Website
Cab changes
27/05/08
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 In fact, the machines are all a bit out of
date.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
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
09/03/08
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
05/03/08
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
28/02/08
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
08/11/07
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...
08/11/07
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...
Moving house sucks!
07/11/07
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... Read More...
Read on for some fun... Read More...
A new look!
28/08/07
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... Read More...
There are a number of reasons why I've taken the time out to completely rework the site... Read More...
Games galleries
08/04/07
Added
pages for my current games. Just pictures for the moment, some text
to follow. Also a few missing right now!
PCB List
23/04/06
Added a
PCB list to the misc section of the site. I've never really been
one to list what i've got and what i haven't but it does make sense
to have a list i can point people to in the event of trying to
arrange a trade. PLEASE NOTE: Just because something is listed,
doesn't mean it's available for sale or trade. That said,
everything has a price. However, if i don't really want to sell or
trade something then expect that price to be way, way, WAY over the
market value 
New links...
18/10/05
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
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
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!
Repair logs
02/06/05
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...
01/06/05
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!!
