Breakdown of the Relationship - Part 6
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND WE'RE BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!
After a weekend where I'd racked up a decent amount of brownie points Sunday rolled around with a required trip to Gipps St to help Auntie Plop move furniture... what a coincidence the monthly gathering of the dorks was at the town hall..
"baby... you owe me... I'm goin in & I don't want to get yelled at for whatever I drag out of there"
With a clean & crisp $50 in hand I storm into the swap meet shouting "I NEED A PC FOR $50!!!"
It turns out they think piece of shit old office Dells & the like are still worth between $150-200 so my shout changed to something closer to
"I NEED A MOTHERBOARD & CPU THAT DEFINATELY WORKS FOR $50"
Thankfully an angel that smelt like an unwashed tracksuit was happy to oblige, P4 1.7ghz on an intel board WITH 256MB RAM AND a driver disk AND a jumper diagram AND a 30 day warranty, all mine for $50..
Fucking bargain..
Get the bastard home, whack it in a case, hook it up. fire it up..
BOOM!@ (not bad boom.... good boom.. like booyaa)..
Decide to break with current tradition & go with XP on it mainly because of XP's fine hibernation shit.
Get XP installed, update some drivers from the fucking super handy driver disk they gave me & RType2 (my test bed game) is running like a dream. (the switch diagram was also super handy)
Best of all, so is hibernation. I've been struggling with what to do about booting & shutting down the mame cabinet once it's built, I don't want to leave the thing running 24-7 as I have to pay for all that power it's eating. but I also want a MAME session no more than 1 minute away whenever I want. XP's hibernation mode should be all I need not to chew heaps of power when it's not in use but also give pleasure to your nuts in enough time for your current day nerd not to get distracted & go searching for boobs while it's booting up.
so now I pretty much have the machine up & running. grand total spent so far?
$20 for monitor
$50 for Motherboard & CPU
Plus $60 for a PCI graphics card I forgot I bought in a fit of desperation last week & now I don't really need. meh... it's handy to have laying arond...
But most importantly... I have a PC up & running who's only right for existence is to play MAME on... which means I have a touch more inspiration to start building the cabinet
After a weekend where I'd racked up a decent amount of brownie points Sunday rolled around with a required trip to Gipps St to help Auntie Plop move furniture... what a coincidence the monthly gathering of the dorks was at the town hall..
"baby... you owe me... I'm goin in & I don't want to get yelled at for whatever I drag out of there"
With a clean & crisp $50 in hand I storm into the swap meet shouting "I NEED A PC FOR $50!!!"
It turns out they think piece of shit old office Dells & the like are still worth between $150-200 so my shout changed to something closer to
"I NEED A MOTHERBOARD & CPU THAT DEFINATELY WORKS FOR $50"
Thankfully an angel that smelt like an unwashed tracksuit was happy to oblige, P4 1.7ghz on an intel board WITH 256MB RAM AND a driver disk AND a jumper diagram AND a 30 day warranty, all mine for $50..
Fucking bargain..
Get the bastard home, whack it in a case, hook it up. fire it up..
BOOM!@ (not bad boom.... good boom.. like booyaa)..
Decide to break with current tradition & go with XP on it mainly because of XP's fine hibernation shit.
Get XP installed, update some drivers from the fucking super handy driver disk they gave me & RType2 (my test bed game) is running like a dream. (the switch diagram was also super handy)
Best of all, so is hibernation. I've been struggling with what to do about booting & shutting down the mame cabinet once it's built, I don't want to leave the thing running 24-7 as I have to pay for all that power it's eating. but I also want a MAME session no more than 1 minute away whenever I want. XP's hibernation mode should be all I need not to chew heaps of power when it's not in use but also give pleasure to your nuts in enough time for your current day nerd not to get distracted & go searching for boobs while it's booting up.
so now I pretty much have the machine up & running. grand total spent so far?
$20 for monitor
$50 for Motherboard & CPU
Plus $60 for a PCI graphics card I forgot I bought in a fit of desperation last week & now I don't really need. meh... it's handy to have laying arond...
But most importantly... I have a PC up & running who's only right for existence is to play MAME on... which means I have a touch more inspiration to start building the cabinet
posted by eightball at 12/10/2007 09:03:00 am
5 Comments:
Ahh man, I love you, you are kicking all the fucking goals now.
The cabinet needs drink holders, naturally, but if they could be chilled...
Drink holders are a given, I'll possibly use bicycle water bottle holders but I have to check them for stubby grip.. I may end up having to fabricate something or visit an autobarn..
need for chilling... Hmmm I think that means you're just drinking like a pussy
I take offence to that comment, nutbag. We'll have to settle this over the table.
I love the fact that, that statement can now be interpreted in several ways.
But I'm building an upright cabinet not a tabletop (cocktail)
So in effect there is a simple pre-requisite for playing mame & that's the ability to stand upright
which could cause a problem
Just include a harness.
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