[NCLUG] Hardware/monitor..

[GeekBoi]

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Chris,

I am going to be doing the same thing.  I have found Cummings and Associates 
on 32nd and blake in Denver to be very good for this type of thing.  I picked 
up two high res 20" monitors for $99 a piece there.  These are pretty high 
quality monitors that are used.  

As for the hardware mame does not have such high system requirments.  My old 
celeron 450 has yet to be pushed by any of the xmame roms that I have played 
with.  An Athlon or Duron is going to be 100 times overkill for what your 
looking at.  My little laptop plays every rom that I have played so far 
without so much as a stutter.  C & A also have some used Dell gx1 and gxa for 
about $300 or so.  These are all PII based machines that should run xmamae 
with no problems.  I am using an abit bh6 motherboard and a celeron 533 for 
my system.  

CmdrTaco of slashdot fame has a nice little script for cataloging and 
starting roms in xmame with a joystick and buttons.  This should help free 
you from having a full keyboard/mouse hiden in the cabinet.  You can take a 
look at his project at http://cmdrtaco.net/jubei/

Chuck

>I'm starting to put together a MAME cabinet
>(http://www.arcadecontrols.com) and I'm in the proccess of getting some
>hardware to run this on.  Since I live in Wyoming, I was hoping that
>some of the nclugers would be able to point me in the right direction to
>find some Cheap computer parts stores in Ft. Collins or Denver.. I'm
>looking for a 21" to 22" monitor, and maybe a Athlon or Duron based
>machine.  Wyoming just doesn't have any nice low cost shops, and I'm
>cluless as to what's in CO.  If anyone could push me in the right
>direction I'd appreciate it!

>Chris
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