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Symptom #1: new-to-me Wells-Gardner 6100 vector monitor powers up, HV crackles, vector chatter is quiet, picture is heavily distorted, about 2" square. Problem is replicated when using a known good deflection board. All six chassis transistors look like transistors when ohmed out. (After...

Early Sega/Gremlin (Dual VIC, Carnival, Pulsar, Invinco, Head-On, etc) boards I'm currently figuring out the differences between the boards that have two rows of 2708s, but I think that my findings are going to be generalizable to the entire series of early Sega/Gremlin boards. So let's open...

Early Sega/Gremlin (Dual VIC, Carnival, Pulsar, Invinco, Head-On, etc) boards (Mea culpa - moved it to tech section.)

Starbase Needs You Today The "Save the Arcades" contest is now entering its final ~30 hours, and it's still a statistical dead heat between the two leading contenders. The contest ends at midnight EST on Tuesday, Oct 6th. Both the UFO and Starbase supporters have fielded crews of...

For those who enjoy a little pinball (OK, a lot of pinball) along with their video games, the 2009 Pacific Pinball Expo is this weekend. October 2-4 (Friday-Sunday), at the Marin County Civic Center, San Rafael, CA. The Pacific Pinball Expo is to pinball, what CAX is to video games. The...