Could you guys help me out? I have a community service project.

[Zaitsevs]

So, I'm a senior in highschool. I'm a student and network administrator at a vocational school in my area, tons of areas come to the same school. Tons of different cities and what not; I digress. There is this program there for mentally handicapped students and people. The idea is to build one computer with windows 2000 or XP, we will then install free or abandonware games. We will then ghost that machine onto 6 or seven other machines. to build an arcade.

We will essentially make an arcade for these mentally handicapped people for them to play their games, and for something to do. Could you guys help me out with some ideas? I'd really appreciate it.


cliffs

1. I work at a vocational school
2. mentally handicapped students also attend this school
3. one of our projects/ ideas is to build an arcade for them to play on
4. I need help and ideas
5. Thanks.


edit: We have a volume license key for the operating systems since we are a school and a certified microsoft academy. We don't have to worry about that, the computers we are using were donated from the government. We are using old gateway machines with 600MHZ pent 3's, 128 meg of ram, 10 gig hard drives.


they will be fine for what we are going to do. I was just asking for some ideas and a little help.

 

[ChooChooChooseMe]

Yes?

 

[MegaVovaN]

Originally posted by: ChooChooChooseMe
Yes?

spam? getting your post count up with useless posts. grr.


OP:
Try MAME.
http://www.mame.net/
+ games: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=MAME+Roms&btnG=Search

Then DOSBox + some frontends:
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe...=result&cd=1&q=dosbox+frontend&spell=1
Finally, get abandon ware PC games from sites in this list:
http://www.abandonwarering.com/?Page=Listing

All of this is legal.

EDIT: added MAME roms (games)

 

[thehstrybean]

More details required. Specs of the machine, ect...You said "build one computer"...ghosting (if I recall correctly), can only work when the specs of the machines are exactly the same (I've always doen it where they were, so it might not be the case)...can you make them all the same?

 

[doze]

For the money spent on a XP/2K OS for each machine you can buy a gamecube and game. Or you can get old working PS1 or super nintendos and do it for practically free if you have TV's

 

[MegaVovaN]

Originally posted by: doze
For the money spent on a XP/2K OS for each machine you can buy a gamecube and game. Or you can get old working PS1 or super nintendos and do it for practically free if you have TV's

I think he is going to install school OSes, and computers will stay in school. So what he really asks is what software/emulators/games to install.

 

[Zaitsevs]

edit

 

[MegaVovaN]

These machines are purrfect for abandonware PC games. However, forget DOSBox. It is made to emulate slow computer on fast machine (otherwise old games might not start or will run way too fast).
Install abandonware games directly on them. OS - preferably Windows 98 - because many old games are not compatible with WinXP/2000.

 

[doze]

Since you already have the hardware I recommend games that can be played with gamepads or joysticks and with 2 players. Racing, fighting, and sports games come into mind.

 

[altonb1]

This thread is just begging for rude humor, but I'll refrain.

I thought MAME was only legal if you actually OWNED the games being emulated?

In any case, you may want to look for some games at Shockwave, Nick.com, etc. Look for games that can be downloaded and played and not the games played online.