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== Name the Arcade Machine ==
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(RULES: maximum 5 votes, one vote on each arcade name)FOSSCAID: (your name here)NestorFOSSBOX: (your name here)FOSSADE: (your name here)NestorFreeCade: (your name here) Milton, OpenCade: (your name here) Milton, OpenBox: (your name here) Milton,luXbox: (your name here) Milton,NestorJailFreezer: (your name here)Nestor
Freeplay Arcade: (your name here)
Other Suggestions: ctyler : Luxcade, TuxLux , vimpulse: Senecade, SeneCube
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!Subject
!DescriptionOwner!OwnerDescription
!Target Date
!Status
|look for arcade box, not necessary working perfectly, but cost efficiency.
|2008/11/01
|In Progress"COMPLATED"
| +planning to visit the end of Oct 2008 (Nes/Milton/Mohak)
+planning to purchase a arcade cabinet on 2008/11/04
+purchased Motal Komat with 2 working controllers, coin box in working condition (Nes 2008/12/02)
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|Look for a PC Box with all hardware and get Fedora installed
|2008/10/23
|'''COMPLATED:'''
| (Milton, Mohak, Varinder, Patricia)
+Fedora installed and running
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|Suitable MAME/Arcade simulator'
|Milton, Mohak, Varinder, Liang
|Install and test the best working simulator that suit our hardware and situation
|2008/12
|In ProgressCANCELED
| + testing AdvanceMAME with my own machine (Nes) Failed (2008/10/19)
+ sucessfully installed AdvancedMAME in Milton laptop, testing in progress (2008/10/22)
+ Using Open Source Linux game with launcher instead (Nes, 2008/12/02)
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|Game Searching with License approval
|Pat, Mohak, Milton
|Search suitable game and obtain license from the company/developer
|2008/12
|Pending(searching info)In progress
| +
|Having emulator running in PC Box perfect with just computer keyboard, without mapping arcard box
|2008/12
|Pending(searching info)CANCELED| +Using launcher instead (Nes 2008/12/02)
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|Greg
|Launcher with integrated loading of game-specific xmodmap profiles. When power on, PC will be automatically login to system and run emulator
|2008/12/02|Pending(searching info)"COMPLATED"
| +
|find the best way to connect controller and PC that our emulator and key mapping system supported.
|2009/01
|Pending(searching info)In Progress| +Find a way, we have to do something with the file named .xmodmap.Prof Murrey shows me a KBD, got already , to be used.
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|Install and connect PC, monitor to cabinet.
|2009/01
|Pendingin progress| + got sone general ideas and plan to take care the situation (waiting for cabinet purchaseNes 2008/12/02) |-|Documentation| Nestor, (any member)|Any related documentation, marketing or publicity |"ON GOING"|"ON GOING"| + Milton and Mohak have updated the game search (Nes 2008/12/02)+Steven Liang have experience on soldering, updated blog also (Nes 2008/12/02)+ Nestor updated user list, plan status, (Nes: 2008/12/02)
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== COSTS ==
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Serial_Programming:Unix/termios
[http://www.solvalou.com/arcade_jamma.php PC in/out connect to JAMMA Arcade]
[http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/: A good simulator works on Linux/OSX/Windows]
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[http://www.rent-a-game.com/fr_sales.html Pinball outlet, SRG Enterprises, located in Islington. They sell some arcard machine for good price.] [http://www.rent-a-gamewicksta.com/fr_salesarcade/gallery.php An actual machine that already build on an old console with linux, this is something we should be able to acheive..html]
[http://arcadecontrols.com/arcade.htm Homebrew Arcade website, it has a PDF file to show u how to do ur own arcade machine]http://arcadecontrols.com/arcade.htm
To help in the programing we could need this manual: Serial Programming:Unix/termios
1. ctyler connects DSR and DTR lines on serial port to switch, write 6 lines of code to make RS232 DSR transition generate synthetic X input event
2. ctyler connects switch to power supply and solenoid, places solenoid over button on USB numeric keypad, plugs keypad into PC
===GAMES===
Here are some links to open source games:
'''Sauerbraten (a.k.a. Cube 2)'''
http://sauerbraten.org/
Click [http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sauerbraten/sauerbraten_2008_06_20_ctf_edition_linux.tar.bz2 here] to download the tar ball for this game
