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General Chat => Arcade Lifestyle => Topic started by: level42 on February 16, 2013, 09:08:43 PM

Title: New JROK FPGA board on the horizon....but not the one I hoped for.....
Post by: level42 on February 16, 2013, 09:08:43 PM

http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=265795


Still very cool. I don't regret getting all those Berzerk boards though....running original hardware is still Nr.1 in my book, but this is a brilliant alternative for empty-shell cabs like my Joust was and my Q*bert still is.....

Title: Re: New JROK FPGA board on the horizon....but not the one I hoped for.....
Post by: Luigi on February 17, 2013, 01:43:13 PM

hm...very interesting. Connection problems keep occuring in our Berzerk...

Title: Re: New JROK FPGA board on the horizon....but not the one I hoped for.....
Post by: level42 on February 17, 2013, 05:22:12 PM

Really ? Did you ever get one of those SCSI cables to fix that ?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Internal-SCSI-flat-ribbon-cable-support-7-devices-with-50-pin-connector-TVCS-246-/360588134415?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item53f4ba480f

You need the one's with 8 connectors and you'll need two of them. Cut them up so you have as many pieces of ribbons with 2 connectors on each end. You'll have 2 extra pins on one side and will have to "arrange" the connectors to be lined-up correctly, but it does work great.

The only connectors you can't do this way or the smaller one's with less connections.

Title: Re: New JROK FPGA board on the horizon....but not the one I hoped for.....
Post by: Q*ris on February 17, 2013, 08:51:23 PM

That's just the perfect solution for my hacked Berzerk, thanks for the tip, I will keep you guys updated.