+atari2600land Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 (edited) I was playing Qix and the game froze. I turned it off and inspected it, and didn't find anything wrong. I turned it back on again and it was working fine. Just thought it was weird and asking has this ever happened to anyone else. Edited May 11, 2007 by atari2600land Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
per Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 Did you press some strange key combinations before it happend? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted May 11, 2007 Author Share Posted May 11, 2007 Did you press some strange key combinations before it happend? I don't think so. Why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
per Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 Did you press some strange key combinations before it happend? I don't think so. Why? It might be because if when the game was tested, it was tested for normal use, and they might not have tested with all possible key combinations. There might also be just enough dust on the reader pins that it didn't found the data it suspected to find. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Climber Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 Didn't some Lynx games have a pause feature? I can't remember Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ApolloBoy Posted May 12, 2007 Share Posted May 12, 2007 Didn't some Lynx games have a pause feature? I can't remember Yes, you can pause Lynx games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+karri Posted May 14, 2007 Share Posted May 14, 2007 It also makes a big difference if the freezing unit is a Lynx I or a Lynx II. When we were testing Championship Rally it often froze on a Lynx I. Carl and Lucien were not happy with this and we created some test code to find out why this happens. It appears that the hardware in the Lynx I is very sensitive to things happening close to screen interrupts. So some games have a risk of freezing on a Lynx I. I have not seen this happen on a Lynx II. The retail version of Championship Rally does not freeze on any Lynx. We fixed it. But I don't know about other titles. -- Karri Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted May 14, 2007 Author Share Posted May 14, 2007 It also makes a big difference if the freezing unit is a Lynx I or a Lynx II. This is a Lynx 2. Also, it hasn't happened since, so I must have done something the game didn't like and it didn't have a reaction for what I did and it froze? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
semicolo Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 I experienced some freeze with my lynx II recently too, I hadn't used it for years. The game contacts seem to have oxidized a bit. Maybe the solders in the lynx are getting old too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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