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Case in point: I was at an arcade the other day where they had a Beat Saber VR setup. At one point they reset the machine, which displayed a Dell UEFI boot-up s
by bitwize 2y ago
Case in point: I was at an arcade the other day where they had a Beat Saber VR setup. At one point they reset the machine, which displayed a Dell UEFI boot-up splash, followed by some version of Windows 10 initializing, connecting to some arcade VPN, and then booting the game. At my wife's friend's ice cream shop which has its own attached arcade where a day pass gets you all the games you want, there are virtual pinball tables which I've seen boot similarly.
It is, indeed, just a PC with a custom software stack built on top of Windows. Some old-style arcade machines you see in the wild these days are really just PCs, or maybe ARM SBCs, running a library of ROMs via MAME, legally or illegally!