Space Wars

Cine-Italia

1 April 2014

I never thought to find a Space Wars (it was 2006), let alone in Italian! It is not a bootleg but yet another F.lli Bertolino production. Yes, inside all hardware including wiring is Cinematronics but the cabinet (smaller than the original) has been made here in Italy. These are the initial conditions of the cabinet. Not so bad, not so good. Italiandoh and Kold666 were included in the package.

spacewars_100 spacewars_101 spacewars_102 spacewars_103 spacewars_104

Control panel

1 April 2014

From the aesthetic point of view I had to find a solution for the CP. I decided just to clean it and cover the damaged part with white vinyl.  

spacewars_105 spacewars_106 spacewars_107 spacewars_108 spacewars_109 spacewars_110

Buttons

1 April 2014

Actually the cab was not working. Monitor damaged, faulty PCB, one not working button. I don’t have any record about monitor and PCB fix but I took a picture of the reed relay.

spacewars_111


For people who don’t know, Cine buttons work with reed relay. The reed relay used is a glass case with two very close metal plates. 

reed relay


When a magnetic field is close to the glass case, the two plates attract each other.

…something like this…

Image11


Some old PC keyboards work in the same way.

Inside

1 April 2014

after cleaning…

spacewars_012

spacewars_013

Monitor

1 April 2014

wow, my first cine monitor in my hands… I find this monitor very smart. It is a very simple vector monitor (XY monitor) but has DACs on it. So digital signals arrive directly from the game board and are converted in analog signals directly by the monitor.

spacewars_014 spacewars_015 spacewars_016spacewars_017spacewars_018

PCB

1 April 2014

I started to collect vector PCBs years before collecting cabinets so just like in other cases (Tempest, Asteroids, …) PCB troubleshootinhg was not so complicated.  

spacewars_020 spacewars_023 spacewars_021 spacewars_022 spacewars_024 spacewars_025


And this is the sound board

spacewars_026 spacewars_028

Transformer and Power supply

1 April 2014

Cine (and Vectorbeam) Power supply is very peculiar. A lot of times saved my PCBs and monitors…

spacewars_035

spacewars_030 spacewars_031 spacewars_032 spacewars_033 spacewars_034

Another resto closed

1 April 2014

These are the pictures of the final result. I’m impressed to the total cabinet localization…  

spacewars_001 spacewars_002 spacewars_003 spacewars_004 spacewars_005 spacewars_006 spacewars_007 spacewars_008 spacewars_010 spacewars_009

fratellibertolino02

Other maintenance

1 April 2014

2007:

  • Changed one of the DACs and the related TL081
  • HV problems: changed TIP41C and the triplicator

2008:

  • The bottom was rotten and I did it again

2011:

  • Moved to the garage I have in Bologna
2017:
  • Stored in a garage in Milano waiting for a new show room 🙁 


Image13