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Leaping from moderately mainstream to moderately obscure, this week’s episode of You Don’t Know Flack is dedicated to the CFFA 3000, a relatively new card that plugs into vintage Apple II computers and allows retro hobbyists to load virtual disk […]

Episode 122 of You Don’t Know Flack covers the often requested topic of MAME Cabinets. In this episode I talk a little bit about what MAME is and a lot about the parts of a MAME cabinet and how to build your own.

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[Links]

The MAME homepage

Get started with the KnoppixMAME Image

Links to lots of cabinet plans

Check out this rotating control panel

Here’s the Arcade Controls Wiki (Invaluable)

Hope that whatever you build stays off the CrapMAME Page

Don’t forgeta bout my book Invading Spaces: A Beginner’s Guide to Collecting Arcade Games, which contains an entire chapter dedicated to building MAME cabinets!

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Episode 122 of You Don’t Know Flack covers the often requested topic of MAME Cabinets. In this episode I talk a little bit about what MAME is and a lot about the parts of a MAME cabinet and how to […]

In Episode 121 of You Don’t Know Flack I talk about thrifting — this includes shopping at thrift stores, garage sales, antique malls and pawn shops. Throughout this episode I’ll tell you some of the best things I’ve found at these places along with some of the worst. I also talk a bit about what has replaced them (spoiler: online auctions).

[Links]

The Goodwill Auction Site: ShopGoodwill.com

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In Episode 121 of You Don’t Know Flack I talk about thrifting — this includes shopping at thrift stores, garage sales, antique malls and pawn shops. Throughout this episode I’ll tell you some of the best things I’ve found at […]

Episode 120 of You Don’t Know Flack is about radio scanners, those little devices that allow you to eavesdrop on all the little conversations floating around us. In this episode I talk about my experiences with scanners and some of the things you can listen to with scanners. I also talk a little bit about how you can now listen to these frequencies using your computer and/or smartphone!

[Links]

AFN.org’s collection of mobile scanner laws.

5-0 Radio Police Scanner for iOS.

You can listen to many scanners on the web.

Here’s Wikipedia’s entry on Number Stations. Creepy!

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Episode 120 of You Don’t Know Flack is about radio scanners, those little devices that allow you to eavesdrop on all the little conversations floating around us. In this episode I talk about my experiences with scanners and some of […]

Episode 119 is about Hohocon — specifically, Hohocon ’94, the last Hohocon (and the only one I attended).

[Links]

The Milwaukee 414’s (Wikipedia and in Enter Magazine

The Hohocon ’94 Invite

Review of Hohocon ’94 by Netta Gilboa

Review of Hohocon ’94 by Count Zero/cDc

Review of Hohocon ’94 by Phrack Magazine

A zip file of my scans from Hohocon

Pixel8/Peachy’s 8-bit Music Files

Robb Sherwin’s latest game, Cyberganked

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Episode 119 is about Hohocon — specifically, Hohocon ’94, the last Hohocon (and the only one I attended). [Links] The Milwaukee 414’s (Wikipedia and in Enter Magazine The Hohocon ’94 Invite Review of Hohocon ’94 by Netta Gilboa Review of […]

Episode 118 is about a new piece of hardware used to play old video and arcade games — the iCade. Yes, it was designed to work with Apple’s iPad, but did you know it works with Android tablets as well? In this episode of You Don’t Know Flack I give a complete review of the iCade, including a list of several games that are compatible with the iCade including iMAME!

[Links]

The No Quarter Podcast.

Ion’s list of iCade compatible games.

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