Gorf

ByMichael Coates

Capacitor burnt. (game board), particularly at C37 the capacitor was showing signs of extreme heat. Replaced them all with 22uF 25V axial electrolytics.

No Speech / Some SFX missing. (game board) Output from speech chip SC01 was OK, as was output from IO Custom (X3). checked transistors in output stage and 2N4401 was faulty. (Q2)

Glitches at sides of screen

Screen glitch. (game board) Screens using twinkle circuit (stars etc.) had visible glitches down each side. These did not interfere with game play but looked bad. Tracked down to faulty 74LS161 on game board. (U16 on this one, but also check U15)

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