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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail...
« Reply #510 on: July 29, 2015, 06:24:55 PM »
OK well, apart from installing 1 555 lamp in the coin door and installing the little sync board I decided to call this project


FINISHED


This was the poor sad Q*bert shell as I received it as an AMAZING gift in the year 2010 during Eurocade:



And after some years waiting, collecting parts and finally starting the restoration process here it is. I'm happy. I'm proud. I think this is probably one of my better restorations to date :) Love it !!

I have to thank a lot of great people on this forum who have somehow contributed to this project!

- Capt.Kirk....how can I ever thank you enough for giving me the shell  !!!  :spaceace: :spaceace: :spaceace:
- DarthNuno: for the awesome control panel deal !!!  :spaceace:
- Luigi: making the marquee retainer and donating the button holders !!  :spaceace:
- RobinHolland: for fixing the main PCB  AND the CRT bezel !!  :spaceace:
- SuperUlly: for arranging the group buy of artwork !!  :spaceace:
- Riptor (KLOV form /Twistywristarcade) for parts and help !!  :spaceace:
- Etienne: for the repro serial tags etc. etc !!  :spaceace:
- Jochen: for the 120VAC to 230VAC mod idea !  :spaceace:

- Some guys from the KLOV forum in the U.S. for getting me some great deals on parts like the boards and original Suzo joystick !!!  :spaceace:
- and everyone here for general support, help and encouragement !  :spaceace:





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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail...
« Reply #511 on: July 29, 2015, 06:25:44 PM »
Love those details...before ....and after :)

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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail...
« Reply #512 on: July 29, 2015, 06:27:08 PM »
There was a dry spell today (WOW !) here so I quickly brought Q*bert out to take some pics:

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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail...
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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail...
« Reply #516 on: July 29, 2015, 06:33:44 PM »
Isn't it amazing how each and every board had the correct serial number while they came from all over the place ;) ;) ;) ;)

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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail...
« Reply #517 on: July 29, 2015, 06:35:17 PM »
And one last total shot.....love it, love the game, love the sounds and I loved doing the project. Learned a lot from it and did it in a pretty short time of 7 months ! :)

>>> NOW COME AND PLAY IT AT EUROCADE 2015 !!!!! <<<
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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail... FINISHED !!!
« Reply #518 on: July 29, 2015, 07:16:17 PM »
Congratulations André : it looks really nice.
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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail... FINISHED !!!
« Reply #519 on: July 29, 2015, 07:24:35 PM »
Very, very nice.  :spaceace:

I do like the look of the matt black vinyl on the frontpanel, I want to try it also for some of my games, although I have formica black role in storage. The vinyl seems to do the job very well though.
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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail... FINISHED !!!
« Reply #520 on: July 29, 2015, 08:54:40 PM »
although you had a setback with the CPO, it turned out really great !

cool that all your boards have matching serials  ;D

you have overcome !  :spaceace: :spaceace:


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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail... FINISHED !!!
« Reply #521 on: July 29, 2015, 09:35:08 PM »
Fokking nice
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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail... FINISHED !!!
« Reply #522 on: July 29, 2015, 09:59:33 PM »
Extremely nice and beautiful result! Wow :spaceace: :spaceace: :spaceace: :spaceace:
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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail... FINISHED !!!
« Reply #523 on: July 29, 2015, 10:03:57 PM »
Congratulation. Now playing it will be the only matter... you deserve it  :)

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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail... FINISHED !!!
« Reply #524 on: July 29, 2015, 10:50:30 PM »
a WORK OF LOVE AND ART!

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