Haha! I was about to welcome Crackers (back) to the list! :)
Joe
---- Original Message ----
From: "Pete Rittwage" <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <stella@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 8:01 PM
Subject: Re: [stella] Rev B: what's that extra socket for?
> This was quoted from a message by Chris Cracknell on USENET years
> ago, BTW.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pete Rittwage" <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <stella@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 10:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [stella] Rev B: what's that extra socket for?
>
>
>> Here's my experience with "The Socket"...
>>
>> "The Socket" appears in the 6-switch 2600 on the main motherboard
>> just above the TIA chip. There are plenty of empty component holes
>> in the 6-switch 2600 which suggests they planned to add a lot more
>> to the machine but cut back to save costs. Some of these empty
>> component holes are probably for a 1/4 watt amp to drive internal
>> speakers instead of sending the sound to the TV, this was a feature
>> that was scrapped. Another fuction of these scrapped components
>> probably had to do with "The Socket".
>>
>> If you put a 2K game ROM into "The Socket" it will play that game
>> when the machine is booted. However, the machine has no means of
>> telling if you have a cart plugged in so plugging a cart into this
>> machine will
>> have unpredictable results (sometimes it'll switch to the cart,
>> sometimes you get the internal ROM, and sometimes everything goes
>> kaplooey).
>>
>> I've put a Combat rom into my 2600 and experienced this very thing.
>>
>> CRACKERS
>> (Playing with "The Socket" from hell!!)
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Adam Thornton" <adam@xxxxxxx>
>> To: <stella@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 10:29 PM
>> Subject: [stella] Rev B: what's that extra socket for?
>>
>>
>>> I took my 2600 apart tonight; it's a six-switcher with a Rev B
>>> motherboard, (C) 1977.
>>>
>>> Between the 6507 and the TIA, there's a 24-pin pad. It's clearly
>>> designed to hold a socket, but there's no socket in it and the vias
>>> are filled with solder.
>>>
>>> I'm guessing that there was another part Atari was considering but
>>> dropped for cost reasons. Does anyone know what it was? It looks
>>> like a bunch of the lines run to pins 5-11 on the '07; that makes
>>> me suspect that it was likely to be either ROM--a built-in
>>> game?--or onboard RAM.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know?
>>>
>>> Adam
>>>
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