β Scribed by St. Clair, John
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Content: Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgments. --
Introduction. --
Part I: Playing Your Games the Way They Are Meant to Be Played?with Arcade Controls. --
Chapter 1: Picking Your Path to Game-Playing Nirvana. --
Chapter 2: Building Your Arcade Cabinet. --
Part II: Designing and Building Your Dream Arcade Control Panel. --
Chapter 3: Pushing Your Buttons and the Joy of Joysticks. --
Chapter 4: Taking Your Game Out for a Spin?Spinners and Trackballs. --
Chapter 5: Arcade Controls for Power Gamers. --
Chapter 6: Building the Control Panel. --
Part III: Hooking Things Up Under the Hood?Time to Trick the Computer. --
Chapter 7: How It Works?Turning a Computer into the Brains of an Arcade Machine. --
Chapter 8: Using the Keyboard Connector for Arcade Controls. --
Chapter 9: Arcade Controls Using the Mouse Connector. --
Chapter 10: Miscellaneous Bits of Arcade Trickery. --
Part IV: Putting Together the Final Pieces. --
Chapter 11: Audio?Silence Isn?t Golden. --
Chapter 12: A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Tokens? --
Chapter 13: Installing the Computer. --
Chapter 14: Choosing and Loading Software. --
Chapter 15: Buttoning Up the Odds and Ends. --
Part V: Like the Concept but Not Sure You Have It in You? --
Chapter 16: Stuck? Frustrated? Out of Quarters? --
Chapter 17: Buying Your Way to Gaming Nirvana. --
Chapter 18: Online Places to Go. --
Appendix A: Where to Find Arcade Parts for Your Project. --
Appendix B: The Great Debate?Preserving Versus MAMEing the Past. --
Appendix C: What?s on the CD-ROM. --
Index. --
End-User License Agreement.
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