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  1. Sprout

    The Fluke 9010a Club

    Assuming you meant to link to this perhaps. Definitely not cheap, but an available alternative that's currently supported it appears!
  2. Sprout

    The Fluke 9010a Club

    Ah, gotcha - I did some quick searching before, but kept finding references to the "Fluke ii900 Industrial Acoustic Imager"... I think a lot of folks would love to have a good in-circuit tester like this, but I don't know that I've seen them pop up much in general, much less this specific model...
  3. Sprout

    The Fluke 9010a Club

    Do you mean Fluke 90 perhaps? There are a few up on eBay right now, including this pair of Z80 and 8085 models. Also a couple of individual 8085 models posted. I don't see them come up all that often though, agreed. I picked up a 6809 version many years back, and it came in handy working on a...
  4. Sprout

    The Fluke 9010a Club

    Had a friend asking me to dig into his Pole Position boards recently; I've been able to repair a few sets in the past, but with this particular set, made no progress, nor did a local "professional" apparently. Given how nothing else uses the Z800x Pod, I'm guessing the answer is likely "no"...
  5. Sprout

    Votrax SC-01 replacement emulator

    FYI - now available for purchase through Reactive Micro in the US.
  6. Sprout

    BackBit Chip Tester & Inquisitor IC Testing System Opinions?

    Bump - if you've not looked into this kit lately, it's continued to grow. Support for tons of 74 series and 4xxx series chips (including tri-state stuff like LS244/LS245's), and a ton of SRAM/DRAM (including triple-voltage stuff like the 4116's we all just love to work with in Williams games...)...
  7. Sprout

    ROMulator - 6502 ROM/RAM adapter - potentially useful for repair and easy ROM swaps...

    Was just watching an episode of "Adrian's Digital Basement" on YouTube, when he reviewed this product: https://bitfixer.com/product/romulator/ Pull your 6502, and install it in this adapter PCB which then plugs into the original slot. 16 slots to load up custom ROM configurations, useful for...
  8. Sprout

    Can someone give me a pep talk to get me to repair my games?

    Of those, your 10 Yard Fight is probably the biggest "unknown", as I'm not sure you've had it working since you picked it up, and started the rebuild? Several of those could be quick/easy fixes; a cap kit here, replace some ROM sockets there. Excellent chance you could knock those all out in a...
  9. Sprout

    difficult and/or hard to understand game play

    Sundance. When I came across it in the arcade, I didn't know what the hell to make of it, or what the goals were. What are all these buttons for? I have a better understanding now, but at the time it simply didn't make sense, and I never saw anybody playing it either, to really have an "aha!"...
  10. Sprout

    Your Favorite Black And White Game?

    Sticking with raster stuff for the purpose of this list - Atari 4-player football, Sea Wolf, Super Bug, Bandito, Circus, Starship 1, Drag Race, Sprint 2, Tank, Triple Hunt, Gun Fight, Boot Hill, Road Runner/Desert Gun - I played the hell out of all of these, and they were all great games at the...
  11. Sprout

    The Fluke 9010a Club

    $1800 for a 6809 pod? Crazy... On a related note :cool:... I’ll follow up soon with a build-related post with suggestions/tips for others making the plunge...
  12. Sprout

    The Fluke 9010a Club

    Another Z8000 pod crawls out of the woodwork... At that price, I'm sure it'll go quickly, so jump on it fast! :rolleyes:
  13. Sprout

    The Fluke 9010a Club

    It would be amazing to have a source for these displays, as there are a fair number of folks who need them. Jerry Walker started a project (see here, and here) to reproduce the MLB of the Fluke 9010 ~ 6 months back, and was also looking into a display replacement. Apparently had no luck...
  14. Sprout

    The Fluke 9010a Club

    $420 buy it now, non-working. Crazy where these prices are now, but today's crazy prices are tomorrow's bargains, as looking through the history of this thread will show ;)
  15. Sprout

    If you were just starting out

    4 games, huh? Assuming these are all non-pinball, and all video (vs. EM) games as well... I'm gonna go with a couple of pure multiplayer games, since playing head-to-head and/or cooperatively is always fun, and good way to continue to get enjoyment out of a game, and a couple of single-player...
  16. Sprout

    The Worst Thing You Did In An Arcade

    A couple of us had Apple IIe's at home, so we were well-versed with Basic, and took a few minutes to write some "interactive" software if memory serves... I do remember an assistant manager coming up once while we were programming, and telling another employee "I don't know what they did, or...
  17. Sprout

    The Worst Thing You Did In An Arcade

    I guess it's bad if most of these stories just seem so .... mild ... compared to the crap me and my mall rat friends pulled... Pull up a chair. Let's see. Let's start with before the arcade even opened. Sunday morning. Remember "blue laws"? Most businesses closed on Sundays? Meaning the...
  18. Sprout

    what is the first cockpit game?

    You said "arcade" game - not video game. "Arcade" encompasses EM games as well, so a few examples: F-114 is an early EM flying combat game - HUGE cabinet, but was the shit back in the day. 1970. I'm sure there are other / older games. Super Shifter is an EM drag racing style game - also got a...
  19. Sprout

    Name all the games that only have 1 level!

    It's been a while; once the bricks reset (after screen clear), if you lose a ball, you're back to normal paddle size, normal ball speed if memory serves though I believe? You can get a small paddle/fast ball without clearing all the bricks, and does merely replacing the bricks count as a "level...
  20. Sprout

    Name all the games that only have 1 level!

    I wouldn't call Break Out a Pong variant. I suspect most Bronze Age games will have one level for that matter? Steeple Chase, Road Runner/Desert Gun come to mind. Many laser disc games? Dragon's Lair and Space Ace don't have "levels" per se - just one long story? I suspect this would be a...
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