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| seaner:
--- Quote from: Wienerdog on March 24, 2003, 01:50:13 pm ---Does his cab run all the time or does he boot it up? If he boots it up every time, you might want to look around the internet for "prank" programs. Something you can drop on his machine to simulate a catastrophic failure. --- End quote --- Too bad I don't have any of the "prank" code I did back in university.. I could probably reproduce it within a day or two... I Replaced mouse.com on my friend's PC with a TSR that would twiddle the CRT registers at random intervals*. He wound up swapping video cards, monitor cords, monitors, and then took it into the shop before I let him in on the secret :P After that, he put a bios password on his machine.. of course this just led us to wire the password reset jumper directly to his 5-1/4" floppy drive door -- just reset the machine with the drive closed and voila, no more password. Man I miss the good old days :) *Of course, if your friend has a nice arcade monitor set up, this might not be the best medicine for it. |
| seaner:
--- Quote from: arcadepcnut on March 24, 2003, 12:00:19 pm ---:) This is a sad sad joke but my friend got me good last year. I want to get him good. Here is my plans. I have many many computer powercords lying around. I want to rig on up to blow his arcade machine power supply fuse. I dont even care if it blows his power supply. I just dont want it to flip off the house breaker if that can be avoided since that would give it away. I have plenty of fuses and even a powersupply to replace the blown one. I just want to go down to his arcade room and at midnight replace his power supply cord with my modified one. The next day I'll suggest we play a game. He turns it on and nothing happens (ora sizzle or boom or whatever happens when the supply fuse gets blown). He the will try another cord and nothing will work. I'll let him stress and tell him I think the monitor is blown and then tell him april fools and fix it for him. <rubbing hands together> this is going to be evil! :) thanks in advance for your help. --- End quote --- Oh, and by the way.. I doubt you can rig a power cord to blow a fuse. The cord basically has 0 resistance anyways, so extremely large currents can run through it unhindered.. you'd actually need to modify the power supply to draw more current to blow the fuse. Best idea I've seen so far is to break one of the wires in the cord.. preferrably the HOT wire... don't go busting the ground on your friend.. I remember touching an ungrounded metal refridgerator door once.. not so fun. Not to mention the incorrectly grounded guitar amp that would zap you if you ever touched the strings and a mic at the same time. |
| seaner:
--- Quote from: arcadepcnut on March 24, 2003, 12:00:19 pm ---:) This is a sad sad joke but my friend got me good last year. I want to get him good. ... --- End quote --- I must be in a terribly evil mood tonight... have you considered swapping the polarity on one of his yoke coils on his monitor (if he has an arcade monitor). we considered doing this to a coworker who was on vacation.. you can quite easily reverse/flip/rotate a monitor image that way. Swapping X/Y would be incredibly funny to watch.. especially with something like mame where monitor flipping is software controllable.. watch him troubleshoot that for a while >:-) |
| Wienerdog:
I'll repeat, forget the power cord and fuse blowing ideas. If you are asking the question in a BYOAC forum, I can safely say that there is NO safe way for you to intentionally blow a fuse and it wouldn't be funny if you did. |
| seaner:
--- Quote from: Wienerdog on March 25, 2003, 01:40:57 am ---I'll repeat, forget the power cord and fuse blowing ideas. If you are asking the question in a BYOAC forum, I can safely say that there is NO safe way for you to intentionally blow a fuse and it wouldn't be funny if you did. --- End quote --- too true.. by the time the fuse heats up and melts, it's probably too late for <insert sensitive component name here>. |
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