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First five are sold, I'll continue to take pre-orders for the same price, but the waiting time is a little longer. The price will most likely go up when I have gotten price information on all needed parts. If you pay now you'll get it at the cheaper price.

I have increased the number of carts to five as things were a little more expensive than I had expected. It looks like the next larger batch will cost more than the $100 per cartridge than these first five - maybe as much as $20 more, so if you want one and can afford it right now - get one of the two that's left...

Yes, all of them: Menu cart #1 TIC-TAC-TOE + 3 #2 desert fox + 1 #3 Video Blackjack #4 Spitfire #5 Space War #6 Math Quiz I #7 Math Quiz II #8 Magic Numbers #9 Drag Race #10 Maze/J./B.b./Trailblazer #11 Backgammon/Acey-Ducey #12 Baseball #13 Robot War/Torpedo Alley #14 Sonar Search #15 Memory Match #16 Dodge It #17 Pinball Challenge #18 Hangman #19 Checkers #20 Video Whizball #21 Bowling #22 Slot Machine #23 Galactic Space Wars / Lunar l. #24 Pro Football #25 Casino Poker #26 Alien Invasion Democart Democart 2 Saba #1 mühle + 3 Saba #3 German abbreviations Saba #16 rat'mal Saba #20 Schach #10 alternative version #17 alternative version #22 alternative version TETRIS by Peter Trauner Pac-man by blackbird & Blaoholtz Lights out by SEAN RIDDLE COLORTEST by SEAN Riddle ALT. BIOS (tennis in four directions instead of just two) F8 of NATIONS SCROLL MOUNTAINS (DEMO) Swedish wordlist hack HANGMAN by Fredric Blaoholtz RETrogathering 2008 pac-man by Fredric Blaoholtz TEST CONTROLS by Fredric Blaoholtz RAMtest by Fredric Blaoholtz INTERNATIONAL KARATE BETA BUILD 5 by Fredric Blaoholtz Color-organ prototype I think that's all of them...

(latest update: April 28th 2021) Sorry, no more planned until Videocart-28 is done. MORE THAN ALL VINTAGE CHANNEL F GAMES Auto switching Multi-Cart with more than all original software. Fits all System Fairchild machines no matter what the TV system is (so Fairchild, Zircon, SABA, ITT, Nordmende, Luxor, Barco, Ingelen, Grandstand, Dumont, Emerson). Please, either answer in this thread, send a personal message or e-mail to address further down. Multi-Cart will be delivered in a brand new box. Cartridge shell is a used original with new labels and new PCB. The shell will have signs of wear. If you wish to provide your own cart shell - let me know. I can have 3D-printed shells made at the buyers expense, last time I checked it was about $70 for the cheapest material at a professional manufacturer. If you want to print your own shell I can provide 3D print files. To my knowledge the Multi-Cart contains all known games and variations (both Democarts, all dumped protos, newly made games and known homebrews) for the System Fairchild, even the complete version of Pac-Man! Games can be chosen via a menu that you reach by resetting the system while holding button 1. Holding other buttons or combination thereof while resetting will immediately start one of the more popular games (according to previous requests), just check the instructions on the back label (before inserting, afterwards will be tricky). How to select game: Try and find the Easter Egg(s) in your cartridge menu... Payment Instructions: Please use the friends/family/personal payment so I don't have to pay the fee, you can use the link on top. For manual payment with the same prices: http://paypal.com my address is [email protected] I will also answer e-mails sent to that address. Make sure payment is sent in US$ ... and not KR/SEK - as PayPal seems to change the currency by default. Please write your shipping, as well as, email address as a message in your PayPal payment These are not automatically included with personal payment, if you forget to include it send an e-mail to the same address or send me a PM here. For European customers I also accept bank transfer, just write me a message and I'll supply needed information. For Swedish users there's the above but also the option of using Swish (you send money with your phone almost as easy as a text message), let me know. Customization are possible, if you want something special, let's talk about it, I'm not difficult. List of games (Latest update April 20th 2020): All the happy customers until today: ================================================================= This is a hobby, it may take some time, I hope it's worth waiting for. These are steps indicating progress: [0] Payment received [1] Circuit board built [2] Circuit board tested [3] Shell prepared [4] Cartridge finished (new board in shell and labels mounted) [5] Box has been cut, folded and glued. [6] Packed [7] Shipped ---------------------------------- H.K. [5] Kent, USA 0xD8 [7] Justin, USA 0xD9 [7] Kenny, USA 0xDA [7] Rui, USA 0xDB [7] Luca, Italy 0xDC [7] Lou, USA 0xDD [7] Andy, Germany 0xDE [0] Clifford, USA ========================== end of my message ===========================

I've got two more carts for sale as I redesigned the board to about half the size and made three prototype boards (one is already sold).

Sorry, took the first picture I found and didn't think about it, like this instead then: Not that I think he'll use either this nor your suggestion.

This guy seems just to want to repair his Defender cart, perhaps someone that has the equipment could simply burn the appropriate prom and send it to him. If you need an inverter and don't want to use a whole logic circuit it can be achieved with a transistor and two resistors: Depending on the transistor the resistor at the base could be 10kohm and the other 1kohm if using a 2N2222 for example. It will require about half the soldering of a 74xx circuit.

Here's one you can build yourself - for Atari: http://www.atarimagazines.com/v4n8/EPROMBurner.html Here are 2716:s: http://cgi.ebay.com/EPROM-2716-SET-OF-10-S...id=p3286.c0.m14 You also need a UV-C lamp to erase the eproms... Probably easier and cheaper to get a Willem programmer and a flash prom (29c256/512...) you could for example pull a bios chip if you have a PC motherboard left over. Willem-programmer here: http://cgi.ebay.com/NEWEST-Willem-EPROM-Pr...id=p3286.c0.m14 $29.95 It supports 27c64, just program the lower half and connect the highest adress-pin to gnd for "2732-operation" - the pinout is the as close the same as is possible. Pinout for 27c64 here: http://www.faime.demon.co.uk/retro/2364.html 2732 here: http://www.tunercat.com/tnr_desc/eprom_pin/eprom_pins.html There are also pinout of larger eproms - same principle there program the first 2k or 4k or 8k and ground the adress-pins that are not needed. You could even put several games on one chip and swap between them with jumpers if you like to.

Sounds like it would be a wire-break somwhere, have you measured from the connector all the way to the button/s?

There's in MESS: File/Play and Record uncompressed AVI Output... Don't know how good the 2600 emulation is though.

I'm guessing they filled in the table wrong - as the manufacturer's name is also Tobby.

Let's see... France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, UK, Netherlands and Finland. I'd say it's a few selected countries, and at the same time in competition with other game systems. In over four years it has been mentioned seven times at vintagegames.se. Doesn't seem very popular to me. Currently it's also less abundant on eBay compared to the Channel F (which currently has a bunch of fixed price cartridges). I wonder where the country "Tobby" is?

I've never seen one and hardly ever heard about them are there many clones? Must have been be popular in a few selected European countries then...

Yes.

It seems they did a good job selling it to different European companies, I hope they got good money for it.

I'm glad you liked it you're welcome with your order (I make them). I think these are all: SABA VideoPlay (PAL) SABA VideoPlay 2 (PAL, different controllers) Luxor Video Entertainment System (looks the same as Fairchild V.E.S. / Channel F but different brand stickers, PAL) Luxor Video Entertainment Computer (PAL) Grandstand Video Entertainment Computer (same as Channel F II, PAL) ITT Tele-Match Processor (PAL, different controllers - like the SABA VideoPlay 2 but different knob) Ingelen Tele-Match Processor (PAL) Nordmende COLOR Teleplay µP (PAL) Barco Challenger (looks the same as Fairchild V.E.S. / Channel F but different brand stickers, PAL) Dumont Videoplay System (looks the same as Fairchild V.E.S. / Channel F but different brand stickers, PAL) Emerson Videoplay System (looks the same as Fairchild V.E.S. / Channel F but different brand stickers, PAL) The Dumont and Emerson brands seem to have belonged to the same company, seems that ITT and Ingelen was also the same company. SABA, Luxor, ITT and Nordmende released the games with their own labels, the others seem to have used the American labels, Barco did however make their own instruction booklets. Was also released in Japan... Also note that Impaler_26 have/had a SABA VideoPlay 2 with non-original controllers. These suck however, I have swapped to the originals on my ITT Tele-Match as well.

I think it will be hard to find old chips to program, but sure if you can, go for a programmer that supports them.

What has happened with EmOneGarand's game? Any updates?

You can get a Willem eprom programmer pretty cheap from eBay, probably easier than building one yourself. Then it's fully possible to replace the rom with an eprom.

LS or HCT will probably work very well.

I have one complete Fairchild Video Entertainment System (box with rainbow), four Luxor Video Entertainment Computer (none boxed), three Luxor Video Entertainment System (one boxed), one ITT Tele-match Processor (soon two, one with box) and one SABA VideoPlay 2... Three units are hooked up to tv:s... I'm also responsible for most of the code of Channel F Pac-Man (Tim Ryan wrote the man parts of the game engine), the box, labels, and instruction booklet (Kai Darius Kohl wrote most of the text for it)... I have a complete set of the SABA carts, almost all Fairchild/Zircon (missing Democart 2, Testcart (ever released?) and instructions and box for #25), a set of all known Luxor carts, some ITT and some Nordmende carts as well... and a manually switched Multi-Cart that I previously also used to test new programs on a real machine. Still missing some label and instruction variations... There's some information on the Pac-Man cart here: http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=137442 Screenshots: YouTube video of outdated version (recorded from a real unit): They're still for sale BTW but a little longer delivery time now over summer. You might say I'm a fan.

I'm planning to put my prototype pcb in a shell and put it on eBay with the first test-print box (that looks the same as the later boxes of course) take the first manual I printed and sell it on eBay as "Pac-Man prototype cart". Is anyone interested or should I wait until after the summer? People are perhaps not eBay-ing as much as usual during the summer... I'll use the debug eprom where it's possible to skip levels using a certain (secret) key/hand controller combination... I can probably make a very limited amount of carts during the summer if the price is right - in the $120 area... But most likely I won't make any more until October this year.

33 minutes left.

They all look the same - all 24 of them... Future plans includes Multi-Cart and to finish the Karate game, I'll try and use as much memory as possible within the 256 kB limit - as I have a bunch of '020 eproms anyway... I'm not going to spare any graphics. Perhaps I'll start working on a Scramble clone - the background scroller is already written... Perhaps I'll do that worm-game I have thought about... Maybe I'll try and build a portable unit... Perhaps I get a brand new idea that I start to work on instead... I don't know - we'll see, I'll keep you posted.

Got this message from German Adrian Scheel today: I've asked for details, I know he has a rather large collection. His e-mail-adress: <[email protected]> He has this site, but not all the consoles that's on it: http://www.console-picture-page.de/catalog/ Good luck one of you rich guys.