Re: quad pokey vs. quad pokey eliminator?

Booo, I was about to get excited at the pile of broken pit fighters! :)

Craig

On 02/07/2013 22:23, Andrew Welburn 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)
> www.andys-arcade.com <http://www.andys-arcade.com>
>
> On 2 Jul 2013, at 22:08, "Franklin@Bowen.net
> <mailto:Franklin@Bowen.net>" <Franklin@Bowen.net
> <mailto:Franklin@Bowen.net>> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>> http://cambridgearcade.dyndns.org/?q=node/43
>>
>> F
>>
>> 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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