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Power
A four way adapter provided power to the computer, TV, speakers and marquee light. The flex was cut midway and the plug end fed through a hole in the floor to a switched fused connector mounted beneath the coin door; the socket end was wired up to the connector and fed back inside the cabinet. The connector also allows connection of the earth leads (unlike a light switch). The PC is set up to boot up when the power is switched on so a single flick of the switch turns on the whole cabinet.
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Artwork
To design the control panel our goal was to make it look as good as possible with no artistic ability. A simple vector drawing program Mayura Draw (www.mayura.com) was used to design the graphics and printed directly onto three sheets of glossy inkjet photo paper. Held in place by the polystyrene this created a gap the thickness of the joystick metal screw-plate which was filled around the edge with spare polystyrene strips.
    
The most complex design was the marquee which began life on Word Art to get the comic ring with shadows lettering style with squashed up letters. This was done in yellow and then again in blue. For further editing the yellow and blue logos were cut and paste into Mayura Draw to make the top section coloured blue look as though it was behind the bottom of the ring in yellow. This made the shadows look unnatural so the front and back were resized and the shadows coloured to make it look as though there are two concentric rings. The marquee was completed with the addition of some lame clip-art and printed onto photo-paper. A mask was cut from black card to stop the black looking grey when illuminated from behind and the whole lot mounted between the polystyrene marquee holders.
The television was hidden with bezel cut from black card and held in place by the polystyrene sheet.
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