Re: Pokey failure??

I've had quite a few fail on Millipede and Centipede boardsets.
Some of the Atari games have a mini pokey selftest they run in
test mode that will display (for example) "P0" and "P1" for
the bad Pokeys. The selftest simply reads the random number
generator port on the pokey and if it gets consecutive values
that match it displays a failure, if the values don't match
it erases the failure, thus you can sometimes see it flickering.

MKDUD@aol.com wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I was just wondering how often people have had pokeys fail. Over the
> past week, I had to replace one in Tempest, Space Duel, and Centipede. I was
> curious as to whether anybody else had anything similar happen.
>
> Thanks,
> Michael Kelley
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