Space Invaders part 2 (DoL)

[davidbi]

It works but there is a hack needed for it to access the colour part of the board.

Andy.

Could you let me know the hack that is required please? Is the Braze available from any stockist in the UK?

Thank you

 

[Guests]

Nice work Andy,

Not sure about the 5.00am post though? You need to sort that out!

 

[andyman]

Hey, sometimes my head is awake and I can't force it to sleep, you know how it is

Cheers for the comments.

@davidbi, the hack was done by Dave2084, you would need to contact him directly and afaik the braze kit is not available over here

 

[Alpha1]

@davidbi

Contact P-man on here - I think he's away for a week or so but i'm sure he will respond when he's back. I think he can either sell you a kit or put a kit on your pcb for you.

 

[DanP]

Don't think anyone in the UK stocks them. Braze is very good at shipping though, very quick and well packed, totally trustworthy and you can pay using PayPal. I think Arcadeshop.com also stock his kits if you want to go to a bigger company. Shipping from them is also pretty darn quick.

Dan

 

[davidbi]

Thank you for all your help guys, I will contact the people you have mentioned. I hope to put some pictures of my restoration project up soon.

Thanks again

 

[andyman]

Like buses, no part 2's at all, then 3 one after the other

 

[andyman]

The arcade gods are against me today, I have a working boardset and
now the monitor has died. Obviously didn't take to being powered up
again after 29 years

Coin
door back together and in place, as is coinbox, just waiting loooong
time for lizardlick, pics tomorrow as I'm knackered Zzzzzzzzz

 

[Muerto]

Excellent progress!
A shame about the monitor, will a cap kit do the trick?

 

[andyman]

Gutted to say the least, at 2.20am I was considering replacing the monitor until I looked at the time. Going out to do that soon but will check out the broken one wen I pull it, its a Toei CM-A20 and I've never seen one but its totally dead, one minute working fine next minute nothing, no smoke, no pop.

 

[karlcdoe]

I suspect many of the DoL games might respond like this after 29 years. When I do get delivery of mine and see what's actually inside I was thinking of leaving it in a semi warm place for a good few days and then running a fan heater inside the cab for a while and getting the inside pretty toasty. Then I figure I'll remove the chassis and do some bench tests before power up (which in your cae probably would all have been fine). Anyone have a different strategy?

 

[andyman]

Spent two days in 22 degree heat, was nice and warm. Just plug the fecker in

 

[guddler]

I'm with Andy on this one. Just do a cursory check for old 10p's shorting things out and the like, then plug the fecker in. But then I'm of the opinion, if it breaks, so what - I'll fix it. I don't need to rely on sending things off to others or anything like that.

 

[karlcdoe]

But then I'm of the opinion, if it breaks, so what - I'll fix it. I don't need to rely on sending things off to others or anything like that.

I don't want to hijack this resto thread so I'm happy to move this elsewhere but in the above scenario how about a duff regulator or bad HOT on a monitor that ultimatley is attached to an 'irreplacable' HV unit (which in my scenario we assume works) and worse still some tool put the wrong fuse in the monitor back in 1982. How do you get round the dead HV unit without some serious hacking or waiting for a repro to be manufactured....

 

[guddler]

Maybe I'm different to most. My opinion is one of "such is life, it's only an arcade machine", my life will continue (assuming the machine didn't kill me).

 

[Guests]

My life will continue (assuming the machine didn't kill me).

imagine how stupid you would feel if one killed you tonight.

 

[guddler]

imagine how stupid you would feel if one killed you tonight.

I'd feel pretty dead I should imagine

Tonight, I shall mostly be staying well away from all my cabs

 

[andyman]

Philosophical debates aside, looky here

Now fully operational and has been played again for the first time in a long time.

Next up, the original SI

Andy.

 

[DanP]

Nice work Andy, she looks a beaut now!

Dan

 

[Alpha1]

what was up with the monitor?