Welcome to robotron-2084.co.uk!
Welcome to the new version of robotron-2084.co.uk, this full rebuild of the site from the ground up has been at least a decade coming but I hope you find it worth the wait.
For the new site I have concentrated on resources, on the documents and hardware sections:
Documents
This section has improved filtering and a search facility to help you find the manual you are looking for, plus starting with the schematics for Defender, Stargate, Robotron, Joust and Sinistar I have re-scanned my original manuals in 300dpi, they have also been retouched by hand and any known errors have been fixed to ensure that they are the best possible readability and quality. If you have any relevant manuals that would benefit from being hosted here please get in touch via the form on the Contact page.
More high resolution manual re-scans coming soonTM.
Hardware
This section has been completely re-written from scratch with all new images of both the front and the back of PCBs, it also links to schematics for just the PCB in question rather than a whole package. SLICE logic analyser projects and other resources related to that PCB are also shown (where available). It will also cross reference a PCB to 100% compatible alternate PCBs that will work in its place. The library of boardsets supported has also been expanded from just Williams games to include all variants of Space Invaders as well.
I plan to expand this further and add every boardset that comes across my bench from this point forward.
There are also individual document and hardware pages filtered by manufacturer and/or game.
Much of the rest of the old site content remains including many tech articles for Williams games and the Robotron Cocktail owners list which have all been rewritten for the new site with all new images.
If you find any broken links or other issues with the new website please get in touch via the form on the Contact page.
Latest Updates
Added images of a prototype/sample game Defender boardset that I recently fixed. There are some differences between this and production games:
The CPU board has no green solder mask and the decoder PROM was previously undumped.
The ROM board has wire modifications that are incorporated into the production version
The Interface board has the normally omitted 4-pin molex connector populated.
More Manuals Added
I have just uploaded another batch of rescanned manuals mostly comprising Space Invaders and Lunar Rescue. This completes the scanning of all my space invaders manuals apart from the Midway schematics which I will do in due course. I also need to go through all the misc taito loose schematic sheets I have scanned to see if I can fill in any missing items.
Finally, I also uploaded the Taito Change-a-game flyer, this is a unique flyer where you slide an insert up to reveal different conversion games. The PDF has is scanned in all positions.
New Taito Manuals Added
New Taito Manuals Added
I was lucky enough to be loaned a large collection of original Taito manuals recently, combined with my own manuals I am gradually scanning them and post processing the scans in high resolution to give the best possible documents for download. Many thanks to Steve Larkins for loading me his manual collection.
This first batch comprises of Space Chaser (Upright and Tabletop), Space Invaders Part II (Upright, Japanese) and improved Space Invaders Part II schematics.
These can all be found on the Documents page.
