Project Arcade: Build Your Own Arcade Machine

Remember wishing you could live at the arcade?
Was it Pac–Man at the corner convenience store? Street Fighter at the arcade in the mall? Recapture the fun, if not the quarters, by building your very own arcade machine! Make it complete with joysticks, buttons, trackballs, spinners, guns, sound effects, eye candy, and all your favorite games. Have your name flashing on the marquee. Customize your cabinet to have your very own dream arcade machine!
Do we have your attention now?
Follow these steps for building the cabinet, designing the control panel, finding the software, installing speakers and a monitor, and putting it all together. The arcade′s back, this time at your place!
John St.Clair, like most children of the ′80s, spent endless youthful hours feeding his allowance into arcade machines. He grew up to be a network engineer, but remains a game fanatic who created Build Your Own Arcade Controls (BYOAC) at www.arcadecontrols.com, a gamer′s paradise where arcade game builders can swap plans, experiences, tips, and ideas. John wrote the first edition of this book in 2004.
Déjà vu how–to
Choose a cabinet plan
Calculate your budget
Design the control panel
Build a spinner
Explore flight yokes
Pick your guns
Connect the brain
Hack a mouse
Install the monitor
Load up on software
Add bells and whistles
CD–ROM includes
Classic cabinet designs and instructions from the first edition
Brand–new plans for cabinets and devices
Shareware games and software utilities
Arcade control panel templates
High resolution color photos, links, tutorials, and more!
See the CD appendix for details and complete system requirements.

Spis treści:
Introduction.
Part I Playing Your Games the Way They Are Meant to Be Played — with Arcade Co ntrols.
Chapter 1 Picking Your Path to Game–Playing Nirvana.
Chapter 2 Building Your Arcade Cabinet.
Part II Designing and Building Your Dream Arcade Control Panel.
Chapter 3 Pushing Your Buttons and the Joy of Joysticks.
Chapter 4 Taking Your Game Out for a Spin — Spinners and Trackballs.
Chapter 5 Arcade Controls for Power Gamers.
Chapter 6 Building the Control Panel.
Part III Hooking Things Up Under the Hood — Time to Trick the Computer.
Chapter 7 How It Works — Turning a Computer into the Brains of an Arcade Machine.
Chapter 8 Using the Keyboard Connector for Arcade Controls.
Chapter 9 Arcade Controls Using the Mouse Connector.
Chapter 10 Miscellaneous Bits of Arcade Trickery.
Part IV Putting Together the Final Pieces.
Chapter 11 Audio — Silence Isn’t Golden.
Chapter 12 A Picture Is Worth a Thousand . . . Tokens?
Chapter 13 A Picture Is Worth a Thousand . . . Tokens?
Chapter 14 Choosing and Loading Software.
Chapter 15 Buttoning Up the Odds and Ends.
Part V Like the Concept but Not Sure You Have It in You?
Chapter 16 Stuck? Frustrated? Out of Quarters?
Chapter 17 Buying Your Way to Gaming Nirvana.
Chapter 18 Online Places to Go.
Appendix A Where to Find Arcade Parts for Your Project.
Appendix B The Great Debate — Preserving Versus MAMEing the Past.
Appendix C What’s on the CD?
Index.

Nota biograficzna:
John St.Clair, like most children of the ′80s, spent endless youthful hours feeding his allowance into arcade machines. He grew up to be a network engineer, but remains a game fanatic who created Build Your Own Arcade Controls (BYOAC) at www.arcadecontrols.com, a gamer′s paradise where arcade game builders can swap plans, experiences, tips, and ideas. John wrote the first edition of this book in 2004.

Okładka tylna:
Reme mber wishing you could live at the arcade?
Was it Pac–Man at the corner convenience store? Street Fighter at the arcade in the mall? Recapture the fun, if not the quarters, by building your very own arcade machine! Make it complete with joysticks, buttons, trackballs, spinners, guns, sound effects, eye candy, and all your favorite games. Have your name flashing on the marquee. Customize your cabinet to have your very own dream arcade machine!
Do we have your attention now?
Follow these steps for building the cabinet, designing the control panel, finding the software, installing speakers and a monitor, and putting it all together. The arcade′s back, this time at your place!
John St.Clair, like most children of the ′80s, spent endless youthful hours feeding his allowance into arcade machines. He grew up to be a network engineer, but remains a game fanatic who created Build Your Own Arcade Controls (BYOAC) at www.arcadecontrols.com, a gamer′s paradise where arcade game builders can swap plans, experiences, tips, and ideas. John wrote the first edition of this book in 2004.
Déjà vu how–to
Choose a cabinet plan
Calculate your budget
Design the control panel
Build a spinner
Explore flight yokes
Pick your guns
Connect the brain
Hack a mouse
Install the monitor
Load up on software
Add bells and whistles
CD–ROM includes
Classic cabinet designs and instructions from the first edition
Brand–new plans for cabinets and devices
Shareware games and software utilities
Arcade control panel templates
High resolution color photos, links, tutorials, and more!
See the CD appendix for details and complete system requirements.