Re: quad pokey vs. quad pokey eliminator?

From: <Franklin_at_Bowen.net>
Date: Tue Jul 02 2013 - 17:55:01 EDT

Looking at the manual, it looks like you are correct. I just mindlessly repeated what I read here:

http://www.vectorlist.org/Vectorlist/2003/10/0040.html

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On Jul 2, 2013, at 17:23, Andrew Welburn <andy@andysarcade.net> wrote:
> Firefox? I think a QPE fell off the Pcb I have here :)
> 
> Pit fighter with a quad pokey?? I didn't think so?
> 
> Andrew Welburn (mobile)
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> On 2 Jul 2013, at 22:08, "Franklin@Bowen.net" <Franklin@Bowen.net> wrote:
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>> No experience myself, but they should be 100% interchangeable.  The quad pokey contained the guts of 4 pokeys but whoever was making them couldn't produce enough so Atari built the QPE to deal with the QP shortage.
>> 
>> Return of the Jedi, Pit Fighter, and ... can't remember the other game mentioned in the thread linked below.
>> 
>> http://www.vectorlist.org/Vectorlist/2003/10/0029.html
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>> http://cambridgearcade.dyndns.org/?q=node/43
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>> F
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>> On 7/2/2013 4:55 PM, Joseph Magiera wrote:
>>> 
>>> Does anyone have any experience either way if a quad pokey and a quad pokey eliminator are 100% interchangeable?  Has anyone ever experienced any performance difference between the two?
>>>  
>>> I believe they are equal substitues for each other, but wanted to check.  I've seen Major Havoc boards with either one, but I've never seen an I, Robot PCB with a QPE board.
>>>  
>>> Are there any other boardsets that use a QP/QPE besides Major Havoc and I, Robot?
>>> 
>>> Joe
>> 
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