Monthly Archives: Tuesday October 30th, 2007

Mame News: First milestone achieved !!

After a weekend of working on (and mostly in) my new and shiny (actually old and still pretty dirty) Zaccaria cab, I finally played some first games on the prototype setup.The PC components running Linux and AdvanceMame are installed and the arcade monitor was (for the time !) replaced by an old Iiyama CRT. I removed most of the inner parts and disassembled the control panel. The new parts – mostly buttons annd two new joysticks still haven’t arrived yet. But tomorrow, I think, I will start with the layout, while Gui finishes the restoration and new arrangement of the grafics on the control panel.Some pics from my weekend experience:

Zaccaria arcade cabinet, backsideCoin operated (but not working… yet !)Hmmmm. Where do I get those ?Taking apart the old control panel

The control panel without the moving partsFirst game must be a classic…. Asteroids !!Working prototype

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My arcade cab got delivered today !!

After searching for sooo long and a final waiting period of a seemingly endless week, today my arcade cab got delivered. It’s quite dirty and I didn’t even have time to try and start it yet. I’ll post another update in the evening or tomorrow with more details.

Here are the first photos:

arcade cab 1arcade cab 2arcade cab 3

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Unsere Baugruppe im Fernsehen

…zu sehen in der Sendung WAS! am Montag, dem 22.10.2007 um 20:15 Uhr. Mit dabei: einige Bauherren der Baugruppe Lichtblick, das Architekturbuero BHZ, die Baugruppe Johannistal…

Gute Werbung nicht nur fuer unsere sondern hoffentlich fuer alle Baugruppen in Berlin !

Download: BG Lichtblick auf RBB

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Another Linux distro down

First it was Novell, Xandros and Linspire. Now TurboLinux also signed a contract with  Microsoft. Not sure what Microsoft or it’s ‘partners’ are up to yet, but I’d rather stay away from those distributions for now…

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Project started: Mame

After searching the Intarweb for nearly two months I finally decided to buy an old Zaccaria cab. The plan is to put in two new joysticks and lots of buttons, a cheap pc system that can boot off an usb stick, and maybe an iPaq. I’m gonna order the parts right now and hopefully I can start working on the project next weekend. Yay !! Cold winter nights, I’m happily waiting for you !

Zaccaria CabZaccaria Cab - side viewZaccaria Cab - side view 2

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we did it again !

David and I worked hard, and now we are waiting for Bruno´s little sister … or brother ? The little astronaut  is about 8, 6 cm long and we have a supposed date of birth for the 24th of April. Just before summer… We are already planning family vacations in an all inclusive resort, new car and a nice quite place in the countryside to live in. No, no, everything is the same, only that it´s gonna be double the fun with another Bruno running and playing around here…

Rosine

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Pictures from the sailingtrip in Croatia

Uploaded a bunch of pics from our great sailingtrip in Croatia. Hava a look -> here

What else to say ? Well. The weather was amazing, the food was plenty, we had really nice wind, lots of fun and I promise to be back there soon !

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New pictures of Bruno…. Lots of them !

Bruno is growing fast and so is the amount of pictures in his gallery. Have a look !

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The *essential* newspaper !

Generate tag cloud from slashdot (or other) news source, include pictures in relevant size and create a live, newspaper-like layout as clickable HTML page, downloadable as PDF, possibility to get by email.
Possible add-ons for later:

  • Do something with comments (letters section – in the same edition: better than in the real newspaper)
  • TV-Program: source: digg or youtube
  • Gossip
  • Music (tonspion or other site with mp3s found free on the net)
  • Editorial (sources, stats, subscribers, etc.)
  • Sports ? Nah.
  • Cartoon, Sudoku, Crossword
  • Customization by user
  • ???
  • Profit !!!

Alternate titles ? Anyone ?

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