Zaccaria Invaders Freeplay

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). Read More...

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.
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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.
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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!!
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Moving house sucks!

Well, what can we say? The UK house purchase system just plain and simply doesn't work!! We've been trying to move for a while now. Compared to some people we know of our problems have been minimal too!

Read on for some fun...
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A new look!

Welcome to my new look website! This is a complete overhaul from the ground up so if you find anything that's not working as it looks like it should please use the contact form from the menu on the left to let me know. If you do so then please don't forget to tell me what operating system and browser you are using so I can investigate the issue and try to fix it.

There are a number of reasons why I've taken the time out to completely rework the site...
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A date with Ms Pacman

Been doing a huge amount of board repairs lately and on the whole I've been too busy with it to be able to document them and put them up on the website. This evening however I fixed a Ms PacMan board and figured I'd write it up while it was fresh on my mind! It's "Pacman 3" on the left.

Games galleries

Added pages for my current games. Just pictures for the moment, some text to follow. Also a few missing right now!