Updates on Mr. Do! leads

I finally heard back from Mark Deroller, and after a lot of searching through years of past emails, he can’t find contact information for the people that bought his Mr. Do! over five years ago. So as of right now, I consider that white Mr. Do! lead dead. I am back to looking through links of arcade collectors sites, hoping to find a collector who has a website with photos of this Mr. Do! that hasn’t made a predominant profile on one of the major coin-op collecting databasing …

Mr. Do Illustrated Sideart History

Mr. Do is quite a popular, classic game. Play it once and you will be hooked. For that reason, it appears that any original versions of this game are hard to come by. The popularity of the game drove it to have one of the most popular and successful conversion kits ever made and as a result, most of the Mr. Do games you come across and conversions. I have seen a ton of them in the cabinets with the presidential …

Jr. Pac-man truck update

Well. As I thought, it is taking longer for the truck to get here than planned. In theory I may have had the machine today, but that is fine. I get to keep my money longer and have more time to try to sell the R-Type.

The main reason it is taking longer is the generous and expanded route by DanOfEarth. He is having Troy swoop way south to Atlanta and back up the east coast. My guesses are that he should be up to PA sometime in …

Christine posts finished

I got all of the rest of the articles Christine wrote transferred over, as well as a couple of the arcade sections like R-Type and Pengo and the whole A Movies section. I haven’t looked at what the movies are going to take just yet…I don’t understand why WordPress doesn’t allow <div> tags, but I need to figure it out for this section for sure.

“The Mulling It Over” page links are all linked up, and then I remembered that there were sketches there too, four pages of those. I will …

R-Type wiring diagram – Adding older monitor without isolation transformer

I am trying to make sense of how to wire up a spare monitor to my R-Type, so I can keep my Vision Pro before I sell the machine. The vision pro is a nice new monitor, and it also has an isolation transformer built onto the chassis. In the diagram below I have drawn what I already have, and how I am hoping to attach another monitor.

Bob Roberts said this in two emails;

First Email …

Photos of Sega Pengo Isolation Transformer

Photos of the isolation transformer. Pretty old and crappy looking like most of these from the 80’s, but how it looks isn’t an indication of how it works. I just need to figure out what voltages are going in these wires from the Power Supply so I can tie in a switching power supply instead.

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Progress on the WordPress Transfer

This weekend I finally finished the huge CSS Design section transfer, and also added in the Entertainment sections and have started piecing in the writeups in the comics section that Christine did over two years ago.

I am kind of delaying from working on the movies section, just because I know how huge it is, and how I want the graphics to transfer without issue. I have a feeling that will be difficult.

This weekend I won’t have much time to work on it at all, I might be able to …