SINGLE TOOTH

I made some progress, the cart boots now. I swapped all the ram. Basic does not boot yet. I tried swapping u13 but no luck.

Pretty much static until you power cycle.

So I got a C64 a while back at goodwill for $2.99. It's an early board, version 326298. It hasn't worked since I bought it. When you plug it in, just a black screen. If you put a cartridge in, there's a garbled screen. Some people on a Commodore group thought it might be the PLA, so I bought a PLAnkton chip and installed it. No change. I then decided to start removing RAM chips and putting sockets in them. Anyone know a good source for these chips? Anyway, while removing the chips I managed to destroy the glass (didn't know those existed) capacitor at location C43. The schematic shows it's value as .22. The label on the capacitor is labeled "224." See attachments. A couple of questions: 1. Anyone know a possible cause of the garbage screen? 2. I'm not too savvy with the different RAM chips, anyone know a source for these? 3. And now I need a source for the glass capacitor at C43. What kind of capacitor/value can I use as a replacement?

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So he cancels forward-thinking projects like the hologram game system, milks the 2600, and then says that the 5200 failed because it didn't have the newer technology the market was looking for. Maybe he shouldn't have shoe-horned the aging Atari computer line into a "new" Atari game console and used a new project instead.

25020 I suck at this game, haha.

Wow, it even uses that power over RF switch method. It looks like some kind of multi cartridge pcb and it must just switch between the carts. I wonder if those roms are the same?

I like your setup!

67,500

Can't seem to get much better than 48,100 with the standard CX52 controller. Might be time to go digital. This was one of my favorite games when I was about 3-4 when we had our 5200. Of course, I wasn't good at it, being a small child, lol. Haven't really played this game since then.

4-port: Made in Taiwan AT*253 0113047 2-port: Made in U.S.A. 197500 EP-293 2-Port: Made in U.S.A. 208904 EP 313

45,700

Both 4 port USA models: 0149240 SV-442 0066281 SV-083

I'd like to see some sort of side-scrolling platformer. Not sure how hard it is to do scrolling on the 5200, but if you can do Princess Rescue on the 2600, I'm sure SOMETHING could be done. Perhaps a Scrapyard Dog prequel?

I found a Trak-Ball that is serial number 00249, so I figured it'd be interesting to see what kind of serial numbers are out there. I asked the 5200 facebook group and a bunch of people there gave me the numbers off of their Trak-Balls. Please feel free to post your serial number and any interesting information, like Country of Manufacture and the EP codes. Or, any other code prefixes. Here's the list. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aOaXTLlwIG_rvisCZmIbVjZiZ8-MXtSo0AxY41u3-BU/edit?usp=sharing

link doesn't work, it put some garbage at the end "%C2%A0" http://gooddealgames.com/inventory/Atari%205200.html

Is there anything on the Trak-Ball serial numbers? I have one with a serial number of 00249. I think it's one of the earliest ones. In one of the posts in the Atari 5200 group on facebook, we got lots of people posting their serial numbers.

Yeah I had that issue where the controller direction didn't work so the IC for the controllers needed to be replaced. The traces pretty much melted away, lol. I'll have to remember how fragile these things are. I didn't like working it the CV at all. I could see how the 5200 would be easy to repair, looks like a old computer motherboard, thick PCB and big traces.

At least now I don't feel so bad about ruining a CV, lol

Not a bad idea!

I want a set!

Is this NES manual torrent still available somewhere???? I would really like it.