Space Invaders Deluxe works again!

I got the boards back in the game last night, powered up the game, and it worked like a champ. I was pretty pumped, played a couple of games…I wish that I was into it. It is pretty challenging, and a really cool design on the inside, but there is something about the gameplay that I don’t think I would ever play it a ton.

Here is a photo of it working.

Car & computer maintainance and reading about a dog named Marley

Busy busy day. Dropped off my car in the morning for an oil change. We got to head home about the usual time, a little after 4, picked up the car and Sarah headed home as I headed up the street to Indyweb. They were the good old boys that we shared an office space with eSystems for a while at Sherman park. Mike said he could help me out and do a backup on my laptop harddrive, and for much cheaper than Best Buy or …

Putting WG4700 Series monitor in R-Type

On Sunday night I got the bug to progress with this.

I had to take a whole bunch of stuff apart in the hacked together Mr. Do! cab, so much so that I am not completely sure I could get it back together again after another month or so. I would more than likely probably forget.

I got the monitor out and the isolation transformer. I brought everything out by the R-Type, and took the nice monitor out of the R-Type. I gathered up my supplies and remembered that …

Space Invaders Deluxe Boards Arrived

I was happy to find these waiting for me tonight when I got home. I emailed my potential buyer to let them know. They would like to see some photos of the machine working again….naturally. I will have to try to get those to them tonight. But either way, it doesn’t sound like we will be working out something for 2-3 more weeks.

Jr. Pac-man truck progress

The truck continues to move along, but at a little slower pace than the beginning.

The last I heard it is still in North Carolina with the disassemble project they were working on. But, there is some good news for those getting games. There will be no new stops added, so hopefully the route it has is final and we can better judge when it will arrive.

I heard Rick is going to be out of town for a week, so I figure that the truck won’t even be to …

HP DV9225 Laptop broke, video display issue

A week ago when Chapman’s were down, my laptop screen wouldn’t come back out of sleep mode. All of the lights were on, and all indications were that it was working fine by the lights, but the screen wouldn’t come up.

I have an HP DV9225, and it was pretty high end when I bought it in February. But it is still brand new in my mind and shouldn’t be having any issues.

I spent over an hour on the phone, maybe two, with some Indian …

Nokes Photos Added

I added some new photos to our online photo gallery of Nokes today. Most of them are over the last month, including a handful of photos from when Chapman’s were down.

There are some cute ones of Nokes drinking water from a water bottle outside, some tandem photos of Nokes with Hunter watching out the door, sleeping, or hanging out in the car, and some of just Nokes around the house.