Interface / Keyboard  

** Updated to I-PAC4 in 2004

For interfacing the controls with the computer I had a number of options.  I could have chosen to hack apart a keyboard or game pad and solder the wires of my buttons to it.  But this option seemed too much of a hassle and there would be 'ghosting' problems.   I decided to go with a keyboard encoder.  There are several keyboard encoders out there.  The I-PAC.  seemed to have the easiest to hook-up and it was also the cheapest. 
    It simply connects to your Keyboard port of your mother board. You then simply (very simply) connect the arcade controls to the I-PAC.