Godzilla replaced CV, so here's where I'm at now. Only room for 10, so I'm keeping the games that get played.
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Quoted from Daditude:That's quite an Elwin section you have going. Why no Jurassic park though?
Mostly because they don't come up used very often. I'd like to get a Premium at some point, but also not sure what I'd sell to make space. There's no room to own them all.
Quoted from bob_e:Added a payphone to my room. It would work if I had a land line to connect it to. The phone was rebuilt with electronics to block out long distance calls. Typically they were sold to laundromats, "quarter" carwashes and other stores. They were good money makers for independent operators before the cell phones became the norm.
If you want to just hook it up to a Voip line, you can get an adapter (RJ11 to RJ45 like this: https://www.amazon.ca/Gateway-Internet-Adapter-Network-Protocol/dp/B08TBGKRP2) and use something like voip.ms to hook it up. Costs a buck a month for the number, plus usage, which should be minimal. This isn't in my gameroom, but I used that to get this thing working in our office:
You'll also need something like this (https://oldphoneworks.com/products/rotatone-ext-pulse-to-tone-converter) if you want to be able to dial it, since nothing understands pulse dial anymore. It's a neat trick when you get it working though-there are a lot of people that have never dialed a rotary phone.
FF Arrived, so updated pinball lineup:
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MAME is still at the far end:
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Also did some updates on the wall art with some new prints from Flyland:
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Quoted from bobwiley:Can we talk about your multicade with the crt monitor? Did you make it? If so, was it a pain to get it to work with a crt in 4:3? Is it a tri sync monitor? I'm so up in the air on a multicade... I had a double dribble arcade years ago I wired in a seg and loved it. 20+ years later crt monitors are hard to come by and a cost money to get rid of. I was thinking of an arcade1up for space and time saving until I saw how cramped the controls are, especially for a 4 player game. So really pondering long and hard on what to do. Thinking maybe just a single dedicated cabinet, but all the games I would want dedicated are $$$, so it'd probably be cheaper to do MAME or something like that. Just want it to feel like a real arcade OR be super cheap to pull off, then I can deal with a hodgepodge job.
So I built this one (4p MAME) about 12 years ago around a 27" CRT.
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Control panel is 4ft wide, so enough space to get 4 in, but also works OK with 2. Whole thing probably cost me $700 in parts, and a bunch of labour to build. The biggest pain in the ass is by far having a PC that can interface to a CRT well. I'm using an old ATI card that has s-video output, which works pretty well, and gets you a decent picture for those weird resolutions that old games have. It's also a pain to move, but it does come apart. I did have to replace the TV in it a year ago, but was still able to find a free one locally. They're getting harder to find though, so when this one dies, I'm not sure what I'll do.
If I had it to do over again though, I'd probably just use an LCD or something and maybe put a scaler between the PC and the display. Could also just build the whole thing around a MISTer now too for FPGA based emulation.
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