Just started working as an arcade tech. It's my first electrical hardware job and it's pretty daunting, but I'm super excited to work on games. Nice to see you doing what you enjoy!
So the chip in the Tetris board is not only the same internally but also programatically identical to the other one in Millipede? That's wild. Also, given all the other chips and electronics that have lasted this long on the rest of the board, I wonder what it is/was that would finally make that particular chip kick the bucket (i.e. what preventative measure could be taken to keep the cabinet alive even longer). This makes me so happy. Thanks for doing what you do.
Yeah 99% of parts on older arcade boards are generic, and stock is either still available or they still make them new. The Atari POKEY chip is one of the earlier examples of a proprietary chip, used on a lot of their boards. I guess it’s basically an ASIC. And yeah, it’s not programmable. Later into 90s-present, you get both generic and proprietary chips that have proprietary code. People are starting to reverse engineer and reproduce some of them, including the Atari chip in this video.
Thanks arfink , Card readers are pretty simple. You swipe card, it charges you 4 bucks. There is a modem in the base for the cc transaction, then it’s also connected to the coin switch in the game. 4 bucks is 16 quarters so the card reader “pulses” the coin switch wire 16 times, giving the game 4 credits ($1 per play). All the numbers are easily configurable via web portal.
SMALL CHANGE ARCADE, I'm not understanding the differences between a RASTER arcade game compared to a Vector Arcade game, can you please go over what are the difference between a raster game and a vector game because the motherboards have different sections and the arcade monitors are different for raster and vector but I don't know what are the differences
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Entertaining to watch. Thanks for taking us along. More like this please! :)
Found you from strange parts! Love the channel will be following, love what you do!
Thanks! It's hard to put up videos and get work done (and pay rent), but I'm trying to put out consistent content moving forward.
Just started working as an arcade tech. It's my first electrical hardware job and it's pretty daunting, but I'm super excited to work on games. Nice to see you doing what you enjoy!
Came over from SP. Great Channel! Subbed!
cool video man! thanks for sharing!!!
Here from SP also, thanks for sharing!
Multiple audio streams? Sorry, my bad, had another video open in another browser tab. God but Chrome can be dumb sometimes.
hey dude, just found your channel. great content! hope you are doing well brother. looking forward to new content when you have the time!
So the chip in the Tetris board is not only the same internally but also programatically identical to the other one in Millipede? That's wild. Also, given all the other chips and electronics that have lasted this long on the rest of the board, I wonder what it is/was that would finally make that particular chip kick the bucket (i.e. what preventative measure could be taken to keep the cabinet alive even longer).
This makes me so happy. Thanks for doing what you do.
Yeah 99% of parts on older arcade boards are generic, and stock is either still available or they still make them new. The Atari POKEY chip is one of the earlier examples of a proprietary chip, used on a lot of their boards. I guess it’s basically an ASIC. And yeah, it’s not programmable. Later into 90s-present, you get both generic and proprietary chips that have proprietary code. People are starting to reverse engineer and reproduce some of them, including the Atari chip in this video.
@@SmallChangeArcade so cool. Thanks!
Sweet vid. How do you do your card readers, if I may ask?
Thanks arfink , Card readers are pretty simple. You swipe card, it charges you 4 bucks. There is a modem in the base for the cc transaction, then it’s also connected to the coin switch in the game. 4 bucks is 16 quarters so the card reader “pulses” the coin switch wire 16 times, giving the game 4 credits ($1 per play). All the numbers are easily configurable via web portal.
SMALL CHANGE ARCADE, I'm not understanding the differences between a RASTER arcade game compared to a Vector Arcade game, can you please go over what are the difference between a raster game and a vector game because the motherboards have different sections and the arcade monitors are different for raster and vector but I don't know what are the differences
your mic is too quiet