Diversion

I am ordering a degaussing coil to try and remedy a light spot in the upper right hand corner of the display.

While I wait for that I have two other issues.

1. I am getting a sound interface error on screen with no sound. More to come on that.

2. Joystick fire button is not working. I took the joystick apart and it appears that the trigger wires were getting pinched inside the joystick. There is a spring assembly that surrounds the wires, and it is pretty chewed up. I did some continuity testing and the wire has a short somewhere for sure. I will be fixing that in the next couple of nights.

While I dink around with that, here is something pretty cool. I found this site that has a PC simulation of the old hand held Tomy Tron game. I used to have this thing, and though it was simple it was alot of fun. The game had a smoked plexi shroud that allowed you to see the circuits inside the game.



Anyway, if you want to check it out, go to this site ( http://madrigal.retrogames.com/ )and go to downloads. Don't ask me why but you can only download from the Italian mirror site. Try Babel Fish to translate if needed.

Enjoy!