Arcade resurrection
One thing that gave my geekines factor a major boost was when I provided two old Zaccaria cabs for our office. The guy I bought’em asked a friend who owned him a favour to bring the two babies to our office. Little did I know that he had no clue what he was delivering: put on their sides on the back of the truck with no fixture at all they both had big scratches over their sideart. This was at the beginning of 2003 and half a year later I had setup the one with generic star sideart using an old 400mhz pc, an ipac, and a 17″ vga-screen, as I couldn’t get the original Hantarex tube to work under dosmame.
Last year in september I spent some time to renew the setup: the old pc was replaced by a xbox running the same special hacked version of CoinOps that enables vertical screensetup that already worked on my Hellomat at home and a redesigned theme to fit the outer appearence (not quite content with the outcome and so I will have to rework this).
A hacked controller that actually took me two attempts to get it right replaced good old iPac. Now I am struggling to find a working vgabios to get frozen cable to work properly with the newly build in LCD; at the moment I still use Frostys VGA bootdisc to get a proper picture.
Some time ago I started to vectorize the sideart which is quite a hillarious job, as it consist of some million stars, coloured with offset print pattern from the early eighties. Rebuilding those took me some time to figure, but I got quite close to the original.
In short: the baby is back, alive and kicking, but needs some makeup and optomization.
Nice to see another Zaccaria cab. My own Mame cab is based on a Zaccaria Phoenix cabinet which I fell in love with because of the great size panel and glass bezel art. It’s playable but not quite finished yet.
Kind regards
StiGGy
They are really nice, although inside it is kind of hard to fit in some proper tv set. I still use the old Hantarex, but that has had it best days and should be replaced. The Phoenix cab is still a friends garage, as I don’t have the space for it.