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  1. Atari Systems

    1. Atari General

      A general discussion for Atari-related topics that aren't covered by a specific Atari console or computer forum.

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    2. Atari 2600

      The Atari 2600 is the system that started it all for Atari, and is by far the most popular classic gaming console. This forum covers all 2600 systems produced by Atari, as well as 2600-compatible consoles produced by third-parties.

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    3. Atari 5200

      The Atari 5200 was Atari's second cartridge-based game console. Based on the Atari 8-bit computer line and labeled the "SuperSystem", the 5200 was Atari's answer to growing competition in a market they were losing control over.

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    4. Atari 7800

      The Atari 7800 ProSystem is a contemporary of the Nintendo Entertainment System and the Sega Master System. Based on extensive feedback from Atari customers, the 7800 features a streamlined design, backward compatibility with the 2600, a powerful graphics processor, and simplified controllers.

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    5. Atari Lynx

      Lynx was Atari's first portable game system, and world's first color handheld. It was designed by Epyx and the engineers who created the Amiga. Ahead of its time, the Lynx sported a backlit color screen, stereo sound (in model 2) and an impressive range of games. Check out our rarity guide or explore many games listed on Atari Gamer.

       

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    6. Atari Jaguar

      Atari's last game console, the Atari Jaguar represented a huge leap in technology from previous offerings. Featuring a 64-bit architecture, the Jaguar had great potential, but its power was difficult to tap. Even then, many great games were released and the Jaguar has an avid fan base today.

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    7. Atari VCS

      Discussion forum for the new Atari VCS console.

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    8. Dedicated Systems

      Before Atari produced the famous 2600, they created many standalone consoles such as Pong, Speedway, and Stunt Cycle. Recently, Atari has been creating new dedicated consoles, such as the Atari Flashback.

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    9. Atari 8-Bit Computers

      Atari's original 8-bit computer line, featuring the Atari 400, 800, XL, and XE series of computers. Powerful and well-engineered, the Atari 8-bit computers are still popular with fans today!

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    10. Atari ST/TT/Falcon Computers

      Atari's next generation computer line, the Atari ST computers were based on the Motorola 68000 series chips, the same as the Macintosh at the time. The ST would also be followed by the TT and Falcon.

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    11. Atari Portfolio

      The Atari Portfolio is a palmtop, IBM PC-compatible portable computer released by Atari in 1989, the world's first palmtop computer!

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  2. Classic Consoles

    1. Classic Console Discussion

      Discussion of classic gaming consoles outside the Atari realm.

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    2. ColecoVision / Adam

      Coleco launched the ColecoVision in 1982, with the console quickly becoming popular due to its library of arcade ports. The ColecoVision has a large homebrew following today.

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    3. Intellivision / Aquarius

      This forum is for discussion of the Mattel Intellivision, Atari's primary competitor against the 2600, as well as the Mattel Aquarius computer. Intellivision systems include the original Intellivision, Intellivision II, INTV III, and the Sears Super Video Arcade.

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    4. Bally Arcade/Astrocade

      Discussion forum for the Bally Arcade/Astrocade console.

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    5. Odyssey 2 / Videopac

      Discussion revolving around the Odyssey 2 / Videopac G7000/G7400

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    6. Vectrex

      Discuss the world's only vector-based video game console here!

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    7. Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) / Famicom

      Discuss Nintendo's first cartridge-based system, the NES, here!

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    8. Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) / Super Famicom

      Discuss Nintendo's second cartridge based system here!

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    9. Sega Genesis

      Sega's popular fourth-generation 16-bit system, would ultimately compete head-to-head with the Super Nintendo.

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    10. 3DO Interactive Multiplayer

      Discussion forum for the 3DO console and the unreleased Panasonic M2

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    11. Dreamcast

      Discussion for the SEGA Dreamcast console.

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    12. SMS High Score Club

      Join the Sega Master System High Score Club today!

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    13. TG-16/PC Engine High Score Club

      Compete for high scores on the TurboGrafx-16 and PC Engine!

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  3. Classic Computing

    1. Classic Computing Discussion

      Use this forum to discuss the plethora of classic computers outside of Atari 8-bit offerings. These include the Apple II, Commodore 64/128, Amiga, TI 99/4a, MSX, TRS-80 and others.

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    2. Apple II Computers

      Discussion for Apple's 8-bit computer line.

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    4. Commodore 8-bit Computers

      Discussion for Commodore PET, Vic-20, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, and other 8-bit Commodore systems.

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    5. Commodore Amiga

      Discussion for Amiga Computers, CDTV, and CD32

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    6. Tandy Computers

      Discussion for Tandy computers, including the TRS-80 Models I, II, III, and 4, Color Computers, and Model 100.

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  4. Modern Consoles

    1. Modern Gaming Discussion

      This forum is for discussion of all modern game systems, including gaming on consoles and computers.

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    2. Sony Playstation 5

      Discuss Sony's Playstation 5 console here!

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    3. Xbox Series S/X

      Discuss Microsoft's latest Xbox Series S and X consoles here!

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    4. Atari VCS (Redirect)   (8,603 visits to this link)

      Discussion forum for the new Atari VCS console.

    5. Nintendo Switch

      Discussion about Nintendo's latest game console and games.

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    6. Microsoft Xbox One

      Discussion forum for the Xbox One.

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    7. Sony PlayStation 4

      Talk about the Sony Playstation 4 here.

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    8. Microsoft Xbox 360

      Discussion about the Microsoft Xbox 360 (not including the original Xbox).

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    9. Sony Playstation 3

      Please discuss the Sony Playstation 3 and games here.

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    10. Nintendo Wii / Wii U

      Discussion forum for the Nintendo Wii and Wii U consoles and games.

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  5. Gaming General

    1. Gaming General Discussion

      Gaming discussion not covered by other specific gaming forums.

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    2. Arcade and Pinball

      Many of us grew up pumping quarters into arcade games, and here's where you can discuss all your favorites. From Pong to Pinball to the latest arcade games, if it has a coin slot, then you're at the right place!

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    3. Emulation

      Emulators allow you to experience classic games on modern PCs (and other devices!) Discuss the latest emulator developments and ask questions about emulation here!

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    4. Hardware

      This forum is for discussion of hardware at a more technical level than you'll find in the other forums. If you have a hardware question you'd like to ask or have some interesting knowledge you'd like to share with others, post it here!

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    5. Prototypes

      Ever wondered about all those games that were announced but never released? Or games that have been discovered over the years that no one even knew existed? Or have you discovered a new prototype that no one's seen yet? Here's the place to talk about prototype games, led by Tempest of AtariProtos.com.

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    6. Gaming Publications and Websites

      This forum is for discussion of gaming related magazines, books, websites, and other publications.

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    7. International

      Internacional - Internazionale - Internationaal - Internasjonal - This forum is for discussion of classic and modern gaming in languages other than English.

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  6. Marketplace

    1. Buy, Sell, and Trade

      Please use this forum as a tool to buy, sell, and trade games and hardware.

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    2. Auction Central

      Use this forum to discuss auctions on eBay. Have something up for auction you'd like to share? Post it here! You can also highlight amusing, off-the-wall, or interesting auctions that others may want to hear about!

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    3. Wanted

      Use this forum to post a list of the gaming hardware and software you're looking for!

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    4. Free Games and More

      Spreading the Love with Free Games and other items.

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    5. User Feedback Forum

      Please use this forum to leave feedback about other users on AtariAge that you've had good and/or bad experiences with. Please read the sticky at the top of this forum before posting!

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  7. Community

    1. Events

      Use this forum to discuss gaming events of all types, including expos revolving around classic gaming, events catering to modern systems, arcade expos, and local gatherings of collectors getting together or a day of gaming.

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    2. Show Us Your Collection!

      If you're a repeat visitor to AtariAge, it's likely you also collect classic games and systems. Here's your chance to show off to the rest of the community your collection!

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    3. Member Blogs

      As members update their Blogs, messages will be posted in this forum so you can more easily keep tabs on who's writing what!

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    6. Contests

      These forums are for discussing and participating in contests started by AtariAge, contests run by forum members, and of course, the weekly High Score Contests!

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    7. User Groups

      This forum and its subforums are for classic gaming and computing user groups. Find people in your area who share your love of this hobby!

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    8. AtariAge News Discussion

      Discuss news posted on the front page of AtariAge!

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    9. User Submitted News

      Please submit classic gaming news here!

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  8. Game Programming

    1. Homebrew Discussion

      Here you can talk about homebrew games that don't have their own forums allocated (which will be most of them). Have an idea for a game that you'd like to see someone program? Are you programming a game and want some feedback? Discuss it here!

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    2. Programming

      The programming forums are technical discussions of programming various classic gaming consoles. The more popular consoles have their own dedicated programing forums, so please only use this forum for topics that fall outside of those forums.

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    3. Hacks

      A hack is an existing game that has somehow been modifed in terms of graphics, colors, sounds, and/or gameplay. If you've modified a game and would like to share it with others, or have an idea for a modification you'd like to see done to an existing game, you can discuss it here.

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  9. Site

    1. Announcements

      Important site or forum-related announcements will be posted here. If you see a new announcement, please stop by to read it!

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    2. Forum Questions and Answers

      Have a question about how to use the forum?  Ask here and others can answer (including admins and mods!)  

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    3. AtariAge Store Discussion

      We'll post announcements about the AtariAge Store here, and you can also post your questions and comments about the store in this forum as well.

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    4. Site and Forum Feedback

      Do you have suggestions for how AtariAge can be improved? Please post them here, as well as criticisms, and kudos about the web site!

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    5. Rarity Guide

      The AtariAge Rarity Guide is a living, breathing document! If you have feedback regarding rarity guide values and the database in general, please discuss it here!

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    6. Archived Forums

      Resting place for forums that have have run their course and are archived here for reference.

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  • Recent Status Updates

    • Charlie Cat  »  frankodragon

      Hahaha. Nice picture you done Frank. I approve it.  
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    • Charlie Cat

      Say, a new electric scale Garfield. 
       

      1. r_chase

        Garfield be like "I swear these scales are just gather more things against me."
    • dudeguy

      Every time you start to get ahead in life, someone comes along and kicks you in the nuts as hard as they can
      1. Chris+++

        And yet they're made of steel, so you'll overcome this, whatever it is, while he's nursing his broken toes.
      2. moycon

        You're preaching to the crowd dude. Your synopsis is shared by millions and millions. Suck it up, it isn't all about you. LOL J/K Hope you get over whatever hurtle in front of you. If it makes you feel any better, there are bigger hurtles you probably and hopefully won't ever have to jump, so there is that. 
      3. MantaNZ

        Do what I do - just fall further and further behind in life. I never let myself down.
      4. Random Terrain

        Keep waxin', keep maxin'. Knowing balls will always bounce for free, for sure. That's what balls are for. For good times and bad times. They'll stick to your leg forever more. That's what balls are for.
    • shane857

      Fate pulls you in different directions...
      1. MantaNZ

        Does she? That must hurt...
    • bent_pin

      8-bit Pump up the Jam to celebrate the new well pump:
       
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  • Recent Posts

    • They are very different chips, as @Rybags said, the 41464 is a 4 bit * 64K chip, the address pins are very different (and others) to the 4164 which is a 1 bit * 64K chip. I don't know if the 800XL had a model with 2 chips, but yours has 8 so it has the be the 4164 variant  
    • You probably meant Xbox Series S, not Xbox One S, and that doesn't even make sense, since every game that works on Xbox Series S works on Series X as well, so you should just say Xbox Series. And in my articles, I also tend to just put "Xbox" since, except the recent AAA blockbusters I seldomly write about, games work on both Xbox One and Xbox Series. It's less true for PlayStation, so I either write PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, or just PlayStation when it works for both.
    • Hi,     Imagine you have the line counter in y register and the y position of a missile in ram (e.g. missile1_y at $80), what is you favorite code to display a two pixel high missile ? I haven't found a solution I am proud of yet and need to concentrate on other things   Edit : I say "favorite" because I do not have need for shorter code nor faster code for now, just wondering what solutions you find interesting / beautiful.
    • Mega ST's - you can't just put in TOS 2.xx ROMS like for like without some extra jiggery pokery. There are some boards available from worldwide sellers to enable this for you. 
    • In USA, very cheap on eBay ($30-$40), but perhaps not many people are shipping overseas, and shipping costs can be a bit much, but you can check. I think we've tried to stretch this product to be kind of a poor man's retro pi for mostly 70s to early 90s game systems, but it certainly has it's limitations. I don't recall any internal pictures showing the presence of any heatsinks. I haven't taken mine apart.
    • Unrelated: that is shocking! My localish retro arcade has it!   Related: Why was I looking for Supervisions on ebay yesterday!!    Quite a few with battery corrosion issues where I guess people have left old batteries in. Maybe worth a gamble to clean up, depends how far the acid went...
    • I need some more advice on this! I ordered replacement DRAM and sockets but only the sockets have arrived so far. I also ordered a Super Salt diagnostic cart.   Diagnostic cart boots fine. It shows 32K RAM and no errors on the main screen. However.. the keyboard does not appear to be doing anything now - only the reset button appears to work so I can't press ? for instance to get to the help menu.   Any suggestions or do I just wait and proceed with DRAM replacement when it arrives? Dunno if that would stop the keyboard working or not.   Edit: I tell a lie - I set the cart to CPS diagnostic and can run the tests using the silver keys (option, start etc) - RAM passes, ROM passes. Keyboard doesn't work but it did do before the blue screen white cursor issue..  
    • Hi Ben,   I could respond with some snark to your snobbish response, but that would likely lead nowhere, so I'd rather try to make you a bit more informed, as this is likely an area that I am more knowledgeable of than you. I'm not trying to be arrogant when saying that, but I am one of the world's foremost of third and fourth generation unauthorized video games / gaming. I'll address your points one-by-one.   No, there was nothing particularly wrong about your sentence aside from the erroneous nature of its contents. Another member of this forum showed me the contents of this set of cartridges, and aside from a few of the titles in the lot, most of these are not dime-a-dozen bootlegs, rather it is just the perception that you hold as someone that does not collect or research these things. That GeGeGe no Kitarou cartridge? I've never seen that before. The Wrecking Crew next to it? I have no idea what region in the world used that sort of shell design, a design that is missing from my 144+ page book on Famiclone cartridge shells and their evolution. The NTDEC Super Mario Bros. 3? Again that's quite a banger. Only Baseball and B-Wings are what would be considered dime-a-dozen junk. Heck, I'd buy a set of games with that composition and wouldn't even care if they didn't play. People aren't buying these bootleg games to play, at least a lot of us aren't.    Well that's quite odd, as the majority of Famicom collectors online are collecting bootlegs, aside from the Japanese. Some Americans or Westerners might dip their toes into it by picking up a few games here and there, and they'll take official cartridges, but they don't generally go for collecting huge swaths of games and full sets and all of that stuff, in Famicom format. It's generally just picking up favorites or titles like Lickle (Little Samson), which got stupid expensive in the West.   This is a very complex topic and I agree with you on one point, which is that copyright holders will not get the revenue from the copied games. Here's the rub though: copyright holders wouldn't have gotten the revenue anyway, even if licensed games were being sold. We see this situation in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and India in Asia. We also see this situation in South Africa and in Poland, just to name a few regions. Nintendo marketed official games in all of these regions. Taiwan, Hong Kong, and India even got their own official gaming machines (Famicom or NES) released there. Official software was also sold in these regions, and also in places such as Thailand. It did horribly and didn't sell, and Nintendo likely backed away from some of these regions afterwards. Why? Was it because of greedy thieving bootleggers? No! It was because the average person was poor and couldn't afford to purchase such luxuries, unlike us.   If we flashforward to today though we will see something very interesting has occurred. Aside from places like Aliexpress, bootlegs just aren't prevalent anymore. Taiwanese, for example, go to normal game shops and purchase legitimate Nintendo Switch games. They buy new entries in their favorite series' such as new Mario games, Castlevanias, Pokemon, etc. Why? Brand loyalty. Since these people grew up with these games, they love the characters and also have a fondness to support the companies that make the games that they love. Why aren't these people buying bootlegs anymore? It's the same reason we had the natural progression of downloading music via Napster to downloading and paying for it, to streaming services, etc. In the end as these markets matured and people then had money, piracy just disappeared too.   To contrast things, Microsoft threw tons of money at the Xbox market in Taiwan, even advertising Halo in a music video from one of the popular local bands. It was a much harder sell to convince people to go for such a machine as there was no brand loyalty - no familiar characters or franchises. I heard that in Japan the X-box really didn't do well at all. Sure, they weren't a hotbed for piracy in the 80s and 90s, but my point is that it's a hard sell when there is no brand loyalty, and that can't be built up if people can't afford the products.   Microsoft themselves even recognize this. This is the reason they turned a blind eye when their Windows products kept getting copied and bootlegged in China during the 90s and early 2000s. When the time came that people could afford the software and pay for it, they would. And they'd choose something they were familiar with over something new that they weren't used to using.   There's nothing wrong with holding a different opinion, but at least try to see the forest instead of the trees.   A few more points to wrap things up:   1. There's a ton of Atari homebrew that uses IP that the developers didn't have the rights to use. Unauthorized = garbage, right? Those authors are just vile bootlegging thieves perhaps?   2. Konami and some other companies were selling their PCBs in bootleg shells, likely to tap into the market and develop brand loyalty, as they knew most in those regions couldn't afford to purchase the official copies anyways. So much for your argument about revenues and criminals.   3. Dumping and distributing ROMs is illegal. It is bootlegging. What is your stance on those so-called video game preservationists that were responsible for things such as dumping and releasing the unreleased NES Sim City game? Unauthorized = garbage? Criminals? Lock em up and throw away the key?     I don't want to start an argument, but I think having an informed discussion is quite useful.  -Dave
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    • Yes I was referring to Grenier, overall he's one of the better AVGN clones out there even if I disagree with most of his takes on Infograme's games, a shame I can only understand about half of what he says most of the time, I only know a bit of french, I'm much better at speaking English.
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