Category Archives: bavarcade

bavacade Update 1-19-2025

This week was pretty productive on the bavacade front by making real headway on the plan to start cleaning up the small things. I knocked out quite a few things on the list prepared in the last update: Switch Robotron 1P and … Continue reading

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bavacade Update: 1-5-2025

December was a slow month for arcade repairs given everything else going on, but I did make some progress. In particular, I was able to finally install the Scramble multi-game chip on my spare Scramble board and install it in … Continue reading

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bavacade Update 11-24-2024

I once again have a 100% working arcade, huzzah! Most of the work these days is shoring up the rest of the cabinets to get rid of any structural issues and put them on wheels. There are only two cabinets … Continue reading

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A Shout-Out to the Zilog Z80

As referred to in my previous post, I’ve been struggling to figure out what specific Z80 processor I need to get my spare Scramble PCB working. I had the main processor for the board, which was a Zilog Z80 chip, … Continue reading

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RGB: a bava.studio production

This post is long and full of images and text narrating the development of bava.studio over the last six months or so. It’s A LOT, so a quick tour in the video below might work for all you TV babies … Continue reading

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Scramble Re-assembled for a Second Time

The game that started the arcade project craze in Italy for me was Scramble. And I took it apart and put it back together for a second time this past weekend after getting it on wheels. Love this cabinet, and … Continue reading

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bavacade Repair Log 9-24-2024

It has been a while since a full blown repair log, but that is the upside of having an all but perfect arcade 🙂 But as Chinua Achebe notes, “things fall apart.” So on with the show… When I was … Continue reading

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Swapping Matsushita Chassis on Millipede (and a few more bavacade updates)

The big win for the bavacade this week was swapping out the existing Matsushita 19″ chassis in Millipede with a like-new replacement I got from Mike of East Coast Arcade Repair while in Virginia recently. It was kind of a … Continue reading

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bavacade Updates: Moving the fleet to bavastudio, Millipede Monitor Woes, a Rogue K4600, and Phoenix Board Weirdness

Nothing gold can stay. Those good old days of arcade perfection are long behind me now, and that became readily apparent as I prepared another 11 games for the move over to bavastudio. The most concerning issue is what seems … Continue reading

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bava.studio: Space is the Place

Yesterday was a big moment for this blog: the bava.blog finally moved into a physical storefront of its own: bava.studio (click that link and subscribe now!) 🙂 I’m not sure what exactly bava.studio is, or will be, but I do … Continue reading

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