ArcadeCab

6/23/04

Arcade Technical Site
I ran across a site that has a fantastic amount of arcade-related technical information on it.  Randy Fromm's site includes "plethora of technical information about basic electronics, video game repair, pinball machine repair, bill validator repair, power supply repair, and especially, video game monitor repair."  It appears that the site is culled from the print copy of his Randy Fromm's Big Blue Book of Really Great Technical Information.   As just one example of the content, he details how to apply laminate.  Just page after page of great stuff.

6/19/04

Cabinet Sales Page
The Store has been expanded to now feature our cabinets.  Presently these cabinets are not available for shipping. 

BarCade document work
I have been diligently working on the BarCade document.  An increasing number of visitors have been reaching this site from the search engines when looking for barcades or bartops.  If the caffeine continues to work its magic, there should be a new PDF out there in the next week.

ArcadeCab.com T-Ball Team
The ball team has had a great year thus far.  They have not lost a game.  (For those that do not know how coach pitch is played, a game is three innings long, every player bats and scores each inning.  It makes keeping score a breeze.) I went to watch them last night and it was a lot of fun.  The youngsters were enjoying themselves, even if they were sometimes paying more attention to the grass or the dirt or the sky than to the game going on around them.  There are going to be some very good baseball players in a few years.    

6/6/04

Project PCs
I recently came into possession of a number of low-end PCs.    Could not pass them up as the price was right: free.  I rescued them from their other option of the landfill. 

Two of them are P75s and three are the slightly more powerful P133s.  As you may remember, my BarCade is powered by a P75 (running Vantage and ArcadeOS over DOS6), and that setup runs perfectly.  I haven't yet decided for sure what project any of the machines will be used in but they will find new life at some point in the future.       

6/5/04

Google Search added
As this site continues to grow, finding information is becoming more problematic at times, even for me.  To help make it easier on everyone to find what they need once you are here, I have added a search function, courtesy of the friendly Google folks.  I have placed the searches on a number of the key pages to see how they work out.  If it turns out they would be useful on more of the pages, I will add them later.  They are found in the left column, immediately under the link buttons.  Give them a try.

6/3/04

Deck building
Spent the long four-day holiday building a deck off the back of my house.  With some help the project is now 90% complete.  Still have the boring task of driving nearly five hundred more screws into the decking boards.  Sounds like work for this weekend...

Build your own paper arcade
I came across an interesting little page.  It details how to build miniature paper arcade cabinets.  The page includes printable cutouts of six classic cabs: Defender, Gauntlet, Gravitar, Pacman, Robotron and Tempest.  They can be sized to suit your own taste.  Very, very cool and reminds me that there are indeed people with a lot more free time than myself.