diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 31a67eead8c..c240db52147 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -2868,6 +2868,7 @@ src/mame/drivers/carrera.c svneol=native#text/plain
 src/mame/drivers/castle.c svneol=native#text/plain
 src/mame/drivers/caswin.c svneol=native#text/plain
 src/mame/drivers/cave.c svneol=native#text/plain
+src/mame/drivers/cavepc.c svneol=native#text/plain
 src/mame/drivers/cb2001.c svneol=native#text/plain
 src/mame/drivers/cball.c svneol=native#text/plain
 src/mame/drivers/cbasebal.c svneol=native#text/plain
diff --git a/src/mame/drivers/cavepc.c b/src/mame/drivers/cavepc.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e948989c0a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/mame/drivers/cavepc.c
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+/***************************************************************************
+
+    CAVE PC hardware
+	placeholder file for information
+
+***************************************************************************
+
+ Cave used a one-off PC platform for
+ 
+ Deathsmiles II (c)2009
+
+ It uses a ASUS M3A78-EM motherboard
+ http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M3A78EM/
+
+ fitted with
+ AMD Athlon 64 X2 5050e Brisbane 2.60GHz, 1024KB L2 Cache
+ 2048MB (2GB) 800MHz DDR 
+
+ and a custom JVS I/O board providing security etc.
+ 'CV2000XP Rev 2.0'
+
+ The game is contained on a
+ Transcend 2GB 300x UDMA Compact Flash Card
+ plugged into an adapter board
+ with 'Windows(r) Embedded Standard'
+
+ There don't appear to be any dedicated video / sound boards so it
+ presumably uses the onboard capabilities of the board
+ 'Integrated ATI Radeon(tm) HD 3200 GPU'
+ 'Realtek(r) ALC1200 8 -Channel High Definition Audio CODEC'
+
+ There should be at least 3 game revisions?
+
+ Pictures of the hardware can be seen at
+ http://ikotsu.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/deathsmiles-ii-pos-arcade-pc.html
+
+ The JVS board is said to be quite problematic, and the game will boot
+ to an error screen if it isn't functioning correctly.
+ http://forum.arcadeotaku.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=14850&start=60
+
+*/
+
diff --git a/src/mame/mame.mak b/src/mame/mame.mak
index e30aaac2b5d..d6f136a3ea9 100644
--- a/src/mame/mame.mak
+++ b/src/mame/mame.mak
@@ -1998,6 +1998,7 @@ $(MAMEOBJ)/misc.a: \
 	$(DRIVERS)/carrera.o \
 	$(DRIVERS)/castle.o \
 	$(DRIVERS)/cave.o $(VIDEO)/cave.o \
+	$(DRIVERS)/cavepc.o \
 	$(DRIVERS)/cb2001.o \
 	$(DRIVERS)/cdi.o $(VIDEO)/mcd212.o $(MACHINE)/cdi070.o $(MACHINE)/cdislave.o $(MACHINE)/cdicdic.o \
 	$(DRIVERS)/cesclass.o \