Dragon's Lair Fans - Arcade Lifestyle
General Chat => All the rest => Topic started by: Lazertron on March 24, 2014, 01:57:36 PM
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Hi,
I'm overjoyed to have found my way to this forum. Not completely by chance because I'm now a proud owner of a Zaccaria Quasar, and yours truly, Bela, provided me this great cab on Friday ;D
The Quasar was taken to its final resting place yesterday, which is 30km from my primary residence, but I managed to forget the keys and haven't even started her up yet - which will happen tonight.
I remember playing the Quasar at two different locations back in the 80s here in Austria and it (strangely? ;) ) has always been one of my favourite machines. When I saw on VAPS that one is for sale, I contacted Bela on Thursday and on Friday it was mine. Talk about short notice.
The Quasar now resides beside three dedicated Atari Vectors, namely an Asteroids, a Lunar Lander and a Tempest. I made a few bad, quick pictures with the iPhone yesterday which I want to share with you. I also have some 70 to 80 PCBs, but mainly I collect videogames for 8bit consoles.
I have no references in electronics so I'm a complete newbie in preserving them arcade machines and I possibly will ask many dumb questions in here.
See you,
Reini
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It was my pleasure to meet you, nice to see the Quasar among those awesome classics you have. :D
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Welcome Reini!! :spaceace:
Nice Tempest :-*
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Hi there, and welcome to the Zacc club ;)
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welcome to ALS :)
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Welcome aboard! :)
Lunar Lander, Tempest...WOW :spaceace:
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Welcome Reini!! :spaceace:
Nice Tempest :-*
Many thanks to all for the nice welcome. BTW, my 'nice' Tempest is missing some parts which I found out after studying your fantastic build-from-scratch documentation - I stole one of your pictures and opened a thread in the marketplace ;) Please advise if I should delete the pic there.
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Welcome to the party, Lazertron :)
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Nice introduction, nice cabs...welcome ;)
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Nice collection and feel free to ask, the members here are a great help :)
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Such a fine selection: 4 cabs and each of them are awesome!
Welcome Lazertron :)
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finally someone who introduced himself first!!! welcome to the board, lazer-guy ;D
and what a selection of games: asteroids, tempest, lunar lander!!! it could only go downhill from there with a zacc cab ... ;)
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Thanks for the nice welcome to all of you guys.
I fired up the Quasar yesterday and played it for the first time since the 80s. I really like the whole artwork of the cabinet and the sound of this italian guy :) The monitor display was a bit jumpy at first but when warm it stabilized. One bulb on the coin door needs to be replaced but else it looks fine. Nice machine this. I also looked through all the PCBs I have and even found a Zaccaria Scorpion one.
Now, the player select button on the Asteroids needs to be replaced (the cone itself is fine) and I have opened a thread where to possibly find one of these. I googled but to no avail.
Will keep you posted ;D
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Nice to hear that it survived the trip. ;)
If you ever want to sell the Scorpion pcb, don't hesitate to contact me. ;)
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Thanks for the offer but I think it's a bootleg board which probably won't interest you a bit. Will take a few pics on the weekend.
Bela, do you know how the interlock switch is triggered on the Quasar as I had to tape it down to have it stay in that position? Also, do you have a spare coin door mechanism as it is missing?
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The interlock switch has 3 positions, if you push it down or PULL IT UP, it is on, in the middle position it is off.
You just have to pull it up to the maximum. ;)
I surely have a spare coin mechanism, I will look after it soon.
By the way, we have a special Dragon's Lair Fans credit switch for the games that dont have free play mode. :D
(https://www.dragonslairfans.com/smfor/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=4107.0;attach=3062;image)
Some pictures from the Scorpion bootleg would be great, I didn't know that it exists.
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it could only go downhill from there with a zacc cab ... ;)
No problem Ully, I have a Quantum and Black Widow for sale, I wanted to give it to you for 100 eur, but I will rather keep them. ;D ;D ;D
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Thanks for the heads up, Bela ;D
Will take pics of the Scorpion on the weekend.
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Welcome a board.
For a newbie you have a great collection.
Congratulations.
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No problem Ully, I have a Quantum and Black Widow for sale, I wanted to give it to you for 100 eur, but I will rather keep them. ;D ;D ;D
totally fine with me, because i wanted to keep that zacc tron for myself anyway!!! :P
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No problem Ully, I have a Quantum and Black Widow for sale, I wanted to give it to you for 100 eur, but I will rather keep them. ;D ;D ;D
totally fine with me, because i wanted to keep that zacc tron for myself anyway!!! :P
;D ;D ;D
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Bela,
you're the best - package received. Will take pics of Scorpion soon. We're expecting a baby in August, so things are a bit... changed. How much more will change when it's actually here then ;)
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Congrats! ;)
There is also a small part in the package, I removed it from the mechanism, it was too sharp and there was a big chance to cut out the boobble wrap.
I made some pics, it is attached with 2 small screws, if you cant put it together, just let me know. ;)