Video gaming projects and general musings
I had a few tasks ahead to complete the restoration. The good news is everything went smoothly, with no sticking points. First up time to make a new cardboard bezel for the monitor. The old one is a bit scummy. I couldn’t find a piece of cardboard large enough at
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The early Space Invaders boardsets, including the Midway L shaped boards only output to a black and white monitor. The monitor that came with my cabinet is not working. I have not really done any troubleshooting for it, however the chassis was very dirty, and I decided my efforts would
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A few years ago I bought an Acorn Archimedes 3000. It had the power plug cut off, but was a reasonable price even if not working. Knowing that these machines often suffered from bad battery corrosion, I opened it up right away. I didn’t actually ever take a picture, but
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Time to apply new side art, and new control panel overlay! We are fortunate to have Noodleshirt in Australia to supply our arcade artwork needs. I wanted to get the artwork colour as close as practical to the original, so sent off the remainder of the artwork I removed so
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The Sinclair Spectrum is a computer that I never played or even saw in person back in the day. It was never sold in retail chain in Australia, so was only stocked by very few specialty stores. I read about games for the Spectrum in C+VG magazine, and was content
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I have a Neo Geo cabinet with a 4 slot motherboard, of which only 3 slots were working. Games inserted into slot 1 refused to boot. After the usual cleaning of pins, it still did not work. Thanks to great work from Arcade King over on Aussie Arcade this was
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This post has been a long time coming. My progress stalled for over a year after our house was flood damaged. Time to get back into this project! Time to tear the cabinet down & make some repairs to the woodwork. It is in very poor shape. Taking everything out
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Recently I was fortunate to get a lead from a mate about some old monitor that had ended up at a tip salvage. I was surprised to see it was an ex video wall monitor, a Hantarex MGG 28 EQ model. It was a bit beat up with scratches on
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The Megadrive is one of my favourite consoles. I bought one brand new when they came out, and still have my original boxed console. I have a modded PAL model with switches to switch between 50 HZ, 60 HZ, US, EU & JAP modes. However I have always wanted a
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The MSX2 FS-A1, HB-F1 & HB-F1 II computers use a power supply which is difficult to find or build due to the voltage it outputs and the connector it uses. If you do find one for sale online it usually commands a price equal to or more than the computer itself
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