2024 Bronze Age Repair Club

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Not a troll here. But honestly, I usually have zero interest in your projects because you won't tell us what it is. Mystery projects just are not interesting at all.

If you want people to guess that's fine. I'm sure you get some fun out of that. And maybe some future project ideas too! But after a couple of days, it would be nice if you shared the secret of what you're working on. Then I'd be HIGHLY interested in following your progress on most if not every project you post.
 
Not a troll here. But honestly, I usually have zero interest in your projects because you won't tell us what it is. Mystery projects just are not interesting at all.

If you want people to guess that's fine. I'm sure you get some fun out of that. And maybe some future project ideas too! But after a couple of days, it would be nice if you shared the secret of what you're working on. Then I'd be HIGHLY interested in following your progress on most if not every project you post.
Ditto on this.
 
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Not a troll here. But honestly, I usually have zero interest in your projects because you won't tell us what it is. Mystery projects just are not interesting at all.

When I post what they are, people pester me about them.

It's far easier to find time to do designs during meetings and such than it is to build and test.

There's no point in posting what it is until I at least have hardware in hand.

It's not like anyone has ever showed interest in the other bronze age boards I redesigned once they build and tested and posted for sale.
 
When I post what they are, people pester me about them.

It's far easier to find time to do designs during meetings and such than it is to build and test.

There's no point in posting what it is until I at least have hardware in hand.

It's not like anyone has ever showed interest in the other bronze age boards I redesigned once they build and tested and posted for sale.

Yeah, I get it. So just state clearly up front "This is a redesign of the Sega G-80 system on a single PCB. I'm doing this for myself and they won't be for sale."

Easy and done.

I don't want to own a redesigned board in most cases (exceptions exist...I actually bought one of your Warlords boards).
But I find it really interesting to watch the process unfold. The choices made, the reasoning behind it, the tradeoffs involved, etc.
I'm sure I'm not alone in that.

But I'm not sure I get this part:

When I post what they are, people pester me about them.
It's not like anyone has ever showed interest in the other bronze age boards I redesigned once they build and tested and posted for sale.

Do they pester you or don't they? :ROFLMAO:
 
Yeah, I get it. So just state clearly up front "This is a redesign of the Sega G-80 system on a single PCB. I'm doing this for myself and they won't be for sale."
ROM, CPU, and Speech fit nicely on a single board.
Much of the rest is unique to different games or raster vs vector.

I don't want to own a redesigned board in most cases (exceptions exist...I actually bought one of your Warlords boards).
But I find it really interesting to watch the process unfold. The choices made, the reasoning behind it, the tradeoffs involved, etc.
I'm sure I'm not alone in that.
Writing all of that up isn't very fun or interesting.

Do they pester you or don't they? :ROFLMAO:
About Bronze age stuff, usually not.
About other stuff, yes.
 
Or be honest about why you're posting it - to passive/aggressively brag.
FTFY!

Of course it's not a very effective brag if nobody knows that they're supposed to be impressed because they don't know what it is.
Night Driver on a single 2-layer board with 30 chips isn't nearly as impressive as Star Wars on a single 2-layer board with 200 chips.
 
Are you going to relaminate or paint to match?
Strange enough, my cab seems like an odd ball that had lam on the bottom part and top. Other Trak 10's had the bottom painted black and lam only on the top. The top part of the side is glued to the bottom making relaminating the bottom a pain in the are, but I might still do it. Otherwise if I end up painting the bottom part black it will still be "factory" correct.
 
Strange enough, my cab seems like an odd ball that had lam on the bottom part and top. Other Trak 10's had the bottom painted black and lam only on the top. The top part of the side is glued to the bottom making relaminating the bottom a pain in the are, but I might still do it. Otherwise if I end up painting the bottom part black it will still be "factory" correct.

I was thinking the same thing. Maybe you have a rare prototype!? :D
Perhaps they did the first one like that and they quickly realized just as you did....it's a royal pain.
 
I was thinking the same thing. Maybe you have a rare prototype!? :D
Perhaps they did the first one like that and they quickly realized just as you did....it's a royal pain.
Since Trak 10 was the "cost reduction model", I've seen a number of the few existing all seem to have some odd variations. Some have a extra bottom base and others have different bracketing inside… I think Atari was just trying to get them out the door lol
 
I'm working on getting a Tank fixed up now. Had all these parts for awhile. This board was modded back in the day with the mods found in that article.
Just got the monitor up and running. It looks good. The only issues now are;

The white tank's shot does not fire when pressed, and if the explosion appears on the screen, it will not disappear.
A game is constantly playing, but without motor sounds. If a game ends, another begins immediately.
There might be additional sound issues.

It's a good start.
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Dig the custom Tank III bezel :)
I wondered if anyone would notice, lol.
i just used a Cricut to cut out an extra "I" on vinyl because I was bored.
if there ever really was a Tank III, would have been modded like this.
 
Yesterday @SNESNESCUBE64 and I got this one going. Someone had installed the PCB in backwards and shot the 22VAC audio into the inputs, and it shorted the 7404, and killed two 74367s. Works fine now. I was told from the owner that this was in a house with no power for at least 8 years. Could have been more than a decade since it was last powered on.

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