June 16, 2007

Today we took Nokes over to Christine’s to meet with Lady on her turf. Things went well, it was playful. We let them out back and Lady just ran circles around Nokes and the barn. I have video of that. Then they came inside and wrestled, Nokes battled at Lady’s head and they kept mock biting at each other’s ears and head. They never really left each other alone until we took them on the actual walk, then they cared little about what the other was doing. It was short, …

Got the Frenzy home today

I had some help in getting Frenzy today at lunch, and I got home from work at a decent time so I got to dink around with the game a little bit. I called Joe in Chicago to hear his thoughts and talk a little bit of gaming with him. I turned the machine on, and got a white screen which means there is power, but there are some other major issues. I should be able to check that out a little bit more tomorrow.

Here are some photos …

AMP connector arrives from Allied Electronics

Got the AMP connector in the mail today, so tonight, I spent the night checking everything and putting everything together. I probably could have done all of the work I did tonight a while ago, but at least now, as far as I know there is nothing that should be holding me up. I didn’t put on the connector, but I put in the PCB boards, checked all of my connections, but the cpanel back on and the monitor back in. It took a little while going …

June 14, 2007

Nokes had calmed down since I wrote about how uncontrollable he has become, but he has also started doing some bad dog stuff, destroying things around the house. We are at the stage where he understands what the trash is, and what it contains. That has just been in the last couple of days, so we have to shut doors, especially to the bathroom. He is funny, I’ll hear dashing footsteps upstairs, and come up to find him taking out the trash to the main areas piece by piece. He …

Image of the Agent X kickplate

It’s been a week, and I don’t have dimensions just yet, so I thought I would post what I have. If I haven’t said this before, I will say it now. JPG quality is for the web, and is not representative of print colors. So keep that in mind when viewing, that and this hasn’t been color matched yet.

Jrok Pengo High Score Save Kit Released!

I was surfing last night and I saw that Jrok finally finished his Pengo High Score Saver kit back in late May. I am pretty excited about this, it has high score saving with extended tables, freeplay, attract mode, it can determine how fast the draw is of the blocks in the beginning, and you can choose which soundtrack you want. The last two options are paramount for me because I hate the soundtrack the game has now, probably a lot because I am used to playing it …

Finding electronics stores who carry my AMP connector

I posted in both groups about getting this connector, and no one responded. So, I decided to make an effort to stop at some electronic stores and find out if they had it. Plus, I had to get the diode for the audio board.

Well, I found out the connector is an AMP brand product, and I was able to get a phone number for Tyco Electronics, who apparently own AMP now. The part I needed is the female 9 pin connector, and the part number for this …