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<title>Guddler&#x27;s RSS Feed</title><link>http://www.guddler.co.uk/index.php</link><description>Gudd&#x27;s Hot News&#x21;</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:creator>admin@guddler.co.uk</dc:creator><dc:rights>Copyright 2007 Martin White</dc:rights><dc:date>2010-09-06T21:05:41+01:00</dc:date><admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://www.realmacsoftware.com/" />
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<lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:09:21 +0100</lastBuildDate><item><title>Cab sold</title><dc:creator>admin@guddler.co.uk</dc:creator><category>Website</category><dc:date>2010-09-06T21:05:41+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.guddler.co.uk/index_files/cfdcb57c5db9433e389e69e84cbb17f5-38.php#unique-entry-id-38</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.guddler.co.uk/index_files/cfdcb57c5db9433e389e69e84cbb17f5-38.php#unique-entry-id-38</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Just a minor update.   The Egret 2 is now sold, gone to a new home and moved to the &ldquo;past games&rdquo; category accordingly.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Gig updates</title><dc:creator>admin@guddler.co.uk</dc:creator><category>Website</category><dc:date>2010-05-08T16:24:04+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.guddler.co.uk/index_files/d94be44a587bf965a3bb6243190031bf-37.php#unique-entry-id-37</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.guddler.co.uk/index_files/d94be44a587bf965a3bb6243190031bf-37.php#unique-entry-id-37</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Other than that, not much arcade related been going on lately but added a new gig to the gig list today and spotted a bunch of changes.   I think I must have found a load of ticket stubs a few years back when we moved, so here&rsquo;s the updates:


...	&bull;	Updated: Manics, 31/12/99 - found ticket stub so removed comment.


	&bull;	Updated: Alice Cooper, 20/7/00 - found ticket stub so removed comment.


	&bull;	Updated: W.A.S.P., Inside The Electric Circus - found full date (15/5/89).


...	&bull;	Updated: Alice Cooper, 17/11/05 - found ticket stub so removed comment.


	&bull;	Updated: W.A.S.P., 20/6/99 - corrected tour name (Helldorado).


	&bull;	Updated: W.A.S.P., 28/5/97 - Added tour name (K.F.D.).


...	&bull;	Updated: Manic Street Preachers - found date and tour name (3/12/02 - Forever Delayed, Greatest Hits)


...Feelgood - found a site that helped me to narrow it down to 1 of 2 dates.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Status update</title><dc:creator>admin@guddler.co.uk</dc:creator><category>Website</category><dc:date>2009-10-16T00:57:10+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.guddler.co.uk/index_files/fc9c1994e7c9ed8bd5b895295626c78c-36.php#unique-entry-id-36</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.guddler.co.uk/index_files/fc9c1994e7c9ed8bd5b895295626c78c-36.php#unique-entry-id-36</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[After 2 years of more or less complete inactivity on the games front, a new games room has been built and the games should be arriving home this weekend (fingers crossed).   Watch this space.   Pictures of building the new games room in the new house plus each machine will be photo&rsquo;d to replace some of the poor pics that are up at the moment.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Current Games update</title><dc:creator>admin@guddler.co.uk</dc:creator><category>Website</category><dc:date>2009-04-26T13:49:54+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.guddler.co.uk/index_files/9a12a54606b5dd1aedf20ff828bba67e-35.php#unique-entry-id-35</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.guddler.co.uk/index_files/9a12a54606b5dd1aedf20ff828bba67e-35.php#unique-entry-id-35</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[It&rsquo;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&rsquo;ll take some decent pictures and write up a small piece on each.   Where it came from, any history etc.   For now though, I&rsquo;ve just added a few of the missing games.   Cosmic Alien, Monaco GP and the two pins.   There&rsquo;s also a pachinko, Egret 2 and the Tron cocktail but I don&rsquo;t seem to have any pictures of those at all at the moment!]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>General updates</title><dc:creator>admin@guddler.co.uk</dc:creator><category>Website</category><dc:date>2008-09-06T22:58:29+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.guddler.co.uk/index_files/859b73934447a576d9c741b67d5b234f-34.php#unique-entry-id-34</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.guddler.co.uk/index_files/859b73934447a576d9c741b67d5b234f-34.php#unique-entry-id-34</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The PCB list has been reworked as before it was a very primitive static page.   I&rsquo;ve actually resurrected the format that I had on the first incarnation of this web site back in about 2001 as I always did like that.   Thankfully I still had the PHP code on an old backup and the few images that I had lost were easily found in the &ldquo;way back when machine&rdquo;!


Whether this will lead to a list that gets kept more up to date or not?   Well, I&rsquo;m sceptical but you never know.


I&rsquo;ve also separated the Fluke 9100 keyboard adapter out into its own section as I have other 9100 stuff coming at some point too.   I&rsquo;ve run out of time for today though so actually adding the other content will have to wait for another day]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Dig Dug Euro control panel overlays</title><dc:creator>admin@guddler.co.uk</dc:creator><category>Projects</category><category>Website</category><dc:date>2008-09-02T11:22:18+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.guddler.co.uk/index_files/68d585bb5ad1df606b1a12822061ffb7-33.php#unique-entry-id-33</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.guddler.co.uk/index_files/68d585bb5ad1df606b1a12822061ffb7-33.php#unique-entry-id-33</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The machine currently lives at a friends place as we still haven&rsquo;t been able to organise anywhere to put our machines in the new house yet (don&rsquo;t talk to me about builders having no work! 

...Anyway, I&rsquo;ll get a page put up with some pictures of the machine and all the rest of it when I next remember to take my camera down there but in summary, it needs new woodgrain for the sides, new black laminate for the front, a bit of wood restoration along the bottom and a new control panel overlay as parts are missing.


As repro overlays are only available for the US version of the game, and they don&rsquo;t fit properly, I&rsquo;m going to look into producing some.   To do this I&rsquo;ll need to clean up what&rsquo;s there of mine (about 90% of it is intact, including all the instructions), scan it and produce artwork files for a printer.   Then, depending on demand I&rsquo;ll have to see how I can get them printed up. 

...At least months, as I&rsquo;m very busy and have not done this kind of thing before so don&rsquo;t expect anything too quickly, however, if you have one of these machines and would be interested in a good quality replacement overlay for your machine then could you please register your interest by using the feedback form on the left.   Note that there&rsquo;s absolutely no commitment involved and at this stage I have no idea what they&rsquo;re likely to cost.   I just need to know if anyone else is remotely interested, as to how viable certain printing methods may be. ...  If I can&rsquo;t do good quality then I&rsquo;ll not bother at all.   I like my machines to be good quality so there&rsquo;ll certainly be no home made inkjet prints!]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Cab changes</title><dc:creator>admin@guddler.co.uk</dc:creator><category>Website</category><dc:date>2008-05-27T01:48:17+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.guddler.co.uk/index_files/911035199250f4ee714dede12bf9e76d-32.php#unique-entry-id-32</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.guddler.co.uk/index_files/911035199250f4ee714dede12bf9e76d-32.php#unique-entry-id-32</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[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.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Zaccaria Invaders Freeplay</title><dc:creator>admin@guddler.co.uk</dc:creator><category>Website</category><dc:date>2008-05-11T02:19:50+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.guddler.co.uk/index_files/7728a724ebfcf97d8154af0867225855-31.php#unique-entry-id-31</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.guddler.co.uk/index_files/7728a724ebfcf97d8154af0867225855-31.php#unique-entry-id-31</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[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.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>9100 Adapter update</title><dc:creator>admin@guddler.co.uk</dc:creator><category>Website</category><category>Projects</category><dc:date>2008-03-09T23:22:21+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.guddler.co.uk/index_files/a72569c3dce0f4e68374b88b96fadf1c-30.php#unique-entry-id-30</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.guddler.co.uk/index_files/a72569c3dce0f4e68374b88b96fadf1c-30.php#unique-entry-id-30</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[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).


Available for download this time round is also the source code.   If you are happy with the new 16F627A MCU then it is not necessary to download the source as the hex files were compiled for that MCU however, if you wish to go with the old chip because you're not interested in programming or debugging the code then download the source and follow my instructions in the updated "circuit" section of the project.   The source contains project files for MPLAB IDE incidentally which can be freely downloaded from Microchip's website.


The code is actually still embarrassingly hacky so don't scrutinise it too much.   I have done some code relocating though to help with memory organisation (all these hacks take up space you know!!)   and so I'm starting to get to grips with this properly rather than just keep hacking it to get extra keys put in all the time.   Hopefully before very long I'll have something together that's actually half decent! ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>9100 Keyboard adapter progress</title><dc:creator>admin@guddler.co.uk</dc:creator><category>Website</category><category>Projects</category><dc:date>2008-03-05T01:00:39+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.guddler.co.uk/index_files/fe0c211a363f728624aef42ef1737434-29.php#unique-entry-id-29</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.guddler.co.uk/index_files/fe0c211a363f728624aef42ef1737434-29.php#unique-entry-id-29</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[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.   For day to day use this was not a problem but if anyone were to be a bit more ambitious and rig up an in-circuit programmer or debugger then the consequences could have been severe as anything up to 13v would have gone down the 9100's reset line!


All I need now is the time to update the projects section accordingly.


v1.1 contains a bug on the US key map that causes the adapter to reset.   It's on a key that is rarely used so in practical terms, it's not a show stopper.   That will hopefully be fixed in v1.2, but there will be a delay delivering v1.2 as I have an ICD2 in-circuit debugger on order (hence fixing the reset line above) and I need to wait for that to turn up before I can get much further with this.   In all likelihood, I will then release the source, and that will be the last update until v2 comes along. v2 will likely be a complete re-write from the ground up, likely using a C compiler and also likely using a different PIC model that supports in-circuit debugging since I will be having to jump through a few hoops to get v1.1 debugged on the current PIC.


Oh, and while all this is going on, we've finally moved house and I'm starting to get all my project stuff set back up again. ]]></content:encoded></item></channel>
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