Re: Atari Power supplies

Josh McCormick wrote:
>
> > Is this you site also? (it's a nice site!)
>
> Its mine. Thanks!
>
> It started out about a year ago. I bought 22 arcade games from a vendor.
> This was out of a warehouse that I'll guess had 200 classics?

It is always the same with you Americans! :) The oldest game you can *possibly*
find here in Holland is probably Outrun, and they probably want to have
something like $1000 for it (upright).

I am the only one I know of in Holland who has a Tempest upright. Well,
actually, it is of a friend of mine, I only have all the guts, but not the
cabinet. The guts were easy to get, because these is almost no-one who fixes
these games over here (it was broken ofcourse).

So if anyone knows where to find an empty cabinet here in Europe, let me know!

> They must have had about 30 vector games. I'm going back in Jan/Feb to
> pick up as many vector games that I can grab. Most of the stuff has some
> sort of problem. What did they have when I was last there? I remember lots
> of asteroids and asteroids deluxe, space duels, 3 or 4 tempests, a
> battlezone, a lunar lander, and a space wars. (I wanted the space wars,
> but it was too damn tall to fit in the truck.) Probably more... I really
> wanted to steer away from vectors at the time.

It is really unbelievable how much of these babies still actually exist
overseas. Probably here a re 1000's more hidden in dusty warehouses, waiting to
get thrown away. A real shame!

> Among the vectors I picked up were: Star Wars Uprights (3!), Tempest
> Uprights (2). (One Star Wars was given to a friend. The other is on
> location at a friend's covenience store. The last is in storage because
> its components were used to fixed the other two. GET THIS: bad ampliphone
> tube, HV, deflector, PCB, power supply, regulator board, and flight yoke!
> I think the wiring harness and the coin door are good, though.)

Well' that is not too big of a problem, is it, guys? :) I think actually, that
getting a TOTAL screwed game is best. I have most fun restoring them. It can
take more than a year to find all the parts and finish the game, but that does
not matter. when it is repaired, most fun is over for me, playing these games
never happens... except for Tempest. All the new PSX / PC clones despite, the
original is still FAR the best.
 
> Anyhow, the idea was to sell enough of them to make back my initial
> investment and to make my hobby self-financing. Didn't happen. Between
> really liking the games I got, and really not being any kind of
> salesperson, I kept them all except for two that I gave away. (Star
> Wars and Bad Dudes.)

Exactly... Why selling tat 4th cabinet of SD, As soon as you sell it, all other
three games quit working and need all a different part from the one you just
sold... At least, that is how it works here! :)

> The initial idea of the web page was to be a public face to advertise and
> sell off some of the games. Didn't happen. But the initial commercial
> aspect is why the look is so polished.

I think you have done a good job giving it a polished look. I think we al agree
Stormaster could use SOME design (OK, it does what it is supposed to do, but
that's it).

> After a few months, I dropped the commercialism, and used it to host the
> documents that I've been creating on various subjects (many geared towards
> new collectors).
>
> I'm working on a replacement for the site, though. Kind of a
> Yahoo/Slashdot kind of thing for arcade games. Here are two advanced (and
> non-functional) design layouts:
>
> http://arcade.gameshop.com/proto/proto2.htm (Home page)
> http://arcade.gameshop.com/proto/proto3.htm (Centipede subpage)

Cool! Have you been a professional site designer?
The idea of creating a 'FAQ' page per game is really good. Especially the
discussion database per game seems a very good idea to me.
 
> (Clay Cowgill would either laugh... or quite possibly kill me... if he
> were to read the parody on the Centipede page. See the second bulletin.)
>
> I'm working on the initial/basic version of this site now. The design
> layouts above are where I want to go, but it'll be a long ways down the
> road if it happens. I'm going to start with a basic Yahoo structure and
> work in features from there.

Do you have any idea when the site is going to up and running? I hope to read a
posting when it is done!

> Now I've strayed WAAAAY off-topic at this point. Thanks for the
> compliment!

C'mon... This is about a vector related site after all.. :) Now tell me, WHAT
has the electrical storage capability of a 19VLUP22 to do with Vectors... :)

Keep up the good work.

Cya !
Received on Sun Dec 26 12:08:18 1999