Wow, time passes fast!
Some update on this project: during some "swapping boards" test, i reached the point i had a garbaged image (the garbage was changing position, so i thought to a RAM problem); the machine could coin up, but the game was not playable. After almost 10 hours of testing, the Atari disco 25KHz monitor decided to die...
![Angry >:(](http://www.dragonslairfans.com/smfor/Smileys/default/angry.gif)
Ok ok, no problem, i said to me: this is not the first monitor i fix... i can do it! I bought a new flyback (maybe the last one in the world for that bastard monitor... 35 dollars shipped), replaced the old one, replaced various sensible parts (caps, white resistors, poly caps close to the EAT, the HOT, etc). The monitor lit up again! ... for almost 20 minutes, then suddently dead again... everithing else i did was for nothing.
A couple of weeks ago, finally, i had the opportunity to install an Hitachi med res from a virtua cop 2 (those monitors are really rare): the monitor have burn in, but at least it works! It's now installed, even if it was not plug & play (different connectors, different pinouts, different working voltage (japanese 100V). I forgot to shot a pic, but the next week i will take it, i promise
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So, in the next weeks i hope i will have the time to work on my Paperboy (there are still big problems on the borad which now don't coin up anymore and shows fixed garbage, so probably i have not only RAM errors at this time)...
Stay tuned
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