I recently discovered what's REALLY holding me down in this hobby.....it is a thing called WORK.
My company closes for 2 weeks around the holidays (Yay !) and man have I done some useful stuff, not just finishing the Ms.Pac but also the gameroom is actually very presentable and all games can be reached and played...I also installed the Atari neon, removed the DK graphics on the black wall (don't stick, colors were shot) and hung up lots of Level 42 gig posters and picture discs (mostly signed stuff) and installed a nice roll-up curtain that I had bought a year or so ago.
I actually loved doing all this and so I decided that I have to stop this thing called WORK.
The great thing is that my next plan of winning the lottery actually worked too !!
However I'm not entirely sure if the €10 we won will be sufficient to live for the next 40 years or so.....
Anyway....after the family visits of new years' day I had some time to install the Vector Labs multi kit on the Gravitar.
Very easy to install, remove 6502, put it on the processor board and put that in the 6502 socket, remove the four vector proms and put in the vector prom PCB and connect the edge connector PCB. Hook these three boards up with the included flat-cable and presto !
Put back the board and.........the game was running but I had really weird squewed vectors !! WTF......the game did run though sooooooo...what could it be.....well....I reconnect or the small edge connector and the problem was gone......butt then the Shield button didn't work anymore. Reconnected the big connector again and problem solved.....conclusion: those edge connectors need to be replaced ASAP !
Apart from that, I could now switch through Gravitar, Lunar Battle and Black Widow.
I couldn't play Lunar Battle because strangely this is not on free play while Gravitar is and the credit switches don't seem to work. Couldn't try Black Widow for the same reason plus I have no CP for it....
So, there's still some things to do tomorrow
