Happy Birthday Bruno, love the G-loc and Vectrex

all the best

Hi everyone!!!

I just got myself a new Starwars Trilogy cab, but things didnt start off to well, when the game would not start up.....marquee,monitor came on....but no game or sound. But i discovered that the fault was a blown mpeg board, i disconnted the digital sound board and the game came to life, game plays but there another problem the graphics are there but the 3d is all wrong e.g Hoth stage there is lines and missing textures everywhere!!!! ); i ran a test on the roms, which checks out fine...... So i have half sound and half graphics.

I know the mpeg board needs fixing but could the model 3 board be faulty too??

If anybody can help!!!

 

Tried that! First of all finding large hi-res monitors particularly at 25" size and cheap is very hard and surprisingly enough the vector glow from AAE was better on a crt TV and CGA arcade monitor than a high res monitor! The monitor had better defined lines but less glow......the cga monitor had less defined lines but a better glow! This test was done with a vga to cga convertor at 640x480 but with the new Arcade Vga card you will get better defined lines and the glow! Its never gonna be perfect but from what ive seen......its pretty close

When I can, i'll post some comparison pictures

Hi Everyone!

I currently restoring a Starwars cockpit, but as you know finding a working 25" amplifone is a rare as hens teeth.... And if do find one it might not last long before it has a fault. So until then i was looking into other ways to get the game running. Theres mame but it doesnt look right...there is also ZVG board and vector mame but its a bit out of date and you still need a vector monitor!
I have come to the conculsion that AAE emulator (Another Arcade Emulator) is the way to go, of couse you can use a pc monitor but you dont get monitors any bigger than 24" i need 25" for Starwars......in the past older AVGA cards didnt work this emu because it needed a gfx card higher than Nvidia Fx5200 or ATI 9550 to work because it use openGL but the good news is that i contacted Andy at Ultimarc and asked him to test the AAE emu with his new Arcade 3000 vga card which uses the ATI RV630 chipset and results are that the emu works. (:
This could be a good way to get vector games running on cga monitors until the real parts turn up if ever thay do!

Just thought Id spread the love

Hi everyone!

I have now transfered my Hanterax MTC 9000 monitor, everything works but I blew the lamp in the marquee, can anybody tell me what the output from the socket neon lamp on the hanterax us250 hanterax psu, I took out the Atari original. What I should do to get the dragons lair marquee working again! Also when I switched it on first time the marquee came on but there was a loud humming sound so I switched if off and the lamp does not come on at all now, voltage problem I think!
 

The monitor is working great, also are there any other colour controls on the back of the mtc9000? I can only find hv/vh,focus and brightsness controls? No colour!!

The Dragons lair is the Atari uk version

if anybody can help, thanks again and happy new year!!!!!

Thanks for all your help! Discharging is a must but your right, DL is not jamma cab! I'm away from machine right but I will send a photo of the monitor asap! It's a shame about the voltage difference, it would have been to have run the new monitor from the original psu, how do I know that I have the original psu, what does it look like...what do you look for to recognise it as the Atari original!

Thanks again john

Hi All!

I've got an Hanterex MTC9000 19" Monitor, and im going to install it into my DL cabinet. will it run from the original Atari psu?? My cab is an Atari UK cabinet........ currently there is a TV in there but want to return back to an original state.

If anybody can help!!

Thanks again Giddygoon