Here's how the admin panel looks when powered up.
I'll have to disassemble a lot of this to make real progress, but I wanted to check some fitments and mark the screw locations for the TV brackets...
It's all going to fit together. (Pardon the right storage door, I didn't realize at the time that it was sitting on the ground and not in it's frame - it isn't really the wrong size.)
Spacewar was an important game for me. Here's how it looks running.
However, it used a grid of 10 numbered buttons for setting up the game options, in the original form... I couldn't emulate that worth a damn with my normal controls...
But the machine has 3 USB ports on the front. Plug this in and it acts as the original keypad did.
This is the point of the thing.
It's an entire arcade in an 18"x29" footprint.
I hit my marks pretty accurately for the top and bottom edges of the screen.
It still needs a lot of work, there will be a glass bezel with black-painted sides to mask off the edge space where you can currently see past the TV, and so on.
But the good news is, its absolutely going to work. I didn't encounter any show stoppers in fitting the components.
Continue...