And this is my VR CS1000

[simon_m74]

This is my machine just after it arrived at the start of the year.

I stripped it, to clean off all the dust it have collected over the years in storage.

During the cleaning process, it developed a problem with the LCD screens in the Visette.

I have finally found the problem, and sourced replacment LCD`s ( with a higher resolution ! ), that require a composite video input.

I have added a power socket, so I can supply power to the new LCD`s and the CGA->Composite converter boards ( one is shown - the other is on its way ).

I hooked up an old CRT TV to the composite output from the converter board, and got a brilliant picture, although reversed, due to the use of mirrors in the visette.

Below are pictures of the strip down, the clean, the rebuild, and the repair work.

More pics to come in the technical soon, when I get back to repairing/rebuiding it.

Simon

 

[Stevros]

Cool, is this the one that was on eBay?

What games did it come with?

 

[simon_m74]

It was on Ebay, but I did a buy it now private outside of ebay.

The only game is Dactly Nightmare

I`m looking for more!

 

[simon_m74]

My son and his Girlfriend playing Dactyl Nightmare - head to head, at Snibston Discovery, when I took the machines there at Easter.

Also, I was in the local paper...

https://www.ukvac.com/forum/data/uploads/1500/8019634.zip

 

[Purity]

Very cool Simon. Thanks for sharing

 

[simon_m74]

no problem!

I am now torn between...

working on 2000 Stand up kit

or

1000 Sit Down kit..

suggestions ?

 

[ZuPoint]

cool machine.
is that the game where you walk around platforms and a giant bird flys about?
i played it to death on the east coast many years ago!
how rare are these now?

 

[Purity]

Did you ever get that VR machine from Scotland?

 

[simon_m74]

Thefro9,

Yep, your right! - I think that is is possible that my 2 machines could be the only working ones left in the UK?

If anyone knows otherwise - let me know!!!

As if there are more working ones - then lets arrange a 3 or 4 player game!

the one in Scotland....I didnt get. It would of cost more than my working machine cost me to retrieve it from all the way up north, plus, it was only an empty - incomplete shell - so after a lot of thought, I gave it a miss.

One of those machines on the photo is mine that I restored, and the other we ( I & RCM ) bought it from Alpha1, and I restored that one too!

 

[V8Griff]

Newbie here and I have mailed Simon but here's my SD1000.

I used to rent Virtuality systems for corporate entertainment and exhibitions in the '90s and early '00s so if you saw one at a party or an exhibition back there it may well have been me.

I still have my SU2000Duo as well but it's non-working as well at the moment

 

[vib_ribbon]

My son and his Girlfriend playing Dactyl Nightmare - head to head, at Snibston Discovery, when I took the machines there at Easter.

Also, I was in the local paper...

https://www.ukvac.com/forum/data/uploads/1500/8019634.zip

how ace does that look??

one day i'll be at an expo where you'd be exhibiting!

 

[JohnnyChaos]

that looks v cool. I played that setup against my brother at Games Master Live

 

[simon_m74]

All being well.... both VR`s will be at Revival in August.....

All being well that is

 

[IDCHAPPY]

Awesome work Simon