Picked up an Amiga 1000 with the nice composite/separate/RGB/RGBI monitor. Apparently belonged to the president of the London Ontario Amiga Club. Bunch of fliers included!
74XX Arcade Repair
@74xx.bsky.social
Arcade repair, retro gaming, vintage computing, synth-o-sizing!
#neogeo repair video! I probably shouldn't have attempted this one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cAY...
ACID killed this Neo Geo arcade board. Can I bring it back to life with TOOLS and KNOWLEDGE?
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Got all the pieces together to get this IBM 5160 up in color! Found this Commodore 1902A locally which does digital RGB, and bought an EGA card from eBay. This is Black Cauldron from Sierra, the "booter" version which doesn't need DOS, in glorious 4-color CGA. What EGA game should I try?
Ever play Chrono Cross on a Pentium II with bleem!? Well I wouldn't recommend it.
Latest arcade PCB repair video is up! Atari RoadBlasters! youtu.be/qwJY-CHzFKw
Atari deceived us about the CPU requirement for their System 1 Arcade Games? Let's fix RoadBlasters!
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Everyone has a plan until Big Box Game Boy Tetris shows up.
The Bard's Tale II cover looks like EA invented QR codes decades ago and only Nicolas Cage will notice it at exactly the right time to solve the case
Old School Gaming History@gaminghistory.bsky.social · last mo.The Bard's Tale II: The Destiny Knight (Commodore 64, 1986)
First person in 15 years to carry a CRT on a bike (it was curbside free day in my town). Last person to do it was probably stealing it.
Latest arcade PCB repair - full video! Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989), the four player masterpiece. My wife made me a turtle glove for the thumbnail (love you) youtu.be/4n8wIbG2jqA
This G.O.A.T. arcade game literally burned me. Let's fix Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!
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Ok MAYBE I'll buy animatronic Halloween decorations this year.
What sums up 2005 more than a Yahoo! branded DivX and Kodak PictureCD compatible DVD player with an analog VU meter for (digital) bitrate?
Back in May, I helped dump seven prototype game cartridges that represent some of the earliest steps toward home video games as we know them today. I've published my findings on a new Archive Annex video: meet the FRED III. youtu.be/180erQryZFw
FRED III: RCA's Original Prototype Game Console - Archive Annex 6
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This shirt at Canada's Wonderland looks like the menu for a PC Gamer demo disk in the 90s
Today's repair.. My own dang Centipede! The monitor chassis died they other day. One minute it was fine, the next minute, no high voltage. It was one of those cheapy AliExpress specials, so I just replaced it.
Recently got an old Pachinko machine and decided to try out GB Pachiokun which features a medieval court, spaceships, and normal-ass Pachinko parlors. Great tunes though.
The feeling of relief when you're outbid on a CRT from Japan you really, really didn't need
Speaking of FDS, my copy of Legend of Zelda is quite odd. It's a blue disk, with a generic label. But the case has a possibly-legit spine with "ファミコン通信" at the bottom, a legit sticker on the back, and a US style hand drawn cover on the front, which is glued on. Can't tell what's under it.
Listening to @jparish.bsky.social on Retronauts talking about the Famicom Disk System. Reminded me that I have a Roland MT-32 compatible synth (the MT-100) that has a QuickDisk drive. Very cool to see how Nintendo adapted them.
The menacing aura of a New Astro City that went to sleep in Tokyo and woke up near Toronto (as we all do from time to time).
The answer to the mystery marquee is... Flower! A vertical shooter (but on a horizontal monitor) by Komax, 1986.
Realized I had maybe one of the rarest arcade marquees around, and it's unused. The layer on the front was cemented on and I'm getting it off now with some water and heat. Can anyone guess what it is?
For some reason I was looking up the Beavis and Butthead point-and-click games and was surprised to find they weren't all made by the same dev. The Illusions Gaming Company might have had the most esoteric cross section of games I can think of:
Today's repair Super Sprint is a massive two board set and requires a second power supply for the video board. It's also a 24kHz game so I use the capture card to work on it.
One more repair to round out the evening. Konami's blades of steel. Bet you didn't know it was an arcade game? Well I'm counting on that for my next big video. This one had no sound due to a good ol' fashion bad Fujitsu logic chip. When we see the 'F' we say "Ffff..."
Today's repair - Rally X. This one had only basic blocky shapes and messed up color. The graphics ROM on the CPU board (go figure) was dead, no output. One PROM had one dead output giving weird colors. A good chance to use one of my FLAP adapters, which lets you use a cheap flash chip in its place.
