Vectrex fun
27/12/05 in: Repairs
Well,
after picking up a faulty Vectrex shortly after the recent Retro
Ball, and with the hideously boring xmas out of the way, today I
set about finally finishing up the fixes to this Vectrex to save it
from the scrap heap!
Asteroids
13/11/05 in: Repairs
Been
doing a LOT of Asteroids repairs this last week and while most of
them have been so involved I've not remembered to keep track of
what I've been doing, and some have not been on my own boards, I
fixed one this evening that had an interesting point of note (the
7404 at H10) so added it to the logs.
New links...
18/10/05 in: Website
Will be
adding a few banners to the menu on the left over the course of the
next few days. These are not sponsored links or anything, I don't
get anything from any clicks, they are just things that I'm either
involved in or have an interest in
First up is the Retro Ball. An event coming up on the first weekend in December. I will be there together with a whole bunch of people from the Jamma+ forums, and it looks like it should be a good weekend. Click on the banner to read up all about it and grab your tickets before they all sell...
First up is the Retro Ball. An event coming up on the first weekend in December. I will be there together with a whole bunch of people from the Jamma+ forums, and it looks like it should be a good weekend. Click on the banner to read up all about it and grab your tickets before they all sell...
Site problems - Resolved!
06/10/05 in: Website
Took a
lot of finding, but got there. Recently I was working on removing
all the div's because they didn't look right in all browsers. While
trying out a few different web development tools on my new mac mini
I accidentally put things live well before their time. Turns out
there was a spurious width property on one of the tables. Doh!
Never mind, all sorted now.
Also had problems with the alignment of any content that had tables embedded within tables so that took a bit of playing about with. Haven't tested it with anything other than Safari since it's getting late. Will try and check it all out in Firefox and IE tomorrow.
Also had problems with the alignment of any content that had tables embedded within tables so that took a bit of playing about with. Haven't tested it with anything other than Safari since it's getting late. Will try and check it all out in Firefox and IE tomorrow.
Site problems
06/10/05 in: Website
I just
spotted a whole bunch of layout problems with the site. I'll get
onto them ASAP, but I'm really busy with work right now. In the
meantime the site displays best with Firefox on Windows. Still not
perfect though. IE is worse. Safari on the Mac is about the best as
it's what I use mainly, but again, it's still not
perfect!
Mr Do!
Mr Do!
log added...
Also changed from the PC world to the Mac world and am doing quite a lot of internal work on the site to reflect this. I hope to be incorporating a blog / diary / call it what you will which will firstly allow me to maintain this home page better, and secondly will allow me to add a diary of my experiences with the switch to the Mac. Yes, I know, not arcade related, but hey, hopefully interesting none the less. In fact, may have a couple of non arcade related things coming up for the site sometime soon...
Also changed from the PC world to the Mac world and am doing quite a lot of internal work on the site to reflect this. I hope to be incorporating a blog / diary / call it what you will which will firstly allow me to maintain this home page better, and secondly will allow me to add a diary of my experiences with the switch to the Mac. Yes, I know, not arcade related, but hey, hopefully interesting none the less. In fact, may have a couple of non arcade related things coming up for the site sometime soon...
Galaxians
19/06/05 in: Repairs
Fixed
another galaxian pcb and added it to the logs. Will soon need to
add a section just for galaxian repairs!!
Coming soon: Some items for sale...
Coming soon: Some items for sale...
Rally X
03/06/05 in: Repairs
Repaired
another RallyX pcb last night and added a repair log entry for
it.
Repair logs
All the
useful repair logs are up for now (not as many as i'd thought). I
have more but they're not complete yet. I also have a bucket load
of notes on Tron board repairs but these need sorting through and
probably some of the boards fixing up first. I basically have lots
of MCR boards but none of them are mine and all are individual cpu,
vidgen or ssio boards and before i can really post much info up on
them i need to work through them and match them up as much as
possible. Anyone got any spare interconnects by any
chance??
Repair logs coming...
Over the
last few years I've been keeping a log of all the board repairs
I've done (well, some of them anyway) and I've finally decided to
put some of them up for all to view
They're all written up in a humerous and (hopefully) useful manner and not just of the form chip X was causing fault Y. Hopefully it will give you some insight into my thinking as well as just what the faults were and how they were cured. I also don't hide my mistakes either - so no rolling around the floor laughing or emailing me if you know better
Obviously if you know better on a repair log that says it's still unresolved then by all means feel free to get in touch with me!!
They're all written up in a humerous and (hopefully) useful manner and not just of the form chip X was causing fault Y. Hopefully it will give you some insight into my thinking as well as just what the faults were and how they were cured. I also don't hide my mistakes either - so no rolling around the floor laughing or emailing me if you know better
Obviously if you know better on a repair log that says it's still unresolved then by all means feel free to get in touch with me!!
