Star Tech Journal

Issue: 1981-October - Vol 3 Issue 8

CRIM electronics
offers the Model VG-1 Test Unit
for color and black & white monitors.
This attractive, versatile, and portable video
generator can be used for on-location testing
or in the shop for troubleshooting all types of
color or black and white monitors. Color monitors:
select a Red, Green, or Blue video pattern for
isolating color problems. Select "All Colors" for
a white pattern; ideal for color convergence.
Black and White: unit supplies all power, sync,
and video signals to test/troubleshoot a suspect
B/W monitor. Model VG-1 comes complete with
operating instructions, and video cables for
direct interfacing to most all popular color and
B/W monitors.
$219 -NOW-
IN STOCK
Sample Listing of Model VG-1
Compatible Monitors
Color
Games
8/W
Electrohome #G02 Midway "Galaxian", "Pac-Man"
Motorola
Electrohome #G07 Atari "Missile Command", "Centipede" TEC
Wells Gardner
Gremlin "Carnival" , "Astro Blaster"
Wells
Gardner
Exidy "Targ", "Spectar", "Venture"
Centuri "Eagle", "Phoenix"
Stern "Scramble", "Super Cobra"
CRIM electronics
P.O. Box542
Pennsauken, New Jersey 08110
All units are guaranteed for 90 days from date of purchase. Please call for quantity discounts.
On prepaid orders, we pay freight. Dealer inquires invited.
609-667-0302
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SERVICES
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Midway continues to expand
field service department
MARCH "81
Midway "'Galaxian'" Substitute +5v Regulator • Atari "Battle·
zone" Control Handle Mod • Gottlieb New System 80 Service
Manual • Midway '"Pac-Man" RAM/Rom Location Code • Atari
"Missile Command'" Power Interrupt Mod • Atari "Battlezone"
Random Score Problem • Gottlieb Auxiliary Lamp Driver Board •
Microprocessor Troubleshooting (Part 3) • Midway "Pac-Man"
Degree of Difficulty Mod • Atari "Battlezone" Aux PCB Mod •
Stern "Berzerk" Service Notes • Cinematronics "Star Castle" V3
Roms • Atari "Asteroids" Switch Maintenance • Rowe/AMI
Turntable Maintenance Tips.
JULY '81
Atari "Asteroids Deluxe" Program Change Kit • Stern "Berzerk"
Joystick Adjustment • Rowe 44 7 Product Price Upgrading •
Stern "Scramble" Power Supply Modification • Gremlin "Astro
Blaster' Audio Modification • Wiring Diagram for Wico Manual/·
Remote Volume Control • Gottlieb Reset Modification • Taito
"Crazy Climber' Joysticks • Signature Analysis (Part 3) Williams
"Defender' System Summary • Midway "Pac-Man", "Rally-X'' &
"Gort" Anti-Static Cleaner Application • Williams "Black Knight"
ServiceNotes • LossofAIICoilsonBallyPins • Atari "Asteroids"
Troubleshooting Tips • Stern Joystick PCB Troubleshooting Tips
APRIL '81
Midway "Rally-X" Test Mode • "Big Computer' in one chip •
Seeburg "SMC 1,'' "SMC 2" Potential SPKR Damage • Williams
General Illumination Mod • Midway"Rally-X" Monitor Fuse Rating
• Midway "Pac-Man" Cocktail Table Static PCB • EartyWarning
(Field Maintenance Tips) • Rowe/AMI Number Conversions •
Exidy "SPECTAR" Program Update Mod (11 A-1 to 11 A-2) • Wil·
Iiams C8363 Master Display Board Troubleshooting Procedures •
HVL Circuits· Atari "Missile Command" Color Monitors
AUGUST '81
Midway "Gorf' Mission Self Test • Updating Older "SH P" Seeburg
Amps • Bally MPU Screening Erro, • Lost and Found Bally
Flippers • Midway "Rally-X" Ram Test Message Code • Stern
"Scramble" Joystick Notes • Atari Service Notes ("Centipede,''
"Battlezone," "Warlords,'' "Asteroid Deluxe,'' "Asteroids") • Bally
"Fireball II" Clamping Diode • Game-A-Tron "Space Bugger' CPU
Modification • Bally "Fireball II" Fuse Modification • Early
Warnings No. 3 • Signature Analysis (Part 4) • Exidy Service
Notes • Gottlieb Display Problems • Baily's Tech Quiz (Part 1)
• Midway"Pac-Man" &"Rally-X" Brightness Adjustment • Atari
"Asteroid Deluxe" New Program Feature • Centuri "Phoenix"
Upright Modification
MAY '81
Williams Service Notes • Midway"Rally-X" Static PCB • Centuri
"Phoenix" Options • Exidy Color Board Ribbon Cables • Up-
dating Older Rowe/AMI Phonos to Contemporary Prices • Midway
"Pac-Man" Joystick Monidication • Signature Analysis (Part 1)
• Atari "Missile Command" Diagnostic Tests • Rowe Bill Changer
Modifications • Gottlieb Coil Chart
JUNE '81
"Repair of Rock-Ola Dollar Bill Programmers" • Midway"Galaxian",
"Pac-Man" Substitute +5VOC PowerTransisto, • Centuri"Phoenix"
Modifications • Midway"Gorf' Program Change • Early Warning
#2 (Field Maintenance Tips) • Signature Analysis (Part 2) •
Stern "Berzerk" Credit Accumulation Checklist • Stern "Berzerk"
Joystick Mod Kit • Suggested Game Improvements • Colo, to
B&W Converter CKT • Texas Instruments Power Semiconductor
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Midway General Illumination • Bally 7 Digit MPU Modification •
"Hot" Centuri Service Tip • Midway "Wizard of Wor' Maze Test
• Exidy 'Targ" and "Spectar' Audio Amps • Baily's Tech Quiz
(Part 2) • Modification of One Coin-One Play Machine Into Two
Coin-One Play Machine • Williams "Defender' Notes • Midway
Card Rack System Compatability • Stern "Berzerk" Handle
Assembly • Midway "Omega Race" Features • Wico Joystick
Report • Exidy "Venture" Program Change • Gremlin "Space
Fury'' Cabinet Notes • Gottlieb System 80 Sound/Speech Board
• Seeburg Price-Setting Instructions (Part 1)
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by adding two more phones
to their toll-free service hot
line. And to further help out, 2
additional techs were assigned
to phone service.
Midway's field service in-
structors will have held 40
service seminars by the end
of the year.
Once again this year, Midway
will have a field service booth
at the AMOA show in Chicago.
Service books will be handed
• out by Andy Ducay, Bob Nor-
ton and their staff.
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