Re: Fragile games?

I would consider using connector treatments made by CAIG. They have worked
wonders for me. Even brought some jamma boards back to life that had
corrosion on several ic's.
They are at CAIG.COM
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony Ramos" <aramos@ele-mental.org>
To: <vectorlist@synthcom.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: VECTOR: Fragile games?

> My past (and present) experience operating Battlezone supports
> your impression. I have found that the factory-original setup
> has several weak-link items that repeatedly fail and need
> babysitting.
>
> Mostly, they are connection issues: edgeboard connectors, the
> inter-board connector and pins, EPROM and PROM sockets. The 2114
> RAMs also do not seem to be very hardy.
>
> After:
>
> 1. re-soldering all connector pins,
> 2. cleaning and re-tensioning the edgeboard connector fingers,
> 3. installing new sockets on the EPROMs, bit-slice processors,
> and microcode PROMs,
> 4. Socketing all RAMs, and
> 5. wiring a brand new interboard connector,
>
> my BZ is reliable...mostly. It still needs the interboard
> connector wiggled or re-seated every other week or so. Time to
> go over that part again...sigh.
>
> I can understand why it's less reliable than, say, Asteroids:
> there's just more stuff to go wrong. But, worse than Star Wars?
> Is it because BZ is the first game on that hardware?
>
> On Thursday, September 12, 2002, at 07:14 PM, Joel Rosenzweig wrote:
>
> > Maybe it's just me, but it seems that if I look at my
> > Battlezone boardset
> > the wrong way, it breaks. I don't seem to have nearly as many
> > problems with
> > any other game I own. Do others find any particular board set
> > more fragile
> > than others?
> >
> > Did a get well kit for Asteroids and Battlezone ever get
> > produced, i.e. one
> > that replaced all the eproms with a single device, and one that
> > replaced all
> > the rams with a single device? I've got several boardsets of
> > each that
> > are in various malfunctioning states, and I'm gearing myself up for
> > repairing each of them. It occured to me that this would be a
> > fine time to
> > consider the use of such a get well kit, if it exists!
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Joel-
> >
> >
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
> > ** To UNSUBSCRIBE from vectorlist, send a message with
> > "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the
> > ** message body to vectorlist-request@synthcom.com. Please direct other
> > ** questions, comments, or problems to vectorlist-owner@synthcom.com.
> >
> >
> --
> Anthony Ramos -- aramos@ele-mental.org / aramos@hyperreal.org
> phone: 503.236.6303 / mobile: 503.267.3519
> 600 Southeast 39th Avenue #3, Portland, Oregon 97214 USA
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
> ** To UNSUBSCRIBE from vectorlist, send a message with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in
the
> ** message body to vectorlist-request@synthcom.com. Please direct other
> ** questions, comments, or problems to vectorlist-owner@synthcom.com.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
** To UNSUBSCRIBE from vectorlist, send a message with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the
** message body to vectorlist-request@synthcom.com. Please direct other
** questions, comments, or problems to vectorlist-owner@synthcom.com.
Received on Thu Sep 12 22:04:44 2002