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    I'm not sure if this program ever came out for the Mac, but there are PC & Amiga versions of Deluxe Paint. YOu can choose from several video-game like resolutions, and it can work in a restricted register color palette- that's how I did most of my graphic work in the early 90's.

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    Just out of curiosity, where did you find your plastic carrying case?

     

    Oh, and as for the Speak & Spell Atari, I can tell you a little more about it. The guy who built it also created Video Simon and his own homebrew 3D glasses for the Vectrex- I can tell you about that sometime if you're interested... they were cool! The guy's name escapes me, but I really liked him- I enjoy hanging with clever people.

     

    Anyway, he attatched on of those LCD televisions intended for the PSone to the Speak & Math, so it actually has a folding screen! He replaced all the switches with flatter switches. It all folded down into a pretty compact package with built-in handle. He built it for testing carts "in the field".

     

    As for the Speak & Spell line of toys, I have a number of them including the add-on carts for them. I have always been fascinated by artificial speech, and have begun the laborious process of sampling the Speak toys for use in songs. I even found a one that speaks in French! There is a whole Yahoo group devoted to modifying these and other electronic toys to create noisy and weird instruments.

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    Yeah, but as compact as it is, it's still gotta go someplace! Unless you wear bib overalls, I would gamble that youdon't have a pocket big enough for the thing. :P

     

    Are you talking about one of Ben's portable Atari's? Or is it one that you made yourself? I saw two portables last year at a swap party- one was Ben's, the other was cleverly hacked into a Speak & Spell (Speak & Math, really). Way cool. I gotta get me some of that action. 8)

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    Okay, so they were domestic and not so rare. I guess I could have just waited for another one to come up on Ebay instead of jumping the gun for the one that's going to cost me $30 to get here.

     

    Though now that I've looked at completed auctions, it looks like the "atari" branded ones go for a lot of scratch. I guess that fear of high shipping is why so few bid on this one. I'm not a hardcore collector, so this still seems like quite a bit of dough, especially since the rest of my Atari collection was purchased for nickels...

     

    So I guess that I'm feeling better as I seem to have saved a couple of bucks getting it from Australia rather than getting it domestically. thanks for setting me straight... I feel a lot better! :D

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    Hi. I've got one of Paul Slocum's SynthCarts and a modified Atari so that I can play the thing out at bars & clubs or whatever. Now I need a stylin' way to transport the 2600. I've seen lots of woodgrain storage units that are meant to sit next to your TV and house the 2600 and its accessories, but never a branded carrying case.

     

    I just won one on Ebay off a guy in Australia and the shipping is going to be murder. It would make me feel better to know that it's mega-rare or something. It's a hard shelled plastic case like the ones they use at video rental places for the game units that go out.

     

    Any clue about this thing? Here's the auction with a picture:

     

    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=1358556614

     

    The guy said that its marked as an item made in USA, but why have I never seen one before?

     

    Thanks for any help!

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    I got an AVM a year back off of Ebay. I paid a bit much for it, but they never show up in thrift stores around here, and I'd just made a killing selling some non-Atari stuff- I splurged!

     

    I've fired it up at several parties, and while the graphics are _very_ primitive, it still makes people happy. Oddly, it seems to react best to 70's music, i.e. the time period in which it was manufactured. It really goes nuts over Zeppelin and other rock records that I had lying around to try it with.

     

    It also reacts especially well to the music of this band called Optiganally Yours (www.optigan.com) which is a band that uses this 70's manufactured instrument called an Optigan.

     

    One cool thing that I've done with it is to run the output (through a VCR to give me a composite output to use) into a Chromakeyer to knock out the black. Then you can aim a camera at something and superimpose the strange undulating patterns over it. I plan on doing this at the next party where we have live music.

     

    All in all, it has been a very worthwhile thing to have around. I'd like to get a Jag CD someday- not necessarily for the games, but for the cool light show! The AVM is pretty cool for retro freaks, but likely not worth the dough that I paid for it (though I have no regrets). :D

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    Ahh, thanks- you rule! That is indeed what it looks like. Doesn't seem to really be worth $25 anymore! Wasn't there a unit called "TVboy" or something similar that hat more than 100 Atari 2600 games in a similar Playstation-like controller? Any ideas where to find such a thing? Thanks!

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