New pause board - A better mousetrap?
Since I was a kid playing my old 2600 I wish I could pause the game every time my mom would push me to do something she deemed more important than playing video games (like there was such a thing!!). Shower, dinner, homework, whatever. All sorts of useless activities which would inevitably force me to start the quest for that new level all over again.
Later, the wife took over the pushing task from my mom with renewed energy and the problem would just not go away...
Then the blessed Vi
I've been getting some questions on the board's "mute" line (yellow wire).
The mute line is fully functional on all boards I shipped. The reason I had not mentioned it in the installation instructions is because initially I had designed it to be used with AV mods.
If RF is still used (which is my personal preference btw), the mute can still be used by connecting it directly to pin 13 on the TIA (both PAL and NTSC).
The caveat is that the audio will be grounded during pause. In my t