RE: G08 power supply

> Anyone have any ideas on which part is most likely to be causing the
> symptom
> I'm seeing?
>
The part that's probably giving you the problem is the brick-sized metal
box with the aluminum heatsink on it marked "G-80 Power Supply". If you
just swap that part out for the improved "PC switching Power Supply" it
should be all better... ;-)

> Anyone happen to have a spare working G08 power supply (from a raster
> or vector
> game)?
>
Well, I'm going to yank the (working) G-80 supply out of my sit-down
Star Trek sometime in the next week or so. I can give you that one if
you can wait a bit...

> I know, I know; I should put in a switching supply, but damnit, I'm a
> sucker
> for dedicated hardware :-)
>
Uh-huh... Sure Mark... Is this the same Mark Jenison pictured at...

http://www.spies.com/arcade/photos/jenison/image02.jpg

...next to that fine example of a, uhhhh, dedicated, uhhhh,
Franken-cabinet? ;-)

Now that I've harassed Mark a bit... I ordered another handful of
StarWars<->ESB kit prototypes. I'm trying those Augat "pin receptical"
sockets (like the original ESB daughtercard used) for the 6809 and the
2212. Since the holes need to be pretty big there isn't much room
between the pins. I had to go to .008" trace widths to fit stuff
between the pins, so I'll have to see if that causes production problems
for the "affordable" PCB manufacturers or not.

Also, anyone have a copy of Galaga schematics I could beg/borrow/buy?

Thanks,
-Clay
Received on Tue Sep 22 16:55:52 1998