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.
Monthly Archives: October 2008
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 […]