Well I've spent two weekends fighting with the old computer, two
weekends messing around trying to make the video output work with a RPi,
and $60 on video converters, and I'm officially sick of it. I have a
converter board that claims to be able to output to the old-ass CRT
format the monitor accepts, but its VGA output only outputs, oddly
enough, VGA. I thought it would output
old-ass-CRT-through-a-VGA-connector, which is what the monitor is hooked
up to accept, somehow, through some kind of weird control board screwed
into the case in the least accessible location possible. There are pins
and wires on the converter board I have that MIGHT output the right
signal, but I'm not enough of an electrical engineer to be able to
figure out how to wire the damn thing together and I'm not patient
enough to try.
So if people want to pass a hat around to spring for a new monitor I'll
gladly help put the thing together and make it work, but I don't have
the cash to do it myself. If someone else wants to solve the video
issue I'll take on the software side of things, but I'm bloody sick of
fighting with it. So, that's it.
All my notes are on the wiki:
http://www.hackpittsburgh.org/wiki/index.php?title=ArcadeMachine
Simon
