Contieri

Woa!! É isso aê Edu!!! Meus parabéns!! Agora é que você fica milionário de vez!! Hua hau hua!! Boa sorte na sua distribuição. E realmente: o conjunto todo ficou muito show!!! Abraço, Contieri

Andrew... Things are just great. I was wondering if you could leave some exercises, in order to challenge US to find out how things work, specially "homework" that we will get answers in our following lesson. Stuff like: Why don't you try to, de-syncronize your kernel and see the color bars rolling (I've done that - Ok, it was an accident...) Well, that's it!! Thanks!! Keep up the good work!! Cheers, Contieri

Hi! Anyone has this code commented?? I've messed up mine and I'd like to get a copy of it with the up to date lesson. Mine has got creepy since I've messed it a lot... Cheers, Ricardo

Andrew, Things are just great. Keep up the good work, Hugs from Brazil, Contieri

Hi Eduardo... So... I may say brazilian carts are all 3&4 since they are clones??? Just kiddin! Well, thanks for the info. I thought you'd have any statistcs like: Total found / by total produced * total buried in the middle of the desert... Stuff like that... Ok! I'll work with that rate. Let's see what I can bring you!! Cheers! Ricardo

Hi Eduardo... So... I may say brazilian carts are all 3&4 since they are clones??? Just kiddin! Well, thanks for the info. I thought you'd have any statistcs like: Total found / by total produced * total buried in the middle of the desert... Stuff like that... Ok! I'll work with that rate. Let's see what I can bring you!! Cheers! Ricardo

Hi Eduardo, I´d like to know a little bit more about you methodology on rating the rarety. If you have any statistical criteria, or else. Probably the 1 to 10 numbering. I read the criteria you have, like "found on every pile", but maybe you have something else for that??? Well, that´s it! See ya´ Ricardo "Alejandro" Contieri

Eduardo Wrote: Well, I'll start with Atari Age one's. Let's see what happens! PS: Why do you keep calling me Alejandro?? Just curious...

Hi KA, That is the prob.! I can´t get your money from here, but I´m willing to trade carts, like Brazilian for american. And I´m also looking for a wood front Atari too. If you have one of those (with box, preferred) I could send you a batch of brazilian carts. What do you say? This goes also to anyone who would like to get brazilian carts too!! Hugs, Ricardo

Hi Marco, No, you're not wrong at all. Anyone who goes donwtown with a few bucks can get most of them. That happens because in Brazil we do have a market selling them, and not a lot of people buying. But that is because in Brazil, most collectors just don't considerate on buying brazilians carts for their collection. I just buy titles in Brazilian Clones if I can't find the original versions of it, and I pass it on when I find the original one. I bet that San-D came back with a bag full of carts from his trip I'm not quite sure of how was your guide made (its criteria, methodology, market analisys etc - gotta get the magazine - which is going to be tought) so maybe a cart that is popular here, is not so popular in europe, for an instance. And vice-versa! It's all about points of view: How many people are willing to buy those carts vs. how many are available. In Brazil, maybe you can find them in the garbage can! I saw those eBay auctions and I'm trying to find a way to work with it, but it's difficult to export something from Brazil and get payed. If you have any tips... Regards, Contieri

Marco, Thanks for the info. I hope I can get one of those in Brazil. Then, I´ll tell you if it does reflect the market in here or not. Hehehehe. See ya´ Ricardo

Hi there Eduardo. Well, acctualy my collection has been going the other way, collecting american cartridges, although most of them are polyvox ones. I do have some Dactar, Cosmovision, Digivision, Genus, Supergame and others cartridges. Nowadays, I have a Dactar and a Polyvox, both with their PC board made in Brazil. I once had a CCE Supergame 2600 (that is not the tape one, like THE Supergame, it was just its baptism name.) but I sold it recently, in orther to improove my cash flow . The brazilian market for Atari is pretty much warm today, but people are not very informed about what are they buying or selling. The sad part of it all, is when you are going to buy a console. You keep hearing " I just threw them away a few years ago. I needed some room." ARGH!! - I bet those are no news for you! During sometime in the 80´s (probably 84 or 85), the demand for the 2600 was so high, that Polyvox had to import some consoles because they could no produce enough to supply them, once again, just labeling and boxing it here. I think I have a few pictures of all of them, and if I don´t , I can get them. Just name it! It will be a pleasure to help you out. As for the list, many of the producers tryied to number their cartridges lists, but I think that the one most efficient on that was CCE. Talking about CCE, you guys were so cruel about them on Atari Age!! You said that they were pirates and stuff :-) !! During the 80´s, brazilians laws regarding computers and games were closed to the international market and didn´t protect the game producers in here, alowing anyone here to make copies of softwares. So, if you want to blame someone, blame brazilian governors!! Or thank them to allow the spread of clones in here. I don´t have and cart list criteria and I would like to help Atari Age in order to develop some, or even use yours for naming and classifing the games around here. And I´m also looking for people that would like to exchange carts . Hugs, Ricardo A. Contieri

Hi everyone. As Sérgio said, all of those (from the pictures) are Polyvox Cart´s. Although it has an Activision stamp on its back, those cart´s were imported from US (I believe) and had its labeling in Brazil, acctualy, in Zona Franca de Manaus, whitch is a city in the middle of the amazon forest (so you can tell that that cartridge had really traveled.) During the 80´s, importing goods to Brazil was very expensive, unless they were made through Manaus, and as raw material. So labelling here was a way to make taxes go lower. Both versions of the Enduro cartridges are Polyvox. I was wondering if anyone would like to make a Rarity Guide to those cartridges. Sérgio: Ainda vou fazer os Paddlers funcionarem Hug´s Contieri

Hi, everyone, I was wondering if anyone would like to develop the rarety guide for brazilian consoles/cartridges clones. I think it would be great if we could have that information here, since we have many cartridges listed, but with no information regarding their rarety. See ya´ Contieri Ola pessoal, Gostaria de saber se alguém se interessaria em desenvolver um guia de raridade para consoles/cartuchos de clones brasileiros. Acho que seria ótimo se tivessemos essas informações aqui, uma vez que existem diversos listados, porém sem classificação quanto à raridade. Abraço, Contieri