Current Games update
26/04/09 in: Website
It’s
surprising how few decent picture of my games that I have! One day,
probably when the new home for the games gets built I’ll take some
decent pictures and write up a small piece on each. Where it came
from, any history etc. For now though, I’ve just added a few of the
missing games. Cosmic Alien, Monaco GP and the two pins. There’s
also a pachinko, Egret 2 and the Tron cocktail but I don’t seem to
have any pictures of those at all at the moment!
General updates
06/09/08 in: Website
Reworked PCB list has been added and a
new dedicated section for 9100 stuff Read
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Dig Dug Euro control panel overlays
A new machine came our way a few
months back. A Dig Dug upright in the Ireland built European style
cabinet. It needs some new artwork for the control panel so if
you’re interested in the project to create some repro artwork then
please click below to read the rest of this entry!
Oh, and a couple more gigs have been added to the list
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Oh, and a couple more gigs have been added to the list
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More...Cab changes
27/05/08 in: Website
The Aero
city is now sold so it moves to the "Past games" section, although
it is strictly speaking still here awaiting collection. Taking it's
place is a nice Taito Egret 2 so I will probably add some pictures
of that some time soon. In fact, the machines are all a bit out of
date. Cosmic Alien has been missing from the current games section
all along for some reason, plus there's also a Woody Woodpecker
pachinko to add as well. Maybe I'll get some time soon to bring
things up to date.
Zaccaria Invaders Freeplay
11/05/08 in: Website
A new
page has been added with a software modification to add a freeplay
mode to the Zaccaria version of Space Invaders (called "The
Invaders"). This machine was prolific throughout the UK and Europe
around 1980 and well beyond. The page has been added to the "Misc
Stuff" section of the site.
9100 Adapter update
Okay, as
promised, v1.1 of the 9100 keyboard adapter is here. Quite a lot
has changed in this version so please read through the project page
thoroughly. New in this version is a new USA keyboard layout,
circuit compatibility with in-circuit programming and debugging
and, in order to facilitate this, the PIC has changed (although I
have maintained circuit compatibility with the old one).
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9100 Keyboard adapter progress
v1.1 is
on the way...
Just for anyone that's keeping an eye out for this, the source code has been recovered / rebuilt and I now have a US key map as well. I've also modified the circuit so the reset line from the 9100 is no longer directly connected to the /MCLR line of the 16F84A. Read More...
Just for anyone that's keeping an eye out for this, the source code has been recovered / rebuilt and I now have a US key map as well. I've also modified the circuit so the reset line from the 9100 is no longer directly connected to the /MCLR line of the 16F84A. Read More...
Fluke 9100 Keyboard Adapter
After
months of inactivity I'm back with an interesting little project
for anyone that owns a Fluke 9100 digital test system. I was
recently able to get one of these from the US but as with so many
of them, although it came with the video card (many don't) there
was no sign of it's long lost programmers keyboard. Not to be put
off, I set about making an adapter to allow me to use a standard PC
keyboard with a 9100 to PS2 interface. Check out all the details in
the projects section.
Photo section
A new
section has been added to the website on the left - photos.
Read on to find out why. Read More...
Read on to find out why. Read More...
Computers, games, apples, and big cats...
Okay, so
what exactly have I been doing lately if all the arcade stuff is
packed away? Well, this has been going on for a few months now and
to start off with I found myself actually watching the TV,
something I don't normally do too much of. Stargate Atlantis had
started back up, as had A Town Called Eureka. One afternoon we
stumbled across a catch up weekend of Heroes entirely by accident
out of boredom and that quickly got added to the list, but there's
only so much TV that someone who doesn't normally watch it can
take!
Bring it on Apple!! Read More...
Bring it on Apple!! Read More...