Re: [stella] Strange glitches in homebrewed games on the 2600 jr.

Subject: Re: [stella] Strange glitches in homebrewed games on the 2600 jr.
From: John Redant <johnredant01@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 13:35:40 -0800 (PST)
--- Eckhard Stolberg <Eckhard_Stolberg@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > Not yet. Russ, you want to send your console
> information?
> 
> I noticed that my 7800s and my problematical 2600
> Jr. were
> all made in China and have production dates from
> 1989 or
> newer. All my other 2600s are made in Taiwan or Hong
> Kong.
> The Jr. has board revision F1. I also have a Jr with
> board
> revision E from 1987 which works fine. The only
> difference
> that I could find between the two boards so far is
> that the
> capacitor rightnext to the 6532 was moved a bit away
> from
> the chip.


Could we safely rule out the motherboards of Revision
E and Revision F1? Does the capacator distance to the
6532 chip really matter? 

If so, should we just have a simple comparison of the
firmware written on both chipsets?

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