ncperson@ndsuvax.UUCP (Brett Person) (03/07/88)
A few years ago I bought a dig dug cart. for my 800. The game would play fine for aehile, and then syddenly lock. I took the game back for a replacement, and the new one did the same thing. Anyone know whats wrong? -Brett ..!uunet!ndsuvax!ncperson
sullivan@marge.math.binghamton.edu (fred sullivan) (03/10/88)
In article <705@ndsuvax.UUCP> ncperson@ndsuvax.UUCP (Brett Person) writes: >A few years ago I bought a dig dug cart. for my 800. The game would play >fine for aehile, and then syddenly lock. I took the game back for a replacement, and the new one did the same thing. Anyone know whats wrong? >-Brett I had the same problem with Star Raiders. Like you, I got a replacement which did the same thing. Also an 800. No idea what the problem is. Fred Sullivan Department of Mathematical Sciences State University of New York at Binghamton Binghamton, New York 13903 Email: sullivan@marge.math.binghamton.edu
njd@ihlpm.ATT.COM (DiMasi) (03/11/88)
In article <907@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu>, sullivan@marge.math.binghamton.edu (fred sullivan) writes: > In article <705@ndsuvax.UUCP> ncperson@ndsuvax.UUCP (Brett Person) writes: > >A few years ago I bought a dig dug cart. for my 800. The game would play > >fine for aehile, and then syddenly lock. ... > > I had the same problem with Star Raiders. Like you, I got a replacement > which did the same thing. Also an 800. No idea what the problem is. A few years ago, less than a year after I got my 800, I had a similar problem with Star Raiders. Later (after I had the machine about a year) it would often lock up on other programs, and even not come up at all (I would just see a green screen). I took the machine to a local "authorized Atari service center" (Rex TV Repair), but they couldn't find the problem. At that time, Atari operated their own service center somewhere north of where I live around here (Rolling Meadows?). They _did_ find and fix the problem (bad OS chip or some other bad chip... can't remember now). It seems that when chips start going bad, they will work OK until they warm up some, and then start doing strange things, or just stop working altogether. I still have the same Star Raiders cart, and it still works (2 Atari 8-bit machines later!). Nick DiMasi Uni'q Digital Technologies (Fox Valley Software subsidiary; ^ working as a contractor at AT&T Bell Labs in Naperville, IL) ( | this is an accent mark, supposed to replace the dot over the 'i')
striepe@Apple.COM (Harold Striepe) (03/17/88)
A common cause for failure on Atari carts is comtaminated contacts. I had to actually replace the contact strip on the main board of my vintage '79 800. Frequently, I have had to take the cartridges apart, and clean the contacts with a residue free cleaner. Be careful with some types of erasers, they can leave residues. -- Harald Striepe Business Development Manager, Artificial Intelligence Apple Computer, Inc. email: striepe@APPLE.COM AppleLink: STRIEPE2