This "project" Asteroids Deluxe came with a totally dead board. I tried a few things but likely made matters worse. I know the board had issues with the voltage regulators, and there were a few burned diodes, but after replacing a few components, an electrolytic cap exploded on me while I was just a few inches away from the board. Wow, I couldn't hear for about 5 minutes! That's when I decided to seek professional help!
I had heard from a few folks on KLOV that Mike Salay was the Atari Vector Ninja. Here is a list of things he repaired.:
Diodes/Regulators for the power section
A burned trace on the board
Chips in the ram, clock, and vector circuits
A TL082 and 4016 (to recover graphics)
A bad POKEY and LM324 op-amp (was causing sound issues)
bad LS251 (was causing an auto play issue)
His thoughts were that the board had sustained a major power surge.
I'm thinking it had something to do with the Mayan end times prophecy.
Mike 1, Asteroids Deluxe 0.
He even provided these pics. Rad!
Mike is a wonderful person, great guy!
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