Re: Asteroids replacement crystals.

Well my major thing was to find a shorter one. Since there's not enough room
to lay them down with out them hitting the cab when sliding the board in. SO
the ones at DK will work for World Records, and be short enough not to get
whacked off.

Nice thing about Digikey, is normal snail mail stuff get's to me in a day.

Kevin

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Swazey, Scott <sswazey@qualcomm.com> wrote:

> Yes. There were two different cyrstals. But if you changed them, you had to
> change the integration capacitors on the DACs too
>
> -Scott
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Nov 30, 2009, at 3:50 PM, "Clay Cowgill" <c.cowgill@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Hey... That just tickled a long forgotten memory... Didn't Major Havoc use
> two different crystals depending on if it was a kit or dedicated? (12MHz
> vs. 10MHz?) Or am I totally making that up? ;-)
>
> -Clay
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* owner-vectorlist@vectorlist.org [mailto:
> owner-vectorlist@vectorlist.org] *On Behalf Of *Bill
> *Sent:* Monday, November 30, 2009 2:57 PM
> *To:* <vectorlist@vectorlist.org>vectorlist@vectorlist.org
> *Subject:* RE: VECTOR: Asteroids replacement crystals.
>
> 5% of 12,096,000 =604,800. So if the 12.096 MHz crystal was in spec at
> +/- 5% it could be less than 12MHz. Unless you are going for the world
> record on the board the 12MHz crystals will be fine. I’ve used both for
> years with no problems. I’ve even accidently used a 10Mhz crystal – the
> game worked but the sounds were slower which gave it away.
>
>
>
> Bill
>
>
>
>

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