I've Finally gotten a chance to make a MAME cabinet, so I'm going to take it! For thoughs that dont know, MAME stands for Multi Arcade Machine Emulator. So to paint a picture for you, it's an arcade machine, that is driven by a PC.

This is not a new idea, as the idea has been around since (I'm guessing) the late 90's - early 2000's. They mainly appeal to people who grow up with them, instead of gaming consoles (Megadrive, SNES, etc..).

You can buy pre-cut kits in my area but I wanted to make it from scratch, my own way. Of course if you Google MAME cabinets, you'll see some with added extra's, and a few different standards: upright, cocktail, thin (suitable for LCD's), etc.

It's been a while since I have added anything to this website because I've been very busy, BUT now I'm settled, and have a few write-ups to catchup on;

LinuxMCE

MAME Cabinet

Jukebox (in the planning)

etc...

OK, here's the problem; 5.1 Surround on the Linux box (media center) and no speakers on the XP box... There only a few meters apart and I've already gotten enough cables lying around. Can all audio from the XP box be routed to the speakers on the Linux box??!

The answer is YES!! Read more and find out the methods I tried, and what failed.

The weekend brought 2 new toys and completed a long overdue Linux project.

Toys: Logitech Harmony 525, 14" Touchscreen LCD POS (point of sale)

Project: XBMC on Ubuntu (Hardy).

As stated before, the N95 comes with a builtin SIP client for voip phone calls. So we add this and near free voip calls and we have an excellent cordless phone with heaps of features.

[Haxordbox.com] Now has a forum open and online: Forum I've had forums in the past but they'd always ended up turning into SPAM central.

With the new forum, you may have noticed a slightly new look to the website.

Thanks again to the huge N95 following, I've found a few interesting key combinations and files that I thought might be interesting; For example booting phone in safe-mode.

The N95 has a huge application development community, and thanks to the open source platform of Symbian, it's relativly easy to get the documents or white papers you need to write your programs.

In this article I'll discuss applications that have either been ported from other platforms, or have been written for the phone that you'd not usually require or think of having installed on a phone.

I've been very lucky to have purchased an Nokia N95 (after much research), and would recommend it to anyone wishing to improve their 'Nerd' status.

After taking it home and fiddling with it, I realised 2 additional features that dont get mentioned on any of the brochures; It has accelerometers, and a built in VOIP (SIP) client.

With all the plus's there is a very big down fall... Battery life is very short when used for anything other than making simple phone calls or txt messaging.

I found an image of a project that I'd done but not published yet. After researching alot of websites I was able to convert the slow serial cable into a fast USB cable.