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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #80 on: June 24, 2020, 08:00:53 pm »
Pretty sure meth is in the West Virginia water table already so you may be out of luck.

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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #81 on: June 25, 2020, 10:08:39 am »
Nah my stuff is organized.  I keep the dead cats next to the jars of my own urine.  I mean they might come in handy if I ever take up drugs.... I'll need pee.

Let me tell you from experience that keeping your dead cats, drugs, and urine on the same shelf is a great time saver.  I tried putting my fan and arcade parts on the same shelf but it just got too cluttered.


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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #82 on: June 27, 2020, 11:56:20 pm »

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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #83 on: June 29, 2020, 09:13:37 pm »
Holy ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- - tomorrow is my TEN YEAR anniversary of being a member of this site. Fuuuuuuuuuuuu....
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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #84 on: June 29, 2020, 09:16:04 pm »
Holy ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- - tomorrow is my TEN YEAR anniversary of being a member of this site. Fuuuuuuuuuuuu....

Holy ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- - I've been here longer than Yots. (not that I've been as active)
I kinda assumed you'd been here forever.

EDIT: Congrats BTW   :cheers:

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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #85 on: June 29, 2020, 09:17:19 pm »
Holy ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- - tomorrow is my TEN YEAR anniversary of being a member of this site. Fuuuuuuuuuuuu....

Holy ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- - I've been here longer than Yots. (not that I've been as active)
I kinda assumed you'd been here forever.
Heh - I was wrong, it’s July 30th. But still. Ten years is a long ass time.
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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #86 on: June 29, 2020, 09:26:26 pm »
Lol noob.

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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #87 on: June 29, 2020, 10:11:24 pm »
You are both noobs.  :laugh2:

And you have both done a crap ton more than I have. I guess I just like to lurk....for 18+ years.  :dizzy:

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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #88 on: June 30, 2020, 02:03:50 am »
I was here when it was still the arpanet... just waiting for it to happen. 

10 is pretty big though.  Most of the people that we didn't get within the first few years didn't stick around that long. 

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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #89 on: July 13, 2020, 01:48:26 pm »
Happy 713 day


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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #90 on: July 13, 2020, 10:15:48 pm »
Happy 713 day


Just figured out that's the same guy who did "game over" sampling pacman noises.  I think I used the instrumental version in a front end intro vid before I realized that front end intro vids get old around the 3rd play.

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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #91 on: July 14, 2020, 12:43:55 am »
I feel like I'm far too Caucasian to be expected to follow this conversation. 

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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #92 on: July 16, 2020, 09:14:51 pm »
Well, after 5 years in a Houston garage, my component -> hdmi converter died.

You can get $26 hdmi adapters for original Xbox shipped overnight from Amazon.

Image actually improved some, and I was happy before.

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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #93 on: July 16, 2020, 11:44:34 pm »
Which one did you get?  I might be in the market for something like that. 

Been working on the house like crazy the past couple weeks.  Fixed the kitchen cabinets and sealed up all the holes for pests to get in, spackled any dents or holes in the ceilings, put a new floor in a closet that needed one and put an outlet in a room that didn't have any (old house).  I've got one more outlet to put in then it's just making everything pretty with some paint and TLC. 

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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #94 on: July 16, 2020, 11:53:11 pm »
This one.  Thus far very pleased with it, put an hour or so on it tonight.


https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0829V2HHF


Looks very suspiciously like the Pound cable.


While you’re fixing up that house, hose it down with bifen if you don’t have cats.  I had an ant invasion that disappeared over night.  Sprayed it into holes and then spackled over them. 

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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #95 on: July 17, 2020, 02:41:11 am »
Thanks... once I get everything set up I think I'm going to upgrade anything that uses component.  Newer tvs don't have them anymore. 

Eh ants weren't the problem.... While I've been getting everything ready nobody has been living in the house for about three months.  During that time a couple of mice got in and made a mess.  I took care of them but I'm trying to seal things up to make it unlikely to have any more. 

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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #96 on: July 17, 2020, 10:22:57 am »
I still can't believe I found this shroud on eBay. 




Just one small cigarette burn as seen below.


If anyone knows or has cleaned one in the past let me know.  I don't want to mess up the plastic.  My thought is just warm, soapy water.


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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #97 on: July 17, 2020, 10:33:48 am »
Only one burn?

I can add a couple cigar burns to make it look better.

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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #98 on: July 17, 2020, 12:27:59 pm »
Who were those ---uvulas--- in the arcades anyway?  I can kind of see it on a control panel as smokers are slobs that unknowingly drop globs of hot ash everywhere but to get it on the bezel.... they'd have to be active ---uvulas--- intentionally putting their cigs out on what is clearly a piece of plastic. 

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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #99 on: July 17, 2020, 01:33:26 pm »
I can add a couple cigar burns to make it look better.

How are you gonna keep that cigar lit with all that water in your basement?

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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #100 on: July 17, 2020, 01:53:43 pm »
I still can't believe I found this shroud on eBay. 

I saw your side panel cut outs as well, looking good.  Are you going full vector monitor and all?  I’m pretty deep in the vector stuff.  Got a couple of Amplifone clones on order and will be rewinding yokes, etc.  There’s also some other exciting stuff going on with vector generation of Mame.  LMK

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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #101 on: July 17, 2020, 02:03:55 pm »
You didn't tell me you were doing that ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---. I would really like to know how that goes.

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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #102 on: July 17, 2020, 02:08:58 pm »
You didn't tell me you were doing that ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---. I would really like to know how that goes.


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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #103 on: July 17, 2020, 02:11:28 pm »
I didn't know you had anything coming.

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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #104 on: July 17, 2020, 02:14:46 pm »
Yup, Amplifone clones should ship in the next month or two, as well as the Digital Vector Generators. It's exciting times to be into vectors.

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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #105 on: July 17, 2020, 02:38:36 pm »
Wait, what.  Go on.  Spare no detail. 

Type slowly.


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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #106 on: July 17, 2020, 02:56:42 pm »
Wait, what.  Go on.  Spare no detail.  Type slowly.

There's a guy on KLOV who created Amplifone clone PCB's and sold them for a brief time.  The project was taken over by another member and they are currently for sale.  You get an Amplifone Deflection board (chassis), and a High Voltage power supply (like a flyback).  All you need to supply is a 19"-25" color CRT (curved old school).  The last step is rewinding the Yoke (some folks will do it for a fee).

Links:
Amplifone clones:  https://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=439426&highlight=vector    (May need a KLOV account to access).
Rewinding Yoke video: 


In addition effort has been to create a Zector ZVG replacement (they run on DOS and aren't made anymore).  The same guy who created the above has been working on this for some time.  It is a vector generator that will allow you to output MAME video signals via USB to a specially designed PCB that creates the vector lines.  The best place to get information and updates is on the Facebook page:


https://www.facebook.com/groups/Vectrex.XY.and.Vector.monitors.The.Technical.Side/. (need to request to join the group)

Here's a couple of video's to get you going:





So much more I could write, but maybe better to ask what questions I could answer?

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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #107 on: July 17, 2020, 03:11:54 pm »
I thought the KLOV grumps chased him off. Which is the reason he started a group on Facebook

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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #108 on: July 17, 2020, 03:27:00 pm »
I thought the KLOV grumps chased him off. Which is the reason he started a group on Facebook

Yup, you nailed it.  Think you witnessed that first hand if memory serves.

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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #109 on: July 17, 2020, 03:48:33 pm »
Frikkin Facebook.... is everybody too lazy to internet properly?  (HowardC looks at his blog that hasn't been updated in a year) Nevermind....

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« Reply #110 on: July 17, 2020, 04:18:51 pm »
I thought the KLOV grumps chased him off. Which is the reason he started a group on Facebook

Yup, you nailed it.  Think you witnessed that first hand if memory serves.

Yeah I was there when it went down. That was about the time I realized that KLOV is more about preserving cab prices than preserving history.

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« Reply #111 on: July 17, 2020, 04:44:18 pm »
That was about the time I realized that KLOV is more about preserving cab prices than preserving history.

Thats why I like it here better.  Everyone is more grounded.

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« Reply #112 on: July 18, 2020, 12:53:21 am »
Klov used to be the place people would run off and snicker when they thought they were ripping you off on RGVAC, so it left a bad taste in my mouth 20 years ago.

Somewhere, probably in a landfill, is an RGVAC T-shirt I owned.  One of the most cringe things I ever purchased but that was back in the days before amazon was delivering PCBs and joysticks in 2 hours and anything remotely arcade related was cool.


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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #113 on: July 18, 2020, 02:15:20 am »
Yeah we've got some ---uvulas--- around here too (looks in mirror) but they at least have the decency to be upfront about it.  KLOV always struck me as a place where people would stab you in the back and then complain about how you got your blood all over their brand new knife.  There's good people over there too though I suppose, I just like hanging out with you idgits better.   :burgerking:

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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #114 on: July 20, 2020, 08:53:30 am »
I still can't believe I found this shroud on eBay. 

I saw your side panel cut outs as well, looking good.  Are you going full vector monitor and all?  I’m pretty deep in the vector stuff.  Got a couple of Amplifone clones on order and will be rewinding yokes, etc.  There’s also some other exciting stuff going on with vector generation of Mame.  LMK

Thanks Arroyo.  I had them professionally cut on a CNC machine.  I knew I wouldn't have the time or the patience to cut out the cabinet.  As far as the software goes I want to place the following Star Wars arcade games on it:

  • Star Wars (1983)
  • Return of the Jedi (1984)
  • Empire Strikes Back (1985)
  • Arcade (1993)
  • Trilogy Arcade (1998)

I have a feeling though I will only play Star Wars (1983) and Trilogy Arcade (1998) in the end.  So I feel like a vector monitor wouldn't be the way to go.  I do have an old CRT computer monitor I have had since 1999 and if it still works I want to decase it for this machine.
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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #115 on: July 26, 2020, 09:08:35 pm »
Been playing Magic Knight Rayearth and getting reminded why everyone hated Working Designs...


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« Reply #116 on: July 27, 2020, 02:33:11 pm »
New toy.


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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #117 on: July 29, 2020, 09:39:24 am »
It is incredibly easy to wind those yokes, (fingers get sore after awhile) Jenn probibally has done a hundred of them already, 100 turns of 24ga. Magnet wire, I do wonder where the math comes from however, it seems rather generic, and currently running some tests with a induction meter,, (and comparing some notes with Radiation Laboratory...however it does work, and those boards are the real deal...Not only Ampliphone clones but upgraded to drive larger tubes, With a smaller footprint...Yes that is worthy of some chuff😁
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« Reply #118 on: July 29, 2020, 09:46:31 am »
100 of them? Who are you selling them to?

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« Reply #119 on: July 29, 2020, 09:54:35 am »
Nobody I guess, Been experimenting with more and less turns with different ga. wire...And ultimately hope to make a 27" Tempest...Although right now like I say experimenting, and working on a 25" Red Baron...and just making tubes.