Allan

Isn't Wings for the SuperCPU (65816 16-bit processor)? I think we'll have to wait until Jerry of C-One finishes her Atari version of the C-One. Allan

If you still are having trouble with it, send me a Private Message. I have an extra 5200 we could try swapping some of the chips with (if they are in sockets.) Plus if you didn't catch the other post, Best Electronics is going to make an announcement about a new and improved part for the controllers on Thursday (tomorrow). Allan

Sorry, I don't know anything about either (love to try it) but if your using Atari800 emulator you can run it directly with the Load Executable File option under the Media menu. A very cool feature. Allan

I'm glad I'm not the only one who likes the 5200 stick but hates the 7800 one. People bitch and moan about the 5200 stick but never say anything about the 7800 hand-killer. I hate this stick and is the reason I never use my 7800. I have to get a 7800 pad one of these days. Allan

I've had similar ideas myself. Since you can physicly plug in an XEGS keyboard into a 5200, I always wondered if you could write a program to communicate with it. A harddrive or an xep80 would be useless without the keyboard though. But if you could get the keyboard to work through the joystick port and make an interface that would work through the expansion port to add a hard-drive, this might work in theory. You could also make a harddrive interface through the cartridge slot like the MyIDE interface. I douht any of this would work though because of the RAM limitation. You might make it work with a cassette player though but since there is no cassette BIOS you would have to add that as well. Allan

Way back in '84 my friend and I did this hack to my 5200 Trackball. It's not to hard and the cool thing is that we did it in a way so that you never have to damage any part of the trackball and can therefore return it back to a trackball controller with no one ever knowing it was opened. You do have to sacrafice a joystick though. Allan [/i]

It would be great if we could set up a Midi-Maze competition at Philly Classic 5. If a bunch of people brought their copies plus their XE/XL's with monitors it would be a blast! Allan

Are there any larger/better pictures of these anywhere? I'd love to get a picture of that minture golf like the pics on Atariage of all the regular cartridges. These are really great. Allan

I'm looking to buy any Atari Program Exchange (APX) manuals. Just PM me. Thanks, Allan

Antic put out a whole bunch of retail programs that you could get through you're local Atari computer shop. Here's a page with PDF's of catalogs of all their St and 8-bit products. http://asterius.com/atari/history1 Allan

Are any of those programs/documentation from Antic Publishing? www.atariarchives.org / www.atarimagazines.com have permission to put on the Web most stuff published by them. If you have anything by them contact Kevin from his two sites. What sort of apple stuff do you archive. Got a link? Allan

Yah. Nice and simple, while at the same time looking good.All it needs is a dash of sound(similar to Sega's famous 2-note chime). Hey, isn't the 5200 splash screen updated for the Y2K problem changable? I wonder if you could add a simple couple of notes to it. That would be cool. They should have done this with centipede by adding the centipede sound as the word 'Centipede' scrolls off the screen. Allan

I remember the dedicated counter with the 400, 800, 810 and 850 on display in the cases. Nothing was connected together and running a demo, everything was behind glass, prices were insanely high. At the time, one of the best places to buy Atari computers was actually Toys R Us, they had some of the better prices of the equipment and programs. I just remember the whole place being dark with a lot of blue Tron-like lights around. To my 15-year-old eyes it looked really cool. I don't remember the prices at Macy's but I do remember the computer prices in general were very expensive so I didn't even bother trying to buy one. I really wanted Star Raiders though! I wish someone had taken pictures of the displays as well as other displays elsewere. Yea, I remember playing with these all the time out in the Milford, CT Sears. Anytime my mom would go out there I had her bring me to Sears to play with the computers. They never could make up their mind on what brand to carry and wether to support them or not. Sounds cool. Would have loved to been there. To bad there are no pictures of the place. Allan

"NTSC" Here's a first vote for a NTSC version. In the 320 *192 mode, would there still be artifacting like in the graphics 8 mode? Allan

We'd all love to hear any of these little tidbits and stories. You should collect them all (if any more) and add them to your protos web site. Allan

Judy Bogart and no she didn't. She was supposed to do a 5200 Garfield game (which is the original reason I tracked her down), but that never got past the drawing board. Tempest http://www.atariage.com/software_page.html...wareLabelID=660 Maybe the Al's could update the programmer section for 5200 Robotron Allan

I was just bored. Allan

http://www.atarimagazines.com/cva/v1n2/pacman.php Allan

Thanks MrRetroGamer, I got up early (7am EST) and ordered one. So make that 2 less. Allan

Sssshhhhhh!!!! That's a secret! Allan

I am scanning the book 'The Creative Atari' by David Small for www.atariarchives.org and was wondering if anybody knows were I might find any of the programs from the book. Many of the programs were printed earlier in Creative Computing magazine as well. Thanks, Allan

Does anyone know exactly when the 5200 Klax is going to be available from www.atari2600.com? I know they said after the show, but I was wondering if anyone knew a more percise time. Allan

Yes, I think your right, but I don't think that really changes anything. The Intellivision II keyboard add-on still is pretty useless and really didn't have much written for it except for a small amount of commercial software. Probably the most successful computer add-on to a video game system would be the Coleco Adam but I'm not sure if you could really count this since it was also sold as a computer. Yes, I know the Adam was a bomb but it still had an actual following unlike the Intellivision II keyboard. I can't recall any other keyboard add-on even making it past prototype stage. Allan

And I'll do Escape from Epsilon by J.D. Casten but with better graphics. Allan

You could actually do a lot with this keyboard. Unlike most of the keyboards for game systems this one can (in theory) use all the 8-bit hardware like disc-drives, cassette players, modems, printers, etc. All you need to do is write the software. With 7800 Basic being 95% compatible with Atari 8-bit Basic, it wouldn't (in theory) be hard to convert programs to work in 7800 Basic or write drivers to use all the hardware. Plus we have Dasm/Tasm to write programs in Assembly. This keyboard has a lot of potential. A lot more than something like the Intellivision keyboard which has the horrible chicklet keys. If Curt can come through and build a bunch of them, in a way, it would be like a whole new line of computers. IMHO. What we really need (besides Curt building the keyboard) is for more people to get familiar with 7800 programming to take advantage of it when (crossing fingers) it comes out. Allan