Category: Williams
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Lithium Battery Replacement for Williams and other CMOS Systems
So you have decided to reduce the risk of battery leakage damaging your precious Williams arcade or pinball board by replacing the existing AA batteries with a lithium (CR2032) replacement. Great! Lithium batteries like the CR2032 tend to leak much less than alkaline batteries so this is a good generally a good idea. Note that…
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Williams Hardware, Switchers and CMOS
So this keeps coming up a few times a year, almost like people completely forget about how to use Google every now and then. Someone has a Williams 6809 hardware game like Defender, Stargate, Joust, etc. They install a switcher instead of repairing the existing linear supply (which is OK, people have their reasons), and…
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Bringing Joust Back to Life
So it came to pass that I ended up with three cabinets for $100 each. A Great Golf in a Midway cabaret, some Toaplan run-n-gun in a Taito Qix cabinet, and… A Joust(!) in its original cabinet. I agreed to purchase all three sight-unseen. When I get them all home, the golf game worked except…
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Joust Showing 1 3 5 and a REALLY Effed-Up Screen
[This was extracted from a large article about getting a dead Joust operational. I thought it made sense to put this part in its own post to help anyone else with a similar issue. This post may reference content from an earlier post, so keep that in mind when reading.] So at this point the Joust will…
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Joust With an Input Problem – 1st Player Always Runs Left
[This was extracted from a large article about getting a dead Joust operational. I thought it made sense to put this part in its own post to help anyone else with a similar issue. It may reference content from the previous two posts here and here.] …So now I have a Joust that boots correctly…