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I have drawn a draft replacement Lamp mask in CAD and I'll 3D print the replacements. I'll be able to finalise the size when the bottom glass is ready. Also given the size may need to print in sections. But doable.

Finished artwork ready to print For the last couple of weeks I've been working with the graphic designer from India. After close to 20 revisions the new artwork is now complete and are ready to be sent for printing on to glass. The top glass is less complex as there are no cutout sections, where as on the bottom glass for the reels or credit display etc. For the bottom glass I have taken measurements from the scaled pictures and also measurements of the reel locations on my existing Top Line glass. I've drawn a mask layer to be printed in black after the colour layers as well as the background layer thats a close copy of the original. The artwork looks fine and I won't know if its 100% until it is fitted to my machine. Once it's perfect, I can get some more made if there is interest. In the meantime, I'm pretty pleased with the results so far.

New glass and artwork As original or reproduction Line Up or Super Line Up glass is not available, I decided to go about sourcing a replacement. The biggest challenge is to recreate the artwork in a vectorised high resolution format to allow quality replacements to be printed on to glass. I plan to get the new glass printed by Olly at the Arcade Art Shop. The artwork needs to be created in Adobe Illustrator, I have a basic knowledge of the software but I am by no means an expert. In the past I have used an online marketplace called Fiverr.com where you post project, IT professionals bid for the work and take on paid assignments. Generally the graphics professionals are from India, in my experience the speed and quality of the work is good and can get a project to about 95% with revisions. Then I make any final changes needed. Cost is around £50 per drawing plus a few hours of my time to finalise. First step is to provide as much detail as possible, in this case I used a copy of the Line Up glass scans from this site as a guide and also provided high resolution photographs of key areas of detail to get as close a reproduction as possible. The pictures and measurements were provided by a couple of collector friends. Thanks to @Slotto - Duane Mark McLoughlin

Program card and Eproms After some research on this site I have learned that the Super Line Up and Line Up roms are protected with the CHR chip, so I would need a modified chipset as the CHR chips are not readily available. One of the memory cards that I bought was from a 2p On Line, it still had the CHR chip fitted but after checking that would have been from an Adders & Ladders and apparently they are specific the the machine so no use with the Line Up. I studied one of the posts from @Road Runner where he removed the checksum and CHR check routine from a couple of Barcrest rom sets. I dusted off my old eprom programmer and burned a set of patched Super Line Up roms from that post. Changed the links on the program card and they worked perfectly, couldn't resist a quick play. Need to get some Line Up roms working next.

I have always wanted to own a Line Up as part of my collection of the machines that I played in my youth. At the moment prices are way more than I want to pay. I decided to go about building a conversion for myself. For the past few months I have been buying some MPU3 spares, I have a main board, program cards and some reel sensors. I managed to secure a donor machine that I bought from @riche100. Its a PCP Top Line, I found out when chatting with Riche it was a PCP conversion from a Line Up. The loom was already there so it would be a case of fitting glass, lamp masks, reel bands / artwork and Line Up eproms. The machine runs fine and is a perfect starting point for my project. Thanks to Riche100

cool thats my plan to on red dwarf

how are you doing the lamp vac?

I may have a top glass for the above machine ,, the bottom glass was always the hardest to find ..

Thanks, I wouldn't be able to take on this project without the posts and knowledge of members of this site.

Happy days

Nice project and I’m looking forward to seeing the finished article. it’s nice that an old thread I did years ago is still helpful today. Barcrest did improve the security on their MPU 4 hardware by adding the lamp sequencing on top of the existing security measures.

That's pretty damn awesome dude.

Line Up roms There seems to only be one version of Line Up roms available online, I found a set with 2 files and then the various copies available on emulator sites that are combined sets into one hex file that have been built for use with emulators. I compared the all of the files that I could find with the hex editor and all sets seem to be the same origin. I used the example from @Road Runner and applied the same methodology in removing the checksum routine and the bypassing the CHR check. The assembler code makes sense but it's been a long time since I worked with it last. I patched the hex files in the same way as the example. Hex P1 searched for the CHR check sequence B6 30 00 and replaced it with AF A6 01 Hex P2 searched for the checksum code sequence BD 70 81 and replaced with 4F 4F 4F Then I burned the rom images to eproms and tested them in the program card, all worked fine and the machine booted and played well. From what I read these are not the original version with the bug that allows a feature hold after the attract mode. Maybe I'll find a set of these one day. I attach a copy of my patched LU roms as well as the stock sets and Road Runner Patched SLU roms just incase they are of any use for anyone. SLU LU Patched Roms.zip Thanks to Road Runner

Here's a video of Nicks Anyway Nudge mpu2 Which I played a few months ago. Brilliant machine The £2 version was called Nudge A Way

Paul I love your MDF and metal lamp mask hack that's awesome and whole lot better than the original plastic setup Great Job !