RE: Quad pokey frustration, Major Havoc sound problems

As far as I know, quad pokeys shipped on dedicated MH boards, I've got one
on mine, and seen one on another ded MH board as well.

I've only seen QPEs on conversion boards.

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> [mailto:owner-vectorlist@vectorlist.org] On Behalf Of joemagiera
> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 6:25 AM
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> Subject: VECTOR: Quad pokey frustration, Major Havoc sound problems
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>
> I fixed one problem on my Major Havoc board (Gravitar conversion)
> only to plug it back in and presto - no sound. Every MH board
> I've seen has a Quad Pokey Eliminator. No matter how I test the
> pokeys, the MH self test says there's something wrong with that
> chip location. I get pokeys that pass all self tests in another
> Atari vector, pop them on the Eliminator, and it won't pass. The
> game will work (well it used to till tonight), but I'd like to
> see it totally clean in self test. I've never gotten a good self
> test using the eliminator. Has anyone else? How about a Quad
> Pokey chip? Is there such an animal? I know I've heard it
> talked about, but as I said, I've never seen one. Any other
> Atari boards use a quad pokey? Any one got one (or more) to sell
> or can point to a place that does sell them?
>
> Lastly, even with 4 known good pokeys on the Eliminator (still
> bad self test though), I get no sound. Everything else appears
> to be 100% working okay. Speaker is good. Speaker wiring checks
> out. Any ideas what to look for next? Any help/advice
> appreciated. Thanks,
>
> Joe
> joemagiera@ameritech.net
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