Coming my way - Star Wars upright :)

[Jase]

Yeah didn't happen, at least not today. I'll be in touch soon though

Whats up with the Tempest dude?

No problem at all, it's here when you can make it.

I can't remember how far I got with the Tempest, it's that long ago. Originally it had a black screen and played blind. After a while it ended up not booting up at all. I got one of the LV kits for the monitor, hoping it might bring it to life so I could at least see what the fault was. It didn't help. If I get the chance I'll power it up again this week and make notes of its current state.

 

[Equites]

<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Yeah didn't happen, at least not today. I'll be in touch soon though </span>

Whats up with the Tempest dude?

No problem at all, it's here when you can make it. 

I can't remember how far I got with the Tempest, it's that long ago. Originally it had a black screen and played blind. After a while it ended up not booting up at all. I got one of the LV kits for the monitor, hoping it might bring it to life so I could at least see what the fault was. It didn't help. If I get the chance I'll power it up again this week and make notes of its current state.

Maybe I could help you out here, I can repair PCBs and WG6100's.

 

[Jase]

Maybe I could help you out here, I can repair PCBs and WG6100's.

DUUUUUDE!!!! That would be AWESOME!

I'll see what it does this week deffo. Nice one!

 

[Russ J]

Welcome to the Starwars upright club Jase

so chuffed for you mate (is this the one you were telling me about when you were at mine ? the one from your mates ?)

 

[tronads]

£850 !!!!! You jammy so and so

 

[bbz149]

£850 !!!!! You jammy so and so

Yeah I know! it was on Greedbay and a m8 called me to say one had been listed and I hit Buy Now straight away

The machine was on the Isle of Man, but the seller also paid the shipping to get it off the Island

 

[Jase]

Welcome to the Starwars upright club Jase

so chuffed for you mate (is this the one you were telling me about when you were at mine ? the one from your mates ?)

It is indeed! I'm totally stoked about this, I love the game! Now I'll get a chance to hone my skills. Be a long long time before I'm at your level Mr Skywalker!

 

[DanP]

Woohoo! Excited about this! In 3 weeks I'll be in possession of a very nice, fully working original Atari Star Wars upright!!! Yesssssss!

Another plus to this (hopefully) is I can use the monitor to help diagnose my Tempest, which used to play blind, and now does nothing.

I can't wait!

Jase

Jase, take care using your nice SW monitor to test a faulty Tempest. A dodgy Tempest board can easily damage a nice working monitor (ask me how I know). You're best off testing the XY outputs on a oscilloscope before putting it anywhere near a working monitor.

Nice score on the SW btw

Dan

 

[Jase]

Jase, take care using your nice SW monitor to test a faulty Tempest. A dodgy Tempest board can easily damage a nice working monitor (ask me how I know). You're best off testing the XY outputs on a oscilloscope before putting it anywhere near a working monitor.

Nice score on the SW btw

Dan

Just the kind of advice I needed (which is why I mentioned it!)

Thanks for the heads up on that, I really don't need to kill a colour XY monitor!!

Jase

PS - please tell me how you know!

What happened? I'm interested, from a tech point of view.

Jase2014-02-10 11:26:07

 

[DanP]

I know because I did a similar thing. I bought some untested Tempest sets back when I was first collecting, tested them with the everything still plugged in and "let out the magic smoke" on a monitor. One of the XY lines was putting out way too much voltage/current and pop went the monitor.

 

[Jase]

Ok Dan, gotcha! I won't be doing that then. Thanks again for the advice dude!

 

[Russ J]

It is indeed! I'm totally stoked about this, I love the game! Now I'll get a chance to hone my skills. Be a long long time before I'm at your level Mr Skywalker!

Thats fantastic new Jase

You'll be knocking out multi million scores before you no it mate

ps...the Williams coin door plates have arrived from Andy's Arcade as well

Russ J2014-02-10 21:40:48

 

[Jase]

Nice one Russ - I'll have to arrange with you to meet up when things are less hectic round here! Work's keeping me tied up, and I have lots going on at home (having a revamp - part of which will be showcased on here

)

Jase