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    As a kid in the 70's I collected Wacky Packages stickers before video games kicked into gear. Had Atari Pong, Video Pinball and Stunt Cycle consoles before getting a VCS.<br /><br />I still collect the Wacky Packages cards.

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  1. Good idea mr.bill --- I did replace the AVG chip with the Alan-1 version and a Test Mode run after that got it all sorted out. The web is fixed and the Black Widow is back in action!
  2. I've heard that Atari had a presence in some of the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) metro system stations back in the 1970's. Anyone have any info about this?
  3. My Atari Black Widow was out of commission for a few years, but a new WG6100+ Deflection Board and a XY Vector Monitor Transistor Upgrade Kit from ALAN-1.COM got it back up up and running. The game screen does have a issue though - one of the outer rings on the spider web is out of place. See photo. Anyone have any ideas on what to do to fix this? I'm trying to get it working correctly and hopefully get it to the Free Play area at PRGE in October.
  4. For loose cartridges older wooden tape cassette storage units work. They come in different sizes. Take out some of the wooden slats to fit the carts. The larger units can hold 100 or more cartridges.
  5. Superchargers are pretty common, so many collectors have them. I've got a couple each of the Arcadias and the Starpaths. 1-7 of the boxed cassettes and a loose set of those ad well. And i have a Stella Gets a New Brain CD as well.
  6. I have a pong clone that I am looking for some new paddle knobs for. It only had one funky looking knob when I got it. Knob is about 80mm across with indentations around tbe perimeter for fingertips to grasp it. The pot stems are typical D-shape. Unlikely to find a replacement one of those knobs I figure, but does anyone know a source for larger than normal (i.e. 2600 paddle) knobs? Offerings on Ebay look less than enticing, and I am not attracted to a stereo knob with a placement line on it.
  7. Great book Tim! thanks for writing it. I've purchased two so far. One a gift for my brother and the second one got loaned out to a friend right after it arrived. I might just get another and let him keep it.
  8. I haven't been able to play it yet, but I got it opened up and it is a pirate job. Looks like it was a lot of work to get the boards soldered together with all those wires! The surgeon used a piece of double sided tape on it--had to unstick that from the casing to extricate it. I don't know what these things go for but anyone who is interested in it please send me an offer. Here are some photos.
  9. Thanks for all the info. I'm still waiting on the tool to arrive so I can open it up. Makes sense that it likely is some sort of pirate job with that Famicom label on it. Whoever made it had to want to play it really bad with all of the wiring in there. I'll be able to plug it into a player over the weekend and when the tool arrives I will be posting some photos of the board.
  10. I was out with my brother the other day and wandered into this NES cartridge in a thrift store. The label caught my eye as it doesn't belong on this shape of cartridge, so I bought it. After I got it home and looked it over a bit I could see wires inside. Weighs 4.3 oz (121g). Can't find the screw remover I bought a few years ago so I've ordered another one. I've got a NES compatible player somewhere so I'll plug it in pretty soon and check it out. I've never played Super Mario Bros. before so the suspense is unbearable....... Best news is that my brother paid for it!
  11. I'm in the USA, and I've got a Amiga 500 computer but it is without the Workbench v1.3 software to boot it up. I don't have a 2.5" disk drive to burn a floppy with the software so it looks like I have to hunt for a disk for it. Will the UK version of Workbench work ok with this system?
  12. I'm partial to this one. It looks better with multiple beers...
  13. Hello from landoquakes! My son Charlie has become quite an Atari 2600 fanatic. He is now better than me. Shoot me an e-mail sometime happypebbl@hotmail.com

  14. Those old wooden cassette tape holders work well. Sizes vary. You just pluck out enough of the slats to configure your cartridges how you like them. The larger ones can get heavy when full, but with some proper supporting brackets you could hang them on a wall. Here is a large one eBay Auction -- Item Number: 230619477566 on ebay, but they can be found at flea markets, garage sales and thrift stores, usually for cheap.
  15. I know they sold calculators back in the day, but did the Kings Point Corp. market any pong systems?
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