Someone posted about an old-school TRS-80 in the box and I decided to check it out. I got it and while talking to him, found out that his neighbor had a collection of atari stuff that she wanted to get rid of so I decided to check it out. Well, it was a huge collection […]
Started working on the spaghetti
Hello, So you ever noticed those nice wiring jobs where everything lines up and it looks so clean that you almost believe that it was done without human intervention… well the arcade was not done that way when I originally built it. Because of that, when I decided to add the missing nixie circuit, I […]
Got the boards…
From the previous post, a few things happened since then. First, the board design had to be changed. I realized that this old board design would not fit into the arcade layout and I had to modify the position of things slightly. I had to space out the Nixie tubes 2mm and that cleared a […]
From prototype to printed circuit
Howdy folks, as you can tell from the prototype from the previous post, all the software and hardware setup is complete. the circuit worked many times over and over without any errors. I have only ever made one circuit board and honestly, that was more a showpiece than an actual circuit but this time I […]
Some Progress on the Arcade’s Nixie Credit Counter
So I started working on the circuit for the Nixie Credit system for my arcade. The idea came when I was designing the arcade and wanted to let the kids/grandkids get the real feel of putting tokens into it. When I installed the system to accept tokens though, I noticed that Mame would not remember […]
One Step Closer
We always want to get a good quality video of actual console gameplay but the older you go into the console world, the harder it is to get good clear pictures. Before HDMI, there was VGA/Component, Composite, and RF. RF is connected either by coax cable or before that, a switch box with rabbit ear […]
Hello world!
Please pardon our dust while we are under construction.