Missile Command repair log added

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!

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.

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...

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.

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! 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...

Pacman repair log added. Genuine Midway board this time.

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...

Repaired another RallyX pcb last night and added a repair log entry for it.

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??

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!!