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... and one question : will be worth to desolder the "Spain" rom ? No. I would not rush to judgement on the ROMs. Mask ROM chips are normally fairly reliable. And unless you can program EPROMs (or EEPROMs) and you cut tracks and rewire the pins that are different, they are not easy to rep...

MTX ROM/EPROM pin-out info here

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Alas, TAPATALK is one of those love it or hate it things
If you don't have TAPATALK, or have it, but don't want to use TAPATALK, forums that have TAPATALK enabled have annoying TAPATALK pop-ups where TAPATALK tries to get you to download / enable / use the TAPATALK app.

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Hey, I was reading that blog last week

Yes, it is very interesting.

Thanks for posting the links, when I was reading it, I was on a so called smart device, so was too lazy to grab the links (not as easy on a smart device).

Mark

Great stuff there Martin

What circuit did you use for the Q and E clock ?

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Welcome to our MTX forum, Kevin :D :D :D :D Yes, just look for an Atari compatible (also the same as used on many home computers). When it comes to reliability and quality, well there is a wide gulf between a cheap joystick and a quality one, even more so after all the use a used one would have had...

All in good time ;) Timing and cost is directly proportional to how much use I get of a TARDIS, should one be made available :P The prototype has a mains switch which glows red when on and a green "output on" LED. For the "production version", I am open to suggestions as to the c...

You can choose the "skin" / "theme".

User Control Panel (top right of page) > Board Preferences (left hand side menu) > My board style (opens to three options): PS3 or blackbox_red (default) or prosilver.
Prosilver is in use on some other forums.

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While we are talking about the forum, I've noticed, that for me, the " Top " link (on the left hand side of each post, designed to return you to the top of the page) does not work. This works for me on other forums that are phpBB based. I keep meaning to see if it works with another skin, ...

Just one click is all you need for each sub-forum

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