This is true. We take the arcade box that was dropped (what remains of it) to all the major trade shows and play a video loop of the box being dropped. Never fails to get a crowd. Branin
It's actually a state of the art PC (running Windows in the machine that was dropped) that was dropped. A desktop PC probably wouldn't survive a 3 foot drop, while running (which the machine that was dropped was). Branin
The ArcadePC is indeed for use as a coin-op in an arcade, with specially written software and a few ports. For instance, there is a Quake 1 arcade game that has been modified a little bit to support quarters and trackballs better that is running off of a PC. A (relatively) new game that uses ArcadePC's is HydroThunder by Midway. There are literlly thousands upon thousands of these machines out there. It's purpose is for Arcade Game Developers to have a known, good (state of the art componenents) platform to publish games on. Branin
I'm pretty sure if you dropped your Optiplex, while running, off your desk onto the ground, it would stop working. Nothing is doctered, and there was tremendous amounts of shock on the PC. I have a video I could send you if you wanted (although it's quite large). Branin
I work at Arcade Technologies and it was cinderblock that the Arcade machine fell on. Also, it was the corner that hit, which ended up throwing the PC down towards the ground itself. Trust me, there was plenty of shock. None of us here actually expected the thing to really work, but it did, and scandisk didn't even find any errors. Branin
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Don't worry. It was a trashed cabinet for a relatively old game. Branin
Actually, it was an industrialized version of Windows 98, that had had many modifications made to it in order to be reliable and rugged. Branin
This is true. We take the arcade box that was dropped (what remains of it) to all the major trade shows and play a video loop of the box being dropped. Never fails to get a crowd. Branin
It's actually a state of the art PC (running Windows in the machine that was dropped) that was dropped. A desktop PC probably wouldn't survive a 3 foot drop, while running (which the machine that was dropped was). Branin
The ArcadePC is indeed for use as a coin-op in an arcade, with specially written software and a few ports. For instance, there is a Quake 1 arcade game that has been modified a little bit to support quarters and trackballs better that is running off of a PC. A (relatively) new game that uses ArcadePC's is HydroThunder by Midway. There are literlly thousands upon thousands of these machines out there. It's purpose is for Arcade Game Developers to have a known, good (state of the art componenents) platform to publish games on. Branin
I'm pretty sure if you dropped your Optiplex, while running, off your desk onto the ground, it would stop working. Nothing is doctered, and there was tremendous amounts of shock on the PC. I have a video I could send you if you wanted (although it's quite large). Branin
I work at Arcade Technologies and it was cinderblock that the Arcade machine fell on. Also, it was the corner that hit, which ended up throwing the PC down towards the ground itself. Trust me, there was plenty of shock. None of us here actually expected the thing to really work, but it did, and scandisk didn't even find any errors. Branin