Weekly update 4/19/09

Sadly, my last komputer went kaput and I was unable to get the new board up and running in time for the Wiebe chat, so I can't tell you how that went... Fortunately, it looks like the good folks over at CoSp are going to submit the chat transcript to GameRoom Magazine to be published in the near future. Speaking of which, I received my first issue of the magazine and absolutely love it. You can check it out at www.gameroommagazine.com

Well I have the new MoBo up and running now, just waiting on my new monitor, as my old monitor decided it wanted to crap out about a week before the MoBo did. All in All, not a good couple of weeks in the world of JC :(
Things are looking up though, new MoBo is crankin and new monitor should be here early this week. In the meantime, on a crappy rainy cold Sunday, I decided to revamp the website a bit, so if any of the links are broken, please be patient, it will all be fixed in time :)
Also wanted to add that I posted my Ardac C-Series Change Machine conversion on the site in case anyone with a similar machine was looking to do the same modification, or if anyone was looking for a low cost token dispenser. To me it helps keep the whole authentic arcade ambiance thing going... plus, it sure beats having a bucket of tokens laying around IMHO :)
Started the cleaning process that is going to be the last thing I need to do before remodeling the "workshop" into the "Arcade Room." There's a lot of crap out there that just has to go. I'll be posting the "Before" pictures soon... hopefully it won't take too long before I have "After" pics.

That's about all for right now...

Steve Wiebe Chat on CoinOpSpace.com

From CoinOpSpace.com:
You all know Steve Wiebe, now chat with him live! Steve Wiebe was one of the stars in the documentary The King of Kong, which pitted him against Billy Mitchell for the best score in the world one of the most popular games every, Donkey Kong. Steve was the first player to record a score of over one million points on Donkey Kong and currently is second, looking to again overtake Billy Mitchell for the top score.

Chat is Scheduled for 7:00 PM PST

More information here

Belleville Auction one of the worst ever...

No idea why, I would think bad economy, but the prices did not reflect that...
Prices were off the chart, and there were hardly any vids there, let alone any good ones...
I posted the results on my site Here in case you want to see for yourself, and the good people over at CoinOpSpace.com hosted some Pictures that were taken at the preview by KLOV forum member Mongo.

As for me I did get one of the things I set out to get as I picked up a Change Machine for $40, and ended up picking up an unusual Stern/Seeberg jukebox for $40 as well. I will post pictures soon...

Edit, here is some pictures of the juke and change machine.