And... it's happening again! VectorWars

[bobbyb13]

Hey'all!
Miss the lot of ya.
Been entirely too busy with being an adult (which I'm looking forward to retiring from before I'm dust) for much fun but a confluence of occurrences has led me to need to build another figment of my imagination.

Too long I have had another of ArcadeJason's pcbs sitting in the shop without a place to stuff it!

I've been in a moral quandry about vector builds because the Pi4 version of Advancemame was sucking pond water on a few important titles- and then Mario made the Pi5 build work!

Thanks to Will again on being the motivator for getting THAT together, but then I was left with another controller/game/screen discrepancy that left me with an undesirable assortment of cabinets, and so...!

Looks like the Cosmic Chasm will actually wind up a Dragon's Lair (and a few other good laserdisc game) playing machine.
The previously Star Wars flavor AdvanceMame machine (that had a few swappable panels) is upgraded to the Pi5 image that works so well and will be a dedicated button and spinner vector game player (with a 26" horizontal franken-vector monitor.)

The NEW vector build will be the one that has Jason's Vector Wars pcb and it will live in this.


It took a while with a pencil and graph paper and ogling Firefox, Major Havoc, Vindicators, and ROTJ cabinets but I eventually arrived at something that will accomodate a Star Wars yoke and a big franken-vector tube build to my liking.

I have a new repro Star Wars harness, AR-II, raster power brick and additional toroidal transformer to make it all run properly.
Nice guy named John from over OTOS has put together a redesigned WG6100 board set that I am currently testing on a 26" 110° tube and it produces a really nice image thus far.
That may be the most interesting part of this build really.
Real vector monitors live!

Looking forward to playing old school Star Wars again- and Battlezone II in color too!

Keep ya posted in case you care to watch the mayhem unfold.
Aloha!