What Mame is OMG using?

[patrick]

Creatorspace has started a MAME project. What kind of software installation is running at OMG?

[Kevin Fusselman]

It's pi mame, I just downloaded the image and made a few changes to get it to autostart the way I wanted...

On Sun, Mar 29, 2015, 11:32 patrick <patrick...@gmail.com> wrote:

Creatorspace has started a MAME project. What kind of software installation is running at OMG?

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[Oran Belgrave]

What is the hardware is it running on? I'm assuming a pi:)

[Kevin Fusselman]

Yes, an older Pi model B... We have a 7-port USB hub inside for accessories like a flash drive (Games are stored separately, so they can be easily swapped), WIFI dongle, keyboard dongle, iPAC (https://www.ultimarc.com/ipac.html) and a few extensions for external USB ports.

For anyone at the space looking at ours, we did some... unorthodox USB wiring (which hasn't bitten us yet)... We have a 5v-2a switch mode power supply powering the hub, which is connected to the Pi twice (once between a hub Output and  the power input Micro port, and again between one of the USB ports on the Pi and the hub upstream port). Since the hub is in self-power mode (meaning that the hub's internal electronics are powered by the supply, and not the host USB port), no 5v loop exists.