16 Mar
2004
16 Mar
'04
6:51 a.m.
anyone here with any experence with these, as i have a badly damaged power
supply board, has been damaged since around 1994 when it fell out of the
loft (owing to my mum religating everything i owned then out of the way.)
the loft to floor fall was 12-15 feet, and it is my dream to have the whole
thing working once again.
dj
if there is anyone with an old one with mind to sell or any circuit diagrams
to offer then please let me know. i am also looking to convert the cassette
tapes of the games and other software i have stashed to CD as this is only a
theory that it could work i would like to know if anyone has done this
before.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Witchy" <witchy(a)binarydinosaurs.co.uk>
To: "'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'"
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 8:23 PM
Subject: Mattel intellivision
Hi folks,
Anyone have any troubleshooting expertise on these things? Got one of my
spares out for sale and typically the bloody thing is pretty dead. I say
*pretty* dead 'cos I get the cart intro screen on power up, but with the
computer module attached I get nothing. I've left it powered up for 15
minutes in case it's a warm up problem but that makes matters worse :)
According to the service manual I have to replace either the RAM or CPU in
that order, but since spares for those will come from working
intellivisions
I don't want to do that! Also, off the top of my
head I can't think of any
other videogames that use the General Instruments GI1610 CPU, assuming
it's
that that's croaked. The RAM is a GI-specific chip
too. Spares, anyone?
TIA :)
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Adrian/Witchy
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