Allan

Atari produced a poster of that for the sellers/service centers. I saw one on ebay many years ago but it went out of my price range.

Working on December, 1985 issue. Come on in join in. It's fun.

Seems like the manual was never scanned. I just grabbed a copy off of eBay and will scan it.

Is there a way to change the green (alternative squares and larger border)?

@Clint Thompson It is sad to hear of his passing. I am glad that you were able to recover some of his documents. If you need help digitally archiving these documents please reach out to me, even if it is for just some technical advice. I have a number of scanners including over-sized ones for larger documents. My resume of sorts:https://archive.org/details/@allan52 Allan

Here are all the Atari programs from the November, 1985 issue of Compute! magazine. I know there is a thread with Compute! magazine Atari disk images from original disks already but I thought I would start a separate one with typed-in programs. It is 1985 and back to the early issues need to be typed in. If anyone wants to join in, please do. Many of the program can be found on Atarimania.com so look there first to save you some time/typing. Compute_Nov_1985.atr.zip

Also the controller keypad buttons were like an old telephone keypad.

Atari had two Kiosks for the 5200. Both used television sets. They both had special controllers that were attached to the kiosk like an arcade cabinet. The sticks and buttons were different than a home 5200 controller. The 5200 had a different shape than the original 2600s. The later 2600s had a somewhat similar shape to the 5200s but much smaller. Yes, the carts were bigger.

Nice. Looking forward to trying this. The original manual on Archive.org is my scan. Nice to see it is being used. And nice updated manual to whomever made it. Maybe they should make the date 2023.

I sent him an email. I found a bug in the scoring display. I sent him some pictures as well.

Thanks, Tempest.

Do you have that list of GCC programmers?

That was really cool. I can think of some game screens that might look great with this. All four Lucasfilm games come to mind. Star Raiders, Seven Cities of Gold, screens from the Adventure International SAGA games.

Would love to see some kind of inclosure/case for this.

It would be nice to finally know what games each GCC programmer did.

Remembering back, I was always at the game stores (Childworld) waiting for new 5200 games. Qix did not show up until early 1983. It's got to be a typo of '1982' when it should have been '1983'.

Can we get a little more details on this?

You wrote some great programs @cwareham . Hope you stick around. I'm sure these are just some of them: http://www.atarimania.com/pgelstsoft.awp?system=8&type=U&team=1384&step=200

Thanks, @spookt Looking forward to looking at the manual.

I sure hope that you guys can give this a try @Dutchman2000 @Wonder007 . Since OCR usually doesn't work well with code/dot matrix printouts, this would have to be entered by hand. I would certainly volunteer to type part of it in. Having a bunch of people type sections of code in would make it less daunting.

It would be great if we could duplicate the hardware so more of us could tinker with this.

Yes, 95+ percent of U.S. scanners can only scan about 11.25 inches (about 285 millimeters). I had to eventually buy an 'over-sized' scanner to scan many things without stitching them together. Even a used one was not cheap.

Looking forward to listening to those interviews you guys mentioned from the last episode. Nice to hear every one talk in #99. Hopefully you guys got something special for Episode #100. Not to put any pressure on the three of you.

@Agent570 Do you have a scanner? Could you possible scan that whole reference card you posted? OK. Never mind. Turns out the one I scanned years ago was the second version. I need to hunt down a copy of the first one without the Wilson animation. https://archive.org/details/moviemakercommandsummaryelectronicarts/mode/2up

Sorry. I missed that it was a prototype. . Hopefully you can re-construct it.