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Friday, August 28, 2009
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Little Caesars Hot N Ready Pizza
On the way back from Utica we stopped at the Little Caesars in Illion NY, I had not been to one in years as they had all closed near me. I walked in and order a $5.99 pizza, the guy turned around opened a special warmer and pulled out a hot pizza all ready! It was good too! What a great idea!
Star Trek: The Next Generation Pinball Machine Destroyed
THIS IS NOT MY CREATION!
What you see above is the Ultimate pinball machine (Star Trek: The Next Generation) gutted and destroyed. You are asking yourself how could this happen? Was there something I could do?
Probally not, but you can get revenge for this poor machine and for Steve Ritchie who put it blood sweat and tears into the best damn pinball machine in my opinion.
So many pinball collectors search high and low for this machine, and to see one so carelessly destroyed makes them sick!
I don't know who did this, but when I do I will give them a piece of my mind!
Friday, July 31, 2009
Galaga Fixed!
My Craig's List was able to raise the money for a new monitor for my Galaga. I got it in the mail today and now it is in and up and running!
All that is left now is to get my Marvel Vs Capcom up and running.
Nice side by side shot with the Neo Geo.
Here is the old and new monitor side by side, note how the new one is much blacker.
Rear view of monitors. I hard already removed the driver board from the old monitor, I might still try and fix it.
Here is the cabinet empty waiting for the new monitor.
Monday, July 6, 2009
My Online Yardsale
In order to raise some money to replace the monitor in my Galaga and fix up the other cabinets I am holding an online yardsale!
Everything is posted on Craig's List and I will be adding more things as time goes by. I hope to sell everything, but we will see how that goes. Who doesn't want a Baldwin Funmachine???
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Time Warner Cable Remote Catches Fire!
My friend Brad recently found the remote to his Scientific Atlantic Explorer 8300 HD DVR cable box smoking on his sofa! When he removed this remote he found that it had gotten so hot that it burned his sofa as well!
He contacted Time-Warner cable several times and has been given the run around. Let's hope that they pay for the damage to his sofa.
Brad's Burnt Sofa!
Adjusting the convergence on my Galaga
I have been fixing up my Galaga Arcade Cabinet that I bought last week. When I first got Galaga it did not get past the "RAM OK" message, but I was able to pull every socketed chip from the board and clean them and get it working.
But then that presented another problem, the red green and blue beams in the monitor did not line up. On a more modern PC tube monitor you can adjust this via on screen menus. But on this 1981 15khz Galaga monitor it is done by adjusting the convergence rings on the yoke of the picture tube.
I discovered this while looking at the manual for the monitor in my Neo Geo MVS Arcade Cabinet I bought. The instructions for adjusting the convergence were quite vague. But I was able to figure out after messing with it for a few hours. I will post more detailed instructions later.
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Blond Tailed Squirrel - New Breed of Mutant Squirrel
Since last year a new breed of gray squirrel has appeared around my house, it looks just like a regular Eastern Gray Squirrel but it has a very defined blonde tail! It almost looks as though the tail was dipped in bleach, because of the defined line in the change of gray to blonde. I have seen at least two of these animals at once, so I know it is not just a one time mutant.
I wonder if they are of any interest to anyone but me.
Video of the beast:
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