Joel D. Park Posted September 13, 2001 Share Posted September 13, 2001 Well it's finally complete, actually it's been complete for a while but in light of the last couple days, I didn't really care. http://www.atari2600.net/aspMassCarts.asp Here is every loose cart in my collection that isn't in a shrink wrapped box, all displayed as thumbnails on one page. And via Pitfall Harry's (Ben's) suggestion, if you click any of the thumbnails they will open to a larger image. I apologize that some scans look different than others, I've been scanning carts for a long time and my software and hardware has changed a few times. You can also check out my news for any other changes that their may have been: http:www.atari2600.net Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerG Posted September 13, 2001 Share Posted September 13, 2001 Joel -- wow! awesome scans. Thankfully I have a DSL line and they all come up fairly fast. Nice work! -- RG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel D. Park Posted September 13, 2001 Author Share Posted September 13, 2001 Thanks, If I get complaints about the speed I can easliy shrink the thumbnails down some. And in all honesty, I'd bet my collection is pretty unimpressive compared to most of you guy's collection. I've got a few rarities here any there but most is just the commons that everyone has. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel D. Park Posted September 13, 2001 Author Share Posted September 13, 2001 I'll condcider breaking it up.. My big problem is that the whole thing is filled from a database, so I don't really have a good halfway mark. It looks like the screen doesn't load all at once so maybe it will be ok. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted September 13, 2001 Share Posted September 13, 2001 Personally, I like it in one huge file. Sure, that may limit its viewing to those with broadband, but that's also what makes it unique. I've never seen so many cart scans on a single page, it's extremely cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted September 13, 2001 Share Posted September 13, 2001 Interesting, that's the first time I've ever seen the Rust colored Text Night Driver label before. I was begining to doubt it existed. Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel D. Park Posted September 13, 2001 Author Share Posted September 13, 2001 Yea, the night driver is dated 1986 I believe, good eye. I don't have any idea where that one came from, possibly Canada, I get alot of funny labels from Canada. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted September 13, 2001 Share Posted September 13, 2001 It's one of those 86 labels. They made a ton of weird colors and big errors on the 1986 labels. I should write an article about that some day. Most of them say "For Use With Paddle Controllers", but since Night Driver uses them anyway it's no big deal. I know I'm missing a few other weird 86 lables (but I've seen these): Sky Diver - White Text Canyon Bomber - Pink Text Blackjack - Picture Label (Yellow Text) Demons to Diamonds - Magenta Text (never seen this one) Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari70s Posted September 13, 2001 Share Posted September 13, 2001 hey tempest i got a copy of the rust colored night driver 86 ( same taht joel has) so far my 1986 list is as follows Warlords breakout spaceinvaders nightdriver raiders lost ark hangman(silver)label asteroids ET 1987's are spaceinvaders pacman math gran prix realsports baseball ms pacman centipede dig dug kangaroo moon patrol . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unbeliever Posted September 13, 2001 Share Posted September 13, 2001 All I can say is...WOW! That's a great shot of your collection. I'm very envious. Compared to what I have at the moment, you might as well not even count mine! LOL! At some point, I'll put my collection up for all to view as well, but I'm rather embarrased at this point to do so. Once again, excellent pic of your cartridges. You're a true Atari collector. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariDude Posted September 14, 2001 Share Posted September 14, 2001 Wow! That is one large collection. Lucky for me that I have DSL or might need to send out for pizza by the time it would have loaded at 56K. How long did it take you to amass such a large number of cartridges? Do you still have time to play them or do you only play certain favorites? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ze_ro Posted September 14, 2001 Share Posted September 14, 2001 Well, consider my butt kicked. Instead of making the thumbnails smaller, I'd recommend instead that you split it into two pages (Though this is probably what you wanted to avoid). The thumbnails would be hard to differentiate if they were much smaller (especially the text labels). That being said, I had no problem loading up everything (hooray for cable modem!). Looks great! --Zero Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted September 14, 2001 Share Posted September 14, 2001 Did the page go down? I can no longer get to it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel D. Park Posted September 14, 2001 Author Share Posted September 14, 2001 Maybe our internet connection was down, it looks like it should be all good now. Let me know if anyone can get to it. Please try it again. Thanks, Joel D. Park Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel D. Park Posted September 14, 2001 Author Share Posted September 14, 2001 quote: Originally posted by AtariDude: How long did it take you to amass such a large number of cartridges? Do you still have time to play them or do you only play certain favorites? Well, I've been collecting since around 1996 before the cartridge supplies began to dwindle. At that time, I lived in Denver Colorado and got many of my games at Denver flea markets. What really turned my Atari collection around was about 250 boxed atari games a friend and I found at the flea market. I got my web page up and running and they traded like crazy. I filled in alot of holes in my collection.. Once my page started trading well, I started buying some lots of games off ebay. This allowed me stuff to trade and I could keep anything I needed from the lots. I still need many rare carts and I know my collection can't even begain to compare to folks like Jah Fish and Tempest. Thanks for everything though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted September 14, 2001 Share Posted September 14, 2001 I should take a picture of my collection. I think I have a computer camera somewhere that I could use, what I really need is a digital camera. Try and imagine a wall of 2600, 7800, and Colecovision games stacked floor to ceiling. The 2600 portion of the wall is about 6 feet high and about 4 feet wide. They're all in serial number order by company. Now I really want to take a picture... Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel D. Park Posted September 14, 2001 Author Share Posted September 14, 2001 Sounds fantastic. I'd love to see it. Hey if someone gets a chance, please try to view the mass carts picture again and tell me if the page is working. I can see it fine from here, but I'm local. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolenta Posted September 14, 2001 Share Posted September 14, 2001 quote: Originally posted by Joel D. Park: Hey if someone gets a chance, please try to view the mass carts picture again and tell me if the page is working. I can see it fine from here, but I'm local. I got as far as the second Tennis and then its followed by a whole bunch of little white squares with red x's in them. [ 09-14-2001: Message edited by: rolenta ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel D. Park Posted September 14, 2001 Author Share Posted September 14, 2001 Perhaps it was a timeout or something. You may just try refreshing.. Sorry you guys are having problems like this. It might just be too much for our Pentium 160Mhz Web server to handle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted September 14, 2001 Share Posted September 14, 2001 quote: Originally posted by Joel D. Park: Perhaps it was a timeout or something. You may just try refreshing.. Sorry you guys are having problems like this. It might just be too much for our Pentium 160Mhz Web server to handle. I just tried it and it worked fine. Pretty cool idea, looks awesome. I think you should keep it all on one page, it doesn't take that long to load on a fast connection. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mot Posted September 14, 2001 Share Posted September 14, 2001 You could (stating the obvious) keep this as your fast connection page and shrink the thumbnails down /chop it up (in less images/page) for low connection people. But I think you should keep this one as is, I do enjoy seeing a lot of carts I've never seen before all in one page. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATARIPITBULL Posted September 14, 2001 Share Posted September 14, 2001 All I can say is that you did a great job with this site. I have just a modem but your pictures came up very fast and I see a few more games that I want to ad to my collection. (Keep up the great work). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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