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I snagged a destroyed williams control panel (see below) which had this
WICO trackball in it. I spent an evening to clean it out, since it looked
as though someone spilled a coke onto it. Now it just needs two new bearings.
I was gonna clean out the bearings that are there, but they're sealed. grr.
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This is the type of trackball that can be found in "Crystal Castles". If you
just put a bright LED behind it, it glows fairly well. Since this is going
into my Reactor when i build it this summer, I want to put a light on the ball.
(this image was retouched a bit to remove the flashlight which is lighting up
the ball.)
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This is the whole reason i made the trip. It's a Crazy Kong cocktail.
It needs some work, as there are video glitches. Art suggested that I
solder in new sockets, which I'll do once i buy some. heh. The monitor
is like new in the thing... only a faint amount of burn in, which is only
noticible when the top is off.
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Here it is open. You can see that the monitor support is kind of
haphazardly built. In fact, the monitor is not really secured at all. If
you were to turn this thing upside down, the monitor would just fall out...
not that you can... it's pretty darn heavy.
heh.
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Here's a crappy blurred shot showing the controls mounted underneath
the top. Most of the time, the control panels of a cocktail are mounted
either through the sides (Atari), or under the countertop (Midway).
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Title screen. These roms differ from the ones found at www.mame.dk.
Once i get a rom programmer working, I'll upload this romset. This is the
standard "Falcon" brand variant, which differs from the Falcon variant there.
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The Mame.dk roms have multicolored high scores.
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Gameplay. If the image weren't crappy and blurred, you could see
the graphics glitches. Each sprite is constantly in a haze of random
static.
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Art is also lending me the Fluke Micro-System Troubleshooter. This
will let me debug my pac programs on real hardware once i buy the "Pod" i
need to interface with the Z80. (around $100) Everyone in the collection/restoration hobby really is very cool.
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Unknown control panel. It's pretty hammered. About all that's good
from it is the plastic from the buttons, the cracking rubber grommet
from the joystick and the stick itself. I snagged it for that grommet.
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This is the Williams control panel I got the trackball out of. It
was a "Sinistar" in a previous (better) life. There actually was
nothing under the overlay, but Sinistar was the only game that had
buttons arraged like you can see in the next image...
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You can see the metal mounting plate for the trackball from this
angle. All in all, well worth the $20 spent for this... although I wish it were still on a machine with Sinistar in it. :(
It's disheartening.
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Art's roof collapsed in an old storage facility. This control panel
was destroyed well before then, but the water damage is pretty bad
on it too. I'd like to strip off the black paint, to see what game
it used to be from. I guess I'll do that this spring/summer. I
might be able to salvage the joystick from this. All of the leaf
switches on this panel (6+ of them) are bent beyond repair.
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