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Was looking through the old forum messages about this, and it was like 15 years ago when he made the last batch of carts and that was going to be the last run, so I’m afraid contacting him will be a dead end either way. ?

I saw Albert will produce a 5200 cart with a supplied rom and label image for $30. Maybe I can finagle myself a new copy that way. ?

Just my commentary on not knowing where else to check. Why do you ask? ?‍♂️

*BUMP* I had it about 10-15 years ago, and wound up selling it about 5 years ago. Now that I’m ramping up my collection again I’d really love to have a copy back. Saved an eBay search - don’t really know where else to check. LOL

Ok. Thanks for the info David. I’ll hold onto them and maybe play around with loading my own images or something. ??

Hi all, I received these 3 AtariMax carts in a game lot I bought. I checked them and they all have game images loaded onto them that you can select from a menu. I’m assuming a previous owner had loaded these on. I’ve never seen “xx/yy” limited edition numbers on these kinds of carts before. Are these rare, or just like the first run of these type carts? TIA!

Have you tried Psytronik (https://psytronik.bigcartel.com/products), The Future Was 8bit (https://www.thefuturewas8bit.com/shop/commodore.html), or Doublesided Games (https://doublesidedgames.com/)? I’ve spent WAY more on C64 home brew from these sites over the last 6 months than any mortal person should. LOL Being in the US and having a majority of the C64 home brew scene happening in Europe is not great on the shipping, but there are just so many games to choose from…! ?

Awesome! Thanks for the update Al!

How's it going? Any updates?

Dude - you are my hero!!! Thank you so much - I set the C drive to auto, rebooted and voila - it booted into Win95!!! ??? Then I placed an order with Amazon for a PS2-to-USB adapter because I don’t have a compatible mouse. ? I have the keyboard, and was able to look around a little bit but full investigation will start tomorrow once the adapter arrives. I can’t thank you enough - I’m ecstatic it turned out to be something this easy. That being said, I definitely would like to work with you on creating a stable go-forward system that’s not reliant on a 28 year old HD. LOL I don’t know if I’ll need the startup floppy, but I’d definitely like to pursue the DOM you talked about. Also, my CDs are version 1.2. Well, I have System and Data discs that are unnumbered, and an extra data disc that’s 1.2. Let me see how it looks after I get into it more tomorrow, then I’ll reach out to you for further steps. Thanks again and talk to you soon.

Resurrecting an ancient thread (sorry - LOL), but I just pulled my Tandy Sensation out of the closet that I bought new back in '93 and gave it the ol' college try tonight. I didn't get very far however because the hard drive is no longer recognized (I'm guessing that gave up the ghost years ago), and I don't have any DOS 3.5" disks. Other than that, it did boot, passed the RAM test (12MB), and the floppy and CD drives lights did flash. Not having used a DOS machine in a couple decades, I'm hoping someone smart out here can help me. I'm sure the prospect of trying to obtain a real replacement HD may be impossible, definitely futile at best. What interface does this HD use? I'm wondering if perhaps I could get an adapter and use a CF card or something similar instead. Next, would anyone out there have any working 3.5" floppies they could put DOS on and sell me? LOL All I see on flea-bay are disk sets going for $20-$50 and none are known to even be readable. I actually still have the Sensation system, data, and one other CD that came with the system, but I couldn't figure out how to make it boot from the CD (if that's even possible). Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to give. Would love to get this old machine (my FIRST IBM-compatible PC) back up and running after almost 30 years. Maybe even play some Duke Nukem 3D on it!

There are multiple solutions to get this functionality on real hardware. You could try something like a Kung Fu Flash cart, which lets you store games in multiple formats (program, cart, disk images, tape images) on an SD card, and select what you want from its menu and run it. Or you could use an SD2IEC solution which lets you put whatever you want on an SD card and it plugs into the IEC (disk drive) port and the 64 sees it as a floppy drive. You load its menu program, and then you can navigate to what you want to run, select it, then go out to the C64 and load from it as device 8 like it was a real disk. Both of these solutions are actually cheaper than a TheC64, if you could even get one. LOL

Thanks for the update Albert... I think most of us totally understand and I for one truly appreciate the hard work I know you put into all of this! Pausing the store may be a good idea to slow the influx and stop the drowning (and keep me from being tempted to go look for yet MORE things to add to my order while I'm waiting for it to ship!). ? Thanks again!

Thank you. I will take a look!

My cart says FinalGROM99. ?‍♂️ ?