timothee
Member
Hey there,
I've managed to convinced my boss that the office would be a much cooler place with a arcade cabinet in it. Especially one where we could play some funky retro-goodness. Now's the time to make a proposal to get the $$, and make it happen.
I was initially only aware of X-Arcade, which I liked for the self-conferred "indestructibility", and the adapters to modern systems (some of my colleagues are pushing for a PS3, trying to make everybody happy here). After some research, I found another company called North Coast, which I like for their off-the-shelf 4-player setup.
Has anyone here ever purchased a pre-built custom arcade cabinet? Any tips or recommendation on other providers? Are these stuff really as sturdy as they are sold for? For us this would be an international purchase (we are in Singapore), and so we could never ship back a full arcade cabinet if something's not working or broken :/ .
I was also looking for nice all-systems flashy arcade frontends. I found plenty for windows (like hyperspin or mala), but only one so far for linux called Cabrio (In fact, Cabrio looks like it could be nice on the pandora (sources here for the hardy ). Do you guys know of other linux-based front-ends I could look at?
Thanks in advance!
Tim.
I've managed to convinced my boss that the office would be a much cooler place with a arcade cabinet in it. Especially one where we could play some funky retro-goodness. Now's the time to make a proposal to get the $$, and make it happen.
I was initially only aware of X-Arcade, which I liked for the self-conferred "indestructibility", and the adapters to modern systems (some of my colleagues are pushing for a PS3, trying to make everybody happy here). After some research, I found another company called North Coast, which I like for their off-the-shelf 4-player setup.
Has anyone here ever purchased a pre-built custom arcade cabinet? Any tips or recommendation on other providers? Are these stuff really as sturdy as they are sold for? For us this would be an international purchase (we are in Singapore), and so we could never ship back a full arcade cabinet if something's not working or broken :/ .
I was also looking for nice all-systems flashy arcade frontends. I found plenty for windows (like hyperspin or mala), but only one so far for linux called Cabrio (In fact, Cabrio looks like it could be nice on the pandora (sources here for the hardy ). Do you guys know of other linux-based front-ends I could look at?
Thanks in advance!
Tim.