by bruce » Mon Mar 08, 2004 9:02 pm
I just completed a tiny little project to run 40 wires from a socket that goes where the TIA chip on an Atari 2600 should be, to lines connected to a socket on a piece of protoboard, where the TIA now is.
What's the point of that? I hear you ask.
Well, the point of that is that then, rather than actually doing shit to my Atari, I can solder things to the protoboard, and run jumpers on it, so that I can get my Atari to produce stereo sound output, and composite video and S-video output. But I can still pull the daughterboard out, and put the TIA back in the original socket, and have a Plain Old Atari if I want.
What good does this do? None, really. But it's cool.
Anyway, part 1 is done, and nothing broke (although it's a really crappy snowy noisy picture right now because everything is still outside the RF shield). Which means I can move on to <i>improving</i> the A2600 when I sit down at the workbench the next time.
Bruce
I just completed a tiny little project to run 40 wires from a socket that goes where the TIA chip on an Atari 2600 should be, to lines connected to a socket on a piece of protoboard, where the TIA now is.
What's the point of that? I hear you ask.
Well, the point of that is that then, rather than actually doing shit to my Atari, I can solder things to the protoboard, and run jumpers on it, so that I can get my Atari to produce stereo sound output, and composite video and S-video output. But I can still pull the daughterboard out, and put the TIA back in the original socket, and have a Plain Old Atari if I want.
What good does this do? None, really. But it's cool.
Anyway, part 1 is done, and nothing broke (although it's a really crappy snowy noisy picture right now because everything is still outside the RF shield). Which means I can move on to <i>improving</i> the A2600 when I sit down at the workbench the next time.
Bruce