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Or maybe it a desire to reduce desk spaghetti and free up power outlets. I love my Corcomp 9900. But once I have the TI, the Corcomp with its insanely huge wall-wart, the Tex'n'Treasure 3.5 floppy disk with its brick and maybe the Gotek aswell, the desk looks like the fire dept at a major incident and I've lost 6 or more outlets. I love the FinalGrom and @jedimatt42 32K board precisely because I can quickly set up the TI and play some awesome games. I mean if this was really about people too cheap to spring for a $10 power supply we'd all just emulate.

I seem to recall reading an article where Archer Maclean was not paid for Dropzone sales in the U.S., and no effort was made to adapt it to NTSC timing. Hence the double-explosion when you lose a life. Sometimes the unintended timing quirks work well though. I think the Ballblazer theme sounds so much better on a PAL machine. It sounds more moody, less frantic. I love that.

Related question then... Is there any reason NOT to add the jumper to the speech synthesizer to power the 32K board? Am I stressing the power supply driving both peripherals?

Here's the story of the origin of Encounter, Novagen and Paul Woakes career as a software developer. From this I would be somewhat certain Encounter was originally coded on a UK-spec PAL Atari. http://mercenarysite.free.fr/mnovagen_story_bruce_jordan.htm Alas Paul died in 2017, so asking the man himself is no longer an option. All of Paul's games were amazing. I loved Encounter. And Mercenary on the Atari 8-bit was the first and only game I faked illness to bunk off school to play. It remains one of the few games I have fully completed.