Long shot, but I'm looking for a socket A (socket 462) motherboard with an AGP slot for my MAME cabinet. A friend gave me an Athlon XP 2500+ processor that he didn't need, and I'm trying to rebuild my MAME cabinet with a budget of almost nothing, scrounging from here and there. If anyone has one laying around they'd be willing to part with for a reasonable price in order to restore the arcady goodness to my life, i'd appreciate it!

Suggestions on good cheap motherboards also appreciated since I have gone to the darkside of Macs and haven't followed PC land in years...

You can get an Abit VA-20 for about 50 dollars. It has AGP and three pci slots. If 50 is too much you can get off brand boards for less. (there is an MSI on on pricewatch for 25 dollars)

I don't have a mobo for you, but if you need arcade controls, I have several pieces I purchased back when I had enough space and thought I'd build a MAME cabinet. It never happened, and now I'm in a place where I can't fit the cabinet.

The parts I have are a Happ 8-way joystick, six (maybe eight, I forget) Happ buttons, an Oscar spinner, and a very nice 3" trackball (I forget the manufacturer but you'll probably recognize it if you built a cab before.) I also have four Microsoft Sidewinder joysticks I was going to use to interface the controls.

If you need any of the above, PM me and I'll send some pictures. None of the items have been used, except one of the Sidewinders was taken apart for testing out the controls.

For this application and the price range I don't think brand really matters.

Hmmm... Spinner... Buttons... Interesting... Especially given I have the remains of an old Tempest control panel that I harvested some of this stuff from a while ago, and I know that I have a real Tempest spinner and some random leaf switch buttons in my desk at home, gathering dust...

The buttons should be useable directly, but you would likely need to interface the spinner somehow.

PM me if you are interested.

I have a Chaintech board here. I don't know why it's just sitting around, so it could be not working or something. But, if you PM me your address it's yours.

Just based on what I can see, it seems to be this board. There is no obvious model number printed on the board.

Whoa, sweet. PMing you!