JohnBuell

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't one of the girls in Full House have a Lynx?

If you can find a copy of the Telegames Lynx chess game, it's pretty strongly rated. I've never managed to beat it.

When I took my Lynx for the year I lived in Germany (1992) I took two sets of NiCd AA batteries with me - I hadn't bought the D cell pack yet. And yep, they lasted about 2 hours per charge. Wow, then the battery technology have been improved a HUGE. Yeah I've got the belt clip battery pack from Best now. I really like it!

Ski Brule had some kind of 8-bit running their "local information" channel. They accidentally left it on the menus one night so all anyone could read was "Press SELECT for ...(something)" "Press OPTION for (something else)" I don't remember what the options were now. This would have been 1988 or 1989.

Yup, it's a bit of a beast! Great printer though, may not be the quietest of printers (I'm told the 820 was LOUD!) but solid enough, don't quote me but I think it shares it's internals with other similar era units... Edit: Same as the Commodre MPS-801, both units were made by Seikosha. The 820 and the 825 are about equally noisy. The 820 might be a little louder, but I'd need a decibel meter. The other printers I've used are a 1027, which is noisy, but not as much as the dot matrix printers, and a 1020, which is actually fairly quiet.

Use rechargeable batteries, I use 2700 mAh GPs, it works fine with them, I never use the power adaptor. How long do they last on a charge? I just joined the ranks of proud Lynx owners, and I can't wait to get mine in the mail... I have been using my Lynx 6 hour 35 minutes since the last charge, and it is still working. I must say that the battery life is not bad at all with these modern NiMh batteries. I have expected like 4-5 hours maximum. (I even saw a review on youtube and the guy was talking about 2 hours working time...) When I took my Lynx for the year I lived in Germany (1992) I took two sets of NiCd AA batteries with me - I hadn't bought the D cell pack yet. And yep, they lasted about 2 hours per charge.

I know there have been aftermarket conversion kits for 3 1/2" drives for use with the 8-bits for quite a long time. In theory, you can replace or add an off the shelf 3.5" drive to certain units, like the XF551 and have a 3.5 or dual 3.5/5.25 drive setup. But what I'm wondering is has anyone taken drives like the old ST external drives and converted those for use with an 8bit? Is this remotely possible?

i am, and i do :') sloopy. Then why the heck haven't you sent me a PM with a price list yet?

Everything BUT Jaguar was killed/stopped. Atari eventually did a "reverse merger" with JTS, which manufactured hard drives. There's a good summary at the end of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JT_Storage

Rhod, where did you come up with the German "Olympic Lexicon"? It doesn't look like it was ebay.

Somebody who is REALLY good with a soldering iron (not ME, obviously) could probably make a nice little job for themselves custom fitting candle's various addons in different models of XLs and XEs.

Sign me up for a regular boxed edition, please!

Hm. Now I'm curious. Marty, the closest Kroger's to either of us appears to be Ottawa, IL. Would you like me to contact them and see if they have any? I'd send it to you straight away, no charge. Then there are some affiliated stores in the Rockford, IL area. PM me if you want to follow up that way.

Do the Nintendo editions of Monopoly count?

Actually the more I've been thinking about it, the more I think I'm going to take one of the "extra" 800XLs I've acquired and start hacking it.

I'd be interested in getting one of these boards if another run is made in 2011.

Hi, don't have a mac so can't test it with Preview here. Can you try it with Adobe Reader, I presume the MAC version is free. That should resolve the problem. Well I can try but I've never needed it before and I read a lot of PDFs. To be honest I'd rather not have yet another piece of software installed just to read this one file Any more Mac users out there? spookt, same thing here. Preview just doesn't render something or another, and I'm on 10.6.5. Looks fine with Adobe Reader 9 though.

1 400, 2 800s, 3 800XLs, 1 600XL, 1 1200XL, 1 65XE, 1 130 XE, 1 800XE and one XEGS. That's 12. It depends largely on the game and its quality. I AM buying the new releases for the Lynx, so I won't rule out that I'd pay for a good new cartridge on the 8-bits.

Add me to the list for this one too please!

I wasn't that active on the forums when this list got started, so Eric, if you consider more than one batch, I'd like to be on that #2 list.

I could...part of me wants an actual unit though. I'll give it some thought I guess Thanks for the suggestion!

I sent mine right after Thanksgiving. I'm sorry if wimping out on what I sent (gift certificate) seems lame, but it was the only thing I could think of/come up with, and it WAS on your list! I also got my own gift a few days ago, from Canada, and wow I am impressed! I kinda rambled on about different likes/dislikes and mini-collections including non-Atari stuff to poor Ax, and Secret Santa came through! Box of Belgian chocolates, VW logo keychain (I have an odd collection of New Beetle stuff even though I've not yet owned one. I just think they're cool), and some loose Atari 8-bit carts! Yay!

So that I can utilize my RAM 320 XL to the fullest, I'd like to get my hands on a PAL XL, to play all the games and demos that I can't do on my regular NTSC one. I'm willing to buy, or I might have items to trade (I have an 800 with a little damage on top, another NTSC 800XL, not as clean as my main one). Those are the only items I can think of at the moment (also have an 810 with a hole in the top, but I'd like to take it apart, make sure there's no more loose plastic, and replace that top piece before selling/trading it, unless someone else wants to take on that DIY job). Please let me know!

Stock 800XLs do not have the chroma line hooked up to the monitor jack so that's why you have black and white with that machine. I have the board configured for chrom / luma input because it yields a much better picture. Anyway, adding the chroma line is actually quite easy, jut one wire and a resistor. I meant to ask you, that's wire and resistor on the XL's motherboard, right? It's been a while since I've thought about this

Here's a couple of what I think have been the coolest. Thanks to Santa Bob and Santa Mark for a couple of these First is the GORGEOUS 1200XL from Bob. Thank you! Next is Mark's AWESOME RGB converter box, connecting an SC1224 and a 130XE, and running one of my all time favorite games! Lastly, some items I got recenly from an eBay auction that I thought were interesting. First is a pair of AMIGA joysticks. I knew they made them to fund Amiga development, but I had never seen or owned any...until now! Next is some of the boxed software I got, and another item I hadn't seen before, a GE computer recorder! It's actually pretty neat. It's a light weight tape recorder that comes with an adapter box that plugs into standard jacks, and has a special data port on the back of the adapter, and a SIO-data port cable. One thing I'd LIKE to try is to find out if it can be totally run off of batteries! It looks like it could...wouldn't that make for an interesting Atari XL laptop peripheral? As I wrap up for the year, I want to take a moment to thank Jon, Bob and Mark again, and everyone else on these forums who've been supportive in my return to my 8-bit hobby (addiction). You guys have all been great, the advice is fantastic, and the hardware and software development is still top notch! Atari Forever!