>there must have been something more serious wrong with the atari,
>because when I plugged the new adaptor in and turned on the power
>I heard a crack and it started smoking - seriously.
This happened to me once...I had one of those adapters that have multiple
heads on them to fit various sockets, and I had the adapter head on
backwards, causing positive and negative to be switched.
the smoking and burning is most likely coming from one of the biggest
capacitors on the motherboard. I could see liquid boiling out of this
capacitor on my motherboard when this happened to me.
Amazingly, my Atari still works. These components are built like tanks! I
even soldered wires directly to the TIA chip as part of my composite mod (a
definite no-no due to possible soldering iron heat damage), and the TIA
still works!
Seeing how strong the Atari is makes me wonder how that guy (in the
retro-programming article mentioned a week ago) managed to fry his atari by
having the +5v and Ground lines on his homebrew cart backwards.
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