Jr. Pac-man delivery progress

Well, as I thought, things started late and slow, but finally some progress has been made. The truck is moving through Missouri tonight and probably stopping there somewhere. The loop is pretty grand, I would have to doubt that the truck would make it to our place by next weekend, but still, whenever it happens, it is an awesome deal.

Here is the progress the guy who is orchestrating the trip posted tonight.

Finally time to sell the R-Type

I think it is time to sell the R-Type. With the possibility of getting the Jr. Pac-man late next week, I will need the monitor from the R-Type, and I think it just feels like time to sell it. I can put it on the Mame machine. I can move the Pac Mame machine out, put a monitor in it and get all of the parts inside and maybe finally finish that project up.

I looked in back of the machine tonight and…no isolation transformer. I emailed …

Some days I hate arcade games

The Pengo board came today in the mail. I double checked my voltages, I was getting 5.12 V and 11.98 V from the Power Supply, and 5.01 V and 11.89 V on the traces on the board after the edge connector is attached.

I got in one game….sort of. The sound seems to be bearable, it doesn’t seem to be as loud so I may have fixed that. But putting it a whole bunch of coin ups will reset the game, and half way through my game when I lined up …

Lifting, Working and Vegging

The morning came fast after such a crazy night. I told my body the night previous that we would skip lifting. My body in turn said, “Fine, here’s a headache.” Then I decided that I was going to go in and try to keep excommunicating the fat, so I had to shake off the cloudy cabeza and get focused.

Soon after I got back I was supposed to be selling the never ending Dig Dug project. A bidder had won it on ebay, but in true Dig …

Pengo board arriving today.

I am pretty pumped, I hope everything works just fine.

I took the time last night to do some more cleaning that somehow I missed when I brought it into the house. There was still some dry junk inside the coin door area up front that I vacuumed out. I also took a look back at previous emails with Bob Roberts about what to do about the sound issue.

He said it was probably just a bad connection, that the pot doesn’t usually go bad. Just check the wires back to the …

Rangers blast 30 runs, set American League Record

Wow. I saw the score before I went to bed, but this is ridiculous. A 30-3 route of the Baltimore Orioles, and all of the big run producers by little known names that probably will never have a night quite like this one.

No one in the majors has scored that many runs in over 110 years, and seriously, who even counts stats from that long ago? Cubs scored 36 runs against a team in Louisville many years ago. Louisville, yeah, not been a team in a long time.

They also set …

Pengo board shipped!

My pengo pcb is back on it’s way to me from Pittsburgh via ground. It should work from what I hear.

I need to double check my power supply. It was fine when I looked at it before, but it is always good to double check. If I felt more proficient I would probably look at a switcher instead.

Supposedly the board didn’t have a chip that was fully seated, or a leg was bent or something. I tried reseating them myself, and didn’t notice a change. I was also really careful …