Phil Bennett

A TMS5200NL with corroded pins

How many legs do we think will remain when I remove this from its socket?

Yes and especially good for Windows

A box of Halfords Microfibre cloths

Excellent font choice, Halfords

The discs from the Galaxian 3 arcade game have speech on the analog track and music on the digital track. They're routed to different speakers via the outputs on the back of the LD players.

Oops, VARTA’d

16 piles of 5.25" disks, including various DOS games

A selection of DOS games and software from my childhood on 5.25" disk

It wasn’t cancelled AFAIK; it just had a very low production run as it was produced for the IDYA motion cabinet (see also Cyber Sterra)

It appears to be based on the NeoDanji emulator

The Galaxian 3 at Fun World, NH is reportedly operational again, having had one of its LaserDisc players replaced. Go play it while it still works (I hear they're open over the long weekend.)

YouTube video by Herb Alpert Herb Alpert's - Route 101

Happy birthday! Have fun and be sure to channel your inner Herb Alpert: youtu.be/7GCLdCu2vm4?...

A YM2151 rendition of Theatre Escape

A YM2151 rendition of Late for Work

A YM2151 rendition of The Gremlin Rag from the cancelled Atari arcade game

YouTube video by wexford1956 welephant and spikey bonifire night.wmv

Happy Bonfire Night! Be safe.

youtu.be/On9X-s2caOI

Bran FIBRE

It's that accursed California gravity

It’s called prolonged scary face and I’m afraid he has terminal silly

It looks like the PCX2 is used solely for its PCI interface, with the I-O DATA chip hooked up via the GPIO port. Good way to use up all the unwanted PCX2s!

In my day, it was Jason Donovan

Screenshot of Driller

Screenshot of Dark Side

I have been overcoming my childhood fear of the Freescape games by playing Driller and Dark Side (the primitive 3D graphics and sound were nightmare inducing!)

Looks like it's an InfoWindow 4055 display; possibly P/N 8575150?

IBM PS/2 Model 30, monitor and LaserDisc player on a cart

Close-up of the monitor

An interesting IBM PS/2 Model 30 + LaserDisc player setup in S6E13 of St. Elsewhere. Apparently this is the DxTer Clinical Simulator system, developed by Intelligent Images Inc.

Does anybody recognize the monitor? It appears to be a touchscreen.

Very accurate; glad to see it wasn't just me...

Alone in the Dark (DOS, 1992): The ghostly, static dancers in the ballroom that when bumped, turn into invincible, droning, coloured spheres of death that chase you around the mansion and insta-kill you when you inevitably get stuck on a door frame.

Toonstruck screenshot: Malevolands town center

Toonstruck screenshot: Arrival at Zanydu

Toonstruck screenshot: cutscene of a clown about to pop a balloon animal

Toonstruck screenshot: cutscene of Drew and Flux in trouble

Just completed 1996's Toonstruck. I can't believe I slept on it this long! Beautifully made, with well-thought-out, challenging puzzles, loads of charm and of course, the wonderful Christopher Lloyd. Pity about the abrupt ending (see also the game's horrific financial failure and cancelled sequel).

Galaxian 3: Project Revival Introduction During the late 1980s, Namco set out to create the world’s largest arcade game. The result was Galaxian3: Project Dragoon; a 28 player behemoth that debuted in April 1990 at the …

As promised, here's the write-up of the Galaxian 3 repair effort:

philwip.com/galaxian-3-p...

No, I’m back in California now.

Thank you. It will be investigated but I can’t give an ETA for a fix.