I Tried An Official Atari 5200 CPU "Fix" From 1983 - But Did It Actually Work?

The Atari 5200 is an underrated console, in my humble opinion. But this one does have an annoying fault relating to a bad batch of CPUs. So let's get the soldering iron out and attempt to repair it using an official Atari "Tech Tip" sanctioned fix from 1983!

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AtariAge Thread With "Tech Tip" Download: https://atariage.com/forums/topic/290...
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:35 Explanation & Demo Of Atari 5200 Graphical Fault
01:39 "Tech Tip #7" - The Official Fix
02:29 5200 Teardown & Modification
05:33 Testing & 5200 Colour Calibration
06:41 5200 Reassembly
07:11 Conclusions & Outro

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