On 16/05/2005, at 11:33 AM, Matthew Healey wrote:

 On 16/05/2005, at 10:53 AM, Rod wrote:


 On 16/05/2005, at 10:27 AM, Mark Secker wrote:


1: monitor rotation is built in to the monitor preference panel - if your video card supports it!!! WOW to the power of 2 - I'm defiantly going to buy a VESA arm that supports rotation and the VESA adaptor kit for my Apple 20" display


Suddenly makes a MAME box using a Mac all that much better.... :-) Just need a patch to make those X-Arcade sticks work!


 Heh... Old School dies hard!

 - Matt


A mac mini with a decent display is still cheaper than buying a genuine Galaga arcade machine!

:-)

(Still my all time favourite game)


Pac Man turned 25 last week - so I guess that makes me old school as I remember feeding most of my pocket money in to the machines when it came out
Galaga is the best :)
and it has to be stand up - none of those table jobs. A friend of mine used to buy and convert broken stand up cabinets to take modern gaming consoles and PC based MAME systems - was usually far cheaper than finding parts to fix the original electronics.


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