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 […]
Found a TV on the street a few months ago. Screen was the same size as the cocktail, so I thought I’d take a chance. It was a dead on match. Lucky me! Took me a few hours to get everything all converged correctly. But when I did I had […]
Replaced the bezel retainer after stripping it down and repainting it. Looks much better now. Sanded the insides and vacuumed. Board still doesn’t work, I tried some other things. James from RGVAC seems to think it’s something other than the ROMs, like a bad socket or something in the address […]
I was using the Defender cab to test out my newly assembled Stargate boards (which didn’t end up working, I suspect a RAM fault). I’d made an adapter to use 4164 RAM in place of the stock 4116. I’d bought a lot of 4164 RAM off a guy I found […]
Finally assembled a boardset, complete with metal mounting board. Tested it in my Defender. Didn’t come up. I suspect a RAM problem. Wish I could tell which one it was!
I had a flash of brilliance the other day. I’ve been putting off removing the rest of the vinyl because…well…it’s a heck of a lot of work. Not that I’m opposed to work, but the last time I removed vinyl I removed a whole lot of skin from my hands […]
The extent of the work that’s been done has been a tweak here and there. The monitor wouldn’t sync when I first started working on it, so I swapped it with a K4600 from one of the other games. It was perfect…for about ten seconds. Then it went all scrambled. […]