13 Responses:

1. Zach Fine says:

   3 years ago at 2:50 pm

   All those wires and my fear of not being able to keep a vector monitor happy have long conspired to keep me from buying an old Tempest cab. The Replicade Tempest has been a fun stopgap.

   • jwz says:

     3 years ago at 2:53 pm

     Gross. CRT or GTFO.

     • Zach Fine says:

       3 years ago at 2:56 pm

       Had I your engineering skill, can-do spirit, and also I lack sufficient available space for a full-size arcade machine.

       I'm a big believer in having a real vector CRT as well, I just don't have one.

       • jwz says:

         3 years ago at 2:57 pm

         I have been beating my head against this for 60 days, I wouldn't put too much stock in my engineering skill.

         • Zach Fine says:

           3 years ago at 4:00 pm

           I'd have blown something up by day 2 and had to order a new whatever part that I didn't completely understand how to install.

           • jwz says:

             3 years ago at 4:35 pm

             What... do you think I've been doing this whole time?

             • BHN says:

               3 years ago at 9:16 am

               jwz: letting the magic smoke out of things since the 1990's

               • dk says:

                 3 years ago at 12:36 pm

                 A close friend of mine is a real wrench-turner. He has a bunch of broken parts hung on his "Wall of Shame," as examples where he screwed up. Me? I made a cassette digitizing system out of a high-speed duplicator. In the process, I fried my DAQ. Taught me a lesson in the value of zener diodes, and added several weeks to the project while I trawled eBay for another one. If you could bronze a circuit board, I would...

2. NB says:

   3 years ago at 4:30 pm

   The third "Previously" link leads to this page?

   • Doctor Memory says:

     3 years ago at 8:49 am

     If you follow the loop of links through 12 times, does the green text turn red?

     • NB says:

       3 years ago at 6:37 am

       It does now!

3. robert_ says:

   3 years ago at 4:18 am

4. Eerok says:

   3 years ago at 1:36 pm

   You probably already know this, but the LV2000 is the best piece of kit you can buy for an Atari vector monitor. I've fixed about a dozen of these, and I always bulletproof them with an LV2000.

   http://www.vector-repair.com