RE: Omega Race: Not Just a Hobby. A Carreer.

Well, Looks Like I'm in the market for the guts of the machine.

The Cage is there on the monitor, disconnected and with no PCB. Know the
market price for a replacement?
The Missing Chips are on the MB, So, I'll most likely need a new one,
Although I'll pull the battery the afternoon.
I haven't had a chance to see if there's even power coming out of the power
supply. So I might just need one of those...

yes, I knew getting into this that I might have to rebuild the things
inside entirely. I also knew this would probably be _more_ expensive than
just actually buying a working one, but, thanks to the internet explosion,
I've got cash to spare. I remeber when I was ten, looking at guys working
on these machines and wanting to do that. It looks like I'll get to do that
in spades. As for getting a working machine, I'm Talking to someone about
buying their cocktail Rip-Off, my favorite BW vector game, I'm ready, he's
slow, c'est la vie!

Will

-----Original Message -----
From: Alan J McCormick [SMTP:gonzothegreat@juno.com]
Sent: Sunday, May 31, 1998 11:06 PM
To: wnerini@slewpy.drf.com
Subject: Re: Omega Race: Not Just a Hobby. A Carreer.

REMOVE THE BATTERY ASAP!!! Pardon the shouting but do it now and the rest
of us will be able to sleep at night. The game is playable w/o the
battery. If you absolutely need the battery functions, mount a
replacement one off the PCB and hook it up with maybe a foot of wire.

The Ni-Cad nastiness isn't something akin to battery acid. Its more of an
electrochemical reaction that causes a *nasty* reaction on PCB traces. I
don't know the exact nature of everything that happens but in a nutshell,
its a pain to fix after the decay has started.

If the missing chips are along the top of the CPU PCB by the sound board
connector, I believe you are in luck. I think they are just 2114 RAM
chips.

...

I looked at my good GO-5 13" and there should be the main deflection PCB
and the high voltage unit. The HV unit is mounted in a metal cage with
the most obvious lead coming out of it being the HV suction cup.

BTW The deflection PCB often developed bad solder joints.

...

Not easily. You would have to hack up the CPU board to do this. I haven't
tried this but when I gave mine a cursory look, I shuddered and decided
to let a greater hacker try their luck.

...

I can xerox schems for the game & the monitor if you still need them.

Personally, I would have suggested a JAMMA game (or even a Space Duel) as
a first one to fix up. Omega Race is a cool game but there are a
bazillion things that go wrong on these monsters. Ugh...
Received on Mon Jun 1 10:27:08 1998