When you are putting your head into the back of a game looking up(at the monitor) and you feel a little heat on your chin and smell something burning...
IT'S FUN!!!
Our Omega Race lost it's picture yesterday so I figured it was a monitor problem... I'm thinking it may not be though.
What you have witnessed is the magic smoke escaping from a chip. You see, all chips contain magic smoke, trapped in the little black plastic chip body. But - you've obviously let the smoke escape - without it, that chip won't work.
So, it seems I lucked out and the TL082 was just defective and had a catastrophic failure. I replaced it with a socket and new chip and the Omega Race thump, thump, thumped back to life.