After
exhausting all of the small, easy fixes you find you’re still staring at that
blank screen with your brow furled, wondering what you’ve really gotten
yourself into by dragging this big wooden box of torment home with you. Fear
not! We’re just getting started battling the demons that are holding your game
down from reaching the lofty heights of your expectations. The perfect place
for us to start is behind the back door of your Atari game. Go ahead and open
it up and remove the back door. If you find it’s locked and don’t have the key,
you can always drill the
lock.
Inside the
back you’ll find the two main components of the power supply system. The power
brick is the large metal box-looking thing at the bottom. The Audio Regulator
(AR) is mounted vertically immediately behind the power brick. They work
together to supply all of the necessary voltages your game need to operate
correctly.
(Pic of
Atari cab)
If there’s
something wrong with the power supply system, we’ll find it here. Let’s start
with the Atari Power Brick.
If you’ve
already narrowed the problem you can jump right to the section of interest:
· This
· That
· The other