I found Retro Gamer magazine on the rack last week and couldn’t hep but pick it up. It’s issue six with a feature story on building both stand-up and cocktail arcade cabinets with PCs running MAME (which isn’t to say you couldn’t use a Mac instead).
For now, I want to keep track of these related websites:
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Check Ultimarc for arcade buttons, sticks, and fancy interfaces to make them work.
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Real arcade cabinets have coin slots, that’s why this fellow built his own.
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Happ Controls seems to be the most obvious source for coin mechanisms.
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StarROMs sells legal ROM files. They’ve currently just got Atari games, and, oddly, they appear to be based in Vermont.
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Game Cabinets Inc. sells fuly equipped cabinets.