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Uncategorized – Old School Video Games https://www.os-vg.com Where old games and systems go to retire. Tue, 25 Apr 2023 15:48:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.14 Collection additions https://www.os-vg.com/?p=104 Tue, 25 Apr 2023 15:48:10 +0000 http://www.os-vg.com/?p=104 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 of stuff and not just Atari…

I will need to do an inventory and I will probably do that this weekend. That said, I did manage to take a few pictures and I hope that a few of these will make good blog posts for system and console restorations.

Enjoy 🙂

]]> Started working on the spaghetti https://www.os-vg.com/?p=98 Tue, 25 Apr 2023 15:11:34 +0000 http://www.os-vg.com/?p=98 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 decided to also clean up the rat’s nest of wires that was my arcade.

I know I am going to get hell for this but here is what it looked like before.

Yeah, I know. On a good note though, it has been cleaned up a bit and I managed to get some nice new parts to help with wire/cable management. Check it out so far…

I also realized that I never posted what the arcade looks like. Here you go. I will also be linking a few things that I used to help with my cable management so if you want to use any to help, feel free.

Items purchased for arcade:

Cat 5 Cable Clips
Din Rail Terminal Blocks
Din Rail Mount for Pico Board
Din Rail Mount Breakout for Ethernet
Aluminum Din Rails 8″

]]> Got the boards… https://www.os-vg.com/?p=84 Tue, 25 Apr 2023 14:42:16 +0000 http://www.os-vg.com/?p=84 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 few pathways up so good a trade-off. I included a side-by-side comparison for your pleasure.
We will see how things go when I install it.


New Board


Old Board

]]> Hello world! https://www.os-vg.com/?p=1 https://www.os-vg.com/?p=1#respond Tue, 24 Jan 2023 14:09:55 +0000 http://www.os-vg.com/?p=1 Please pardon our dust while we are under construction.

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