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 Saeger" <john@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 11:54:35 -0800
> If I had those, I could probably test them on my system,
> but as I've said neither my problematical Jr. nor the
> 2600 part of my 7800 show any colour anymore. All I get
> is a black and white picture. I can get the colour back by
> adjusting the colour potentiometer, but it always goes
> away again after a couple of minutes so that I'd have to
> adjust it again.
>
> Does anyone have an idea what part might be failing here?
> And why would only the Chinese made consoles suffer from
> this, while nearly identical consoles that are even older
> still work fine?

My guess is that it is the potentiometer itself.  Maybe the Chinese used
cheaper parts.

John

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