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Originally Posted by Mr Pheer
I have an older Sony Vaio desktop, P4-1.6Ghz, 1 gig ram, and a geforce 3 card with s-video out
my intention is to turn this into a MAME arcade style machine
I've never used the tv-out on this thing, do i have to do something to activate it, or can i just hook it up and it will work?
anybody know?
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Better drop it into a garbage can and buy Raspberry Pi. A credit-card size computer for ~$30 is able to run Ubuntu and Debian. It can run Kodi media theater to play HD videos, IPTV channels etc. And course it can emulate all old arcades (including MAME of course), computers (Commodore 64, Atari, Spectrum, Amiga, IBM PC etc) and game consoles (NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, Dreamcast, PlayStation 1 and many-many others). Over 50 systems supported. Here you go:
RetroPie - Retro-gaming on the Raspberry Pi
You can connect it to your LCD panel via HDMI interface an use any wireless controllers like keyboards, mouses etc. You may even use your XBOX or PS game controller to play the games.
Also there are many DIY sets to make it look like a real arcade machine:
Raspberry Pi arcade machine - Google Search