Author: James R. Twine
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How to Sell Your Arcade Game
Correctly Manage Your Expectations Before you try to Sell your Arcade Game Something I see far too often are outlandish prices when uninformed people try to sell a game. I usually see this with someone that originally overpaid (badly) and is trying to make their money back or thinks all games magically appreciate in value…
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Sanyo 20EZ Video Inversion (Parts Kit) Searchable Page
On Bob Roberts site, there is (or was, if the link is broken by the time you read this) a scan of a page that details how to add the missing parts to the Sanyo 20-EZ monitor chassis to allow it to perform video inversion. Since the page was scanned and not run through an…
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Merit Megatouch 5 Issues
Offered to help out a friend whose husband had an upright Megatouch 5 (CRT-260 motherboard) that had some issues: Would randomly crash when touching the touchscreen Would randomly hang or crash even when left alone After left running for a little while (like, 15 minutes) calibration would “drift,” causing touches to track incorrectly After opening…
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Hopper Error (HE) on Sammy Aladdin Pachislo Machine
I picked this one up last year with a generic E1 error code for $50. Reseating all connectors and performing a master reset (reset key in and turned, internal power switch cycled, reset key removed) brought it right up. Been working fine for a little over a year then the hopper quit working. Display would…
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Understanding ASL Students Signing Songs
There is a big backlash with ASL students practicing by attempting to translate (note: translate, not interpret) songs into ASL. Much of the reaction is negative and often mentions things like how the translation is poor, does not make sense, does not follow proper ASL grammar, etc. And all of that might be 100% true…
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Outlook Taking Hours to Download Email
JIC it helps anyone else out there. For no apparent reason, Outlook 2010 started taking hours to download emails that usually came down in minutes. And when I say hours, I mean 3-5 hours! The app would remain responsive for the most part, but would consume 100% of a CPU/core. It would download a number…
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Dig Dug with Floating Pins
Going through my boards, I came across a second Dig Dug board. This one boots to static garbage and no sound. Watchdog is barking. Removing one of the CPUs gets different garbage. Tried replacing with a known good one, no change. Checking the pins shows me that a couple of the data lines, from…
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Roc’N Rope PCB Issues
Got an interesting problem with a Roc’N Rope board that I recently connected up to the new JAMMA test rig. It has all its sounds, and plays correctly, but the text and tiles (e.g. the title graphics and the graphics used to build the levels) are all upside-down! When the screen is flipped for cocktail…
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XNA Command Console (XNACC) Added to CodePlex
Well, I finally got off my ass and placed the code for the XNA Command Console that I have been working on (and off) since 2009. I think it is ready for a public release and is available at: http://xnacc.codeplex.com. Have a look if you get a sec.
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Manager Red Flags
(Attention lawyers and previous employers: the following information does not specifically identify a particular entity. You have nothing to worry about unless you think this represents you or your company and you know there is some truth to it.) As I have worked with a few different kinds of managers/supervisors throughout the years, I have…