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  1. Posted

    I like the rackmount 2600.  :)

    http://www.manipulate.net/skan/noizspike.html

     

    oh HELL YEAH! I love that mod!

     

    I had that Idea running thru my head when I stumbled on that link

    However.. I would use the original face for the rack mount instead of the momentary push buttons.

     

    to put it in another way.. I would copy the orginal controll scheme of the VCS and place it on the face of the rack. if my original was a four switcher, only then would I use the mini toggles for the difficulty switches, the controller ports would be placed to extreme left and right of the VCS face.

    my mod would also differ in that it wold be done up in glourious wood grain and not that dang day-glo green :woozy:

    hmmm.. I would say a clear acyrlic cart port that could be back lit might be interesting :ponder:

     

    and krobby..that link was an inspiration.. but I want to do something that isnt as reliant on laptop parts.. besides that.. I wanna do this for myself.. and I HATE touch pad mouses :P

    I intend to basicly create a case for a standard power supply then make a plug port for the power chords. coming out of the back of the unit..

    I know.. it aint pretty and perfect.. But its a personal exercise. and not ment for mass production..

    besides.. those units dont allow for actual VCS functionality, except via emulation

     

    and Wiz.. if you can drop a link where I can find those adaptors.. it would be appreciated buddy :)

  2. Posted

    Ive got a dead donkey Kong cart here that I can't do nothing with..

    it happens.. I'm afraid to say.

     

    keep in mind.. I'm a very moderate collector and my collection is very limited.. Ihang out with you guys for the good conversation..

     

    in any case.. yeah.. DK is dead.. I should get another copy...

     

    also my combat cart has a broken spring for the dust cover..

    I'm thinking of just yanking out that mechinism

     

    but tis a cying shame about Adventure.. first cart I got when I got back into Atari.. was my favorite game as a kid

    my cart acts funny though.. no amount of fussing with the difficulty switches will alter the settings of the game

  5. Posted

    Hey man,

     

    You don't mention you have a Cuttle Cart on the way...you need it for the Cuttle Cart CD collection (if you find one).  I was thinking about selling my CC and my CC collection on CD...I'm gonna post a separate thread.

     

    Steve

     

    What price are we talking about? Keeping in mind that your Cuttle Cart will not draw as much cash, given that the CCII is on the horizon. I do have a Supercharger coming that I could do the mod on and have the full functionality. I did want to go through and document what games won't work properly with an unmodified Supercharger. Has anyone posted this information previously?

     

    Jim

     

    the cuttlecart 2 is going to be for the 7800 only as far as I know..

    cuttlecart 1 is for the 2600

     

    now.. if you have a burner....you could drop me a line.... :ponder:

  8. Posted

    yep.. a replacement RCA cord will work.

    I have had simular problems with my unit, and the culprit is the switchbox itself I'm afraid to say in my case, and it was a new one from radiohack.

    so I just got the the direct co-ax to RCA type RF adaptor and everything works fine now. only prblem is that now you dont have the ability to switch from game to TV on the fly. this isnt a problem if you have a dedicated television for the console, but it is if you plan to use it like anyother.

     

    My set up here is that I have a old HI-FI VCR feeding into my computers TV tuner capture card ( ATI All-In-Wonder ) a sega automatic RF switch into the antenna in on the VCR, and the straight RF adaptor screwed into the sega switch. of course the composite consoles are pluged into the AV inputs of the VCR.

     

    Just in case you didnt know, you cant substitute the Sega RF switch for the Atari, the Atari doesnt have the ability to ingage the switch over. however running a straight RF signal thur this works just find, and is not as RF buggy as the regular slide switch models

     

    I hope all that helps

  9. Posted

    cat piss.. very acidiic, and full of amonia.

    its also extremly concentrated.

    remember, cats are origianly desert animals and make very efficiant use of thier piss.

    thats just to explain the reason why the cats piss tore everything up

    as for the actual pissing incident.. cats are like tigers.. and only live in packs when resources are plentiful. you.. are the dominant cat in the pack, so thier natural tendency is to bury the waste as to not offend you by thier scent.. notice ina cat population, the only one that does not bury thier waste is the dominent one.

     

    simple way around this? keep the litter box clean so they don't look for other places to hide thier waste.

     

    of course sometimes cats, like children will act out just to get your attention. Dogs do it too so lets not get on a cat vs. dog debate based on this subject.. thats for off topic

  10. Posted

    As for the Mountain dew thang...

    the below picture is from the 2600 archives on this here website....

     

    ahh.. when I open up a pub, I shall hack my beers logo intothe game and have it for play at the place :)

    post-1956-1053408117_thumb.png

  12. Posted

    ahhh yeah.. my "new" case arrived the other day.. work shall begin soon :D

     

    Next step is to find the most absolutlly smallest foot print MoBo out there that can handle what I want to do with this.

     

    then of course theres building an aadaptor to lay PCI cards on thier side.

     

    the easist thing to do is to get one with on board video and all that good stuff, but that wont accomodate the video driver, so I'm still stuck with performing that operation, and besides.. onboard video tends to be lacking.

     

    sure.. I could just hack up a New Laptop and pull this off much easier..

     

    But wheres the fun in that!?

     

    other straight up VCS case mods could be say....

     

    use a heat absorbing needle cutter on a dremel tool and route out channels on the back side of the grooves on the VCS deck.

    also, remove the little felt pads under the switches.

    at this point mount a cold cathode tube up in there for internal lighting.

    I dont know about routing out the fuji.. pretty damn small, but it could work.

    also considering removing all that plastic from the deck could lead to some structrual integrity issues, you could leave channels and not cut all the way accross the back side of the groove.

    cooling isn't really an issue with the VCS, but you could install a fan for shits and giggles at this point

  14. Posted

    I'm currently inthe midsts of putting a P4 motherboard, ass loads of ram.. 80 gig hardrive, soundplaster live and ati all in wonder video card into an atari, as well as chopping up the original mobo of an VCS to fit just in the hump of the unit. then AV mod it and run the out put of the VCS directly to the Tuner of the All in wonder, so that you can actually runa cart out of it in real time

     

    besides an external power supply and USB fuled CD-rom..

    its should look like a stock VCS after all is said and done

  15. Posted

    it does look good! great job so far!

     

    And considering the placement of the keys.. it brings a whole new dimension to playing with yourself at the computer!

     

    Like to see the paddles speeded up, however

  16. Posted

    well the wavy rf thingy looks pretty realistic (screengrab)

     

    but I'm a wee bit confused here.. wasn't Pong done all in solid state with out a programed chip or am I missing something here?

    far as I knee pong couldnt be emulated, but only simulated.

     

    in any case I'm gonna download it

    vivala Pong revolution!

  17. Posted

    around about 85-86 I was virtually living at the mall considering at that point, My mother was now a single parant and keeping her kid of the streets, so.. she brings me to work thalhimers, gave me five bucks a day, and let me run wild all over the mall.. and Kaybe was selling off all the INTV stuff big ass baskets full of INTV games, and I had an INTV on account that my aunt and uncle had givin one to me when my cousins got tired of it, and it stopped working for them, the ten year old knew how to beat things like this and get them working again, just so happens this sis the same way I got my Betamax ( wich also still works to this day)

     

    so for about a month there I was buying about four INTV games a day when I was slumming the malls while mom worked.

    I sold off my original INTV for a about $100 and all the games, and mom matched my funds and I got an OMNIBOT!

    right now I have a 30 inty games, and one dead INTV that I came accross all at once

     

    I will say.. I still have OMNIBOT, and OMNIBOT is still rocking and rolling.. although.. I need to replace his griping hand.

     

    oh.. just in case any one cares or has the meens.. I'm looking for a working INTV and a OMNIBOT 2000

  18. Posted

    good to hear al!

     

    as for Hack amatic.. my god. it scares the hell out of me. I downloaded it.. and tried to run it.. wouldnt load up my bin.. and now it wont let me kill it!

     

    Im sure its benign becouse nothing funky has happened with my computer.. but I dont like the idea of not being able to get it off my computer

  20. Posted

    yep..thats right.. I want a DEAD VCS, or just the case.. thats all I'm interested in..

    I would perfer a dead one on account of the being able to have the switches and cart port, but thats just for visability

     

    just to clue you in.. I want it for a case mod experiment.

     

    yes.. I know its been done and commercially available.. But I want to do it for myself

     

    Please PM or E-mail if you you can help me out!

  21. Posted

    interesting.. I sent atari Leaf a atari400/800 cassette by regular ground mail and it was to him within a week and a half, granted.. I sent it out via US mail.. what happened to it once it hit the border.. I have no idea

    hell.. the only delay in him recieving his package was my lazy broke ass forking over the buckfiddy to get it in the mail!

     

    you results may vary

  22. Posted

    Isn't that the starpath cassette game?

    I don't have anything to trade ya in comaparison.. I can only offer cash

    and quite frankly.. I could give a rats ass about it being in the box and shrinkwrapped and all that hoopdajoob.. I just wanta play it :D

  23. Posted

    y'know..that dos sound lke the RF modulator is starting to die out..

    although.. I'm no expert on these matters..

    hell..the TV might even be playing with you

     

    but it sounds like it might be time to attempt the ole Composite modification

  24. Posted

    yeah.. I gotta agree with thirdbird on this.. there should bedifining individual entiries, not reworking of others entiries.

     

    if that were the case there wouldve been an official template to be refined by the participants. and the contest would be based around that

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