Author Topic: Atari Dominos - SOLD (Read 19285 times)

Level42 · « **Reply #40 on:** August 31, 2005, 01:36:55 pm »

Hi Rohan, thanks.

I'll make a picture asap. The buttons....still gotta check them out. They feel like leafs, definitly no microswitches (no clicks). I don't think I need to replace them.

WIll post with more info...

RayB · « **Reply #41 on:** August 31, 2005, 03:52:21 pm »

The buttons are not leafs. They are actually like the "safety switches" you find just inside arcade cabinet doors. Know what I mean? The kind of switch in a cab you can push in or pull out for the power. But here obviously they only push in.

Level42 · « **Reply #42 on:** September 01, 2005, 05:54:07 pm »

Yeah checked it and you're right. And these switches are microswitches really....
Kinda early game with microswitches, could this be a first ??

Still gotta take that marquee shot, will do tomorrow...

paigeoliver · « **Reply #43 on:** September 01, 2005, 08:14:40 pm »

Quote from: Level42 on September 01, 2005, 05:54:07 pm

Yeah checked it and you're right. And these switches are microswitches really....
Kinda early game with microswitches, could this be a first ??

Still gotta take that marquee shot, will do tomorrow...

Microswitches were used in games from the very beginning. It is just that leaf switches were more common.

Level42 · « **Reply #44 on:** September 02, 2005, 02:16:04 pm »

OK I always thought leafs were first because they came from the pinball machines...
So what switches does computerspace use ?

RayB · « **Reply #45 on:** September 02, 2005, 02:21:56 pm »

Oh great. Is this thread going to degenerate into a pointless debate?

Here's what the next post likely would say:

Guy #1: "Pinballs used leaf-switches long before microswitches were ever invented!"

Guy #2: "Yeah but I am only talking about VIDEO games"

Guy #1: "Yeah ok I'd agree with you there"

Guy #3: "No you're wrong, here's proof <link to a page on KLOV>"

Guy #2: "Yeah but this game came out before that: <link to another page on KLOV>"

Guy #4: "That game uses a trackball, it doesn't even have buttons"

Guy #2: "Oops. My bad"

....etc...

Hopefully I've pre-empted about 5 or 6 pointless messages from being posted.

ChadTower · « **Reply #46 on:** September 02, 2005, 02:29:54 pm »

Solenoids.

Level42 · « **Reply #47 on:** September 04, 2005, 10:35:40 am »

Uh....sorry RayB.....I just was curious. I consider computerspace as the first arcade videogame (I may be wrong but KLOV indicates it that way, just like most other sources)....don't care about it that much. I just _assumed_ that the leafs were used earlier than microswitches. It was not an opinion.

And I'm still kinda new here so I probably missed those kind of conversations earlier.

paigeoliver · « **Reply #48 on:** September 05, 2005, 01:08:19 am »

Both types of switches predate video arcade games altogether, thus both types were used from the very beginning (although the classic "cherry" microswitches did not see much use until the late 70s, but other microswitch buttons were used from the beginning).

Level42 · « **Reply #49 on:** September 08, 2005, 07:57:45 am »

Finaly the straight-on marquee shot. The little light part top left is a lamp reflection.

RayB · « **Reply #50 on:** September 08, 2005, 10:59:42 am »

So... what are you gonna do with that marquee and marquee brackets? ;-)

Level42 · « **Reply #51 on:** September 08, 2005, 11:22:12 am »

Still not sure yet Ray...Rohan requested this picture so I made it

I will also make some detail shots so you can see the condition better....

On one side I would like to help you out and make 1 good working machine of our two domino's, on the other side I really like the cab itself. I think I will give it a year or so to find a PCB. As a last resort I can still respectfully Mame it.

Do you know what happened to that Dominos on Ebay ?

RayB · « **Reply #52 on:** September 08, 2005, 12:59:44 pm »

It had a bid, so I guess it's gone.

paigeoliver · « **Reply #53 on:** September 09, 2005, 02:21:30 am »

Quote from: Level42 on September 08, 2005, 11:22:12 am

Still not sure yet Ray...Rohan requested this picture so I made it

I will also make some detail shots so you can see the condition better....

On one side I would like to help you out and make 1 good working machine of our two domino's, on the other side I really like the cab itself. I think I will give it a year or so to find a PCB. As a last resort I can still respectfully Mame it.

Do you know what happened to that Dominos on Ebay ?

Well, the cabinet itself survives when you make one good game out of two lesser ones, so you could STILL Mame it.

Level42 · « **Reply #54 on:** September 14, 2005, 02:39:58 pm »

There may be a small spot of light......the Domino's PCB is actualy a much reduced (in chips) Sprint 2 PCB. So in theory it should be possible to convert it.

paigeoliver · « **Reply #55 on:** September 15, 2005, 05:41:02 am »

Quote from: Level42 on September 14, 2005, 02:39:58 pm

There may be a small spot of light......the Domino's PCB is actualy a much reduced (in chips) Sprint 2 PCB. So in theory it should be possible to convert it.

All I can say is "in theory".

Sprint 1 and Sprint 2 have the same PCB, I have examined the boards side by side, but it would still take a real pro about 30 hours and several custom chips to convert one.

And that is the root problem, most of those Atari B&W games had custom chips on them. To get the customs you would need a Dominoes PCB to begin with, at that point there is no reason to convert the sprint one.

I'd just emulate it before I ever tried to convert a Sprint PCB.

ChadTower · « **Reply #56 on:** September 15, 2005, 09:56:50 am »

Agreed, because then you've just raped a working Sprint PCB in a case where the goal is to save a b/w classic.

Emulate it, then if you ever come across a working Dominoes board, put that in.

Stingray · « **Reply #57 on:** September 15, 2005, 11:58:17 am »

It's not often that one gets the chance to agree with Chad and Paige simultaniously. I'm glad I got the opportunity to do so today.

-S

Level42 · « **Reply #58 on:** April 13, 2008, 03:50:25 am »

OK. So a Dominos PCB FINALY shows up on e-bay. Todd from Tnt amsuements was the seller.

Look for what it went:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120243212435&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBUAA:US:1123

I'm sorry but I couldn't justify more money than $105,- for a game like this. I'd rather mame it then pay so much money for the original board....the game just is too boring....

I'm still sad though. I really hope the winner has the original cab and needed this PCB like me....

RayB · « **Reply #59 on:** April 14, 2008, 11:18:18 am »

Poor guy.

Hey a local game collector here has MAME and do you know what game his daughter says is her favorite out of ALL that MAME has to offer? That's right, Dominos.

Level42 · « **Reply #60 on:** June 07, 2008, 06:59:45 pm »

Will mine ever look like this one ?

Ridiculous price though....

Level42 · « **Reply #61 on:** March 07, 2010, 05:10:31 pm »

I "sold" this cab. It will be going to a very good place indeed, the arcade museum in Denmark !

http://www.playright.info/museum.php

DillonFoulds · « **Reply #62 on:** March 10, 2010, 02:24:19 pm »

Did you end up doing anything else to it, or left as-is?

Level42 · « **Reply #63 on:** March 10, 2010, 04:30:15 pm »

Nothing at all..... I figured I'd need a PCB first to justify any work on it. Plus there were more urgent projects that came after this one.

Anyway, I'm glad I saved it (it almost went to some school who had a project with it, which most likely meant it would have been demolished) and that it's now going to a good place (arcade museum) in Denmark !


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