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No tinkering this end. I have 5 Atari VCS's in at the moment all work just fine. I don't have the time to tinker with stuff these days either, the Atari VCS 800 just works. I turn it on and it boots into Atari OS and if i want i can boot it to PC mode for a huge library of games at my disposal to. Sure the out of the box experience can be hit or miss if the console will update or not without flashing but after that it really just works, if it doesn't work you should reach out to customer support. I would say his comment is troll like in nature, read it back. Everyone is entitled to there opinion of Lunar Lander Beyond of course but to the have an unnecessary dig at the Atari VCS 800 in the same thread is just uncalled for, there's a topic within this forum where you can yell and scream about how much you hate the Atari VCS just no need to try and do a double combo in the same topic. Anyway back to Lunar Lander Beyond 🙂

Hi, I am just started with mad pascal I wanted to build a gr.0 screen and print that to the screen. So I did use the editor and create source code for mad pascal and added it to my code but I only get numbers. How can I reproduces the picture from the created array ? mygame.pas screen01.gr0

Thanks.. The NAND is the small IC on the right of the rk3032 Soc CPU, its a Windbound W25Q256JW, the IC is used in PCs as the Bios chip too, its 265mb, its Nor Flash, https://www.winbond.com/hq/product/code-storage-flash-memory/serial-nor-flash/?__locale=en&partNo=W25Q256JW wow have not heard of one of them in a while but most IC on the board are from about 2012 so is old, it a very cheaply made board, and does the SoC CPU rk3032 have a heatsink, it should the computers and consoles its emulating, it the same specs as the Atari Flashback and Atari 2600 Plus but they have no heatsink because they emulate a console from 1979, they all use a Rockchip SoCs, probably because you can use physical button in the emulator so makes it feel more real, you can not do that with a Alwinner SoC, well never seen it done, only with a Rockchip. The RAM IC HYNIX H5TQ2G63FFR is on the left of the rk3032 SoC its 8mb(2Gb): https://html.alldatasheet.com/html-pdf/534246/HYNIX/H5TQ2G63FFRPBC/157/1/H5TQ2G63FFRPBC.html Hope this helps...

Spartans (1-1) at Armada (1-0) starting now!

Just about 10ft.

I bought 2 of them so I can answer that in the near future if it isn't answered before then.

Star wars can be used, but it is more difficult because at least on my 5200s with proper calibration, the cross hair on star wars ends up being off center to the right when first starting up the game. I also think Star Wars has something in the code to help calibration the cross hair when it powers up so I don't know that it can be changed as easy on the fly as using Missile Command. Missile Command might also be cheaper to purchase vs SW:TAG so there is that too. And Missile Command on the 5200 is pretty much arcade experience game play. Especially with a good working Trak-ball paired with it.

That's a great find! BTW, I couldn't help but notice that the joysticks look a little odd for the O2 (NOT the 4000 unit). They look kind of like the O3 controller from what little I can see of them behind the O2 voice module. Do you have a better picture of the joysticks? This person didn't happen to have a unit for sale called the Odyssey 3 Command Center? O3's look like this:

OK awesome, thanks. That's a good call about making sure their carts are clean before plugging them in. I'll probably just buy them and clean them at home, and let them know if any aren't working (not sure they'll care 😀 ). I live literally 5 minutes from the flea market, so it's not hard to head back if I need to.

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You need two chips, not four. The base memory should staj the same. You should replace the extended memory with bigger chips and add proper connections (just one, to the A8 address line) and additional logic. Such 256Kx4 chips are used for instance in the Amiga 500.

Pretty bold words coming from a Prairie View A&M fan.

Nah, it is a hack. Carrier bought the rights to the game and had the graphics altered. You are now an HVAC repairman going after drops of sweat.

There is a "bug" in this game that if you zig-zag constantly when having ball possession, the CPU cannot figure out how to get the ball including the goalie. This game is probably the least favorite in my collection, but I got this game the same year as the World Cup in 1994 and played the hell out of it during that cup. I tried to come up with a list of 5, but apparently I mainly have the good games of the Lynx.. can't think past Batman and World Class Soccer, and even these games gave me so much joy back in the days.

While parker brothers did released cool & exciting games for many systems with games such as popeye Frogger erc,,, BUT what bugs me is that they don’t tell on their cartrides for wich system it belongs to, may ask WHY??? Because each cartride just looks similar in design & shape, unless you pay attention and do remember each shape from each parker brothers cartride for each system, it’s otherwise very very hard to distinguish them from each other, last time I wanted to buy an atari 400 cartride of popeye but that person who sold it just couldn’t tell for wich system it belongs to, it said in it’s title ‘unknown mysterious cartride looks like a atari 400/800 cartride’ so i suckered in buying it not realising that he didn’t know for wich system it belongs to because i only payed my attention out of hastyness on the those words ‘atari 400/800’ in the title (hahaha), but once i looked again in my emails i than did realze that it said those words ‘unknown and mysterious’in it’s tile as well, i was like ‘huh what are they talking about’ i just couldn’t believe my eyes, so i decided to compare that ‘mysterious’ cartride and just hope that he had it right, but sadly i found out that it is ment for the C64, so once i recieved that cartride i shipped it back to that person and told him that it is ment for the C64 and so he rectified that and now he sells it again and so i got my money back and so i found it oke that we had solved that problem, BUT it clearly goes to show how confusing it could be because once i readed all those cartride lables from each version of popeye etc,, it says nowhere to wich system it belongs to, WHY??? heck am already amazed that even on the game pakage of atari 2600 sky skippier ( as opposed on it’s cartride label) that it does not say nintendo anywhere on the box, wich is just weird, it could,ve otherwise attract more nintendo fans to buy that game it case they don’t know it’s from nintendo, if parker brothers just used some extra inkt to print out to wich system their games belongs to it would,ve save lots of frustrations and confusion among buyers and sellers. Well i finally do got my copy of popeye for the atari 400, but still trough who ever triught that because of some essential missing information on it’s box and/or cartride label that it could cause sooo much confusion to wich system it belong to,phew🤣

That makes sense. If the right button is pressed, it uses a resistor to change the paddle output reading. How is this wired for the ST to read the button? So from above: Left/Right: two bits of the joystick direction cycle through a pattern; read it fast to determine which direction it's moving. Up/Down: the other two bits of the joystick direction; same pattern. Left button: Joystick trigger? Right button with mod: left paddle value Right button without mod: ??? (I'm guessing right paddle wire in a way that isn't readable on an 8-bit.) As to reading the joystick directions, is a VBI driver fast enough (reading every 50th or 60th of a second)? That would seem to be the logical place for it.

We do not know for sure if Atari picked up Super Challenge Football in its M Network acquisition. Although I think we can safely assume that all three M Network sports games were included in the "over dozen dozen" games. Now even if Atari did get the Super Challenge Football rights, I do not know if that gives Atari the rights to make a new game with that title. I do have a suggestion for your videos that could really make them pop. If you began and ended each video with a big ole "War Eagle," I think your videos would do better.

I will have to look at the Flashback mod. I have one laying around, just not sure what version it is.

They did not have a 2600 set up when I was there. I prefer to clean my carts before plugging them in to the Plus, and the way they have them stored there, they definitely needed a cleaning. Not sure if you want clean them while you're over there. All of the carts I got from them worked once cleaned, and if you buy more then 10, they'll let you have them for $3 a piece.

@r_chase Whoa thanks for mentioning Power Pill Fist. I'm a big fan of Black Moth Super Rainbow and Tobacco yet somehow wasn't aware of PPF. Right up my alley. You can definitely get crunchy noisy beats with vcsbeatbox and all kinds of janky sounds out of the synth part. I plan to make a demo video soon...

Well the green / activity led is off when there is power on the Atari. When only the Sdrive has power the green led is on. If this is ok and can't do any harm it is no problem for me. It does blink on activity / loading a game. Here is a photo of both Arduinos. The one on the left is the working one and the one on the right is the one I tested on earlier. Both boards seems identical but only the text next to the second and third hole from top on the left are different. I tried both IOREF and 5v and they both act the same. I marked the 3 holes I used and which are the same in the instruction video. What is wise to do on the left Arduino?

That's cool. but a bit of a pain. 👍 I also don't want to mess around with utilities. It should just have the correct set of ranges on the 400 Mini. They really should have gotten people involved that know the Atari 8-bit line well.

The chip: