Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
Asteroids Restoration -- Hardware 100% / Starting Cab work...
Kevin Mullins:
CrazyKong is definitly a great site to help identify boards...... but sometimes the details of the board that is being identified need to be looked at. Such as in this case it may be a Phoenix boardset, but it may also just be Phoenix "hardware". Meaning that it may be based on a Phoenix boardset that has been modified. Note the small extra pcb on one side of the orginal posters boards....... that isn't on the pics of the Phoenix boardset. So it may still actually be based on Phoenix hardware, but NOT actually the Phoenix game.
Now there is still the question of why the hell it would be in a vector cab that still has the vector monitor in it. There is no way that pcb is outputting a vector signal of any kind.
And YES, that is the original vector monitor still in there to answer mcfreaks question.
I noticed it wasn't plugged into anything in some of the early pictures.....
Maybe this was a conversion in progress.
The only reason I can thing of as for the cab being cut like you described is that maybe it was badly water damaged and they cut it and replaced the side portions to fix it.
EDIT: Just looked closer at the pics and now I think it was just plain ol' "busted" and then repaired. Maybe it got dropped off a truck or something.
SavannahLion:
Interesting coincidence. There is (was?) a free Pheonix cocktail about an hours drive away. Got everything but the wiring harness according to the current seller.
Level42:
Now that is interesting: an Intel chip with an AMD logo ! :D Or actualy, it's the other way around....an AMD chip, licensed from Intel...
About the monitor.....am I missing something ? I only see one little PCB, is that all ? Is that the HV-PCB, and if so, where is the deflection PCB ?
mcfreak:
--- Quote from: Kevin Mullins on August 15, 2007, 12:16:20 am ---
Now there is still the question of why the hell it would be in a vector cab that still has the vector monitor in it. There is no way that pcb is outputting a vector signal of any kind.
And YES, that is the original vector monitor still in there to answer mcfreaks question.
I noticed it wasn't plugged into anything in some of the early pictures.....
Maybe this was a conversion in progress.
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I was already troubleshooting by then so things were getting unplugged as a test to see if it would blow that fuse. When I first powered it up, it had a good fuse in it, which blew.
mcfreak:
--- Quote from: torez on August 15, 2007, 12:08:18 am ---
--- Quote from: mcfreak on August 14, 2007, 10:18:34 pm ---So I just need a sanity check here. I DO have a vector in this cabinet right??? :dizzy:
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You have Electrohome 19" X-Y (vector) monitor.
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Yeah, I was 100% sure of that when i started bidding on it, now, it could be microwave de-cased and I wouldn't be surprised. This thing is amazingly interesting and very frustrating on the same token.
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