Racegun Revival

[FastGas]

I mean a scifi version of the race board to allow for the specific switch. Are you accepting any tech work? I have a blind freeflow id love to see working again.

[DarkApollo]

Well the SciFi board only fits eblade grips, so you would have to take the whole race frame and noid off and change it to an eblade.

[FastGas]

I have a racegun I'd love to return to action. It is complete with a good battery. I would prefer to see it paired with an MQ, a 9v, and a SciFi. At the end of the day, people just preferred the racegun microswitch over the optic Eblade.

[Super Nova]

I'm not a purist so this is tempting and the OLED would be kinda nice.

[DarkApollo]

PalmVII.. and yep. I have one with the data cable. And if I get another serial port adapter, maybe Ill toss RIP on it as well since I have the firmware.

It was easier to use a laptop since I had access to a bunch of my previous known-good configurations. If I was at the field to final tune a customers gun thats all I was doing. I think I only used the Palm once during a game day.

I was blessed by the great Jim ‘Dive’ Walton (DIVEANX/JimatAPE for you OG’s around here) and have a collection of his personal effects. Mainly his RaceGunUSA hat, a jacket, and JJ’s (from RGUSA) personal halfblock (the red/black fade above)



I kind of feel like this is my spiritual purpose to revive Racegun, or at least supply new parts (and possibly new boards, Im still looking into the viability of that venture. The PIC16FL873 is still produced, though there is an updated 883 chip now with more cache). I am starting with new battery packs, data cables, chargers, kicker noids, and sears as they are the most commonly broken or missing component.

[mercpb]

taht's an OG interface right there, I dig it. I heard people used palm pilots with these? I worked @ a tech support call center for palm pilots a million years ago... never fielded any calls about raceguns sadly

[DarkApollo]

While I wait for the new battery cells to arrive, I figured I would plug in one of my old batteries and see.
WELL.. It is charging! I am still going to replace it with a new pack when they arrive, but for now I can mess around to see if RIP still works on Window10.


IT DOES! AND The Serial to USB cable I picked up WORKS!
SWEET!

[Super Nova]

I think just a battery but can’t test it without one so I don’t know if there is more wrong.

[DarkApollo]

I have one or two frames that I would love to have in working condition.

Just batteries or do you need other parts?

[Super Nova]

I have one or two frames that I would love to have in working condition.

[Painthappy]

The batteries should be here in the next few weeks and Ill be assembling and testing them.
I have all of the firmware and RIP on my Google Drive if you need it or I can help fix it up too.

Keep me informed then!

[DarkApollo]

On the board side of things, you should checkout the new Morlock boards - they seem to do it all and the gentleman who sells them is very easy to work with.

https://www.morlockboards.com/

Id really like to keep it pure racegun as best I can. A universal board would just take the soul out of it.

[DarkApollo]

This interests me greatly as I have a raceframe i'm in the middle of trying to figure out and most likely needs new batteries.

The batteries should be here in the next few weeks and Ill be assembling and testing them.
I have all of the firmware and RIP on my Google Drive if you need it or I can help fix it up too.

[mercpb]

Interested, I also have one hanging on wall waiting for me to.... learn anything at all about raceguns hah

It's nice to look at tho!

[EvilCreature]

On the board side of things, you should checkout the new Morlock boards - they seem to do it all and the gentleman who sells them is very easy to work with.

https://www.morlockboards.com/