Friday, March 6, 2015

Can't have enough PC's..

..around the house, we have some great gaming PC's here, laptops, iPads etc but sometimes it's hard  to get on one so now this functions as a fully functioning wireless desktop PC. Again, photographs badly on my ipad.

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Minecraft

Ruining the whole 'Retro' feel of this, I installed Minecraft which runs very well on max graphics, selectable from within the frontend. Also, installed a wireless adapter so it can be used as a regular PC for web browsing, watching movies etc..

Saturday, February 21, 2015

Finished.

Arcade, Sega Megadrive, Super Nintendo, Atari 2600, NES, Sega Model 2. 2740 games all selectable by joystick. Boots straight to frontend, no mouse or keyboard. I added a favourites system, so by pressing a button you add a game to 'favourites' and another button takes you to that list. Button on front is 'Insert Coin', button on side to 'Quit'. It's turned on or off by a button on top. There's also a 'pause' button for arcade games. There are a few games that don't work properly, mainly because you need a gun to play them, but I left them there for nostalgia's sake. The car games work fine but it's not as much fun without a wheel obviously, Maybe next time.


It doesn't photograph very well with my iPad, looks much better in the flesh.

On switch.


Single press for on, single press for off. So that it can be turned off or plugged without a windows error on startup, I used this command.. bcdedit /set {current} bootstatuspolicy ignoreallfailures.

The Back..

Everything is powered by a 500w power supply, no multiple plugs this time. Monitor, Marquee are 12v, lights on buttons are 5v. The PC is a new AM1 processor and motherboard with 4gb of RAM, all new. A 120gb hard drive stores all the games. There's a cut out on the bottom left side for keyboard/mouse/USB drive etc.


Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Software











Frontend has Mame, Nes, Megadrive, Sega Model 2, Super Nintendo,  and Atari 2600. Each has it's own list, and a favourites system so you don't have to troll through thousands of games to find the ones you like each time.