26th June 2002

Tis a sad week, not only am I having to sell PCB's to pay the bills (well the credit card bill anyway...) I've now found out that http://www.spies.com/arcade has gone offline :o( Which kind of leaves a GAPING hole in the technical knowledge that is available on the net. The site owner reports that too many people have been downloading the entire archive which is a good enough excuse really, bandwidth is expensive after all... Ah well, back to finding things out the hard way! Onto my own news, and that's that I've finally received my Outrun kit from the US to start restoring my Outrun cabaret, of course I'll document it on the site soon but give me a chance! I've got so much on at the moment - it's really bad timing, I'd really like to put a lot of effort into it and I'm itching to get started but I really have to prioritise... Also, thanks to the many people that have helped me out with the parts, you know who you are!!! :o) Let's just list the things I've been given for free by generous VAC'ers - NOS Steering wheel, NOS SEGA Outrun emblem, NOS Start button, very smart marquee with only a few stickers and NO scratches at all!!! And finally a coin mech (which wasn't entirely free, but hey!) Thanks guys!!!