Thursday, June 25, 2009

And we're up and running

It took a few attempts and getting monitor drivers, video cards, PCIe extenders, and so on, but the pacguy cabinet is now functional. All that is left are a few of the finishing touches. In the end I decided that Linux was not the best platform for this project so I am now running everything in Windows XP with just plain old MAME32. I will set the OS preferences so that MAME starts and loads the Pacguy rom on Startup. Not the perfect solution, but I have decided that I can live with the windows OS startup screen being there for 2 minutes when you turn the cabinet on. It was either that or dig deeper for tips on how to write command line to get 15hz compatibility in Linux. I will post some pictures soon.

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