e5frog

August 1, 2009

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.

August 1, 2009

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

August 1, 2009

There's in MESS: File/Play and Record uncompressed AVI Output...

Don't know how good the 2600 emulation is though.

July 30, 2009

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

July 30, 2009

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?

July 30, 2009

The Emerson Arcadia and its assorted clones seem pretty popular overseas as well. Evidently the hardware was licensed to European companies at a sharp discount... either that or the companies that developed both systems didn't do a very good job of protecting the copyrights.

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...

July 27, 2009

Yes.

July 27, 2009

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

July 27, 2009

Wow, that's beautiful man, and exactly what I had envisioned. Thanks for the screens, I'll have to pick a copy up now
...

{edit} Wow, after looking at the video, I'm really shocked, the system actually pulled the game off a lot better than I had expected it to. ...

I'm glad you liked it you're welcome with your order (I make them).

There are clones? Of such an obscure system? That's surprising. Please tell us more!

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.

July 27, 2009

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

July 26, 2009

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

July 25, 2009

I had a Defender cart that had graphics glitches, so I took it apart and are wondering if I can re-use this to put a homebrew game on it. Any links to guides on homemade eprom burners? Also, are all Atari games this small? It only took up a small portion of the cartridge case!

Edit: I tried taking a pic of the small board, but the flash from the camera made it invisible

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.

July 25, 2009

Hello guys. Frequent troller - first-time poster.

I like to tinker with electronics, I've recently been messing around with my Atari 2600 and I have a question. If I wanted to make an eeprom and do some of the bank switching routines with discrete logic circuits ... well can it be done? I found this site http://www94.pair.com/jsoper/bankswitch_f8.html which looks great. If that is a possibility then which flavor of 74 chips would be compatible and fast enough? My first guess is 74HCT's.

Thanks,

Jason

LS or HCT will probably work very well.

July 25, 2009

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. ;-)

July 5, 2009

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.

July 3, 2009

33 minutes left.

July 3, 2009

WOW!! very nice job on that game.

Rick

They all look the same - all 24 of them...

;-)

Any future plans for the Channel F at this point?

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. ;-)

July 3, 2009

Got this message from German Adrian Scheel today:

hi guys,
i decided to sell my entire collection in one big package.

let us talk about this matter soon. i need many people to get to know about

this.

i had the second water damage in 1 1/2 year now and i have to move the

collection the 7th time.

this is way too much for me physically. 3000 euro/year for my storage room is also way too much

i need to end this now...

hopefully with your help it is possible to find a potential buyer. if you know people who might be interested

let me know.

talk to you soon

adrian

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. ;-)

July 2, 2009

Boxes and instruction booklets have now been sent out to all Channel F Pac-Man cartridge buyers (and those who got one by trading for it).

I decided to have them all done before my vacation starts.

My right thumb is a bit sore from making all the fold creases for 24 boxes...

The first US resident who get's his box (there were no female buyers afaik ;-) ), shout something in this thread so the others now that their wait is over in at least a couple of days. I started sending them two days ago and it usually takes at least seven work days to get anything over the Atlantic Ocean. ;-)

If you manage to f*ck up your instruction booklet I can provide a new one in exchange for a small fee, if you do the same with the box - too bad I don't have any extras as far as I know yet. I'm probably setting a limit at 50 Pac-Man carts, that's the amount of boxes I had made.

June 23, 2009

I got an extra Democart that I'm selling on eBay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...em=230351356601

It didn't want to start, just freezes the unit, labels are in very good condition for it's age - maybe it's good for a parts-swap if you have a worse looking cart that works.

June 17, 2009

I'm trying my luck on eBay with a complete set, cart, box and instuctions.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...em=230349775284

I'll start shipping boxes and instructions to previous buyers next week and plan to have all sent within 14-21 days.

June 12, 2009

Got the second test print, looks astonishing!

I had to cut it out immediately...

However, the folding had to wait until I got home...

I needed to get the right sort of fold, I made long groove a in a glass plate

and then used a broken bent screwdriver to get the right crease:

Folded up but not yet glued:

Looks nice there in the shelf - a little too white perhaps, almost too perfect.

I thought I should mark it as Pac-Man #1 on one of the small flaps,

but the pen chosen didn't stick, so I got an ugly pink spot there, I'm

keeping this one my self - renamed with a good pen to Pac-Man #0...

June 9, 2009

Manuals done for all sold carts, #23 manual parallel for comparance:

I got the first test print of the box today - looks promising, I just need to correct some colors that didn't turn out as they where supposed to - the maze was purple. I'm correcting that problem tonight and then I'm hoping to get a new test print and perhaps delivery by the end of next week, it's not a very large job so I don't think it's priority... ;-)

... and then I just need to cut them out - with scissors - 22 of them... Having a jig built to cut them out automatically was really expensive - about $180-200.