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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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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