Re: Asteroids intermittent explosions

From: Travis Shire <boardjunkie_at_techie.com>
Date: Thu Aug 15 2002 - 11:49:13 EDT

Tried that just to say I did. Pulled one out of a solid set and no change. Also replaced the other 4 counters. It has to be something that is common to both the x and y axis. Whenever this happens it can be either a horiz line or a vert line, sometimes spanning a good distance on the display. I'm looking to the vector timer section next.

> Coincidentally, I've been soldering/desoldering on a couple of _Asteroids_
> boards this evening. Once in a while I see some very bizarre problems
> created by, of all things, the 6502 processor. Since this chip is socketed,
> and is easy to replace, why not see if that's the trouble? Tonight I
> replaced one that was totally dead; a couple of years ago I had one 6502
> that made the rocks jump around sporadically.
>
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