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Well I'm more into software making, as in I make actual games (yes I really do, at least I'm not infringing any law by shipping them on a machine if I ever do...) and the minimal OS to run them on a given machine too, I also made a front end / game launcher recently, for mame/mednafen/dosbox, so I have a unified interface for radically different game systems and more eventually, such as movies and anything that is read only, such as my own apps, I also recompiled dosbox for my needs, stuffs like that

And yeah the hardware, I've been pondering it a lot recently. And that's going to be raspi based I believe, because that's just enough and it's dead silent, and it's likely going to be what's called a "bar top"/"table top" arcade type of machine, not necessarily as big as this one though, but that's the idea https://pic8.co/sh/HoVb9U.jpg

It's probably going to be one player joystick interface, half the size of this one, or rather 1/3. Something cute, like that https://pic8.co/sh/rUt7XY.jpeg

Min bar top/table top, in a nutshell, because yeah, a full blown arcade cabinet takes a lot of place

Ultimately that's what I aim for, some sort of modern day version of the jukebox I guess