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 ?
View attachment 46964

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

 

[Retroman839]

Update
:
The quantum boots straight into arcadeos 2.5 Year 2000 release .

I have added compatible roms
But now I need to open config menu in the front end to update rom list ,

Só Thats my next plan ,
I’m also trying to fix a Aldine dos box 400 in 1,

Só I rigged that drive up and it boots to an error check psu !
Message .

On browsing the drive it is running mame 0.36 too what a coincidence and arcadeos 2.46
🙂

 

[Retroman839]

Did it!

And ssd works fine in the 486.

 

[BubNotBob]

Did it!

And ssd works fine in the 486.View attachment 47159

Good job. Thanks for sharing your journey on this. It brought back memories for me of building PC’s back in the 90’s and posting of blank CDR’s to kind people who would record the latest mame and then post them back to you. No fast internet in those days.

 

[Retroman839]

Yeh I was reading a thread from arcade controls from early 2000’s and people sharing CD-R’s for stuff.

I decided to look at a non working game box dos box 400 in 1 Aldine 2012 , aka Redbox . whilst I was on a winning streak that had previously stumped me couple years back and had the ide ribbon cable connected to look at the drive.

No image outputting ,
New bios coin battery , reseat ram etc.. new hdd..
Didnt touch cpu .

I had made a back up image of the drive with raw copy years ago and swapped new drive in but still no image was comming through to monitor from jamma harness .. só I shelved it .

Well I chucked the hard drive from this gamebox into the 486 in the cocktail and I got an error message up on screen not seen that before , which said “ Error check psu ..”


I swapped in a psu I had spare and bingo ! This one’s back now too bonus Haha
And they are both running
Mame 0.25 and
Arcadeos
And both have a program called
Sneskey also ?
I haven’t seen until now .


We got a little chase HQ using a joystick 😊☺️👍 but still just playable ..

No sound though Só

This pot got my attention and now a NOS vintage 10k pot
And sound is restored 👍😁

Last of all I got lucky with the dips pure fluke ..
anyone with a gamebox dos Aldine To clear the error message it requires
All dips down ( turned to the on position )
And it resets the drive clears the error code back to factory 😊👍 ,


One last thing to learn on the 486 arcadeos front end is how to rotate the screen for games that don’t have screen flip in the in game tab menu
Aka original dips setting ?

I need a hotkeys way to do it
Like alt +Carl arrow left or right for 90 degree left or right screen rotation or I can create a per game config file ( which I would Rather not have to do do 😁🤣..

All my original roms are oriantated perfect in tate mode.

My new roms added to the rom file are all booting up upside down facing player2

Quick tweak dip screen flip it’s fine but some
Games like bomb Jack dimt
Have screen flip ..

And in game config menu of arcadeos rotate yes /no
Auto or rotate left or right did nothimg at all ?
Só yeh still got to iron that little gremlin out ..
But loving some of the emulation thia dos ver mame can do especially Atari vector and b&w games, And williams stuff combined with sound blaster make the cab sound great 😁