Atari Pole Position repairs

[phantom-menace]

Hi,

I'm looking to find someone who can repair an Atari Pole Position board.
Mark Haysman no longer does them and have tried Craig Walker at Giz10p
but no luck.
Any suggestions anyone greatly appreciated.

Paul

 

[DanP]

You may struggle. It's not just repairing the TTL that's the problem it's the large array of custom chips, weird CPU's (2 z8002's) and complicated architecture that this this entails. Surprised to hear Mark isn't doing them any more. Hope you find someone willing to take em on.

 

[patloz]

Hi,

I'm looking to find someone who can repair an Atari Pole Position board.
Mark Haysman no longer does them and have tried Craig Walker at Giz10p
but no luck.
Any suggestions anyone greatly appreciated.

Paul

Arcade Jason produced a plug in replacement PCB for the original Pole Position PCB called Pi Position, It runs a MAME version of Pole position and pole Position II which is the go to fix for a lot of people with PCB issues.

 

[DanP]

Good shout, this is probably the best solution - I had one as a backup when I still had a PP2 cab for when the real PCB broke. With these it's only a matter of time so having a hot swap modern board to drop in while you're repairing the real PCB is a good idea. I still have mine somewhere - but not the cab, should sell it really - I had vague ideas of doing something else with it that never really happened.

 

[chefsolid]

Any idea why Mark has stopped repairing them? he did a great job on mine about 12 months back it's a damn shame as he's excellent.

 

[phantom-menace]

Any idea why Mark has stopped repairing them? he did a great job on mine about 12 months back it's a damn shame as he's excellent.

I messaged him and his reply was he no longer does them

 

[phantom-menace]

Arcade Jason produced a plug in replacement PCB for the original Pole Position PCB called Pi Position, It runs a MAME version of Pole position and pole Position II which is the go to fix for a lot of people with PCB issues.

I will check this out as I listen to a lot of Arcade Jason YT vids

 

[phantom-menace]

Good shout, this is probably the best solution - I had one as a backup when I still had a PP2 cab for when the real PCB broke. With these it's only a matter of time so having a hot swap modern board to drop in while you're repairing the real PCB is a good idea. I still have mine somewhere - but not the cab, should sell it really - I had vague ideas of doing something else with it that never really happened.

Is it Pi position you stil have or the original PP2 board?

 

[patloz]

Any idea why Mark has stopped repairing them? he did a great job on mine about 12 months back it's a damn shame as he's excellent.

As Dan said its likely down to the failing of custom chips which he is struggling to get a reliable supplier, complicated dual layer PCB which is always carrying some battery acid damage and the likely hood it will go wrong again in a short timescale because they are the flakiest PCB known to man.

 

[chefsolid]

I messaged him and his reply was he no longer does them

Damn, keep me posted if you find someone else please. I have a Pi position and whilst it works, it's not been the best. Might just be the board I have though.

 

[DanP]

Is it Pi position you stil have or the original PP2 board?

Pi position

 

[phantom-menace]

Pi position

Would you be interested in selling it?

 

[DanP]

Would you be interested in selling it?

Maybe, I’m away on holiday at the moment. If you can wait a bit I’ll dig it out in early September.

 

[Mr20to5]

Hi,

I'm looking to find someone who can repair an Atari Pole Position board.
Mark Haysman no longer does them and have tried Craig Walker at Giz10p
but no luck.
Any suggestions anyone greatly appreciated.

Paul

Just out of interest, what is actually wrong with it? Totally dead or booting to an error screen?