A nice hug to everyone

[Lazertron]

Hi,

I'm overjoyed to have found my way to this forum. Not completely by chance because I'm now a proud owner of a Zaccaria Quasar, and yours truly, Bela, provided me this great cab on Friday 

The Quasar was taken to its final resting place yesterday, which is 30km from my primary residence, but I managed to forget the keys and haven't even started her up yet - which will happen tonight.

I remember playing the Quasar at two different locations back in the 80s here in Austria and it (strangely?  ) has always been one of my favourite machines. When I saw on VAPS that one is for sale, I contacted Bela on Thursday and on Friday it was mine. Talk about short notice.

The Quasar now resides beside three dedicated Atari Vectors, namely an Asteroids, a Lunar Lander and a Tempest. I made a few bad, quick pictures with the iPhone yesterday which I want to share with you. I also have some 70 to 80 PCBs, but mainly I collect videogames for 8bit consoles.

I have no references in electronics so I'm a complete newbie in preserving them arcade machines and I possibly will ask many dumb questions in here.

See you,
Reini

[Belike]

It was my pleasure to meet you, nice to see the Quasar among  those awesome classics you have.

[scr33n]

Welcome Reini!! 


Nice Tempest 

[Etienne MacGyver]

Hi there, and welcome to the Zacc club 

[anunaki]

welcome to ALS

[Luigi]

Welcome aboard!

Lunar Lander, Tempest...WOW  

[Lazertron]

Welcome Reini!!  


Nice Tempest  

Many thanks to all for the nice welcome. BTW, my 'nice' Tempest is missing some parts which I found out after studying your fantastic build-from-scratch documentation - I stole one of your pictures and opened a thread in the marketplace   Please advise if I should delete the pic there.

[DarthNuno]

Welcome to the party, Lazertron 

[Behle]

Nice introduction, nice cabs...welcome 

[Laszo]

Nice collection and feel free to ask, the members here are a great help 

[Q*ris]

Such a fine selection: 4 cabs and each of them are awesome!
Welcome Lazertron

[Superully]

finally someone who introduced himself first!!! welcome to the board, lazer-guy

and what a selection of games: asteroids, tempest, lunar lander!!! it could only go downhill from there with a zacc cab ...

[Lazertron]

Thanks for the nice welcome to all of you guys.

I fired up the Quasar yesterday and played it for the first time since the 80s. I really like the whole artwork of the cabinet and the sound of this italian guy  The monitor display was a bit jumpy at first but when warm it stabilized. One bulb on the coin door needs to be replaced but else it looks fine. Nice machine this. I also looked through all the PCBs I have and even found a Zaccaria Scorpion one.

Now, the player select button on the Asteroids needs to be replaced (the cone itself is fine) and I have opened a thread where to possibly find one of these. I googled but to no avail.

Will keep you posted 

[Belike]

Nice to hear that it survived the trip.
If you ever want to sell the Scorpion pcb, don't hesitate to contact me.

[Lazertron]

Thanks for the offer but I think it's a bootleg board which probably won't interest you a bit. Will take a few pics on the weekend.

Bela, do you know how the interlock switch is triggered on the Quasar as I had to tape it down to have it stay in that position? Also, do you have a spare coin door mechanism as it is missing?