Kurz Kasch project anyone?

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Hey folks,

As I mentioned on the forum a bit, I picked up a Kurz Kasch unit from a forum member. The documentation on the web is a bit weak but I have 2 large folders here full of paperwork for it, most cards, signature analyzer, and more.

I'll be scanning that in and converting it to .pdf but that's not all of what this is about.

I'm looking for people that have cards and have enough circuit abilities to sit down and draw out a schematic on paper or on the computer for each of the cards. This would allow proto boards to be used to one-off modules for testing and repairing some of the oldest video game boards.

I have Adobe Acrobat and can convert the drawings to PDF and combine them with the scanned instruction sheets or .pdf versions of existing instruction sheets to finally have a good set of documentation for these units.

Any takers?

RJ
 
Bump!

I have to get these docs back to Komodo so I'm starting the scanning...

So far: 213AB, 299AB, 322AB, 331A, 336AB, 352A, and 1000 have been scanned. I tested converting 213AB (Atari Breakout) into .pdf form and it worked great. :)

RJ
 
OK!

These are now scanned and converted to .pdf.

0500021 Midway PROM RAM Test.pdf
1000 Test Fixture Test Set.pdf
115A Ramtek Clean Sweep.pdf
122AB Atari - Key Tank.pdf
123AB Atari - Kee Gran Trak 10.pdf
124AB Atari - Kee Gran Trak 20.pdf
129AB Allied Leisure Street Burner.pdf
141AB Control Sales Video Action II.pdf
167ABC Midway Wheels II.pdf
169 169A Brunswick Air Hockey.pdf
170AB Atari Crash N Score.pdf
171ABC Atari Jet Fighter.pdf
174AB Ramtek Trivia.pdf
179A Atari Steeplechase.pdf
182ABCD Chicago Coin - Exidy - Demolition Derby - Destruction Derby - Death Race.pdf
185ABC Midway Gun Fighter.pdf
189A Meadows Flim Flam 4 Player - 4 in 1.pdf
192A Midway Seawolf.pdf
194AC Video 5 - Take 5.pdf
196AC Atari Stunt Cycle.pdf
209AB Ramtek Hit Me.pdf
213AB Atari Breakout.pdf
215A Midway Tornado Baseball.pdf
217AB Atari Fly Ball.pdf
219AB Atari Lemans.pdf
222AC Midway 280 ZZZAP.pdf
224ABC Atari Night Driver.pdf
231ABC Atari Sprint II.pdf
232A PSE Bazooka.pdf
234BC Meadows Lazer Command - Barefoot Bonkers - Meadows Lanes.pdf
235A Midway Maze.pdf
241AC Gremlin Blockade.pdf
247AC Midway Power Supply Checker.pdf
249A Midway Checkmate.pdf
252ABC Atari Dominos.pdf
253A Midway Boot Hil.pdf
254AB Atari Triple Hunt.pdf
256A Midway Double Play.pdf
257ABC Atari Starship.pdf
261AB Kee Games Drag Race.pdf
262A Midway Guided Missile.pdf
263A Ramtek M-79 Ambush.pdf
265ABC Atari Super Bug.pdf
266AC Exidy Robot Bowl - Circus.pdf
276AB Atari Destroyer.pdf
278A Midway Clowns - Space Walk.pdf
279AB Atari Canyon Bomber.pdf
282A 283B Midway Sea Wolf II.pdf
283B Midway Mother Board II.pdf
285AB Atari Tournament Table.pdf
287ABC Atari Sprint I.pdf
288AB Atari Fire Truck - Smokey Joe.pdf
294AB Atari Super Breakout.pdf
295A Midway Space Invaders.pdf
299AB Atari Football.pdf
300ABCDE Rock-Ola Credit Unit.pdf
301A 300BCE Rock-Ola Popularity Unit.pdf
302C Rock-Ola Logic Unit.pdf
303A Bally Sound Board.pdf
304A Midway Space Invaders II - Deluxe Space Invaders.pdf
309AC Cinematronics Vectorbeam Exercisor.pdf
309AC Cinematronics Vectorbeam.pdf
313ABC Gremlin Head-On - Digger.pdf
322AB Atari Asteroids.pdf
326AB Midway Galaxian.pdf
331A Bally CPU Sound Board.pdf
333AB Exidy Targ - Mod for Venture - Spectar - Mousetrap - Pepper.pdf
333AB Exidy Targ.pdf
335A Deco Astro Fighter.pdf
336A Nichibutsu Crazy Climber.pdf
336AB Atari Missile Command.pdf
337A Midway Space Encounters.pdf
340A Centuri Eagle.pdf
341A Gremlin - Sega Carniva - Head On II - Invinco.pdf
345AB Midway Pac Man.pdf
346A Midway Rally-X.pdf
351A Midway Gorf - Space Zap.pdf
351A Midway Gorf.pdf
352A Atari Audio Board.pdf
355A Centuri Phoenix-Pleiades.pdf
359A Williams Defender.pdf
360A Games LTD - Nichibutsu Rolling Crash - Moon Base.pdf
361A Games LTD - Nichibutsu Moon Alien.pdf
362A Midway Wizard of Wor.pdf
362AB Midway Galaxian.pdf
365A Stern Scramble - Super Cobra.pdf
374A Midway Galaga.pdf
386A Midway Tron - Kickman - Tapper.pdf
388A Sega - Gremlin Zaxxon.pdf
398A Sega - Gremlin Turbo.pdf
400A Midway Burger Time.pdf
402A Centuri Time Pilot - Loco-Motion.pdf
406A Midway Super Pac Man.pdf
6502 Programmable NOP Fixture.pdf
6800 Programmable NOP Fixture.pdf
8080 Programmable NOP Fixture.pdf
Midway Ram Tester.pdf
TF-650 Operating Data.pdf
TF-650-3A 5A Kurz Kasch Instructions.pdf
TF-650-5B Kurz Kasch Instructions.pdf
Z80 Programmable NOP Fixture.pdf

Call me names, but I did put a 5% watermark on the pages. :p
 
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TF-650-5B Kurz Kasch Instructions.pdf file has the schematics for the unit inside... but since they were damaged by years of being in a plastic page protector I had to include it twice. It's scanned once as a B&W image and once as a greyscale image. It's still an ugly scan. :(
 
That's fine... some of his are pretty ugly scans. If I have ones that he doesn't, I'll send 'em to him... and if I have better scans than he does, I'll send those too.

Dunno if he'll like the watermark, but oh well. If it helps keep poachers from selling printouts on eBay then good.

RJ
 
Cool I always poke on there for test equip related stuff. Not the end-all and I'm sure there's other resources but he has a LOT in there!
 
I have some TF-650s and the majority of the cards.

I can lend you some cards if there anything specific you might want to reproduce, but I'd think building a harness or a makeshift rig with alligator leads is probably easier for most people than bothering to reproduce an odd KK card for a b/w game, given that fact that not many people have/use KK units.

You should probably post this on the techtoolslist -- most of the old-school techies that have these probably don't frequent klov.

do you have a 309C card?
 
Scanned and converted the 2nd book of papers... Updated the list a few posts back to include all the pages that were scanned from both books.
 
Check in here may already have what you're trying to scan...

ftp://ftp.flippers.com/TTL/TestEquipment/Kurz-Kasch/

Jeff

Looks like he doesn't have these:

115A
174AB
209AB
232A
247AC
249A
252ABC
253A
254AB
256A
263A
266AC
300ABCDE
301A
302C
303A
331A
333AB
333AB (w/mod instructions for 3 other games)
336A
336AB
337A
340A
346A
351A (w/space zap)
352A
355A
360A
361A
362A
388A
402A
406A
6800 nop
8080 nop

I emailed him and will wait for a response.
 
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No idea... I traded for mine.

They are a power supply and controls in a box. There are 3 card slot connectors for adapters to plug into for adapting the box to hundreds of different arcade game boards.
 
360A Games LTD - Nichibutsu Rolling Crash - Moon Base.pdf

Hi
is there any chance of getting the manual as have just seen one of these and have been asked to repair the sound problems, trouble is there all seporate lm3900 which do each sound so at the moment i am unsure which ones do which sound, and for which game as there are 2!

360A Games LTD - Nichibutsu Rolling Crash - Moon Base.pdf

many thanks
Andrew
 
Hi Andrew,

This is the wrong thread for that. This thread is for the Kurz Kasch test jig and the adapters to use when testing boards. It's purpose is to document the test adapters.

For the manual with schematic on your game, try the ASCII archives.

RJ
 
oh i see, sorry about that, google came up with the exact link for the diagram i was looking for so i posted

very sorry (it wont happen again) and thanks so much for the help

Andrew
 
It's not a biggie, don't worry... :)

We aren't crazy about keeping threads 100% on topic around here.
 
Kurz Kasch tester project bump

Hey, I just noticed this thread. Ya it takes me awhile. I have a tester as well as several boxes of cards, quite a few dups I'd be interested in trading.
I started a little database of my own cards I can upload somewhere.
 
You are welcome to send me any PDFs that aren't already up on Flippers or clearer ones. Please do not watermark them, but you can put your name in the author section in the file header - using your PDF editor.

The 'official' Kurz Kasch site is:

http://www.flippers.com/kurzkasc.html

If you have megabytes then I'll let you post them on an FTP server. Email me from the web site link...

John :-#)#
 
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