Archive for June, 2007
Happs and Wolverine Electronics – Limited Selection
On Friday I finally made it over to Happs and Wolverine Electronics. Neither of them had my 9 pin female molex connector that I need. Happs couldn’t even order it they said. On Thursday I stopped by and got a bag of free molex connectors, I mean a ton of them. But, not the style of one I needed. So, I guess that means I am going to have to try King’s, Meunier’s, or even Fry’s (*gasp*). I have to get the diode for the audio board anyway, so it should be a worthwhile trip. I am just bummed it has been so hard to find this connector. I have the pins, and I posted on both of the main arcade forums, but no one has answered.
Second instance of Mr. Do! doesn’t exist
I called Joe back today. Bad news. He said he didn’t have a dedicated Mr. Do in the warehouse anymore. He said business for the dedicated games has dropped with the newer games today, and they just don’t have any dedicated Do’s anymore, let alone the one I was looking for. I asked if he could find out who he sold it to, and he didn’t think he could. So, that lead is dead. And with it, for now, my project. I may find something else turn up someday, the problem being, even if it does turn up, what shape will the sideart be in? It is a double battle, waiting to find one, and to find one that has sideart that hasn’t been worn off completely.
It makes me sad, but Joe was very nice and I thanked him for his help, really good guy.
June 9, 2007
Today was an exciting day for Nokes, the important thing to note was, towards the middle of the day he was asleep. Yeah! for us.
Sarah had taken the great initiative to check on the two doggie training schools we had referrals to. In the end, Saturday morning we decided that we would just take him to the Beech Grove training and call it good. It lasts for 6 weeks, and is once a week on the weekends. I wasn’t able to go the first session, I already had plans during the time it was going on since we made such a late decision.
Sarah learned some new things, she also got scolded because of our dog’s behavior. Once for letting Nokes “greet” the other dogs, which was probably warranted, the second, because he was sitting in Sarah’s lap, was not something we would have known and probably was uncalled for. But basically the two things she brought back for herself, you always need to give a command to also release your dog, which I already knew from training with my parent’s dog Bowen. We also both learned about dominance, and some of the things to watch for, like your dog getting up on you in any form. His paws cannot be on you. We learned some exercises to train him to let him know we are in charge, but he is also safe to let us take command.
Then, right after class, Christine brought Lady over again for a play date. She dropped her off for the dogs to hang out for two hours. Sarah was there by herself for most of it, and said they did alright. When I got there, I saw that they were running around the back, and playing, mock biting at each other and wrestling. It was pretty funny how Lady just toasted Nokes in terms of speed. She is really fast.
Summer Indianapolis Super Auction
I was very suprised to see this listed on the Super Auctions auction page back in April. I had considered going over to Dayton
to check out that auction they were putting on in May, and they had another one the same day as the Pinball at the Zoo in Kalamazoo, MI. It seemed like this summer they are really making a push to get out there and make more auctions.
I very much think this will be a one time deal, and could prove very interesting. Robert doesn’t recall a Super Auction since he
has been in the hobby, so they haven’t been here for at least 10 years. I don’t know if they will bring inventory with them, reading their website that is a very good possibility.
All I know is that the project games in Kzoo, and some of the regular ones went for very little money, even more so than the US Amusement auctions, so I am really looking forward to this one. I am having issues finding someone with a vehicle that will be around, but that will have to just work itself out.
Don’t know what I will be able to post about the auction. I have heard that they are really weird about you taking photos, which I don’t have any idea why. I will try anyway, it’s a free country.
Update: The auction didn’t go down today, the website said “Auction Postponed”. I was irked to say the least, because the post didn’t come up until late Friday night more than likely, because I didn’t see it before I went downtown. I do hope they re-schedule, but I know they pissed off a bunch of people who came from 90 miles away or more. Especially with the way gas prices are right now.
Rob Carroll’s Mr. Do! going on ebay
Earlier in the week Rob Carroll put his Mr. Do up for sale on ebay. He was so nice to offer it to me first. He had put a new monitor and power supply in the machine, so it had some nice additions, and he wanted a fair price for it. But with shipping it was just going to be too expensive, so I had to let it pass. So he listed it.
This got me motivated, now that I didn’t know if I would know anyone who owned this machine after the auction was over, to give PA Gamewarehouse a call. Rob had found a name, and that is who I asked for. Turns out the name was a little off, and a little research on the site would have turned up the correct one. Joe over there asked me to send and email kind of detailing what I was looking for and going into more depth of what I had started to explain on the phone. I did so, pretty in depth, so hopefully I will hear some sort of reply back soon. He wasn’t even sure if they had that game in the warehouse anymore.
Finishing touches on Agent X kickplate
In some stage, it is finished! Whoo, what a ton of work. I might have reconsidered if I knew going in the amount of work this would have been. A lot of hours, and a lot of my precious time taken up on this thing.
I matched thickness on borders tonight and adjusted surrounding artwork. That sounds simple enough, but took forever. A lot of guides, a lot of dragging and adjusting control points. I also did some of the final stuff like make clipping masks and double check the thickness of the little repeating squares and the circles on the main border.
Now, I need actual dimensions of the artwork and to color match it. I have to wait for that info, but for now my part is done. If it takes awhile to get that stuff, I will post a final image here.
Cap kit for Sanyo 19″ Color 20-Z2AW
And yet almost another month gone. Today I finally finished the cap kit on the monitor for the Dig Dug, a Sanyo 19″ Color 20-Z2AW, or so the cap kit package from Bob Roberts says. I think it is a variation of the number, but the same idea. I also got to solder on the new resistor on the Audio board, and removed the other bad resistor. Now I have to figure out what I need there as my next step I would guess.
