Arcade Games, Pinball, Crane Games, Redemption Games and Other Stuff > Pinball Games

Pinball has evolved...

<< < (3/3)

jay:
Mine is a low profile oak coffee table.
I used a 26" Wide Screen LCD.
KE72 - Plugs into the keyboard port (or USB) and gives 72 discreet inputs for buttons, joysticks etc.
I had a used laptop with a cracked screen but the graphics card wasn't good enough for Vpinball.
I took a used 2U HP DL385 G5 server and installed a 3D Cad video card. The company I used to work for buys high end HP z800 workstations then pulls the video card and installs a better graphics card worth about 12K (more $ than the PC). I freecycled one of the pulled video cards.
I then also installed a USB audio card as the server didn't have any external speaker capabilities.
Despite being a dual power supplied server - I found that once you have too many USB devices the computer doesn't boot - so I picked up a small powered USB hub to take some of the load off.
The coffee table has controls at both ends for coctail versions of Galaga, Pacman, etc and then two side by side controls for games like Joust and street fighter which are either played head to head or just look better in portrait.
 

Harvs:
That is really cool! Wow, a lot of different games you can play on that. From Golden Tee, to cocktail style games, to pinball it looks.


I have a similar setup I built, but more of a 'budget' build. External TV/Monitor, older computer, video card etc. Pinball just plays a bit slow, laggy.., Pinball is almost unplayable really.


Here's a few pics. - I actually built the entire cabinet out of bed frames that I picked up while doing a remodel job for an old furniture store.. They were tossing NOS frames in all types of nice finished hardwoods.. I filled my trailer to the top with them. Ha, freebie!! (The things some people/companies toss in the trash..)


Harvs

jay:
I like it. Nice and compact.

I had a buddy that made one similar. His is a very narrow pedestal and he went with a crome laminate. He is a big treky fan and has a Starfleet emblum on the top. I think he paid like $600 for the emblum from some memorabilia auction.

You found the same problem as I had. You need a higher end graphics card. With the one in my laptop it was practically unplayable.
Its pretty good with the CAD quality graphics card.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[*] Previous page