The Aux board is where all of Atari's AVG games-- Battlezone,
Red Baron, Tempest-- keep the sound hardware, including a Pokey
(two Pokeys, in the case of Tempest.)
What's happening with the explosions, tank rumble, and shot
sounds? Discrete components generate these sounds; if they also
cut out, your problem is bigger than Pokey. Try swapping 4066s
as another poster suggested. These act as amplifiers for *all*
the sounds.
My Battlezone had intermittent sound with *two* known working
boardsets. Turns out that the cardboard bellows inside the base
of the speaker had a crimp in it, preventing the cone from
moving. Hard to find, but very easy to fix.
-Anthony R.
On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 12:32 PM, Neil Bradley wrote:
>> Thanks, but I am pretty sure I replaced this chip with the good one
>> with no improvement. I don't have the board here at the moment, but I
>> have already swapped all the socketed chips - of which I think one was
>> the POKEY. Being new to working on Vector games, can someone tell me
>> what position on the AUX BD the POKEY is on? I guess I need to check
>> the socket to be sure it is getting all the connections, however.
>
> The Pokey is on the main Battlezone board. It's one of the (I
> think) two
> 40 pin chips.
>
> -->Neil
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