The old one was boring. And I’ve upgraded the WordPress version to current. Still trying to figure how to do certain things, like pictures, but things look better.
Yearly Archives: 2008
34 posts
Since I’m quickly running out of nice (non-snow) days here, I decided to work on this beastie today. Basically I pretty much stripped the beastie completely down to nothing. Busted out the sander and sanded the heck out of the bottom of the cab. At some point in it’s existence […]
As you can see, I’ve changed the site. I used to use b2, but since it’s full of vulnerabilities (people keep adding Spam comments and it’s killing my database) I’ve changed to using WordPress. I wish I could have imported the database, but there wasn’t a way that I could […]
The Mini was one of the games I had on my line-up for Halloween. It was working with no problems. Then I moved it… …and now it boots to garbage again. And worse than before.
Years ago I bought a 2 1/4″ trackball on eBay for a pittance. I’d forgotten all about it, only finding it a couple days ago in a box of other stuff. Glad I did; the original on this needs a serious rebuild as the bearings stick and the rollers are […]
I had to get creative with the control panel. Getting a new panel was too expensive on my shoestring budget. Since a lot of the “meat” of the panel was missing anyway, I decided to turn this to my advantage. An old operator trick is to use plexi/Lexan to mount […]
I finally broke down and bought some new ROMs from Matt Osborn. Replacing them brought up a nearly working game. Just some graphics glitches. I went to town with it today, touched up every solder joint on the A/R II and a bunch on the main board. Surprise! No more […]
Actually painted this beastie today. First I primed: Then the paint: The color might look familiar to some. It’s Sapphire Sparkle, which is the *OFFICIAL* color for the new Donkey Kong 2. I bought a gallon of primer and paint a few months back, and though I haven’t actually started […]
It occurs to me that I’ve never posted pictures of this one before. I want to sell it, so I cleaned it inside and out, rewired it to be *SAFE* (someone wired all the AC wiring to the isolation transformer) and changed the tube on the monitor back to the […]