Nice job on the A/V mod. I really love the "invisible" bracket that you've designed for the 3.5MM barrel jack, that was a really genius idea. Good job ;)
I honestly can't remember where I got the idea, but it's unlikely it was an original idea. I probably saw someone hot glue a socket in that gap and decided I could improve on it. Who knows? 😆
Thats cool how you keep the metal shield in. The hot glue to prevent cracking is brilliant. Great tips, thank you much! I wish that Vader had pulled through with that sound problem.
So case and yet so far. I really like the look of the Vader, the all black thing is just very cool. Its a shame that the one faulty chip is the expensive one. Just like a 48k ULA or a TED chip. Hopefully someone will find a way of making cheap replacements for these chips
I really hope they do. I bet it will be some time though. There are still a lot of spares around and a modern solution would probably be more expensive with current prices. Fingers crossed that changes soon and we might see a lot of these custom chips crossed off the list.
People still really want TV out/RF? 🫨 after dealing with an Atari 5200 and "The RF of Death"™️, I always do composite or s-video modifications and put RF into the bin where it belongs. RF is positively horrid, YUCK!
when you asked for inductors the other day I assumed it was for an atari computer not a 2600, I have a Vader board some ware so should have that part you needed. I will look and see if it has a TIA chip, but I am sure you had the last spare one before.
I was looking at the mod schematics. It's just two amplifiers this can be done even smaller with a TLC072 opamp, and since that has pretty much linear amplification you only need one amplifier circuit and three resistors. That could make it very small and you could just highjack the signals from the board with some wires, without having to remove the components. So you have both RF and composit. I always feel a bit bad taking original stuff out when modding. Ah @9:05 you gave your reasons for this type of mod :D You do you do ;) Awesome clean way to mount the "port hole" with that bracket!
My electronics knowledge only goes so far as recognising which bits are on a schematic for fault finding. Creating circuits is way beyond me! Sounds interesting though. Would be nice to leave the modulator in place.
@@MoreFunMakingIt You could have fooled me Lee! I think you are under selling your skills. I love your channel and you and my channels sort of have the same cheeky edge. My content is a bit more outspoken and vulgar but hey, I am a kid of the 70s... We don't know what self censorship and political correctness is. Mommy and Daddy weren't home to teach us ;) (although unlike most GenX kids, I do not have that excuse :D) Have a great day Lee and keep up the brilliant work!
Is it just my 80s upbringing who thought about Murdoch from the A-Team each time the word: "Thrashbag" was uttered? I vividly see him in his jail cell shout TRRRRAAAAASHHHBAG and the guards gave him a new trashbag that he cuddled and again....Traaaaaaashbaaaaag! *Spoiler alert* they filled the trashbags with helium to escape over the prison walls :D
@@MoreFunMakingIt I still have a little Murdoch action figure sitting on my desk, now on my Atari ST. Murdoch was the driving force of the A-Team, the wat they always caught him out of the psych ward, brilliant!
Greetings, friend, one question, it is possible that an atari junior board comes from the factory with a jumper on the back of the board, it is a little cable soldered to one of the pins of the cpu processor, middle chip and the The other end of the little cable is soldered to another pin of the graphics chip or TIA chip. Oh and the atari in question turns on, but it doesn't give video, that is, the red led turns on, but it doesn't even give the colored stripes, nor can the game be seen on the screen, much less, but how curious the atari turns on. It's a short rainbow atari junior, REVISION 2. That may be a friend, it will have something to do with the bridge so that the game cannot be seen on the screen. That bridge seems strange to me, what do you think friend?
@@MoreFunMakingIt The very top right is the NTSC channel selector if your PAL it may not loop power anyway 3 pin is the no channel selector modulator they are rare to see over here only came on heavy 6'ers and early 2600's before a channel select was introduced to avoid a broadcast channel.
Greetings, friend here again, this time I dusted off my six lever VCS, light sixer, the atari in question turns on, gives video on the screen, but after three minutes of seeing the game on the screen, it loses the image, they seem as if it were blurred, the pixels of the figures in the game are dropped until the game is completely unviewable. I uncover it, check the voltage regulator and it shows me 5.1 volts on the output pin. I understand that it has to show 5 volts on the output pin, but in my atari it shows 5.1 volts on the output. I ask you, is this regulator good or bad, will this be the cause of the problem with my atari that the video of the game goes off the screen as I explained above. Please, what answer do you give me? Or rather the problem of my atari will be a malfunction of the chips, for example one of these, RIOT, CPU or TIA.
It's hard to say. The console was designed to display on 1970's TVs and I'm capturing an analogue signal it was never meant to output. I could probably tweak my display settings and make the picture brighter.
@@MoreFunMakingIt I think you could also amplify the signal a bit with a transistor as some composite video mods for the Spectrum do. It fixed a dark screen on some Spectrum models like the Investronica clone of the ZX Spectrum +
I saw TFW8B (The future was 8 Bit) instructions on the 2600 Vader PAL and it doesn't say anywhere to remove the big brown inductor, I think you called it L205. In any case you should try to reinstall it and see what happens.
I'm not sure if you watched the whole thing, but the big brown inductor was not part of the TFW8B's instructions. That was the part that was originally faulty. I followed their instructions exactly and it works perfectly. Maybe you had a slightly different revision?
@@MoreFunMakingIt Oh okay. Still, I had an issue with my Atari 7800 by following their instructions and removed parts, and now I got a very weird video artifacting I hadn't in earlier tests. Also they didn't explained why removing resistors that are responsible for filtering audio signals, even one person in the comments there recommended to leave those resistors back in their place for that reason.
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Thx a ton for your SPECIAL recommendation here! Super excited to see more of our boards come into handy with your ideas 🥳
Your narration delivery is brilliant. Just the right mix of foreshadowing and humor.
Thank you GP! That has put a big smile on my face :D
His humor is so fun. I like how he makes fun of himself.
Nice job on the A/V mod. I really love the "invisible" bracket that you've designed for the 3.5MM barrel jack, that was a really genius idea. Good job ;)
I honestly can't remember where I got the idea, but it's unlikely it was an original idea. I probably saw someone hot glue a socket in that gap and decided I could improve on it. Who knows? 😆
It fixed itself! YAY! No it didn’t! BOO! What an emotional roller coaster.
This is what life is like for me! 😂
Thats cool how you keep the metal shield in. The hot glue to prevent cracking is brilliant. Great tips, thank you much!
I wish that Vader had pulled through with that sound problem.
It's just waiting for a suitable donor. I promise it will live again. 😁
reminds me of that classic film Ferris Beads day off
You know when your brain knows the word? But your mouth just wants to do its own thing?
Nice video, I will forever more think of the multimeter as the beepy beepyness or, perhaps, the machine that goes Bing
Thanks! Funny I got this comment at the exact time I was watching one of your videos 😆
That bracket is clever... and so so close fo making it work!
Cheers Snorkers! 😁
So case and yet so far. I really like the look of the Vader, the all black thing is just very cool. Its a shame that the one faulty chip is the expensive one. Just like a 48k ULA or a TED chip. Hopefully someone will find a way of making cheap replacements for these chips
I really hope they do. I bet it will be some time though. There are still a lot of spares around and a modern solution would probably be more expensive with current prices. Fingers crossed that changes soon and we might see a lot of these custom chips crossed off the list.
Awww, you could have used the TinyComp and have both composite and TV out. Great work and video. Thanks for sharing
Cheers Rudy! I'll look that up and maybe use that in a future one. 😁
People still really want TV out/RF? 🫨 after dealing with an Atari 5200 and "The RF of Death"™️, I always do composite or s-video modifications and put RF into the bin where it belongs. RF is positively horrid, YUCK!
when you asked for inductors the other day I assumed it was for an atari computer not a 2600, I have a Vader board some ware so should have that part you needed. I will look and see if it has a TIA chip, but I am sure you had the last spare one before.
Cheers mate!
I was looking at the mod schematics. It's just two amplifiers this can be done even smaller with a TLC072 opamp, and since that has pretty much linear amplification you only need one amplifier circuit and three resistors. That could make it very small and you could just highjack the signals from the board with some wires, without having to remove the components. So you have both RF and composit. I always feel a bit bad taking original stuff out when modding. Ah @9:05 you gave your reasons for this type of mod :D You do you do ;) Awesome clean way to mount the "port hole" with that bracket!
My electronics knowledge only goes so far as recognising which bits are on a schematic for fault finding. Creating circuits is way beyond me!
Sounds interesting though. Would be nice to leave the modulator in place.
@@MoreFunMakingIt You could have fooled me Lee! I think you are under selling your skills. I love your channel and you and my channels sort of have the same cheeky edge. My content is a bit more outspoken and vulgar but hey, I am a kid of the 70s... We don't know what self censorship and political correctness is. Mommy and Daddy weren't home to teach us ;) (although unlike most GenX kids, I do not have that excuse :D) Have a great day Lee and keep up the brilliant work!
I will have to check your channel out! Thank you for the kind words 😁
Good info, but I'm a bit unclear on one point: are you sponsored by PCBWay?
I'm totally for sale. I just don't think they can afford me 🤣
Another great video.
Bit of a rush job this one. Been a bit busy this week!
Vader..
He's a real Masterba... youtube won't let me finish that
I finished it in my head. Now GET OUT OF MY HEAD
I wonder if PCBway would like to give you some nice retrospective sponsorship 😂
I let them know and they said thank you. Thats all I needed :D
Good Video, as allways!
Cheers Ghost! 😁
Is it just my 80s upbringing who thought about Murdoch from the A-Team each time the word: "Thrashbag" was uttered?
I vividly see him in his jail cell shout TRRRRAAAAASHHHBAG and the guards gave him a new trashbag that he cuddled and again....Traaaaaaashbaaaaag! *Spoiler alert* they filled the trashbags with helium to escape over the prison walls :D
I must have missed that episode 🤣
But I did always sympathise with Murdoch 😜
@@MoreFunMakingIt I still have a little Murdoch action figure sitting on my desk, now on my Atari ST.
Murdoch was the driving force of the A-Team, the wat they always caught him out of the psych ward, brilliant!
Greetings, friend, one question, it is possible that an atari junior board comes from the factory with a jumper on the back of the board, it is a little cable soldered to one of the pins of the cpu processor, middle chip and the The other end of the little cable is soldered to another pin of the graphics chip or TIA chip. Oh and the atari in question turns on, but it doesn't give video, that is, the red led turns on, but it doesn't even give the colored stripes, nor can the game be seen on the screen, much less, but how curious the atari turns on. It's a short rainbow atari junior, REVISION 2. That may be a friend, it will have something to do with the bridge so that the game cannot be seen on the screen. That bridge seems strange to me, what do you think friend?
Ive never worked on a junior so far. I have one to do soon so maybe keep an eye out for that. Sorry I cant help more.
I think its missing the channel selector on top right is the modulator 3 or 5 pin?
I've never noticed a channel selector in one of these. I'll have to pay more attention.
I'll check but I think it was 3 pin
@@MoreFunMakingIt The very top right is the NTSC channel selector if your PAL it may not loop power anyway 3 pin is the no channel selector modulator they are rare to see over here only came on heavy 6'ers and early 2600's before a channel select was introduced to avoid a broadcast channel.
I'll put some pictures up on twitter a bit later
Greetings, friend here again, this time I dusted off my six lever VCS, light sixer, the atari in question turns on, gives video on the screen, but after three minutes of seeing the game on the screen, it loses the image, they seem as if it were blurred, the pixels of the figures in the game are dropped until the game is completely unviewable. I uncover it, check the voltage regulator and it shows me 5.1 volts on the output pin. I understand that it has to show 5 volts on the output pin, but in my atari it shows 5.1 volts on the output. I ask you, is this regulator good or bad, will this be the cause of the problem with my atari that the video of the game goes off the screen as I explained above. Please, what answer do you give me?
Or rather the problem of my atari will be a malfunction of the chips, for example one of these, RIOT, CPU or TIA.
Why does the image in the Atari console look so dark? is that normal?
It's hard to say. The console was designed to display on 1970's TVs and I'm capturing an analogue signal it was never meant to output.
I could probably tweak my display settings and make the picture brighter.
@@MoreFunMakingIt I think you could also amplify the signal a bit with a transistor as some composite video mods for the Spectrum do. It fixed a dark screen on some Spectrum models like the Investronica clone of the ZX Spectrum +
*FERRITE! 😂😂😂
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Nothing worse than a job you think will be easy turning into a job your going to have to spend all day on.
I was so sure of myself...
@@MoreFunMakingIt You had me after the outro and then you said it fixed its self I was confused.
Not as confused as I was! 😆
Don't follow TFW8B's instructions on what parts to remove for the AV Mod. I had to revert on certain parts I shouldn't had to remove.
I saw TFW8B (The future was 8 Bit) instructions on the 2600 Vader PAL and it doesn't say anywhere to remove the big brown inductor, I think you called it L205. In any case you should try to reinstall it and see what happens.
I'm not sure if you watched the whole thing, but the big brown inductor was not part of the TFW8B's instructions. That was the part that was originally faulty.
I followed their instructions exactly and it works perfectly. Maybe you had a slightly different revision?
@@MoreFunMakingIt Oh okay. Still, I had an issue with my Atari 7800 by following their instructions and removed parts, and now I got a very weird video artifacting I hadn't in earlier tests. Also they didn't explained why removing resistors that are responsible for filtering audio signals, even one person in the comments there recommended to leave those resistors back in their place for that reason.
@@KeonAureii interesting. I have a 7800 to look at soon. I'll bear that mind
you have me laughing when heard trash bag lol them later hear uh oh went on laughing lol ahh haahaha you brok trash bag lol