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| Mike A:
Look at you. Getting ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- done. |
| pbj:
--- Quote from: leapinlew on January 16, 2022, 11:49:52 am ---Huge fan of paperboy. I play it on a Star Wars yoke today and it plays great. It wasn't until Mame that I was able to beat Easy Street. --- End quote --- Same here. It was a very intimidating game when I was a kid. Guaranteed to kill your quarter in about 45 seconds. With the magic of unlimited freeplay in emulation, I recently decided to conquer my hang up and this game isn't so bad once you get the hang of it. I feel like all the Atari games from this era had some non-intuitive factor to the controls. Don't know how you do it, Bobby, but great work so far. :cheers: |
| bobbyb13:
--- Quote from: pbj on January 18, 2022, 12:53:50 pm --- --- Quote from: leapinlew on January 16, 2022, 11:49:52 am ---Huge fan of paperboy. I play it on a Star Wars yoke today and it plays great. It wasn't until Mame that I was able to beat Easy Street. --- End quote --- Same here. It was a very intimidating game when I was a kid. Guaranteed to kill your quarter in about 45 seconds. With the magic of unlimited freeplay in emulation, I recently decided to conquer my hang up and this game isn't so bad once you get the hang of it. I feel like all the Atari games from this era had some non-intuitive factor to the controls. Don't know how you do it, Bobby, but great work so far. :cheers: --- End quote --- Flattered Jim, thank you. And apart from trying to utilize numerous techniques and materials I have seen/learned here I believe it is all Mai Tais, insomnia, and unbridled childish obsession. :lol This is a great (albeit occassionally frustrating) hobby. |
| bobbyb13:
--- Quote from: Jimbo on January 18, 2022, 10:02:48 am ---Great stuff! I have an original paperboy cab so if you need any dimensions/photos/info, let me know! --- End quote --- Thanks Jimbo! And so my first question! What does the base on your cab involve, i.e. casters, leg levelers, nylon feet...? And what is height from the floor to the lowermost panel of it? I think I may have mine set too high for being able to use with a gas pedal and yoke for Road Blasters if I made a second panel. Not sure if Atari altered the heights of these cabs based on this (since the box is obviously identical.) |
| bobbyb13:
And... I was wrong about the Road Blasters cabinet anyway. I thought since it was released after Paperboy that it was a System 2 game, but nooooo! Maybe I'll need to make a System 1 cabinet for Road Blasters >:D Anyway, I forced some more time to work on this again today (too hot to cut the ocean of grass, too humid for my drywall mud to fully kick.) :) I was dreading dealing with the coin box because it was going to be so weird, but I was just being a sissy. It DID however require some fun with ridiculous angles. For all those making this ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- up as they go along (like me!) you NEED to own these things. Bevel square and sharp pencil a necessity of course, but this True Angle thing is awesome in case you actually want to know what angles you are actually playing with. The side of the coin box (because of how I built it) has 3 weird angles so I checked those against my side length measurements a few times before I made a cut. I still nearly messed it up. I figured I should anticipate having a legit coin door and cash box stack in this, so I used the one I have in the Rush cab to measure for a porthole. Then I figured if I was REALLY good then I could use the cut out as a door panel while I wait to spend the $$ on a real door. So, careful plunge cuts first Then finishing out the corner radii with a jig saw. I have found that this really narrow blade works well for even tight curves and while you're cutting you are literally only rotating the saw (instead of actually pushing it around the corner.) As you twist the saw around, the teeth actually pull it around for you and you can get a really nice curve if you go slowly. A little sanding to clean up and think this will still work well as a temporary door. I clamped those three panels together to see how I did and it is actually coming out as I planned it. If I hadn't shown it before, here is the magic potion for filler that mixes and sands so easily. I use a digital scale because if you don't get the mixture spot on you can have drama. This aluzine is getting kind of old too, so it is more intolerant of ratio screw ups. Mix in a little of that brown microballoon stuff until it is marshamllow consistency and spackle it on! This stuff should have kicked by now actually (took a dinner break) so I bet I can go start prep for primer coat tomorrow before work. I bought a new (cheap) sprayer so hopefully it won't choke on some thinned out enamel. Find out tomorrow! |
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