Section 3
 Fit some hardware and power it up.

A lot of home-made MAME cabinets I have seen have the computer still in a conventional PC case sitting in the bottom of the unit.  Pfffft!  I didn't want any of that.  I made a custom designed tray to hold the motherboard, power supply and hard drive, and made holes in the centre section panel for the floppy disk and CD ROM to sit in so I could get to them via the front door.

The computer in this picture is a Celeron 533 Slot 1 system, and the hard drive is four gigabytes.		Here's another shot of it with all the leads connected.

A view of the back with computer wired up and TV in position.		Front view, now with a cut-out so we can see the TV screen.  I feel this aspect will aid game play somewhat.

It suddenly looked much better after I painted the bezel.	Painting the coin door helped cosmetically too.	And both together they look great.

Here's a close up of the coin mechanism.  I took it out of my fruit machine before I sold it on ebay.		The first game I played when I powered up the system was Galaxian.

My little angel, Molly tried the game out for me.  She said it was good until....		...she got blowed up.