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  1. Posted

    The 810 was the model sold with the 800, 1050s came with the XL line, and XF551 came with the XE line. Those are three of the "official" Atari drives. There are a LOT of 3rd party drives still floating about too.

     

    Doesn't matter to me. I'll take any model that works with the 800. Doesn't have to be an "official" Atari model.

  3. Posted

    My wife has mentioned for years the fun she had playing Jawbreaker on her Atari 800 growing up. As a surpise to her I found a copy of Jawbreaker on ebay and picked it up. I could have sworn I had an 800 drive in my extra computer items stored in the basement but for the life of me now I can't find it.

     

    Does anyone have any idea on where I could buy a working drive for my Atari 800? I really want to surprise her for Christmas!

     

    Bill

  4. Posted

    This is what happens when an otherwise innocuous hobby, based on childhood passions, is polluted by the smell of money. It's unfortunate, and it need not be that way.

     

    I buy games to play, and I make games for others to play. No investments, no profit. Playing Intellivision games--or making them--transports me back to the dreams I had as a child.

     

    I will do anything within my power to keep it that way.

     

    Das ist alles.

     

    dZ.

     

    Bravo!!!! That is sooooo my thinking as well. I am sick to death of this hobby becoming nothing more than an "investment" for people. I collect because I love the memories it brings back. Unfortunately every collection I get into gets pulled down into nothing more than "what's it worth".

     

    I love the homebrews, but I try to keep my spending under control so I can't always buy when they first come out. By the time I can, the prices balloon past my confort zone. That's why I have precious few of them.

  11. Posted

    my rank would be more

    like this hardest to easiest

     

     

    1. Homebrews (like league of light and the first tetris, robot rubble)

    2. Spiker

    3. tutankham

    4. SMB

     

    I can actually prove that certain homebrews are more rare than spiker. :)

     

    Of course that depends on how you look at homebrews. To me they aren't a part of the "officially released" games for the system so I have no strong desire to include them in my collection. On my collecting lists, homebrews are a very low priority and rarity. That being said, I have picked up a few that appeal to me personally (Yogi & Flintstones) when I can get them at release price. I would NEVER pay more than around $75 for any homebrew.

  12. Posted

    I contacted the seller on the 13th and said,

    I think that cartridge is a reproduction. There should be copyright text right under the words "use with joystick controllers"

    here is a link to a picture of an original glib cartridge

    http://www.atariage....wareLabelID=213

     

     

    This was their response

    Possibly, I found it in my parents basement. They are moving and asked me to clean out the basement. I'm assuming its my dads from years ago but honestly I don't know, I just put almost everything I found on eBay or gave it away to friends. Thanks for the info though

     

    Wow, that puts me in a better mood. I was barely outbid on this and regretting that I didn't go just a little higher. Now I'm glad I didn't win. Good eye on that.

  14. Posted

    Ha! I would have beat you by $4.25 with my (now seemingly low-ball) bid of 184.25!

     

    I didn't really think that I would win, but you have to take your shot ... right?

     

    That was my thinking. $180 is a LOT for me to bid on any auction. Probably the most I've ever bid on a single auction, but I knew I could turn the Spiker around in trade so I gave it a shot. Not a big deal. I already scored something really nice in another auction this week. I'm not going to get that lucky twice.

  16. Posted

    Not always. Sometimes with a cheap stock photo or an Amazon.com listing can get you something better than you excpected. A stock photo $10 Atari 2600 system ended up being a rare not for resale unit I ended up selling for $200. It's just a gamble. Sometimes you lose, sometimes you win big.

     

    Not that long ago I won an auction for the 2600 Death Trap using a stock photo. It only mentioned complete with no condition so I took a gamble at a good price. When I got it, it was gem mint like it just came from the store. Like mentioned above, it's a gamble. Sometimes you win sometimes you lose.

  20. Posted

    Indeed, same picture because both sites are mine. It's been a while but I was working on consolidating websites. I'll have to get back to doing that now :)

     

    Nice Goodwill find....even for 2009. In my 23 years of collecting I've never come across even the first model sticks let alone the hex disks. I just finished inventory on everything in my basement. I have 67 Atari sticks down there and not a single first model. :_(

  22. Posted

    Yeah i got a KB Component. :) im still searching for a playcable, a brown ecs keyboard ( i have the brown ecs but no keyboard) ,a videoplexer, a tutorvision, and hoping that out there some where is a white model 2609 master component like the one alex has. Oh wait im still missing a sylvania gte intellivision ( i had ordered on in july but it never arrived, delivery confirmation said delivered but im guessing neighbors kids got it :( ) On the hardware end i still have a ways to go.

     

    Wow, KB component huh? In 6 months you've purcahsed more of a collection than what I've built in 23 years. Can't say I'm not jealous. I guess if I had that kind of funds available I'd do it to. Congrats and enjoy!

  23. Posted

    Benefit of the doubt? What if the picture was taken from him? :ponder: Those sticks sure as shit didn't have rubber bands on them, when they came from Atari, so the whole thing could have been piece mealed together.

     

    You could be right, but (sad as it is to say) my days of giving anyone the benefit of doubt are long gone.

  24. Posted

    IMO all grading services are nothing but scam artists artificially inflating collectible prices to the point that the hobby loses its core participants and impodes in upon itself. They then move on to grading the next big thing and begin sucking the life and collecting enjoyment from that. As you can tell, I am not a fan and would never buy anything graded. :mad:

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