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  18. Posted

    LOL, no, but I'm glad to ship anyone a poster in a tube if they want to pay for the tube and shipping. I'll even include a free Space Rocks poster, and that one is larger (18" x 24") and is also beautiful.

     

    ..Al

     

    The Space Rocks poster is really nice, but the Star Castle poster is beautiful, even with the fold lines.

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    I did a bit of research about the various trackball controllers for the 2600 and I found that there were actually 2 versions of the CX-22:

     

    1 - first version only works in joystick emulation mode and doesn't have a real trackball mode. According to the service manual, only 15K of these were produced. There's not a mode selection switch on these units.

     

    2 - second version has the mode select switch and can work in joystick mode or true trackball mode compatible with Atari 8bit computers.

     

    I think that the early model is the one labeled "Atari 2600 PROLINE TRAK-BALL" (you can see one in this post), with the all black case, while the latter is the "ATARI TRAK-BALL" with the dual tone Brown/Creme to match the XL series of computers. Both have the CX-22 model number printed on the bottom label. Anyway, I have not confirmation that the cosmetic changes and the board revision happened at the same time, so the presence of the switch is the best way to differentiate between the two.

     

    I suggest to add a note about this in the first page for anyone looking for a CX-22 trackball to play these hacks and maybe to rename the various roms avoiding the use of "CX-80" and "CX-22" which might cause confusion.

    Maybe you could use the term "8bit TRACKBALL" or "XL TRACKBALL" instead of "CX-22" and "ST MOUSE" instead of "CX-80" as suggested by Mitch in one post.

     

     

    Mode select switch? Wow! I have one of those versions. Here I thought the trackball just didn't work. -- Thanks for pointing this out. :thumbsup:

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