7 Mar
2008
7 Mar
'08
8:32 a.m.
Hi David,
The chip side always faces the back of the cartridge (on the
400/800/XL "Brown" carts the chips will face outward with the back metal
cover removed.) On the grey "XE" cartridges, same deal, you will place
the PCB onto the label side with the chips facing you and then place the
back cover over them.
The PCB's themselves are generic, though interestingly enough, almost
all Atariwriter wordprocessor and Atari Tennis games are on Red PCB's
and most others are on green. The only way to know the game is the
know the numbering codes of the chips, I've been compiling such a list
for a couple of years, the revisions are sometimes a little overwhelming.)
Simple rule of them on the carts, chips always face AWAY from you
when plugged into a 400/800, 600/800XL and XE GS machines and face DOWN
on the 1200XL and 65XE/130XE machines.
Curt
David Betz wrote:
Well, I did something really stupid this time. I had
an old Atari 800
cartridge that had lost its label. I figured that maybe something
inside would tell me what kind of cartridge it was so I took it apart.
First, there was no marking on the PC board that gave any clue as to
what cartridge it was. But worse, I didn't pay enough attention to the
original orientation of the PC board inside the plastic housing so I
don't know how to put it together again. The circuit board has a big
blob of glue on the top of what I assume is a ROM chip. Does that side
of the PC board face the side of the plastic housing with the screw or
the other side? To make matters worse, I *found* the label for the
cartridge at the bottom of my box of old Atari stuff so I didn't
really need to take the cartridge apart after all. Can anyone give me
some advice about how to reassemble the cartridge with the circuit
board in the correct orientation?
Thanks!
David