Bally Arcade/Astrocade

239 topics in this forum

1. Added 27GB of Astrocade Scans from the Bob Fabris Collection to Archive.org

   By ballyalley, March 26, 2019   

   • Bally Arcade
   • Astrocade
   • (and 4 more)

     Tagged with:

     • Bally Arcade
     • Astrocade
     • Bally Astrocade
     • Arcadian
     • Bob Fabris Collection
     • Documentation
   • 2 replies
   • 1,022 views
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   • ballyalley
   • March 27, 2019

2. Programming the Bally Arcade/Astrocade 1 2 3

   By ballyalley, April 12, 2016
   • 68 replies
   • 7,442 views
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   • ballyalley
   • March 3, 2020

3. Buying/Selling/Fixing/Understanding an Astrocade

   By ballyalley, March 31, 2016
   • 2 replies
   • 2,291 views
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   • ballyalley
   • January 25

4. How many box variations for the system were there? Which came first and which is the rarest?

   By Zap!, May 28
   • 5 replies
   • 88 views
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   • 128Kgames
   • May 28

5. Never seen one of these...

   By sixersfan105, May 19
   • 7 replies
   • 194 views
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   • 128Kgames
   • May 19

6. Picked These Two Ballys Up

   By widowsson, April 7
   • 3 replies
   • 146 views
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   • widowsson
   • April 8

7. RF Modulator issues

   By Cameron Fyre, March 10
   • 1 reply
   • 103 views
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   • sixersfan105
   • March 11

8. When do you power on your Astrocade?

   By sixersfan105, January 2
   • 2 replies
   • 224 views
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   • sixersfan105
   • January 2

9. Gold Astrocade Cartridge Labels?

   By sixersfan105, December 9, 2020
   • 8 replies
   • 242 views
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   • sixersfan105
   • January 4

10. Replacement Label Cart Stickers?

    By Atariboy2600, December 1, 2020
    • 2 replies
    • 175 views
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    • sixersfan105
    • December 7, 2020

11. Remembering Richard Degler, an Astrocade Programmer

    By cowbells, November 2, 2020
    • 17 replies
    • 616 views
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    • Allen Schweitzer
    • November 7, 2020

12. interest in tape cases

    By bah, October 26, 2020
    • 13 replies
    • 387 views
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    • sixersfan105
    • February 7

13. Astrocade S-VIDEO Adapter available again

    By 128Kgames, August 25, 2020
    • 6 replies
    • 341 views
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    • glazball
    • October 29, 2020

14. Eprom burner question

    By evildead9000, August 11, 2020
    • 2 replies
    • 224 views
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    • evildead9000
    • August 11, 2020

15. Bally's all time system rank: 68/92 ?!?!

    By tripletopper, May 29, 2020   

    • triple jump
    • console wars
    • (and 3 more)

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      • triple jump
      • console wars
      • rank
      • bally
      • astrocade
    • 9 replies
    • 386 views
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    • tripletopper
    • June 3, 2020

16. BLAST DROIDS, SEA DEVIL, and SNEAKY SNAKE now available for sale!

    By timdu, May 27, 2020
    • 0 replies
    • 238 views
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    • timdu
    • May 27, 2020

17. Astrocade Specific Repair - is it Dead, Jim?

    By Cebus Capucinis, May 12, 2020
    • 9 replies
    • 392 views
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    • Cebus Capucinis
    • May 24, 2020

18. General Astrocade Repair Resources

    By Cebus Capucinis, May 12, 2020
    • 2 replies
    • 284 views
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    • Cebus Capucinis
    • May 12, 2020

19. One of my Bally systems out of retirement.

    By simbalion, April 21, 2020
    • 3 replies
    • 284 views
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    • grips03
    • April 21, 2020

20. Current ram upgrade?

    By Hastor, April 5, 2020
    • 2 replies
    • 316 views
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    • Hastor
    • April 5, 2020

21. Astrocade boots to corrupted screen, then runs fine after Reset

    By davidbrit2, February 19, 2020
    • 4 replies
    • 290 views
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    • davidbrit2
    • February 19, 2020

22. Keypad identical to TI 1250?

    By davidbrit2, February 17, 2020
    • 10 replies
    • 378 views
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    • ballyalley
    • February 18, 2020

23. Request for Cosmic Raiders Feedback for Astrocast #13

    By ballyalley, January 30, 2020
    • 0 replies
    • 244 views
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    • ballyalley
    • January 30, 2020

24. Audio/video issues

    By kanisama, December 23, 2019
    • 5 replies
    • 379 views
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    • kanisama
    • December 30, 2019

25. Black and White Astrocade

    By Cafeteriafraiche, December 17, 2019
    • 9 replies
    • 472 views
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    • ballyalley
    • January 5, 2020

26. Astrocade at Magfest!

    By ubersaurus, December 12, 2019
    • 4 replies
    • 652 views
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    • ubersaurus
    • March 10, 2020

27. New to Astrocade - Any hope to repair? 1 2 3

    By intvsteve, November 2, 2019   

    • astrocade
    • repair
    • (and 2 more)

      Tagged with:

      • astrocade
      • repair
      • ram
      • success!
    • 58 replies
    • 1,576 views
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    • ballyalley
    • November 30, 2019

28. My Pseudo-ku 2008 Cartridge

    By flashangstrom, September 13, 2019   

    • bally
    • astrocade
    • (and 3 more)

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      • bally
      • astrocade
      • sudoku
      • puzzle
      • single number place
    • 2 replies
    • 391 views
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    • flashangstrom
    • September 13, 2019

29. Astrocademo - a demo for the Bally Astrocade

    By Sdw, September 1, 2019
    • 5 replies
    • 584 views
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    • EnderDude
    • September 21, 2019

30. Just bought an Astrocade... any tips for console and box care?

    By williamc, August 18, 2019
    • 8 replies
    • 653 views
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    • williamc
    • August 24, 2019

31. An In-Depth Look At... Series: "Nutting Manual" Supplement

    By ballyalley, July 26, 2019
    • 8 replies
    • 607 views
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    • ballyalley
    • January 30, 2020

32. Interest check Bally modified console with multicart

    By lucifershalo, July 21, 2019
    • 3 replies
    • 475 views
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    • fandenivoldsk
    • July 23, 2019

33. Cheap Heatsinks for Astrocade Custom ICs

    By boxpressed, June 20, 2019
    • 6 replies
    • 565 views
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    • Osgeld
    • June 22, 2019

34. Untapped Potential

    By christo930, May 14, 2019
    • 6 replies
    • 832 views
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    • ballyalley
    • June 8, 2020

35. More David Nutting/Jamie Fenton/Bally History

    By qberries, May 9, 2019   

    • Nutting
    • David Nutting
    • (and 8 more)

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      • Nutting
      • David Nutting
      • Bally
      • Arcade
      • Nutting Industries
      • 280 Zzzap
      • Jamie Fenton
      • Dave Nutting
      • Jay Fenton
      • Dave Nutting Associates
    • 2 replies
    • 631 views
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    • ballyalley
    • May 10, 2019

36. Which RAM maps to which part of screen?

    By qberries, May 8, 2019   

    • Screen map
    • Stuck pixels
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      • Screen map
      • Stuck pixels
      • RAM map to screen
      • RAM
      • Pixel
    • 19 replies
    • 1,043 views
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    • 128Kgames
    • November 12, 2019

37. Notes from a 2019 Interview with Jamie Fenton

    By ballyalley, May 3, 2019   

    • astrocade
    • Bally arcade
    • (and 7 more)

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      • astrocade
      • Bally arcade
      • Bally professional arcade
      • Bally BASIC
      • Astro basic
      • Z-GRASS
      • Jay Fenton
      • they create worlds
      • Bally home Library computer
    • 0 replies
    • 464 views
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    • ballyalley
    • May 3, 2019

38. David Ahl's Bally materials

    By ubersaurus, April 25, 2019
    • 1 reply
    • 384 views
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    • ballyalley
    • April 25, 2019

39. Astrocade MAME Tape Support Now Officially Supported

    By ballyalley, April 23, 2019   

    • astrocade
    • bally arcade
    • (and 5 more)

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      • astrocade
      • bally arcade
      • astrobasic
      • bally BASIC
      • tape support
      • MAME
      • Emulation
    • 1 reply
    • 721 views
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    • ballyalley
    • April 23, 2019

40. First Aid technique for cleaning jittery Astrocade paddles

    By tripletopper, April 21, 2019
    • 3 replies
    • 602 views
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    • Allen Schweitzer
    • February 10, 2020

41. Help: Magnavox Vs. Bally

    By ballyalley, April 18, 2019   

    • Bally arcade
    • Bally professional arcade
    • (and 4 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Bally arcade
      • Bally professional arcade
      • astrocade
      • Magnavox
      • lawsuit
      • Odyssey patent
    • 3 replies
    • 630 views
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    • mr_me
    • April 19, 2019

42. Setting up the Astro-daptor with MAME

    By ballyalley, March 29, 2019   

    • Bally Arcade
    • MAME
    • (and 3 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Bally Arcade
      • MAME
      • Astrocade
      • Joystick adapter
      • hand controller adapter
    • 2 replies
    • 1,086 views
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    • ballyalley
    • April 21, 2020

43. Bally Arcade/Astrocade Blog

    By ballyalley, January 26, 2019   

    • Bally Arcade
    • Astrocade
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Bally Arcade
      • Astrocade
      • BallyAlley
      • New Blog
    • 1 reply
    • 407 views
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    • eebuckeye
    • January 26, 2019

44. help: svideo modified console

    By lucifershalo, January 22, 2019
    • 4 replies
    • 666 views
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    • adamchevy
    • February 7, 2020

45. Sea Wolf II arcade board questions

    By ianoid, December 3, 2018
    • 3 replies
    • 433 views
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    • Supergun
    • December 7, 2018

46. Programming Contest for Astrocade?

    By ballyalley, November 1, 2018   

    • Bally Arcade
    • Contest
    • (and 6 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Bally Arcade
      • Contest
      • Bally Astrocade
      • Machine Language
      • Z80
      • Assembly
      • Bally BASIC
      • AstroBASIC
    • 2 replies
    • 704 views
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    • ballyalley
    • November 15, 2018

47. Astrocade Halloween Videos

    By ballyalley, October 31, 2018   

    • BallyAlley
    • Bally Arcade
    • (and 8 more)

      Tagged with:

      • BallyAlley
      • Bally Arcade
      • Bally Professional Arcade
      • Bally Home Library Computer
      • Astrocade
      • Bally BASIC
      • David Ibach
      • Steve Walters
      • Computer Graphics
      • Halloween
    • 2 replies
    • 424 views
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    • ballyalley
    • October 31, 2018

48. Uploaded 46 Patents Cited by the Bally Arcade and Astrocade Patents

    By ballyalley, October 30, 2018   

    • Archive.org
    • Astrocade
    • (and 8 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Archive.org
      • Astrocade
      • Bally Arcade
      • Patent
      • Patents
      • Jeffrey Frederiksen
      • Bally Manufacturing Corp
      • Ralph Baer
      • Atari
      • Nolan Bushnell
    • 5 replies
    • 530 views
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    • ballyalley
    • November 8, 2018

49. Gorf Z80 Machine Language Disassembly

    By ballyalley, September 20, 2018   

    • Gorf
    • Arcade Game
    • (and 4 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Gorf
      • Arcade Game
      • Z80
      • TERSE
      • Astrocade
      • Source Code
    • 2 replies
    • 1,108 views
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    • AMenard
    • October 25, 2018

50. Audio cassette interface pinout

    By rdagger, September 19, 2018
    • 0 replies
    • 341 views
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    • rdagger
    • September 19, 2018