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Re: I’m getting addicted to the DVR feature

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HighNDry wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2019 1:09 am
WestTexasCrude wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2019 1:04 am
HighNDry wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2019 12:56 am
WestTexasCrude wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2019 12:55 am
HighNDry wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2019 12:46 am The laserdisc video games were pretty cool, though.

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Any idea on who was the old UJ'r that spent tons of money making those games whole again? Was amazing. Howie?
Maybe SpaceAce? He recently said he lost many of his games when he got divorced and is working on building up his collection again.
I don't think so. Maybe. Had all those old 70/80's standup video games he was refurbishing. Now that's a fucking awesome hobby.
It is. But it's a pain in the ass. The monitors in those things are ancient and weigh a fucking ton. And everything is wired to the motherboard. I have an arcade machine and the monitor recently started to go. needs a cap kit to restore the color/integrity of the graphics. Like having an old car. I'm a purist and I love all that shit, but it's much easier nowadays to get a cabinet with a PC inside that has 10,000 games loaded on it and modern monitor.
X2.. that's what i did. About 10 years ago my buddy and i built a few cabinets in his garage and just gutted a few old tvs, wired up some buttons and sticks, stuck in a few relatively cheap and outdated pcs and loaded up mame and had every game we wanted.. street fighter became a favorite and much time was wasted.
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JackRabbit_Slim wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2019 11:43 am
HighNDry wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2019 1:09 am
WestTexasCrude wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2019 1:04 am
HighNDry wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2019 12:56 am
WestTexasCrude wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2019 12:55 am
HighNDry wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2019 12:46 am The laserdisc video games were pretty cool, though.

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Any idea on who was the old UJ'r that spent tons of money making those games whole again? Was amazing. Howie?
Maybe SpaceAce? He recently said he lost many of his games when he got divorced and is working on building up his collection again.
I don't think so. Maybe. Had all those old 70/80's standup video games he was refurbishing. Now that's a fucking awesome hobby.
It is. But it's a pain in the ass. The monitors in those things are ancient and weigh a fucking ton. And everything is wired to the motherboard. I have an arcade machine and the monitor recently started to go. needs a cap kit to restore the color/integrity of the graphics. Like having an old car. I'm a purist and I love all that shit, but it's much easier nowadays to get a cabinet with a PC inside that has 10,000 games loaded on it and modern monitor.
X2.. that's what i did. About 10 years ago my buddy and i built a few cabinets in his garage and just gutted a few old tvs, wired up some buttons and sticks, stuck in a few relatively cheap and outdated pcs and loaded up mame and had every game we wanted.. street fighter became a favorite and much time was wasted.
Street Fighter was one of the games that led me down the path to having to quit gaming cold turkey. I basically did not stop playing until I beat Bison with every character. Col Guile was my favorite though followed by Chun Lee.
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CHEEZY17 wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2019 12:06 pm
JackRabbit_Slim wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2019 11:43 am
HighNDry wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2019 1:09 am
WestTexasCrude wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2019 1:04 am
HighNDry wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2019 12:56 am
WestTexasCrude wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2019 12:55 am Any idea on who was the old UJ'r that spent tons of money making those games whole again? Was amazing. Howie?
Maybe SpaceAce? He recently said he lost many of his games when he got divorced and is working on building up his collection again.
I don't think so. Maybe. Had all those old 70/80's standup video games he was refurbishing. Now that's a fucking awesome hobby.
It is. But it's a pain in the ass. The monitors in those things are ancient and weigh a fucking ton. And everything is wired to the motherboard. I have an arcade machine and the monitor recently started to go. needs a cap kit to restore the color/integrity of the graphics. Like having an old car. I'm a purist and I love all that shit, but it's much easier nowadays to get a cabinet with a PC inside that has 10,000 games loaded on it and modern monitor.
X2.. that's what i did. About 10 years ago my buddy and i built a few cabinets in his garage and just gutted a few old tvs, wired up some buttons and sticks, stuck in a few relatively cheap and outdated pcs and loaded up mame and had every game we wanted.. street fighter became a favorite and much time was wasted.
Street Fighter was one of the games that led me down the path to having to quit gaming cold turkey. I basically did not stop playing until I beat Bison with every character. Col Guile was my favorite though followed by Chun Lee.
If you haven't played Street fighter 3rd strike, you've never really seen the best of that game.. the depth and timing of the moves is insane.. some players could chain 12 moves together into unstoppable kills everytime. It was awesome.
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WestTexasCrude wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2019 12:55 am
HighNDry wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2019 12:46 am The laserdisc video games were pretty cool, though.

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Any idea on who was the old UJ'r that spent tons of money making those games whole again? Was amazing. Howie? Nah.
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Flumper wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2019 3:42 pm
WestTexasCrude wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2019 12:55 am
HighNDry wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2019 12:46 am The laserdisc video games were pretty cool, though.

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Any idea on who was the old UJ'r that spent tons of money making those games whole again? Was amazing. Howie? Nah.
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WestTexasCrude wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2019 3:48 pm That sounds right.
it is right.
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Flumper wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2019 3:42 pm
WestTexasCrude wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2019 12:55 am
HighNDry wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2019 12:46 am The laserdisc video games were pretty cool, though.

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Any idea on who was the old UJ'r that spent tons of money making those games whole again? Was amazing. Howie? Nah.
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I thought it was spaceace or something like that.
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megman wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2019 4:17 pm I thought it was spaceace or something like that.
there might have been more than one. But I know that TyX used to refurbish old machines. If I remember right he was building one that would play multiple "old school" video games. It seems like his idea was to create a universal machine system that you could put any game into.
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On 2nd thought, I'm almost positive the UJ'r we are talking about was not TyX (though he have been working on those type of games as well). The guy that kept posting those shots of him refurbishing those old arcade games had a static AV. TyX had the same AV for the entire time and you could describe it as the exact opposite. Flying gif with a "Speed Racer" type character, explosions, lightning bolts, etc.
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WestTexasCrude wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2019 9:18 pm On 2nd thought, I'm almost positive the UJ'r we are talking about was not TyX (though he have been working on those type of games as well). The guy that kept posting those shots of him refurbishing those old arcade games had a static AV. TyX had the same AV for the entire time and you could describe it as the exact opposite. Flying gif with a "Speed Racer" type character, explosions, lightning bolts, etc.
It was space ace.
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peterosehaircut wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2019 10:06 pm
WestTexasCrude wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2019 9:18 pm On 2nd thought, I'm almost positive the UJ'r we are talking about was not TyX (though he have been working on those type of games as well). The guy that kept posting those shots of him refurbishing those old arcade games had a static AV. TyX had the same AV for the entire time and you could describe it as the exact opposite. Flying gif with a "Speed Racer" type character, explosions, lightning bolts, etc.
It was space ace.
It was.

And I'm pretty sure TX was a girl.
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peterosehaircut wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2019 10:06 pm
WestTexasCrude wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2019 9:18 pm On 2nd thought, I'm almost positive the UJ'r we are talking about was not TyX (though he have been working on those type of games as well). The guy that kept posting those shots of him refurbishing those old arcade games had a static AV. TyX had the same AV for the entire time and you could describe it as the exact opposite. Flying gif with a "Speed Racer" type character, explosions, lightning bolts, etc.
It was space ace.
Yeah, instead of upgrading the old arcade games with more modern tech so it could play multiple games, space ace was only interested in recreating the past by refurbishing them with their original tech to their original specs to re-inact that 70/80's experience.
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If I remember correctly. space purchased tons of original consoles cheap. Like Howie, he showed the step to step process he was using to refurbish. Outer consoles rebuilt, repainted to the original. Video screens pulled to find out which ones were still working properly. How he found the ancient computer motherboards to replace the originals must have been a bitch.
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WestTexasCrude wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2019 11:02 pm If I remember correctly. space purchased tons of original consoles cheap. Like Howie, he showed the step to step process he was using to refurbish. Outer consoles rebuilt, repainted to the original. Video screens pulled to find out which ones were still working properly. How he found the ancient computer motherboards to replace the originals must have been a bitch.
Motherboards were easy. Interchangeable with most machines. It's the chipsets that were the bitch. But easily fixed if you had an EPROM burner and some know-how.
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megman wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2019 11:06 pm
WestTexasCrude wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2019 11:02 pm If I remember correctly. space purchased tons of original consoles cheap. Like Howie, he showed the step to step process he was using to refurbish. Outer consoles rebuilt, repainted to the original. Video screens pulled to find out which ones were still working properly. How he found the ancient computer motherboards to replace the originals must have been a bitch.
Motherboards were easy. Interchangeable with most machines. It's the chipsets that were the bitch. But easily fixed if you had an EPROM burner and some know-how.
What were the chipset's? Like an early version of "integrated circuits" used in early computers?
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For those of us that have worked multiple jobs over the years to get by, we have missed many highly rated tv shows. Now I work one and get a SS check every month.
Many cable channels run these shows from beginning to end of series, I’v Programmed this thing into next week to enjoy what many saw a long time ago.
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WestTexasCrude wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2019 11:20 pm
megman wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2019 11:06 pm
WestTexasCrude wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2019 11:02 pm If I remember correctly. space purchased tons of original consoles cheap. Like Howie, he showed the step to step process he was using to refurbish. Outer consoles rebuilt, repainted to the original. Video screens pulled to find out which ones were still working properly. How he found the ancient computer motherboards to replace the originals must have been a bitch.
Motherboards were easy. Interchangeable with most machines. It's the chipsets that were the bitch. But easily fixed if you had an EPROM burner and some know-how.
What were the chipset's? Like an early version of "integrated circuits" used in early computers?
Chipsets were the IC's. There was usually a few that were propitiatory to certain games.

I use to do pinball machines. The last one I refurbished was a 1979 Williams machine called Time Warp. It was the last machine before the first talking machine, which was Gorgar.

Anyway, when I got it the main board was toast. I got a replacement from a tabletop soccer game and replaced the chipset.

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Man, what was that 70's video game where nuclear missiles were raining down and you had to launch the defensive missiles. Intense.
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WestTexasCrude wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2019 11:36 pm Man, what was that 70's video game where nuclear missiles were raining down and you had to launch the defensive missiles. Intense.
If you actually read what I posted I said PINBALL.

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megman wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2019 10:08 pm
peterosehaircut wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2019 10:06 pm
WestTexasCrude wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2019 9:18 pm On 2nd thought, I'm almost positive the UJ'r we are talking about was not TyX (though he have been working on those type of games as well). The guy that kept posting those shots of him refurbishing those old arcade games had a static AV. TyX had the same AV for the entire time and you could describe it as the exact opposite. Flying gif with a "Speed Racer" type character, explosions, lightning bolts, etc.
It was space ace.
It was.

And I'm pretty sure TX was a girl.
Tx posted pics from his first marriage to the largest female I think has ever been shown on the old UJ. Being an Admin saved him a lot of grief except of course the fact he woke up next to Orca every morning
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Who wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2019 11:44 pm
megman wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2019 10:08 pm
peterosehaircut wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2019 10:06 pm
WestTexasCrude wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2019 9:18 pm On 2nd thought, I'm almost positive the UJ'r we are talking about was not TyX (though he have been working on those type of games as well). The guy that kept posting those shots of him refurbishing those old arcade games had a static AV. TyX had the same AV for the entire time and you could describe it as the exact opposite. Flying gif with a "Speed Racer" type character, explosions, lightning bolts, etc.
It was space ace.
It was.

And I'm pretty sure TX was a girl.
Tx posted pics from his first marriage to the largest female I think has ever been shown on the old UJ. Being an Admin saved him a lot of grief except of course the fact he woke up next to Orca every morning
I stand corrected then. Glad I missed the pics. :lol: :lol: :lol:
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megman wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2019 11:31 pm
WestTexasCrude wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2019 11:20 pm
megman wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2019 11:06 pm
WestTexasCrude wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2019 11:02 pm If I remember correctly. space purchased tons of original consoles cheap. Like Howie, he showed the step to step process he was using to refurbish. Outer consoles rebuilt, repainted to the original. Video screens pulled to find out which ones were still working properly. How he found the ancient computer motherboards to replace the originals must have been a bitch.
Motherboards were easy. Interchangeable with most machines. It's the chipsets that were the bitch. But easily fixed if you had an EPROM burner and some know-how.
What were the chipset's? Like an early version of "integrated circuits" used in early computers?
Chipsets were the IC's. There was usually a few that were propitiatory to certain games.

I use to do pinball machines. The last one I refurbished was a 1979 Williams machine called Time Warp. It was the last machine before the first talking machine, which was Gorgar.

Anyway, when I got it the main board was toast. I got a replacement from a tabletop soccer game and replaced the chipset.

"Divided by 10" Scoring PinMAME Romset (L-2) [Ted Estes]
Game ROM L-2 [Williams Electronics]
PinMAME Romset (L-2)
Awesome. That had to be a very fun hobby. If I'm not mistaken, space ace even insisted that his consoles had to to have the quarter slots intact and working to remind us all of us feeding the machine - weekly wages drained away. Oh. the good times.
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WestTexasCrude wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2019 9:18 pm On 2nd thought, I'm almost positive the UJ'r we are talking about was not TyX (though he have been working on those type of games as well). The guy that kept posting those shots of him refurbishing those old arcade games had a static AV. TyX had the same AV for the entire time and you could describe it as the exact opposite. Flying gif with a "Speed Racer" type character, explosions, lightning bolts, etc.
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