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In this episode Ben solders an entire Atari 2600 system from scratch. In a future episode he will test it out and create a cool case around it.

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chesterbr over 9 years ago

Great episode. I got the 3 chips salvaged from an old Atari board, so I'm considering to replicate this in protoboard, just as a learning project - I'm a software Atari tinkerer, having written a game (https://github.com/chesterbr/2048-2600) and an emulator (https://github.com/chesterbr/ruby2600 ), but not super lucky with hardware manipulation.

My goal is to build the minimal possible thing that can be verified to work (like he did in the last few minutes).

Looking at the files, I see that https://github.com/thebenheckshow/226-tbhs-Super-Soldered-Atari-2600/blob/master/docs/Schematic_Atari2600_2000.png seems to be the main one. I can likely find the components there (although a list would be awesome) and follow it (despite my very basic electronics knowledge). But I wonder if this was what Ben followed, or if that is an original diagram (looks like so, from the notes on the lower right corner) and he did modifications (and, in that case, which would those be).

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
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chesterbr over 9 years ago

Great episode. I got the 3 chips salvaged from an old Atari board, so I'm considering to replicate this in protoboard, just as a learning project - I'm a software Atari tinkerer, having written a game (https://github.com/chesterbr/2048-2600) and an emulator (https://github.com/chesterbr/ruby2600 ), but not super lucky with hardware manipulation.

My goal is to build the minimal possible thing that can be verified to work (like he did in the last few minutes).

Looking at the files, I see that https://github.com/thebenheckshow/226-tbhs-Super-Soldered-Atari-2600/blob/master/docs/Schematic_Atari2600_2000.png seems to be the main one. I can likely find the components there (although a list would be awesome) and follow it (despite my very basic electronics knowledge). But I wonder if this was what Ben followed, or if that is an original diagram (looks like so, from the notes on the lower right corner) and he did modifications (and, in that case, which would those be).

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
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