Space invaders 2

[Retroman839]

Só here is a cocktail I got years ago ,
Never touched it,
It’s got a 486 inside and a pc monitor.
Well taken kids out water shoots and a nice meal Só come home got a few spare minutes Só.
I went to have a sniff round it ..

And I found a cut in the power cable . Cutting live and neutral and it had been tapped over .

Só . Reconnected up and first power on the old ide is having a hard time ….
Lots of groning and moaning.
Nothimg . Says connect a drive and reboot ..

Só I decided to have another go
And second times a charm


I want to transfer this ide to a ssd ?
Any advice ?
I have raw copy ,
I guesss I need a ide to sata ?

 

[BubNotBob]

If you have a modern PC with Sata plug your new ssd into a spare ssd socket on your motherboard, assign the drive and format it if you have to. Then copy the image over, their must be software for this task maybe someone else could recommend. Then take the ssd out pop into your cabinet using an ide to sata adapter, I have used a startech which you can get on amazon, in the past with no problems. Job done.

 

[Retroman839]

Sounds cool ,
I will try that
I think this could be a very early mame.
Juno first is running perfect.

 

[Retroman839]

And sound blaster sounds great too.
Vid to follow

 

[Retroman839]

Hoping this will do the job

 

[Retroman839]

If you have a modern PC with Sata plug your new ssd into a spare ssd socket on your motherboard, assign the drive and format it if you have to. Then copy the image over, their must be software for this task maybe someone else could recommend. Then take the ssd out pop into your cabinet using an ide to sata adapter, I have used a startech which you can get on amazon, in the past with no problems. Job done.

I purchased this
What you think ?

 

[Retroman839]

Lock drilled on the cash box and replaced 👍,
Coin mech still needs work but 20p are working 👍😁

 

[BubNotBob]

I purchased this
What you think ?
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If your goal is to replace the cocktail cabinets IDE drive with a new SSD drive I was thinking of

StarTech.com IDE to SATA Hard Drive or Optical Drive Adapter Converter, Amazon £16 ish​

The one you have there would be good for making a back up of the IDE drive. If the old disk is working why not leave it in, they often live longer than you think they would especially if they don't get banged about.

 

[Retroman839]

Yeh I can do that ,
But I want to add some games ,
Just tried this I have

My pc didnt see it at all

Then on a restart my pc hung at boot splash ,
Like it tried to boot it 🤣🤣..

Star tech comes in post maybe tomo ..
Só I could Clone it to another ide then add roms ?

 

[Retroman839]

Progress
I dug out an old pc that has ide slot on mother board,

Installed win10 on a ssd

The quantum boots right up on this pc, I went into the hard drive , and has most of the roms I would have wanted on it but in a diffrent rom folder .

But I imaged the hard drive. ready now to put image on a ssd. The see if the 486 recognises the ssd ,
I guess it will be fine ?

O and it’s running mame 0.36