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[e5frog]

Hello again.

ONE cart left, selling will take a pause after that, probably until after summer 2013.

Autoswitching Multi-Cart with more than all original software.

The complete Pac-Man is now included!
Price $141, shipping worldwide for free.
(last update May 21st 2013)
Fits all Fairchild System machines no matter what the tv system is.


Answer here or send a personal message or e-mail to address below.

Previously I have offered the Pac-Man cartridge as you can see here:
http://www.atariage....__fromsearch__1


Have received the second test print for the box, very happy with it, need to sell the last cart to pay for the printing costs, for now I will still ship cart only. I haven't decided yet about an instruction book, possibly I'll have a small booklet made with the "on-the label" instructions, a larger one with ALL instructions would have been fun though. Perhaps complete scans could be included on CD-R/DVD-R...

Box and instructions will be shipped for free to all buyers as soon as they're done.


The Multi-Cart contains all known games and variations (also both Democarts, protos and known homebrews) for the Fairchild System, even Pac-Man with the intermission music and intermission animations!
Games can be chosen via a menu that you reach by resetting the system while holding button 1.
Holding other buttons or combination thereof will immediately start one of the more popular games according to previous requests, just check the instructions on the back label.


Payment Instructions:
Any questions are welcome, and also your money at PayPal.com, my address there is e5frog@gmail.com I'll also answer e-mail to that address. Please use the personal payment option and be sure you pay the fee, thanks! (This way the full amount will reach my account as the fees aren't very easy to calculate - something I know from previous experience)

Like so:


Please write your shipping address as a message in your PayPal payment as it is not automatically included with this type of payment, if you forget to include it send an e-mail to the same address or send a PM here.
All shipping is done via plain mail, not registered, at the buyers risk. I'm happy to ship registered at the buyers expense.

Insured shipping is an additional $15.


Customizations are offered, $10-20 extra per item, such things as:
custom fast start options including custom back label
Up to 15 characters displayed on startup
Picture of your choice displayed on startup
changes in colors of menu
order of items in menu
custom word list in Hangman
UPGRADE to newer software (buyer also pays shipping back and forth)


Thanks for looking!


All orders until today:
1 Auction winner: Stonan, Sweden
2 toymailman, USA?
3 Other forum: P.P.O.T., Sweden?
4 Other forum: Carlsson, Sweden
5 jeffgamer, USA?
6 darthkur, USA
7 Other forum: Freiztan, Sweden
8 Other forum: GreatGuy, Sweden
9 Bill_Loguidice, USA
10 horseboy, USA
11 hafrazee, USA
12 retrogmr, USA
13 Other forum: furor, USA
14 jasoncslaughter, USA
15 masschamber, USA
16 lgallair, Canada
17 Jan-Erik, Sweden
18 JayBad, USA
19 RPJr, USA
20 jmonzon, USA
21 Joe S., USA
22 Judith C., USA
23 Brad D., USA
24 Laurent D., Belgium, then sold on eBay for $200
25 Scott S., USA
26 Rick M., USA
27 Heath, USA
28 Kimmo P, Sweden
29 Matt R, USA
30 Lance B, USA
31 Luke S, USA
32 Atsushi Y, Japan
33 Mark T, USA
34 David F, USA
35 Rick R, USA
36 Tom K, Norway
37 Rob D, USA
38 Sasha C, USA
39 Matt G, USA
40 Mark D, USA
41 Roger N, USA
42 Darrin L, USA
43 Ian B, USA
44 David M, USA
45 Martin S, UK
46 Sean K, USA
47 Jon P, Australia
48 John F, USA
49 Brendan W, USA
50 Jay C, USA
51 Charles D, USA
52 Bryan G, USA
53 Brendan B, USA
54 Cyril D, France
55 Marco L, Brazil
56 Lawrence P, Canada
57 Charles N, USA
58 Michael T, USA
59 Steve P, UK
60 William S, USA
61 Pierre L, Canada
62 Stefan H, Germany
63 Kevin M, USA
64 BF, Italy
65 BF, Italy
66 BF, Italy
67 Kristofer, Sweden

69 James R, USA
70 Michael H, USA
----------------- all above have been shipped


68 Toktotte, Sweden (partially paid)



ONE LEFT ON THIS BATCH:
71 not sold - yet

Edited by e5frog, Yesterday, 11:20 AM.

[toymailman]

Sing me in!

[lucifershalo]

Can you list the games that will be on the multicart?

[e5frog]

lucifershalo, on Wed Sep 2, 2009 12:31 PM, said:

Can you list the games that will be on the multicart?

Yes, all of them:

Menu

cart
#1  TIC-TAC-TOE + 3
#2  desert fox + 1
#3  Video Blackjack
#4  Spitfire
#5  Space War
#6  Math Quiz I
#7  Math Quiz II
#8  Magic Numbers
#9  Drag Race
#10 Maze/J./B.b./Trailblazer
#11 Backgammon/Acey-Ducey
#12 Baseball
#13 Robot War/Torpedo Alley
#14 Sonar Search
#15 Memory Match
#16 Dodge It
#17 Pinball Challenge
#18 Hangman
#19 Checkers
#20 Video Whizball
#21 Bowling
#22 Slot Machine
#23 Galactic Space Wars / Lunar l.
#24 Pro Football
#25 Casino Poker
#26 Alien Invasion


Democart
Democart 2
Saba #1  mühle + 3
Saba #3  German abbreviations
Saba #16 rat'mal
Saba #20 Schach
#10 alternative version
#17 alternative version
#22 alternative version
TETRIS by Peter Trauner
Pac-man by blackbird & Blaoholtz
Lights out by SEAN RIDDLE
COLORTEST by SEAN Riddle
ALT. BIOS (tennis in four directions instead of just two)
F8 of NATIONS
SCROLL MOUNTAINS (DEMO)
Swedish wordlist hack HANGMAN by Fredric Blaoholtz
RETrogathering 2008 pac-man by Fredric Blaoholtz
TEST CONTROLS by Fredric Blaoholtz
RAMtest by Fredric Blaoholtz
INTERNATIONAL KARATE BETA BUILD 5 by Fredric Blaoholtz

Color-organ prototype

I think that's all of them...

Edited by e5frog, Wed Sep 2, 2009 2:54 PM.

[jeffgamer]

I just PayPalled a pre-order to ya'...looks like I'm lucky #4!

Thanks!

[e5frog]

I have increased the number of carts to five as things were a little more expensive than I had expected. It looks like the next larger batch will cost more than the $100 per cartridge than these first five - maybe as much as $20 more, so if you want one and can afford it right now - get one of the two that's left...

[e5frog]

First five are sold, I'll continue to take pre-orders for the same price, but the waiting time is a little longer. The price will most likely go up when I have gotten price information on all needed parts. If you pay now you'll get it at the cheaper price.

[e5frog]

Here's a preview of the menu of the Multi-Cart, originally made by Sean Riddle and edited by me.

As mentioned before, buyer's name will be displayed before the currently first screen is showed:

Old version:

NEW:

Edited by e5frog, Thu Sep 24, 2009 7:33 AM.

[Disco Scottie]

Add me to the list!!!

[e5frog]

I'm done with the menu for now, I also added the prototype "Draw Poker" to the menu as it differs in the sound effects from Videocart 25, uploaded a new YouTube movie of the menu:


If you check my other videos you can also fid recordings of Draw Poker and Casino Poker.

Edited by e5frog, Thu Sep 24, 2009 8:18 AM.

[darthkur]

e5frog, on Thu Sep 24, 2009 7:33 AM, said:

I'm done with the menu for now, added prototype "Draw Poker" as it differs in the sound effects from #25,

That's excellent. I never knew that even existed. There's more great stuff on there than I ever though possible that I'd get to play on my Channel F.

[FND]

e5frog, on Thu Sep 24, 2009 7:33 AM, said:

I'm done with the menu for now, added prototype "Draw Poker" as it differs in the sound effects from #25,

  If its the same proto dump as the one I have pictured here  
http://fndcollectabl...prototypes.html

  Then there is also some slight graphics differences as well (numbers in different position)

fnd

Edited by FND, Thu Sep 24, 2009 2:20 PM.

[Bill Loguidice]

Ack, I just saw this.  I'd of course love one, so please add me to the list.

[e5frog]

Yes FND, that's them, I see you have gotten hold of two other prototypes as well, I hope we can get them dumped...

I added the five prototypes that were actually playable:
DRAW POKER (Casino Poker)
COLOR ORGAN
FOOTBALL
GLACTIC SPACE WAR
SPITFIRE

Some are very different in the binary-file but seems to play the same.

There's probably missing code in Color Organ, but even if you just use the first 512 byte it plays the same, the "Robot Wars" code are very different but I think about half the code of that one is missing... That's why it resets after the players are written to screen. I hope we can get new dumps of them eventually.

It seems I haven't mentioned that the alternative Slot Machine was dumped OK and added to the Multi-Cart earlier this week.

You can check my YouTube-page for new recordings:
http://www.youtube.com/user/e5frog

Edited by e5frog, Thu Sep 24, 2009 2:53 PM.

[horseboy]

So if I get one now and you decide to make a box later will you send me a box? Or should I wait a while to see if you decide to make a box?

Edited by horseboy, Thu Sep 24, 2009 6:59 PM.

[FND]

e5frog, on Thu Sep 24, 2009 2:50 PM, said:

It seems I haven't mentioned that the alternative Slot Machine was dumped OK and added to the Multi-Cart earlier this week.

  Glad to hear it dumped OK, any hidden code ? or just blank space

FND

[e5frog]

FND, on Thu Sep 24, 2009 8:22 PM, said:

Glad to hear it dumped OK, any hidden code ? or just blank space

FND

Now that's a good question, that would require some extensive testing. I know that Sean Riddle edited the M.E.S.S. code to mask out any unused code of a cartridge and then looked closer at that. I don't have near his knowledge to do something like that, I'd have to disassemble it and then go trough the code from the beginning...

[e5frog]

horseboy, on Thu Sep 24, 2009 6:59 PM, said:

So if I get one now and you decide to make a box later will you send me a box? Or should I wait a while to see if you decide to make a box?

Yes, if you buy a cartridge you have also bought any future box and instruction booklet. I'm thinking I might gather the on-cart instructions in a pamphlet or something like that.

[horseboy]

e5frog, on Fri Sep 25, 2009 2:07 AM, said:

horseboy, on Thu Sep 24, 2009 6:59 PM, said:

So if I get one now and you decide to make a box later will you send me a box? Or should I wait a while to see if you decide to make a box?

Yes, if you buy a cartridge you have also bought any future box and instruction booklet. I'm thinking I might gather the on-cart instructions in a pamphlet or something like that.

Sweet. Count me in then.

[e5frog]

EDIT:

The Sonar Search I found was not a new version, there was eight bytes missing a little more than half way through the first half of the dump.

It wasn't even playable - which I should have checked of course.

It seems I need to look over the dumper code, it was a very strange place to miss data. I had the same dump with four different carts so I thought it was OK...



I'll remove it again from the Multi-Cart code...   *sigh*






I found an earlier version of Sonar Search today when I dumped some carts, there are (so far) a version before week 45 1978 and one from week45 1978. The later version is previously known and dumped. Here's the zipped binary.




I updated the Multi-Cart and added both versions of Sonar Search, also changed the numbering to only be present on actual released cart versions, so there's 36 different dumped carts and a bunch of other software as well. Pac-Man is not listed as a cart since it's not the full cart version (no intermission animations nor intermission music).


Here's the new full list:
CART 01 TIC-TAC-TOE
CART 02 DESERT FOX
CART 03 BLACK JACK
CART 04 SPITFIRE
CART 05 SPACE WAR
CART 06 MATH QUIZ 1
CART 07 MATH QUIZ 2
CART 08 MAGIC NUMBERS
CART 09 DRAG RACE
CART 10 MAZE
CART 11 BACKGAMMON
CART 12 BASEBALL
CART 13 ROBOT WAR
CART 14 SONAR SEARCH
CART 15 MEMORY MATCH
CART 16 DODGE-IT
CART 17 PINBALL
CART 18 HANGMAN
CART 19 CHECKERS
CART 20 VIDEO WHIZBALL
CART 21 BOWLING
CART 22 SLOT MACHINE
CART 23 GALACTIC S.W.
CART 24 PRO FOOTBALL
CART 25 CASINO POKER
CART 26 ALIEN INVASION
CART 27 DEMOCART
CART 28 DEMOCART 2
CART 29 CHESS
CART 30 GERMAN CART 1
CART 31 GERMAN CART 3
CART 32 GERMAN CART 16
CART 33 ALT. MAZE
CART 34 ALT. PINBALL
CART 35 ALT. SLOT
GAME  LIGHTS OUT
GAME  TETRIS
GAME  PAC-MAN
SOFTWARE  COLORTEST
SOFTWARE  ALT. BIOS
SOFTWARE  BIOS
GAME   SWE HANGMAN
SOFTWARE  RAMTEST
SOFTWARE  RG08 PAC-MAN
SOFTWARE  IK
SOFTWARE  TEST CONTROLS
SOFTWARE  F8 OF NATIONS
SOFTWARE  SCROLLING MT:S
PROTOTYPE DRAW POKER
PROTOTYPE COLOR ORGAN
PROTOTYPE FOOTBALL
PROTOTYPE GALACTIC S.W.
PROTOTYPE SPITFIRE

Edited by e5frog, Fri Nov 20, 2009 1:04 PM.

[e5frog]

New YouTube-movie of the new menu:

[darthkur]

Any of these completed and on the way yet?

[e5frog]

darthkur, on Wed Oct 21, 2009 9:56 AM, said:

Any of these completed and on the way yet?

Yes, a few, still waiting for the big batch of PCB:s and circuits.

[darthkur]

Anyone get theirs yet? If so how is it and what's your favorite games on there? I'm still eagerly anticipating my copy.

[Bill Loguidice]

Not yet. Definitely will be cool, though.