Subject: Re: [stella] Rev B: what's that extra socket for? From: "Joe Grand" <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 20:34:17 -0800 |
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 >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------- >>> Archives (includes files) at >>> http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ >>> Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/ >>> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------- >> Archives (includes files) at >> http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsub & more at >> http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/ >> > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- > Archives (includes files) at > http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsub & more at > http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/
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