VpinMAME works in conjuction with a program called Visual Pinball. VpinMAME emulates the electronic gubbins that runs the table, Visual Pinball simulates the table itself.
To run a game, youll need to install and set them both up first. Once youve done that, get both the ROMs and the table file for the pin you want to play and put all the stuff in the appriate places. Once youve done that, open Visual Pinball and load the the table file. Press the play button and it'll render the table, open VPM, load the Roms, give the usuall copywrite stuff and asks you to tell it the emulator options for that table. Actuall Table options have to be set from the machine test menu, just like in regular arcade emulators.
Youll also need to get the extra script files that VP uses to work with VPM and do some of the more specialised stuff. Dump them in the same directory as your table files.
All the goods can be found at
http://www.vpforums.com/vptables/tables.shtml . Since its hosted by vpforums youll need to get yourself an account at the message board before you can D/Led them.
And no, you can put it where you like as long as you set it up there.
[ 08 April 2002: Message edited by: RabidYak ]