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If you search ebay or google for a device called an xe1541 or x cable for short you can download disk images and transfer them to the c64 drive, you will need some knowlege of dos and an os that supports it ie win 95/98/me, definitely not xp or nt the software to do it is called star commander and is freely available on the net. A site called gb64.com has around 16000 game images for downloading the hardest part is getting the double density floppies as they are getting hrder to find the 64 is very well supported with software , Wish i could say that about the 128 which i own there wasnt ever much software written for it apart from a few text adventures.

The vnew zealand story is a relatively unknown c=64 platformer great sounds and graphics too that and the gianna sisters would be my favorite 3 platformers

I've just got a gameboy advance sp complete with doom wolfenstein sim city and metal slug after many weeks of playing these games I'm thinking it doesn't have a lot to recommend it over the lynx, Sure it is small and the rechargable battery is a good idea but overall it doesn't really outshine the lynx I know I will probably upset peple that play the likes of maroi and pokemon etc on the thing but I'm just not interested in anime or tv show type games so for the stuff I do play the lynx will do me fine

I'm lucky enough to have a lode runner cart for my commodore sx from what I've been able to find out commodore carts are only 8 k/b so there would be plenty of room on a lynx cart to hold the data although the game editor the commodore version has would be lost on the lynx unless a way of saving the data could be developed. The commodore uses a very similar cpu to the lynx as well. so maybe it could be ported

Quite a few atari classics were available on the commodore hardly surprising as they use a similar cpu chip In fact a division of commodore business machines supplied atari and apple with cpu's so porting games amongst these machines was probably not too hard

Just been to the telegames website only to be greeted by the message that as of september they are discontinuing support for older consoles. This will make finding carts a little more difficult

I've got 6 consoles here 3 mk 1s 3 mk 2s. The later models have made in taiwan written on them the pag 201 is made in japan the 2 pag 200s one built in china the other built in taiwan. How many companies did atari have building these things?

Are we likely to have it incuded in the lynx site

Keep a watch on trade me as lynx units quite often appear there. and If youre lucky you will find one with a lot of carts thrown in . That's how i've been doing it.Only problem so far 5 consoles at least it will take some time to wear them out, and it's awats handy to have a spare for comlynxing when you get a few carts together as you always end up with doubles

I started this collecting bug 2 months ago And have had a very good run i've got over 60 carts now, and most of them are rarities. I'm fortunate that here in australia telegames product was heavily promoted. as the complete catalogue was quite easy to find.I've now only got the commons and a couple of songbird titles to find. i'm not that worried about getting protos as such rather a good selection of what was released complete for the console and of course doubles at least of the multiplayer carts.as cal games and checkered flag are at their best comlynxed.The only downside to this frenzied collecting so far has been a surplus of consoles and the cost

I've got two lynx 1s here both PAG 0201 one is painted grey over a chrome finish the other is grey coloured plastic strange as the serial numbers are very close to each other

Besides an embarrassing quantity of lynx units I've Also got an invicta electronic mastermind, an extemely primitive gaming machine the object being to guess a randomly generated number it has stored inside it resembles an early pocket calculator it has a vinyl folder complete with a small score sheet and an imitation gold pen inside. are these things very common as i've not been able to find out much about it

I've a spre CGE 5th anniversary cart here If anybody is interested in swapping for an alpine games

It would be interesting to see actual production figures of the various carts as I believe in some cases the rarity is regional. Telegames carts are surprisingly abundant in australia, mainly because the importer(imported nintendo as well!)pushed the product in fact top of the page in the australian lynx catalogue is double dragon. supposedly rare carts like hard drivin were a common pack in cart in fact that can still be purchased new for around $au 15.00, others like joust are still available new for a reasonable price. I got warbirds and joust new 2 weeks ago for $26.00 and$17.00 respectively