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!

[bobbyb13]

After trying numerous resizing and other digital hopscotch I still get a wonky photo- but at least I didn't get denied- again.

Working on making the whole cabinet as least obtrusive as possible (i.e. small)  but still fit a 27" tube if necessary and not fall over.
Seems to be most of what is left out here to scavenge for real monitors is pretty damn big tubes.

Looks even more Lilliputian with the pic squishing.

I failed to channel Euclid the way I had hoped (and my stupid idea required a ton of compound angle cuts) and even worse I discovered that the toe on the table saw fence was off- a lot.
Of course after I cut practically all the panels is when I found that out, so out comes the filler trick- whichbisn't curing now.
Joy!

[Ond]

Luv ya projects man! These problems won't stop you. I forget how to fix the weird pic squishing thing. Scott, what's the fix again? 
I'm looking forward to the christmas break for spending some continuous time on projects, especically in the company of fellow builder such as yourself 

[PL1]

I forget how to fix the weird pic squishing thing. Scott, what's the fix again? 

The fix that seems to work is to use just the width option in the IMG tags with a value of 1024 or less.

Sometimes things go wonky when using both width and height like this . . .

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[img width=768 height=1024]https://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=164992.0;attach=398363;image[/img]

. . . if you only use the width, it usually works.

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[img width=768]https://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=164992.0;attach=398363;image[/img]




Scott

[bobbyb13]

Hey gents!
Nice to see word from ya both.
Hopefully we ALL get time for projects through the holidays Ond and Scott thanks as always for important details.
I bet all my resizing efforts were still demanding both dimensions, hence yet still the proportion mangling.

We'll see if I can sand out this awful fill work in the next day or so and get back to the rest of the cabinet.
It's going to need an intermediate shelf inside to stabilize the lower box with all the weight of one of those big tubes.

And away we go!