New pacman for atari 2600

[New pacman for atari 2600]

It's amazing to see the best games of a 1977 platform come out over 30 years later.

So congrats on this great version ! :thumbsup:

If you ever do a limited run with AA I'll definitely buy my copy. Of course you 're welcome to trade it for a boxed & signed Rubik's Cube 3D if you want as I have some copies left

[FA: 2600 Home Vision Panda Chase + XL Pitfall 2 (almost NOS) etc]

Hi,

 

I'm putting 3 nice games for auction:
- Almost NOS (shrinkwrapp slit) PITFALL 2 for Atari Computers: auction 191276980356

- Home Vision Panda Chase #5 (boxed): auction 201144903106. This is a very rare 2600 cart.

- NOS shrinkwrapped Parker Brothers Super Cobra for Odyssey²: auction 191276973716. Last NOS PB game in my possession so far.

 

I'll try to list more items but I'm busy trying to clean up some space for our second baby coming next March.

This will include a couple never seen Paintiff's Exhibits from the Magnavox vs Activision suit: Activision 2600 cartridges.

I'll post the links when I'll have them listed.

 

 

Regards,

 

David

[BASIC Ten-Liners - Contest 2014]

Thanks for your hints, I got the emu and the 2047 disk -scored 512-.

Couldn't find a better way to LIST the game without doing a warm reset.

 

One question though: would an entry consisting of a small interpreter be allowed ?

[BASIC Ten-Liners - Contest 2014]

Hi guys,

 

I'm a bit late there but I found this contest while searching, for the fun of it, obfuscated code pages (don't ask me how I ended here, I don't recall, but I really like such contests).

The problem is, I don't have an original Atari computer to enjoy and since some (if not most) of you seem to write under emulation, I wanted to know what emulator would best run on my Windows 8.1 PC and if I had to load some particular programs to load entries to see how programs are done.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

David Winter

[Dating your Magnavox Odyssey: the long awaited article]

Update: you can now use the javascript decoder if you're a bit lazy to decode manually....

[Dating your Magnavox Odyssey: the long awaited article]

To all Odyssey enthusiasts:

 

After seeing all sorts of mistakes during almost a decade, I finally managed to decipher the date code encrypted on the Inspection Cards. This took me several years, but was well worth the effort.

I released an interesting article about this, and how you can precisely date your Odyssey.

The old erratic way using the serial should no longer be used.

 

Link: Dating your Odyssey by David Winter

 

Enjoy and forward to all Odyssey fans !

 

 

David Winter

[NES Prototype found in the wild]

This doesn't look like a prototype because the eproms are not socketed.

The presence of eproms is strange for a regular NES game but this wouldn't surprise me. I've seen that in many other cartridges, including an Atari game for the 2600.

[Videopac no. 18: Laser War. Lab loaner?]

The chip isn't an eprom but a regular rom. The sticker is the original Philips reference for the rom itself.

Sierra titles are pretty rare.

[2600 Rom Comparisions and Dumps]

It's too bad the released verision can never be read 100% accurately. I believe David read his eproms directly, so his dumps are true.

 

Hi guys,

 

Sorry for not coming back earlier, I've been busy and so forgot to check this thread.

Indeed I read the eproms directly so what you have in the dump is what's on the chip.

 

 

David.

[NOS Atari 2600: Playaround, Homevision, etc.]

I looked at the the box side and each of the three games have a small white oval sticker with a P letter on it.

PlayAround section as good as complete now:

http://www.atarimania.com/screenshots_games_atari-2600-vcs-p_total-page-step-publisher_13-1-25-48_2_G.html

 

Thanks to you.

 

 

 

Did you get my message about the scans ?

I made all of them for you, hope to see them on your site with a little credit!

 

 

David.

[New prototype found for Cabbage Patch]

Not sure where you are but if you're in the EEC I can dump them for you at no cost of course.

If you're in the US and don't wanna risk a shipment there're a few guys around who can do that for you.

[FA: NOS Philips Videopac+ G7400 (unreleased Odyssey 3)]

Hi!

 

Just listed this very nice one. Maybe the onle NOS one you'll ever see!

NOS Philips Videopac+ G7400

 

Has composite video output

 

Any questions please email me.

Has composite video output, so should work fine everywhere.

[NOS Atari 2600: Playaround, Homevision, etc.]

I looked at the the box side and each of the three games have a small white oval sticker with a P letter on it.

[NOS Atari 2600: Playaround, Homevision, etc.]

Ok, after checking the three Playaround are PAL, so much rarer than the NTSC.

As for the USD vs Euro: I accept USD through PayPal, however all other payments have to be received in euro as I'm located in europe. eBay has nothing to do with my bank account and can't force anyone to receive a particular currency.

[NOS Atari 2600: Playaround, Homevision, etc.]

Hi!

 

I put a number of Atari 2600 titles for auction. Several are NOS and shrinkwrapped.

I'll add more tomorrow as I didn't have the time to upload everything to the server.

You can see my auctions with several very rare titles, including three Playaround games (two are shrinkwrapped) and from what I've been told, they are the ultra rare PAL versions, which aren't mentioned on this site (unless there are no PAL but two different people asked about that). I also have a Homevision WAR 2000 for those who missed the previous one.

More to come tomorrow.

[WAR 2000 Home Vision R10]

I don't know why this game should be rated R10. I've seen Homevision several times here in France, and just got another one last week along with three Playaround titles (two still shrinkwrapped ). These games are, from memory, bootleg copies of known games, but I could be wrong. 100 euros ($150) looks very expensive, but if it's the price of Homevision, I'll list mines soon

[Test cart (especially RAM) ? Bad graphics/colors]

Thanks for your hints. I replaced all the electrolytics in the AC adaptor.

After a first try I noticed a slightly better picture but still with glitches.

I then turned the power switch on/off many times very rapidly and this apparently solved the problem.

I guess the contacts got enough oxidation to become more or less resistive and generate random voltages, which the video chips didn't like I'm sure.

 

Thanks again

[NOS Atari XEGS, light gun, games + NOS Odyssey^2 Parkers etc]

Hi folks,

 

I have up for auction the following stuff (eBay ID: david.winter):

- One NEW OLD STOCK, UNUSED Atari XEGS console, purely gorgeous!

- One Atari Light Gun in the same condition

- Many shrinkwrapped games (list below)

- NOS Parker Brothers titles for Odyssey^2 (I guess you already saw them as I listed them several days ago): Popeye, Super Cobra and Q*Bert

 

Will soon list the following:

- NOS Playaround for 2600

- NOS Philips Videopac+ G7400

and more if I have time.....

 

 

Atari cartridges listed so far:

Lode Runner

Hardball

Midnight Magic

One on One Basketball

Barnyard Blaster

Blue Max

BattleZone

Desert Falcon

Fight Night

Ballblazer

Archon

Dig Dug

Tennis

Football

Pitfall II

Hero

 

 

David

[Test cart (especially RAM) ? Bad graphics/colors]

Hi,

 

I just got a european CBS Colecovision which I'm trying to fix. For those who don't know, this outputs RGB video which should be crystal clear unlike RF. The problem is, I get buggy colors and graphics. When this happens, alterations are stable, they never change randomly.

I tested two carts: Mr Do! & World Games.

Mr Do! seems to work almost without trouble, but somtimes during the "Player 1 Get Ready" screen, I get two or three stable sprites on the left. I couldn't make this happen again but testing World Games shows the real thing... See screenshots below.

I suspect the video RAM to have something bad but I'm not sure. It could also be the TI VDP chip or maybe the cartridge connector.

 

To see what I'm talking about, I made a quick html page with several screenshots.

It's at http://www.pong-story.com/cv/cv.htm

 

Any help appreciated. Thanks !!!

 

 

David.

[Something rare: PAL loaners & 2600 gray case]

David, would you mind to post Jungle Hunt and Alpha Beam With Ernie? I'm add it to my list of to do's... getting to be a little long of a list.

 

 

Anyhow I'd rather use the rom then trying to hack in the different bytes. Less no chance for errors that way.

 

 

Also with Jungle Hunt, if the different bytes are at 0x0FF9 and 0x1FF8, then they can't be read. Off topic, an interesting question is whether bytes at 0x0FF8 and 0x1FF9 can be read, as you are already in that bank? Now if 0x0FF9 and 0x1FF8 can't be read (or used), then 2 possibilites exist:

 

1. It is just random garbage data.

2. It was intentionally put there. I.e. sometimes programmers put there initials in places that aren't used. Initials don't seem to be the case here as the bytes are higher then normal Ascii ($00 - $7F).

 

I read the eprom chips themselves without passing through the cartridge hardware. So the bytes read are really what is programmed in the eproms.

The bytes I listed earlier are therefore correct and are the only differences with the NTSC ROMs. To avoid confusions here are the dumps...

 

 

David

junghunt.BIN

alphabeam.BIN

[Strange Defender Prototype]

Many PCBs are mass produced this way. The holes are there to make them snap apart easily.

 

That was not common at Atari. Of all the usual cartridges that I salvaged to remove the pcb and use the case for Rubik's Cube 3D, only one had an eprom. All others had mask programmed ROMs. One or two even had a "bundle" chip.

[Strange Defender Prototype]

This pcb has no part number and was in an ordinary Atari Defender cartidge.

I can only imagine that Atari may have had a delay in getting mask ROMs and used this alternate solution.

The edges really look like they were drilled to fit in the cartridge case. This really doesn't look like a mass production; This looks more like a manual finnish.

 

David

[2600 Rom Comparisions and Dumps]

Just a shorter to say that I have only one SA prototype, which is the one I posted a few days ago, and which is the one reviewed by Tempest on his site.

[Strange Defender Prototype]

I checked my board (picture below) and this is also Defender.

The eprom is soldered so I don't know whether it's worth dumping it.

[Strange Defender Prototype]

So be it.

 

Not added.

 

 

I have to veridy but I too happened to find a similar cartridge. The board is different, as it uses a single 2732 eprom and one inverter to enable the chip. The board looks hand cut on the sides to accomodate to the cartridge case, however the eprom is soldered so I can't read it without a connector. I'll post a picture later when I'm back from work.