{"id":269,"date":"2013-02-16T10:19:50","date_gmt":"2013-02-16T18:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raster-burn.net\/wordpress\/?p=269"},"modified":"2013-02-16T10:39:40","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T18:39:40","slug":"269","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/raster-burn.net\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/16\/269\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing should have that many legs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The gross bracket situation put a stop to any work on Mr. Do, but I still had the G07 to drop into Centipede. That one went in easy since the cab is as it came from the factory and the Atari engineers actually gave a damn about ease of service. I brought the machine up and the monitor showed nice picture. Unfortunately, it was a picture of total garbage. <\/p>\n<p>I cleaned up the PCB edge connector with some Deoxit and removed all kinds of grossness there. Still nothing. Reseating the ROMs on the PCB was next. That got some results!<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>Still need to adjust the monitor a bit and do a proper rebuild of the trackball. I cleaned it up a lot but the rollers and bearings were neglected long enough to have rusted and the movement is quite rough. <\/p>\nngg_shortcode_1_placeholder\nngg_shortcode_2_placeholder\n<p>Said to be playable with that crust on the rollers. Must have been a way tougher game that way!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gross bracket situation put a stop to any work on Mr. Do, but I still had the G07 to drop into Centipede. That one went in easy since the cab is as it came from the factory and the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/raster-burn.net\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/16\/269\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,9,36],"tags":[157,174,173,38,23,158,164],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arcade","category-oldsthings","category-portland-2","tag-arcade-2","tag-atari","tag-centipede","tag-oregon","tag-portland","tag-video-games","tag-vintage-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/raster-burn.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/raster-burn.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/raster-burn.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raster-burn.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raster-burn.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/raster-burn.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"http:\/\/raster-burn.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/raster-burn.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raster-burn.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raster-burn.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}