcript(may not be 100% accurate) ( more )
" Public systm episode 24. I'm back from -- camp maybe camp is continually. By the way congratulations -- two hours of sleep and -- right now I've been hearing high. Had a good 45 minutes you know you know that people -- sleep like a baby. What they're really beautiful piece of every two hours crack. So here's the deprivation room to do -- with power tools power tools no apartment is though we're building in me that cabinet. That sounds dangers. It's not it's just the multiple arcade machine and you know post who were willing to stand up cabinet for a mean -- oh yeah animals communicate childhood doesn't work when did I spent most dimensional that. Yeah I thought injures the -- Kate. Both are fine now so we're kind of true. -- others -- movement in the bunch of people that really want to even their house and it's you know kind of hard to find the old boards and all that so they found a way to kind of modify it. Here and get to work and it's amazing the main emulator itself would be pretty much run on any PCs imported also to different operating systems is actually ten years old 2000 that I know -- pretty -- amazing how long people wanted to do the things that's nice. And a -- people you know it just takes a computer brother definitely impact and but now and we really want to have had it all up for you know now now I mean decide -- cigarette burn in nineteen molding. If you have the political and it's furniture distressed distress I'm gonna distress -- is actually yeah we should put a shadow to the extreme tech folks project Turkey you found this indispensable when you're planning this."
" One one -- actually posted up a announce that hey this is a great book she use this to work off of here. Add hepatitis -- with inspiration from there and Alamos has just been really hard for me to find you know a better way -- different way to do it with they have been there. Very cool because of really good they cover everything and now all the different control our options down to the heart injury I mean every aspect isn't -- yeah."
" It's almost fun just to sit there look at the actual how the mechanics opera mechanical controls worked in the original game. Which is speaking out way too much visited be over four episodes slip like a month of mean. -- extend it out we want and people really it's want to know all different aspect and I'm gonna break it up in the same message you know really it's."
" And on the problem the rest in the first one we're gonna be working on the cabinet. And other second one we're gonna be working on the display and the audio. The third one we're gonna jump into the software actually bring bring them back for that which is going to be fine Booth and in the fourth former army doing all the graphics and all the different light box office like that we're gonna get joy back to that one."
" And if it. So this is cool so we actually have each day for me slab of India yet medium density fiberboard which you may know from. Really inexpensive cabinets in your home or furniture or more likely than not actually speaker cabinets and so before cabinets it's. Sawdust in pollute."
" It's very it's like part. -- much finer material. So let's lot thicker the life easier route. Doesn't -- up and nominates a lot more structural lot heavier you and I had a great time trying to unloaded and loaded."
" Yesterday this crap is heavy bass in the might pick up truck was like this front and was up in the air. People laugh as it passes on to me he was great to -- really good -- the."
" Follow the fun that -- But doubled to actually done and we've can design her own special little profile view of what we want to have to look like if if -- go online as a bunch people are trying to sell wares there he finally free ones out there but. We wanted a designer own kind of offshoot of what everybody else has been doing but."
" It's a pretty basic concept Reich is the whole -- the basic idea for an arcade cabinet pretty well its its. It's -- future tech now it's -- mister tech. How -- I mean you're looking for space for your computer space for your buttons basically monitors speakers like -- Self and now what windows -- is certainly not designed to cut our first side. Measure twice. Tough ones where you gotta go back to the law of bird store and pick up more heavy wood yes and that's a trip for us. So we started mapping out -- the drawing -- under the sheet yeah we need to start mapping it out and then we'll get to work. Remember I protection your protection had a death mask. Even for the -- the camera was."
" Yes what you got 51. Personally you don't have cooled power actually after -- beat reporter had the updated time. People like this one down on the other people market leading up and a lot of my with a bullet just crazy -- time. This kid. Primitive you know about particularly in regard -- By the way remembered like turn off your standard. Maybe open up a window put exhaust fan and when those people on. The local hardware store -- The fields to. Right now over. Bottom plate with the 34 and half record one half. This is actually what the cabinet that pesticides. And -- another forecasters from the bottom up. No actually make a little skirt to go around fast. And how to make up for things we'll build -- little -- around don't go ahead and go ahead and make the up front. Back then all the other little pieces and put."
" Those -- just the skirt. Basically it's just behind the wheels for people see these you know ugly casters sportscasters. But the thing is gonna pop in a way of time until right to have some good sized wheels lines and you're also basically reinforcing enter 1234. Vertical boards going to go -- Plus the ones as well for the whole lot of ports pull out of course. So what happens we'll have these. Kind of there's now says certain there's an -- spirit in this one kind of protects the wheels. From anything else -- more rigidity to the frame. Big plus. It which is always good thing and we accept two different types of wills we have you know these fixed wheels. And it may actually have the -- around us now that is important. -- all course been a real big disk boots off in the direction you can't really spirit or anything exactly but you have all fixed wheels you're going one direction. And keep it forever and ever so we'll put the fix we'll step back and doesn't mean wealth to -- and kind of -- like -- Dolly. And move it around on god. Which is nice in the things in -- way at times so portion. Any help help us. If you're trying to be cheap don't cheap out you put wheels on. You know forty bucks by tying me down with wheels that's worth it you really need to build the spirit anyway eternity W keep the whole thing from falling apart exactly. Boeing is an account received. Drilling for years for -- drilling reforms earlier but the -- thing that makes a nice little hole for the actual screw -- in the litany that we can would body over people never even noticed. Who's there we got nine that is a space in here. And that will make more than enough room forecasters and we talked about and -- popular casters. And that's take on both sides of the -- hit some -- this is all supported in this little area. So we can end up old. It's like here. And make for nice kind of clean look -- look inside and -- how high the wheels from everything begs the question. What's next well the next thing we need to do is you start cutting some more strips them now. I know. But also got some more strips and we'll get the size and opportunities and use the script to make the structural support for going inside them actually hold the frame -- we put the recipe for them. Not plan but -- that needs. More sparks off old boy."
" Well basically what we're doing here is we got Patrick Norton over your fifth place standing down a few pieces and we can't cut everything. Have. Place on remittances are exactly the same sort of them down the edges than -- perfectly floods and get all it is the word. That way at all come together look real pretty. One thing you might notice is that there's some burned part there on the side of the woods but the caught by the third song. That can happen for one if you -- one. Your blade has two mini. Add violin that's how they actually measure. Are great thereof play like that they few hundred feet away. This would easily burn real quick want to make a real fine thing I really like this for like plastic and stuff like that. Then you get into. What -- feel like I like the 62. For the 42. And have a pretty decent one we'll bring you CNA. 125. Is. For a very 122. To cut are available -- harm mark that we normally happen."
" We got the based on. Got the they've got two sides which have all been sanded the bats have been nice and smooth and even and everything on line up we got some support cuts so they read it put those them so tomorrow we go vertical by -- the sides the Castro to the bottom which means bolts for the right. The sides to the base. And then knows the ribs these are like to reimburse predators in between thing to hold it up while we do the rest of pieces and going to be our backed peace poppies poppies. Top piece. Its front piece front piece rights."
" I mean we 1234567899. Pieces to cut the cut out that's not only take a few minutes and we have to rout the entire outside edge of you people in. Which seem all these kind of fun stuff that's what we talk about and have we got a hundred feet others -- covered this. It's -- pretty much the have a special proud of it goes around -- a group in the side of everything. And neatest camera that stuff down -- quack quack quack quack quack makes it nice that support. And if you look if you're never have -- it all -- exposed edges no they don't want try to hide film that made it very deliberate and that's what we're going to be doing this news just."
" For that authenticity. Now are we gonna build the framework in the Basil hold television monitor orders that in the week after. Gonna build the -- shelf of all the TV from the bottom up. But the week after we're gonna visit can take -- TDMA the actual. -- goes around to even make it look like tubes coming through this flat piece of wood. Just like we all remember. More time lapse photography and just as soon as we go home sleep come back to an office meeting in and finish it. Will be."
" Alright we are somewhere in the middle of deep tool or we'd like to say the postwar cabinet assembly teen. Joyce quietly weeping behind the camera you're hold up hold up just fine having fun you're doing amazing work you basically. Took your million hours of sentinel experience I just eyeball every single piece it's gonna be bracing sized pieces for this."
" Yeah I mean one of things as a Skype as our mailing strip we're gonna plow the panels to it's just make it more structural and easier to go into and got it. And wanted to things is you'll notice that while these cuts you know we're fine. They're not a 100% accurate and they don't have to be why is that because we're name."
" We're gonna see any in this so every engineer out there like my friend Tim's father built as you know house to thousands of an installer says go to apologize it's gonna look really good when it's done. Because that's what is what on the outside that matters yes not the inside right although the main cabinets stuffed inside well actually the mean. System system of signs that all -- down here and at all looks pretty snow and the monitor all look pretty and tomorrow look pretty and I -- when planning -- and four layers you know. Paint this should be pretty fun look kids high gloss enamel actually I closely tax. Mastic that it would and that's going to be really good for the surface I'd like it but I was -- that these are really not elements these were ribs that we put in. Just hold it while we assembly because it's a little wobbly and we -- panels together and that's well put together a 128 screws later. -- panels and 120 acres it should stiffen up quite nicely which is nice so what you're looking that is you know this."
" Area here is going to be where our actual control panel this isn't. This. Is where the TV in the mountains slant angle. And this is a little you know -- played panel told you know two quarters to plays and all what type stuff. Now all -- in that area and overall computer components down here about it."
" So cool nine panels eighteen cuts you know and maybe 64. Screws and -- like 24 cuts has been only a few wrong. I honey yeah. See the kid will be home soon numbering that pizza yeah."
" And hasn't been heard you know the -- We're gonna start cut its."
" I didn't see we've gotta hold its engine to do we've sought out all the pieces are gonna make inside the cabinet would have to do a little bit of custom fitting on the edges which is always fun -- we got so many complex thing all that's the latest matters. It and in America can handle -- and it cut and again so registry to wrap up this including the routing we're doing the edges to put in the eighteen -- that's correct Alex -- it's fun. This is how professional what else we didn't."
" Accepts for the next episode we're gonna do work on -- mountain monitor mountain speakers on this and -- go to really start to feel this compliment -- I like that thought what comes after that. After that we are going to actually get to bring them over here and he's going to take care of all the computer hardware and software -- are all up on stuff is illegal and exchanges Scalia and everything like that thoughts and then we're gonna have virtually come on you can take care of all the graphics treatment polite -- will be up here. And that basically had all the other details -- to my little pony affect. I was thinking more like you know yeah. My hope wounds to the better way to go -- into iPhoto for some female reference have been happening. -- Strawberry shortcake everything else I'm very sure."
" I don't want that feed in my head of my system the reason freedom comes the email. Yeah business in the forums -- what we're doing wrong quickly and yes because we're gonna move fast next week yeah I'm better Norton David Randolph. We're gonna be safe you should try to see you you don't have a -- deadbeat dad. --"
" Remember kids strapped -- powerful political. Machine question cut -- part of your you really need later. It. I got ripped off. I'm sorry it took him and me."
" Public systm episode 24. I'm back from -- camp maybe camp is continually. By the way congratulations -- two hours of sleep and -- right now I've been hearing high. Had a good 45 minutes you know you know that people -- sleep like a baby. What they're really beautiful piece of every two hours crack. So here's the deprivation room to do -- with power tools power tools no apartment is though we're building in me that cabinet. That sounds dangers. It's not it's just the multiple arcade machine and you know post who were willing to stand up cabinet for a mean -- oh yeah animals communicate childhood doesn't work when did I spent most dimensional that. Yeah I thought injures the -- Kate. Both are fine now so we're kind of true. -- others -- movement in the bunch of people that really want to even their house and it's you know kind of hard to find the old boards and all that so they found a way to kind of modify it. Here and get to work and it's amazing the main emulator itself would be pretty much run on any PCs imported also to different operating systems is actually ten years old 2000 that I know -- pretty -- amazing how long people wanted to do the things that's nice. And a -- people you know it just takes a computer brother definitely impact and but now and we really want to have had it all up for you know now now I mean decide -- cigarette burn in nineteen molding. If you have the political and it's furniture distressed distress I'm gonna distress -- is actually yeah we should put a shadow to the extreme tech folks project Turkey you found this indispensable when you're planning this."
" One one -- actually posted up a announce that hey this is a great book she use this to work off of here. Add hepatitis -- with inspiration from there and Alamos has just been really hard for me to find you know a better way -- different way to do it with they have been there. Very cool because of really good they cover everything and now all the different control our options down to the heart injury I mean every aspect isn't -- yeah."
" It's almost fun just to sit there look at the actual how the mechanics opera mechanical controls worked in the original game. Which is speaking out way too much visited be over four episodes slip like a month of mean. -- extend it out we want and people really it's want to know all different aspect and I'm gonna break it up in the same message you know really it's."
" And on the problem the rest in the first one we're gonna be working on the cabinet. And other second one we're gonna be working on the display and the audio. The third one we're gonna jump into the software actually bring bring them back for that which is going to be fine Booth and in the fourth former army doing all the graphics and all the different light box office like that we're gonna get joy back to that one."
" And if it. So this is cool so we actually have each day for me slab of India yet medium density fiberboard which you may know from. Really inexpensive cabinets in your home or furniture or more likely than not actually speaker cabinets and so before cabinets it's. Sawdust in pollute."
" It's very it's like part. -- much finer material. So let's lot thicker the life easier route. Doesn't -- up and nominates a lot more structural lot heavier you and I had a great time trying to unloaded and loaded."
" Yesterday this crap is heavy bass in the might pick up truck was like this front and was up in the air. People laugh as it passes on to me he was great to -- really good -- the."
" Follow the fun that -- But doubled to actually done and we've can design her own special little profile view of what we want to have to look like if if -- go online as a bunch people are trying to sell wares there he finally free ones out there but. We wanted a designer own kind of offshoot of what everybody else has been doing but."
" It's a pretty basic concept Reich is the whole -- the basic idea for an arcade cabinet pretty well its its. It's -- future tech now it's -- mister tech. How -- I mean you're looking for space for your computer space for your buttons basically monitors speakers like -- Self and now what windows -- is certainly not designed to cut our first side. Measure twice. Tough ones where you gotta go back to the law of bird store and pick up more heavy wood yes and that's a trip for us. So we started mapping out -- the drawing -- under the sheet yeah we need to start mapping it out and then we'll get to work. Remember I protection your protection had a death mask. Even for the -- the camera was."
" Yes what you got 51. Personally you don't have cooled power actually after -- beat reporter had the updated time. People like this one down on the other people market leading up and a lot of my with a bullet just crazy -- time. This kid. Primitive you know about particularly in regard -- By the way remembered like turn off your standard. Maybe open up a window put exhaust fan and when those people on. The local hardware store -- The fields to. Right now over. Bottom plate with the 34 and half record one half. This is actually what the cabinet that pesticides. And -- another forecasters from the bottom up. No actually make a little skirt to go around fast. And how to make up for things we'll build -- little -- around don't go ahead and go ahead and make the up front. Back then all the other little pieces and put."
" Those -- just the skirt. Basically it's just behind the wheels for people see these you know ugly casters sportscasters. But the thing is gonna pop in a way of time until right to have some good sized wheels lines and you're also basically reinforcing enter 1234. Vertical boards going to go -- Plus the ones as well for the whole lot of ports pull out of course. So what happens we'll have these. Kind of there's now says certain there's an -- spirit in this one kind of protects the wheels. From anything else -- more rigidity to the frame. Big plus. It which is always good thing and we accept two different types of wills we have you know these fixed wheels. And it may actually have the -- around us now that is important. -- all course been a real big disk boots off in the direction you can't really spirit or anything exactly but you have all fixed wheels you're going one direction. And keep it forever and ever so we'll put the fix we'll step back and doesn't mean wealth to -- and kind of -- like -- Dolly. And move it around on god. Which is nice in the things in -- way at times so portion. Any help help us. If you're trying to be cheap don't cheap out you put wheels on. You know forty bucks by tying me down with wheels that's worth it you really need to build the spirit anyway eternity W keep the whole thing from falling apart exactly. Boeing is an account received. Drilling for years for -- drilling reforms earlier but the -- thing that makes a nice little hole for the actual screw -- in the litany that we can would body over people never even noticed. Who's there we got nine that is a space in here. And that will make more than enough room forecasters and we talked about and -- popular casters. And that's take on both sides of the -- hit some -- this is all supported in this little area. So we can end up old. It's like here. And make for nice kind of clean look -- look inside and -- how high the wheels from everything begs the question. What's next well the next thing we need to do is you start cutting some more strips them now. I know. But also got some more strips and we'll get the size and opportunities and use the script to make the structural support for going inside them actually hold the frame -- we put the recipe for them. Not plan but -- that needs. More sparks off old boy."
" Well basically what we're doing here is we got Patrick Norton over your fifth place standing down a few pieces and we can't cut everything. Have. Place on remittances are exactly the same sort of them down the edges than -- perfectly floods and get all it is the word. That way at all come together look real pretty. One thing you might notice is that there's some burned part there on the side of the woods but the caught by the third song. That can happen for one if you -- one. Your blade has two mini. Add violin that's how they actually measure. Are great thereof play like that they few hundred feet away. This would easily burn real quick want to make a real fine thing I really like this for like plastic and stuff like that. Then you get into. What -- feel like I like the 62. For the 42. And have a pretty decent one we'll bring you CNA. 125. Is. For a very 122. To cut are available -- harm mark that we normally happen."
" We got the based on. Got the they've got two sides which have all been sanded the bats have been nice and smooth and even and everything on line up we got some support cuts so they read it put those them so tomorrow we go vertical by -- the sides the Castro to the bottom which means bolts for the right. The sides to the base. And then knows the ribs these are like to reimburse predators in between thing to hold it up while we do the rest of pieces and going to be our backed peace poppies poppies. Top piece. Its front piece front piece rights."
" I mean we 1234567899. Pieces to cut the cut out that's not only take a few minutes and we have to rout the entire outside edge of you people in. Which seem all these kind of fun stuff that's what we talk about and have we got a hundred feet others -- covered this. It's -- pretty much the have a special proud of it goes around -- a group in the side of everything. And neatest camera that stuff down -- quack quack quack quack quack makes it nice that support. And if you look if you're never have -- it all -- exposed edges no they don't want try to hide film that made it very deliberate and that's what we're going to be doing this news just."
" For that authenticity. Now are we gonna build the framework in the Basil hold television monitor orders that in the week after. Gonna build the -- shelf of all the TV from the bottom up. But the week after we're gonna visit can take -- TDMA the actual. -- goes around to even make it look like tubes coming through this flat piece of wood. Just like we all remember. More time lapse photography and just as soon as we go home sleep come back to an office meeting in and finish it. Will be."
" Alright we are somewhere in the middle of deep tool or we'd like to say the postwar cabinet assembly teen. Joyce quietly weeping behind the camera you're hold up hold up just fine having fun you're doing amazing work you basically. Took your million hours of sentinel experience I just eyeball every single piece it's gonna be bracing sized pieces for this."
" Yeah I mean one of things as a Skype as our mailing strip we're gonna plow the panels to it's just make it more structural and easier to go into and got it. And wanted to things is you'll notice that while these cuts you know we're fine. They're not a 100% accurate and they don't have to be why is that because we're name."
" We're gonna see any in this so every engineer out there like my friend Tim's father built as you know house to thousands of an installer says go to apologize it's gonna look really good when it's done. Because that's what is what on the outside that matters yes not the inside right although the main cabinets stuffed inside well actually the mean. System system of signs that all -- down here and at all looks pretty snow and the monitor all look pretty and tomorrow look pretty and I -- when planning -- and four layers you know. Paint this should be pretty fun look kids high gloss enamel actually I closely tax. Mastic that it would and that's going to be really good for the surface I'd like it but I was -- that these are really not elements these were ribs that we put in. Just hold it while we assembly because it's a little wobbly and we -- panels together and that's well put together a 128 screws later. -- panels and 120 acres it should stiffen up quite nicely which is nice so what you're looking that is you know this."
" Area here is going to be where our actual control panel this isn't. This. Is where the TV in the mountains slant angle. And this is a little you know -- played panel told you know two quarters to plays and all what type stuff. Now all -- in that area and overall computer components down here about it."
" So cool nine panels eighteen cuts you know and maybe 64. Screws and -- like 24 cuts has been only a few wrong. I honey yeah. See the kid will be home soon numbering that pizza yeah."
" And hasn't been heard you know the -- We're gonna start cut its."
" I didn't see we've gotta hold its engine to do we've sought out all the pieces are gonna make inside the cabinet would have to do a little bit of custom fitting on the edges which is always fun -- we got so many complex thing all that's the latest matters. It and in America can handle -- and it cut and again so registry to wrap up this including the routing we're doing the edges to put in the eighteen -- that's correct Alex -- it's fun. This is how professional what else we didn't."
" Accepts for the next episode we're gonna do work on -- mountain monitor mountain speakers on this and -- go to really start to feel this compliment -- I like that thought what comes after that. After that we are going to actually get to bring them over here and he's going to take care of all the computer hardware and software -- are all up on stuff is illegal and exchanges Scalia and everything like that thoughts and then we're gonna have virtually come on you can take care of all the graphics treatment polite -- will be up here. And that basically had all the other details -- to my little pony affect. I was thinking more like you know yeah. My hope wounds to the better way to go -- into iPhoto for some female reference have been happening. -- Strawberry shortcake everything else I'm very sure."
" I don't want that feed in my head of my system the reason freedom comes the email. Yeah business in the forums -- what we're doing wrong quickly and yes because we're gonna move fast next week yeah I'm better Norton David Randolph. We're gonna be safe you should try to see you you don't have a -- deadbeat dad. --"
" Remember kids strapped -- powerful political. Machine question cut -- part of your you really need later. It. I got ripped off. I'm sorry it took him and me."










