Getting Started Again can be difficult

[HwitVlf]

Added an SQS Ultra section to the forum.

[Madison Lastrega]

Holy diver your probably right.... But ever since I turned my old SOM PC into an arcade/casino..... I bought a Mac (oh the horor, I know) and sorta got away from windows. ‎  ‎  ‎  I got a Toshiba A135-4706 for doing some computer work for a buddy at work. ‎  The laptop had a bum HD so I slap another one and install win7 ultimate... It might help to add it came with vista. ‎  ‎  So in win7 som would not even install at all.... I install winxp in VMware virtual machine, well all know you can't test in VM. ‎  ‎  ‎  ‎  So I install the Dx9 from the link you gave me, and still to no avail. ‎  ‎  So I could use som ‎  and not get discouraged by some probably stupid problem, I just said , ahhh screw it and install winxp pro, and manually installed the drivers and all is well..... But your probably right, must just be simple mistake I made, or something.



And thank you john for adding the link SQS Ultra post will be in there from now on :-) ‎  ‎  ‎  ..............ML

[Madison Lastrega]

Oh yeah I almost forgot this is what I turned my old SoM pc into.......... A 36 inch high bar top arcade/casino..... Rip, but hey it went to a good cause......... My wife


ML

[HwitVlf]

That's freaking gorgeous!!
I notice a stack of quarters on it, did you make your wife pay to play? ‎ 

[Madison Lastrega]

Heck yeah, even my son drops em in to play the 25,000 song juke box.... 5 songs for a quarter:) ‎  We use it like a piggy bank sorta, thats why I made it to ONLY run with real money:) she loves it.... I built another machine during my SoM absence.. It is a cocktail machine with a 32' plasma monitor... would you like to see it....

Yeah I sorta got real big into classic coin op gaming, it was a dream of mine as a kid of the 80's to have my own arcade machine one day. So I was really stuck in SoM , I realized I had dreamed of a project that was big even for a crew of builders much less one guy, I was burned out.... Pam told me to take a break and start another project to take my mind off of it.... It turned out so darn good I decided to build more of them but full sized models in my home and sell them... along the way I just gave up on SoM sorry to say. ( Hey that rhymed) I decided to make cocktail machines(my favorite as a kid) but I wanted to make AWESOME cocktail machines... just like me I really made it big.... and cost over 1200 to construct..... well my asking price was 2000, and I have yet to sell one...... so after a pricey investment , I still work of course, and now decided to say hey, I miss SoM, and you (SoM) made me so happy, and if the world don't want bomb diggity arcade machines any more I will make a bomb diggity game for all to enjoy:) Also making a game was also a dream of mine as i stated when first started with som years ago, so............. I'm baaaaaaack :)........ML

[Verdite]

Awesome! That looks amazing Joe. To be honest if you dont sell your cocktail machine, its still yours to enjoy, and its something your family will love right?I did I did miss these anecdotes you used to share with the community. Its nice to have them again here.

Anyway I really want to say... I have that blue celtic horse fabric too. Seriously. Exactly the same design. Weird!

[Madison Lastrega]

Thanks for the props guys..... I will put as much love into this game as I did into my machines:) ‎  Here is a little video I made just for my SoM friends.... a little demo of Maricab.......................ML


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTnOII086TQ

[Verdite]

Very entertaining. Thanks Joe. Maine isnt so far away, you know? ‎ 

[HwitVlf]

That really classy- reminds me of the local dough-nut shop when I was a kid where they had a cocktail machine with Frogger. Spent more quarter there than I care to admit ‎  :sick[1]:

Tim Lindquist (KF2 artist) is really into arcade cabinet games too. He has a site dedicated to preserving and restoring cabinets and their motherboards. ‎  I learned an interesting thing on his site. Evidently, some game board makers back then stored part of the game's programming in a battery-powered RAM chip, so when the battery died, the code was lost and machine was dead for good unless you sent it to the manufacturer for repair. Enthusiasts have tried to find and preserve copies of those lost chunks so that the dead motherboards aren't gone for good. ‎ 

[Madison Lastrega]

Anyone hear from holy. Kinda lonely with out reading his post...and wondering how the damage calculator is coming along..........ML