I’m thinking more and more about what I want to do with my Arcade cabinet, seeing as the time is quickly approaching when I’ll be able to do something with it (ie, after the cruise is paid off, I might be able to sink some more cash into it) A while back, I came across a nice looking universal frontend that a guy wrote for his own project the SBox. It looks nice, but I think I’ve been thinking that I needed to make it nicer :) A while back, I’d been reading about some voice recognition stuff, and thought that it would be cool to have a voice controlled frontend. I’d also been playing around with Microsoft Agent. The other night, I put one and one together, and decided that I’d use MSAgent in combination with the sBox frontend, and do some voice recognition input type of thing for it.

I really don’t know how the MSAgent voice recognition works, but I think it shouldn’t be too hard to figure out. If I do, I’ll have a pretty cool frontend to call my own.

I got my arcade computer put together last night, and was playing around with it a bit - I couldn’t get it to boot to windows, though I didn’t try too hard either. I think I’ll spend some quality time with it this week, and see if I can’t get it set up, and ready for installation. I still don’t have a display device, and my control panel isn’t hooked up completely yet, but I’m not far off. I figure that I’ll have it ready to go by the time I can afford to get it a display. At that point, I’ll likely break the cabinet down and build a new one :)

Simpsons quote of the day: “This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, and yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. That’s democracy for you.” - Mr. Burns