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WikiLeaks

gipsy — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:33:28 +0000

This is the first time I’m not posting something about my Arcade or other hobby projects, but I think it’s important enough …. I’m not going 100% conform with everything WikiLeaks is releasing, I believe at least individual names should stay anonymous but it seems getting everything is better than getting nothing. I’m also not [...]

Pachinko

gipsy — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 23:23:34 +0000

Well, almost exactly one year since my last post … Simply neiter had time to work on my projects nor really felt like it. But now the fever is back But of course I started something new instead of finishing one of my other machines: Last week I “accidently” got a Nichijin Pachinko machine in [...]

Gigantor Wiring -> SCART

gipsy — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:21:24 +0000

Since starting the Gigantor Project I destroyed 2 of my 2 Hantarex Arcade monitors I was searching on ebay and other platforms, but didn’t find any Arcade monitors for sale, so I decided to add a SCART output to my Gigantor wiring to use an old and cheap TV as monitor. Today I finished all [...]

New project: Gigantor

gipsy — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:14:24 +0000

Yeah, I know I seem to be unable to finish one project before starting the next one Nevertheless I did it again. Since I bought together with a friend about 40 original arcade PCBs, I thought I’d need something to put them inside. First I wanted to use one of my existing cabinets for this, [...]

Convert Operation Bear to Mame cabinet

gipsy — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:26:03 +0000

The last days I was working a lot to convert the Operation Bear into a general MAME cabinet. As always I had more or less no plan what I was doing and just learned by doing. First I destroyed an old PS/2 keyboard and soldered the arcade controllers to the keyboard controller. The Caps/Num/Scroll Lock [...]

Operation Bear arrived

gipsy — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:16:13 +0000

And again a new family member Operation Bear is a shooting game from 1987 equipped with a lightgun with “force feedback”. The game is a bootleg of the Taito Operation Wolf. The case is in fairly good shape and electrically everything (except the sound ) is working. The data connector was broken from the monitor [...]

Falstaff Cabinet (contents) cleaned

gipsy — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:13:40 +0000

Finally I had some time to work on the Falstaff again. I used it to clean the electric of the cabinet. It doesn’t look like new, but most of the dirt is gone and you can already see the color codes of the cables again. I also don’t want it to be perfectly clean, I [...]

Falstaff Cabinet completely disassembled

gipsy — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:49:16 +0000

It’s done, the Falstaff’s case is now completele disassembled. Since all the EM parts are very filthy I thought it would be better to take the case completely apart. So I removed all electric parts from the plate: Afterwards the plate got cleaned: All images:

Gottlieb Falstaff just arrived

gipsy — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:32:10 +0000

Yesterday I fetched my “new” pinball, a 1958 Gottlieb Falstaff EM pinball. The body is in a fairly bad shape, one of the previous owners painted it totally in red, the back of the Backbox is missing. Electrically there are some broken cables and solder points, and a totally eroded main power supply cabling (220V [...]

Comet Repair finished

gipsy — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:40:53 +0000

Finally it’s done, all repair on my Williams Comet is finished. What’s still missing are cosmetic touchups, but I think I’ll skip them for the time being …