Re: [stella] Cart ROM on CPU board?

Subject: Re: [stella] Cart ROM on CPU board?
From: Chris Wilkson - MCD <cwilkson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 09:09:09 -0800 (PDT)
> >Am I the only one with this Rev. board or are they all this way?
> >It says... Rev B - CO10433
> 
> This has been discussed before.  (Either here on in rgvc.)  Popular
> opinion is that Atari planned to include Combat on the CPU board as a
> built-in game.  These plans were scrapped for unknown reasons.  I'm
> not sure which 2600s have the empty slot and which don't.  I suspect
> all 6-switchers do and no Jrs. do.  I don't know about 4-switchers,
> but I suspect not.  Someone successfully mounted a Combat ROM in one
> and tried some games, I think.  I believe it's limited to 4k games.
> 
> Other things apparently planned but not done were stereo sound (with
> speakers built in to the console) and possibly an LED.  (There's
> apparently some code in Combat that looked suspiciously like it would
> turn an LED on and off, but I've forgotten the end result of the
> investigation into that, if it was announced.)

Yeah, I remember one of those discussions.  I was all psyched to stick a
ROM in my 6-switch Video Arcade, only to find that there was no place to
put it.  But it does have speaker grilles (2) in the top.  I think 2.5"
speakers would fit, but I never tried it.  Dunno about an LED.  I have
since acquired a 6-switch Atari, but I forgot all about the ROM slot.
I'll have to check.

-Chris


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