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Strange color to Gauntlet alphanumerics
07 Feb | 05Haven't yet been able to figure this one out. The player stats on the side have lots of funky colors. The messages in the game are blue instead of white. Also the high score table has all the wrong colors for the text. When I put the game into self-test the screen turns red instead of white, and a RAM error is displayed but I can't read it because the text is black on a black background. Once I skip past the RAM error, all the self-tests come up fine, including the correct colors on the...
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Gauntlet motion objects (sprites) are wrong color with lots of sparklies
07 Feb | 05Hooked up the board to my test bench and found the motion objects were the wrong color and displayed lots of sparklies and other glitches. Replaced three of the 2149 chips at 12WX and the problem went away.
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Abra Ca Dabra: In Desperate Need of Restoration
27 Sep | 04Gottlieb Abra Ca Dabra in bad shape Progress of the restoration of a 1975 Gottlieb Abra Ca Dabra September 27, 2004 I sold the machine. I decided that it was going to be way too much work and too expensive to ever make this thing look decent. After all was said and done though, I did manage to make $2 profit! August 24, 2004 It's been a while since I worked on this! I kind of got sidetracked on other things (like fixing a display problem with Hot Shots and babysitting my...
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