Hi all,
first of all sorry if i didn't post so often. I had not easy years but the light is there in the end of the cathodic tube 😂


Considering I miss you all and our mythological meetings I'm considering the possibility to organize an Italian arcade event in Milan. Possibly in July.
If you can partecipate I'll glad to make an arcade event. I know.we are older but I really miss eurocade atmosphere.
We have a bit of time, lmk
Cheers

Hi, I'm trying to restore a Speed Race CL-5 but speedometer sticker and shifter plate are missing. Could you help me with some pics or a repro? Thank you so much.

Hi, a friend of mine want to sell his working Monaco GP Mini. Do you have any idea of the Value of this game?

a couple of years ago I needed to make something in order to set old games in free play. In fact some games don't support free play mode and some others haven't attract mode if free play is set.
I used an Arduino to do that. Pressing START1 arduino first of all inserts a coin and then press START1. THe same for START2, inserting 2 coins instead of one. I used Arduino Nano and a relay board. Cost of the kit less than 5 euros.
But now this project evolved.
Now this Arduino implements a Bluetooth protocol and using a smartphone you can
- activate/deactivate free play mode.
- power on/off the game
- reset the game
- insert coins / press start buttons
- activate test mode
- press service buttons
- modify delays between coins or buttons
- activate/deactivate coins (stop playing)
- control the status of several counters (supports counters for free play mode and for coin mode, save separately single games and double games
- activate/deactivate sound
Setup is saved on its EEPROM so Arduino remembers the last status.
Is it useful? Actually I don't know.
It can be useful during arcade events so you can interact with the game without opening it but actually this is only an experiment.
The smartphone app doesn't exist yet (next step), I'm using a BlueTooth terminal application now.
Am I wasting my time? Any suggestion?
For instance: internal temperature monitor? voltage control?

I m proceeding with my book.
Of cours I need puk man pics (cp glass marquee side art ...) but now I m interested to know which kind of cardboard it has. Any idea?

As subject says, I d like to start a zac scorpion project, but marquee and cp are missing. Do you have some stuff for sale ?
 

topstar cola 2008 is selling some cabs and I would like to know if someone knows him and possibly his reputation.
Thank you

I report here the post made in VECTORLIST hoping someone here can help me:

Hi all,
I have 3 tempest boards. two work fine, while the third has a problem with the spinner direction.
using a Taito spinner all 3 boards work fine so I started to analyze the atari spinner behaviour first.

What I could see is one of the 2 square waves is "lower" than the other and this seems to have impact one one of the boards only.

Going to the board I can see  both waves arrive to the MC14584B in E6 correctly but the lower wave doesn't exit from this component  properly (pin 12). Inverting speed and direction pins, the problem persists (but in pin 6); so, the problem is definitely caused by the "lower" wave).
 I replaced this component (with a 7414) but nothing changed.

So my questions are:

why this happens on this board only?

just in case, is there a good source for OPB2208 coupler? or is there a cheap replacement?