big blue "fu" - how can it cause so many problems?
I have ordered a big blue from Bob Roberts for my Tempest. It is apparently at home as of today, waiting for me to do the swap..
I changed the part out in my Asteroids (was working prior to the swap), and to be honest I never really saw any changes. But yet, all over the web (including Bob Roberts' page), the big blue has been deemed responsible for a multitude of graphics glitches in Atari games, dead Atari games completely, and other odd gremlins.
I'm trying to understand the "fu" behind all that is big blue... How can this one part be so responsible for so many varieties of problems? And yes I know it's in the power supply, the "heart" of a game, if you will, but it's just hard to believe it can cause so much widespread disaster.
It would be great to see some changes to my problematic Tempest after I install it but, after not seeing any changes in my Asteroids (then again I don't know what I would have actually seen different), I'm trying not to get my hopes up
I have ordered a big blue from Bob Roberts for my Tempest. It is apparently at home as of today, waiting for me to do the swap..
I changed the part out in my Asteroids (was working prior to the swap), and to be honest I never really saw any changes. But yet, all over the web (including Bob Roberts' page), the big blue has been deemed responsible for a multitude of graphics glitches in Atari games, dead Atari games completely, and other odd gremlins.
I'm trying to understand the "fu" behind all that is big blue... How can this one part be so responsible for so many varieties of problems? And yes I know it's in the power supply, the "heart" of a game, if you will, but it's just hard to believe it can cause so much widespread disaster.
It would be great to see some changes to my problematic Tempest after I install it but, after not seeing any changes in my Asteroids (then again I don't know what I would have actually seen different), I'm trying not to get my hopes up


