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Im just curious on how you opened the brick. Dremel, vise, hammer...
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Put me on the list
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Any difference between channel 3 and 4?
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Found a site with reviews. About 10 positive saying it worked great for their application and about 10 negative saying it was a POS. So there we go, nothing definitive.
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Looks Atari to me
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I'm not sure about RF, but I play PAL 2600 games on an old composite Commodore monitor that has enough adjustment that I can make colour work and eliminate the PAL scrolling. Worst case I'm sure there's a TV out there that will allow enough adjustment to get a picture from a PAL source.
I dont know if I am talking thru my hat but PAL-M I believe is a little different in that its 60Hz like NTSC which I believe means that it wont scroll. But the colour coding is different meaning the display will be in black and white.
The crux of my question is really - does anyone have any experience with those Far East Chinese $14 converters on Ebay or is it a waste of money?
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I have never considered Safecracker to be a "sports title," but good for you.
LOL and it wasn't $5 either. That one and Pole Pos,n were $6.99.
and in answer to the 2nd question asked earlier, I don't recall the name of the place but it was in Houston.
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I have a brand new (new old stock) Soundic MPT-03 but only some arcadia carts
PS: Sorry to dig this up... I just bought the console
Theres been a zillion of these come out of Greece lately.
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Irks me when Ebay wont do anything about a seller who is so obviously shill bidding on his own crap.
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Reviving this topic in case members have more current feedback on the topic. I see cheaper converters on Ebay now as low as about $12 CAD from far east but don't want to buy one if they just don't work. Any one got a Brazilian PAL-M console they use in N. America on an NTSC TV with some inexpensive converter?
thx
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I just ordered a Digiplay Inty II console yesterday then today I am thinking shoot, am I going to be able to use this thing on my TV?
Do they display in PAL-M and if so that means black and white only right? How about those converters you see now, kinda scary buying one of those Chinese $12 units if it doesn't work? Anyone have input on this topic?
thx
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I do a fair amount of travel for business and one thing I do is visit flea markets, used video game stores and pawn shops.
Last trip to Texas I dropped in just at closing time , asked if he had any Intellivision games. Owner says he has just some sports titles mostly that most people aren't interested in. $5 bucks each.
Holy crap, I filled a few holes with this lot pretty cheaply.
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Big Rally-X fan, if you haven't shipped my box yet, let me know what it would be to include that one..
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And maybe I,m being too critical. But stuff like heres what the experts are saying - Coleco is making a console. I mean its a little underwhelming if thats supposed to be an endorsement to generate some level of excitement or legitimacy .
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For those who are still interested in the Coleco Chameleon game system
Here's the catalog/flyer that will be available this weekend at Toy Fair in New York
Is it just me or is this flyer kinda...whats the word I seek...lame. And not just because they misspelled ColecoVision on page one but it looks like the whole thing was written by an amateur and not very polished. E.g. paraphrasing - Coleco went on to sell 2.5 million cabbage patch dolls then 20 million were bought in one year. Umm, huh..
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...send me what you're high on...
Speaking of high, aren't these pictures taken from about 5 feet too high?
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When I lost my high score in Frogger.
George Costanza
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See a one-piece Parker Bros Australian box on Ebay, I believe this to be an update since all I could see in the latest update was reference to the 2-piece parker bros australian
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Well I got my refund....well sort of...Paypal shows a refund then they put a hold on the refund. Nothing for Opcode to do, its between me and Paypal but WHAT JERKS. Whew, feel better now.
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And I'd forgotten how great it was to pick up a magazine off the shelf new and read ADAM articles and see a dozen ads in the back for ADAM goodies.
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I wonder if the proposed Scholastic Magazine/ADAM computer magazine was ever published, as stated in the second letter?
Anyone ever seen a copy or know of it's existence?
ADAM Family Computing Magazine from Scholastic ultimately became Family Computing Magazine instead and was devoted to all the 8-bit computers of the time, I used to buy every issue at the store when it came out. (because a Canadian subscribing to a US magazine often means paying more than the sticker price) so you saved by buying off the shelf.
As I now look it up under Wikipedia to prompt my memory "The title was changed, first to Family & Home Office Computing and finally to just Home Office Computing with ever-diminishing coverage of home computing topics"
Oh way cool, just found that these magazines are all scanned and archive here
I typed in every one of those BASIC programs and when they didn't work, was so pleased with myself to find where the typo was....
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Turn of the century CRT TV's - a 2004 15 inch Electrohome and a 32 in. JVC. After trying 3 light guns, two TV's, two games, and both a SMS and SMS II with the exact same behavior, I come to the conclusion that my TV's are too new. I think I will try my circa '84 Commodore 1702 monitor next.
SGM ARE IN!
in ColecoVision / Adam
Posted · Edited by coleconut
Its called economies of scale. Giving a programmer a small honorarium to port a game from MSX etc, costs of printing small runs of boxes and labels and manuals, cost of carts and PCBs etc - there is not huge profits to be made by selling 50 copies of a homebrew @ $50 bucks. More a labour of love really.