Re: screwy Asteroids problem (running in Asteroids Deluxe cabinet)

Hello Tom,

I am a newcomer to Vectorlist and an audio/RF technician of 19 years. My
personal cabaret Asteroids Deluxe has failed. Without a doubt, the HV
transformer in the WG 19v2000 is arced internally beyond my abilities to
repair. I've tried to locate new, used, and any company capable of
rebuilding/rewinding my transformer without success.

Is there a repair solution for such a problem? The rest of my machine is in
top working order. It has sentimental value in my family and with myself..
Your help is most appreciated.

Thank you.
Tony

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom McClintock" <tomm@mgcap.com>
To: <vectorlist@vectorlist.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 9:50 AM
Subject: Re: VECTOR: screwy Asteroids problem (running in Asteroids Deluxe
cabinet)

> ???
>
> Scott C., have you not seen that Scott B. (who is the same Scott
> Brasington as below) has an almost finished Lunar
> Lander/Asteroids/Asteroids deluxe multigame that is in it's last stages of
> beta testing?
>
>
>
> tm
>
> Scott Caldwell wrote:
>> Scott, those adaptors like interesting. I'd also like to play Asteroids
>> in my
>> AD cabaret cabinet. :)
>>
>> I've been holding onto this Asteroids PCB thinking Clay will some day
>> complete
>> his promised A/AD/LL multi-game.
>>
>> Scott C.
>>
>> Scott Brasington wrote:
>>
>>> Pins 19 (X) and 16 (Y) control video inversion. There is no
>>> way to control them via software unless you want to mod the
>>> board. Asteroids only uses pin 19 to invert *BOTH* X and Y.
>>> Very early asteroids boards did not have any video inversion support.
>>> Cocktail is implemented by looping back the P2out signal which is
>>> tied to the Bank RAMSEL circuit when Player 2 is active.
>>> DLX upright mirror cabinet will ground pin 19 (X), which has the
>>> affect of inverting both X and Y when an asteroids board is plugged
>>> in to a DLX upright mirror cabinet (which leaves it with
>>> the Y backwards in reference to the mirror). Hope that helps.
>>>
>>> FWIW, I ran some proto adapters a few weeks ago that are
>>> pure plug and play for ast/dlx including video inversion
>>> circuit, audio amp impedance matching (AR vs. ARI/II), and
>>> input signals swapped. I have not had anytime to test
>>> out the audio stuff yet, but the X flip and input swaps
>>> works fine. I myself have only a DLX cabinet and having
>>> a plug and play way to change boards will be a great helper.
>>> Now that I'm back from vacation hopefully I'll have some
>>> time to catch up on arcade things again. My kids are wearing
>>> me out, glad they will be returning to school!
>>>
>>> -Scott
>
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