Re: Asteroids with no video

>> I'll give you an empty Asteroids cabinet if you will just remove the
innards from that abomination

Yea, I thought the 80s Ops converted vector gams to raster ones, not the
other way around :-)

-=Mark=-

Kirby G wrote:

>Dude, I'll give you an empty Asteroids cabinet if you will just remove the
>innards from that abomination. What is that, a Bump n' Jump or Journey
>conversion?
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Sir Poonga" <sirpoonga@hotmail.com>
>To: <vectorlist@vectorlist.org>
>Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 10:31 AM
>Subject: VECTOR: Asteroids with no video
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>>Hello all. I've been researching this over the last several weeks, I
>>finally found this place :) I picked up an asteroids game for free :)
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>Just
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>>no video, everything else seems to work.
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>>It's a WG 19V2000 monitor.
>>The problem is the F100 fuse blows right away when the monitor is powered
>>up.
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>>I've been asking around and apparently this is a common problem with the
>>19V2000? And that I'd need a rebuild kit. Looks up prices, bought the
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>kit
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>>and a new big blue form Bob Roberts. Even if this doesn't fix the
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>problem
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>>it is for the good :) I also hear it might be a bad HV diode??
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>>Either way this requires dicharging the monitor which is something I don't
>>want to do on my own. So I am thinking about calling a local tv repair
>>place. Good idea?
>>What type of things should I ask? I know that the monitor needs to be
>>discharged slowly as to not blow the HV diode. A TV repair person would
>>have a good discharging tool, right?
>>Do you need to discharge with the chassis pcb still plugged into the HV
>>circuit and such?
>>I hope the TV repair person would put in the 4 caps of the rebuild kit
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>that
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>>go on the HV circuit. I would feel safer for myself then. I can handle
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>the
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>>rest.
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>>All I have done so far is take the monitor out of the cabinet and test to
>>make sure the voltages going to the monitor are within tolerances. So far
>>everything checks out.
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>>The other possibility is could something be wrong with the game PCB to
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>cause
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>>this problem?
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>>Pics
>>http://photobucket.com/albums/v472/SirPoonga/asteroids/
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>>Ultimately if I get this going I might try and find a robotron cocktail
>>cabinet or make one. I'd rather have a cocktail table as that is less
>>intrusive in an apartment. And since I don't have an original cabinet
>>anyway I wouldn't feel bad about getting rid of it.
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Received on Mon Jul 18 20:11:13 2005