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Build Your own Ms. Pac-Man machine from Scratch

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the do-it-yourselfer dept.

AngryFlute writes "This guy has built his own Ms. Pac-Man tabletop cabinet from scratch, and he generously shares the plans and pictures of his step-by-step work online. " Nate gave me an arkanoid tabletop for christmas last year, these things are just very cool (if only I had room for more ;). There are many excellent sites for building your own game boxes (tabletop and upright). I've seen variations that use a PC and MAME or some other emulator, as well as ones designed for easy replacing of old game boards. This stuff is a very cool hobby and I know many of you are into it. What are you guys experiences?

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  1. Right-Click... Grrrr! by CritterNYC · · Score: 4

    The page has right-clicking 'disabled' with JavaScript. You right-click and get a 'Graphics on this page are copyrighted and not available for download or use.' popup window. That's just incredibly lame... especially since it takes all of 3 seconds to View-Source and get the image location and all I wanna do is Right-Click, Open in New Window.

    Granted, you can always use the workaround for this. In IE, links are triggered on a mouse-up and the Javascript is on the mouse-down. So, right-click on anything and hold the button down. The popup appears. Hit your Spacebar to dismiss it. Then release your mouse button. Voila... instant right-click menu.

    Some day I hope to have a .plan.

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    Portable versions of Firefox, GIMP, LibreOffice, etc
  2. A carpentry project... by slim · · Score: 4

    When I read the /. post, I assumed this would be more exciting than it actually turned out to be.
    The guy starts off with a monitor and a Ms Pacman boardset. All he does is make a cabinet, and wire it up. This is basically nothing but a carpentry project with a little electrical wiring (no electronics as such). Now, building a replica cabinet is a cool thing in itself; I just don't think of it as "News for Nerds" -- it's news for woodworkers.

    I encourage people to look in an arcade cabinet: you'd be surprised at just how little there is in there: speakers, monitor, controls, all wired up to a single interface connector.

    What I thought I was going to see, and something that would have been incredibly cool, was instructions on building a Ms Pacman board from scratch: using off the shelf chips and home-burnt PROMs (naughty!). Wake me up when we see that.

    It *is* a cool project though. Well done to the guy and everything.
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  3. Google links (The site is mostly pics though) by inquis · · Score: 5

    The reason this site went down so fast is because it is mostly pictures of the work this gentleman has done. However, Google has all the text, so go here for the first page, and here for the second.

    It only looks like this guy has the cabinet built... no wiring has been done yet.

    Still, it looks cool!

    -inq