Asteroids cabaret cabinet (1980 Atari) Horizontal Screen (Vector)

Asteroids. Classic. 'nuff said.


I've acquired a cabinet that started life as a MissileCommand mini. At some point it has been horribly converted to jamma. It's lost its mini marquee and had the screen and monitor position seriously messed with. Its also acquired a TOP marquee!.



This shows how it must have started life, how it appeared when i got it, and how it should look by the time I'm done with it.

Items I have:
mini cabinet (MissileCommand close enough)
Asteroids PCB and Regulator Audio
Asteroids mini control panel
Asteroids mini marquee
15" quadrascan vector (b+w) monitor (battlezone but close enough)
Power Supply Assembly for Asteroids (upright but should be OK)
Asteroids cabaret wiring loom (upright would do)

Items I Require:
steel trim from cabinet top (I may be able to get this fabricated)

Info required:

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A little research reveals that the missilecommand and asteroids monitor assembly are of a diffrent design. Although I'm trying to build an Asteroids I've decided to go with the missilecommand design as I have one to copy. The vector monitor will have to be mounted about 2cm higher then the top of the assembly to compensate.



Some pictures of the restoration so far:

The machine's up and running now. Still got a few bits to tidy up and screw down. It's running on a bootleg board as my 2 original boards are toast. there's a small glitch in the monitor too. The spotkiller tends to activate when there's very little going on on the screen (eg when you get to the last asteroid) it causes a dead zone to appear in the middle of the screen. My battlezone also has a dodgy spotkiller (different fault) so I'll maybe shotgun the 2 together at some point.

Items Also want (non urgent more of a note to self really):
screen plexe (I can fab this myself if I have to). - DONE!
Asteroids / AsteroidsDeluxe MAIN WIRE HARNESS assembly
Regulator/Audio PCB assembly - FOUND (untested)
2 illuminated plastic coin slot inserts.
2 coin lockout coils and metal thingys the magnets grab + 10p mech.
Locks and keys
speaker
PCB retaining runners
coin box
T-Mold


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