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A new home for insertcoin.org.uk!

Mon, 06 Feb 2006 16:56:20 +0000

After numerous problems with my domain hosting and mail relaying (nice one Freeparking!), I've moved everything to a new home with Purplecloud.

I know there has been no project news for a long time, but I'm the process of moving house so everything is a bit behind. I promise, when I get moved, I'll finally finish off my arcade machine...

One year on....

Thu, 04 Aug 2005 19:43:00 +0100

So. It's roughly one year since I bought my Electrocoin Goliath and it's still not (quite) finished. If it looks like I've not done any work recently, you'd be right in that assumption.

I still have to buy the black faced card to surround the monitor (it's actually proving quite hard to track some down which is big enough and that doesn't cost the earth) and I still have to do some software 'stuff'.

I'll try and get some time over the next few weeks to progress things, but at the moment I'm trying my best to catch up on two month's worth of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine on TiVo before I run out of disk space again.....

PC gets named

Wed, 22 Jun 2005 19:49:39 +0100

I haven't completed the PCs configuration yet. Last weekend was very very hot so the idea of spending it in my garage wasn't very appealing.

So, what's the PC called you might ask? Well every computer I've ever owned have a spacey themed name (except for a time when I name my PCs are various curry dishes, but that's another story...).

My current 'interest' is Star Trek. In my old job I named a couple of servers Archer (A Domain Controller. Archer; the Captain, get it?) & Hoshi (A Mail server. Hoshi, the Communications Officer, get it? Doesn't matter). My current PC is called Voyager. So it seemed appropriate to call my arcade machine 'Seven'. Why Seven? Because it's a thing of beauty, it's very clever, but sometimes quite stubborn!

Last item to purchase

Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:54:04 +0100

It's reached that point in the project where I only have one item to still purchase (assuming nothing unforseen comes up).

I need to buy a large sheet of black faced card to surround the monitor. The original card was torn when I bought the Goliath so it needs replacing. I've already looked in the local 'Staples' store, but they didn't have anything, so I'll have to go around a few local art shops...

Software Tweaking

Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:52:47 +0100

I've done a bit of tweaking with Mamewah. The main area of work has been sorting out the screen resolution for each game. I've done some playing with the 'MAME Resolution Tool' from the authors of Mamewah and most of the games are now playable.

I also really need to spend some time sorting out the mame roms. When I set up the PC, I simply did a dump of the ROMS archive (it's useful as a backup as well). Unfortunately, this contains a few hundred games for which the emulation doesn't run yet - so I need to clear these out. I also need to find my screen shot archive for the mamewah navigation screen.

This is all fairly straight forward stuff, but it'll take me a few hours to get it sorted.. Perhaps a job for next weekend!

Obviously, whilst I have a significant archive of Mame ROMS, I only intend to play those I actually own ;-) The rest are there purely for educational purposes!