Re: Quad pokey frustration, Major Havoc sound problems

From: Jon Raiford <raiford_at_mindspring.com>
Date: Mon Oct 20 2003 - 11:34:13 EDT

If you want a replacement QPE, Mark Spaeth made a bunch at one point. Functionally equivalent, but much smaller than Atari's.

Jon

At 08:14 AM 10-10-2003 -0500, you wrote:
>I fixed one problem on my Major Havoc board (Gravitar conversion)
>only to plug it back in and presto - no sound. Every MH board
>I've seen has a Quad Pokey Eliminator. No matter how I test the
>pokeys, the MH self test says there's something wrong with that
>chip location. I get pokeys that pass all self tests in another
>Atari vector, pop them on the Eliminator, and it won't pass. The
>game will work (well it used to till tonight), but I'd like to
>see it totally clean in self test. I've never gotten a good self
>test using the eliminator. Has anyone else? How about a Quad
>Pokey chip? Is there such an animal? I know I've heard it
>talked about, but as I said, I've never seen one. Any other
>Atari boards use a quad pokey? Any one got one (or more) to sell
>or can point to a place that does sell them?
>
>Lastly, even with 4 known good pokeys on the Eliminator (still
>bad self test though), I get no sound. Everything else appears
>to be 100% working okay. Speaker is good. Speaker wiring checks
>out. Any ideas what to look for next? Any help/advice
>appreciated. Thanks,
>
>Joe
>joemagiera@ameritech.net
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