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Thanks, somebody asked the same thing and it's answered in the Q&A. It's PAL btw. Don't see any problem though as most modern TV sets accept both standards nowadays and games are run from the harddrive. Anyway tomorrow this hour it'll be too late.

When I (as in the guy who is selling the "Heavily modded 800XE") call something "Ultimate" it is ofcourse in my own perception. The machine does what I wanted from it perfectly... play all my favourite commercial 8-bit games from a stand-alone system. I was only active in the "scene" during a couple of months, maybe six years ago, in which I gathered the info to build the system that would do just that. While doing that it was like a large jig-saw puzzle, with many people being very scarce giving complete information on how to accomplish certain mods. And when I found the info there was still numerous bugs to be ironed out. So I made a website with the goal to make the essentials accessible to everyone with minor understanding of electronics and using off-the shelve components. That's the story really, just an enthousiast who didn't mod his atari for street cred but for fun, and in the meantime trying to help others who want to do the same. I know there's loads of solutions nowadays that don't look like a "rat's nest" (made me smile this one but some people like building things themselves and can not etch their own PCB's. Respect to the ones that do though. btw. Am using a cheap 2.5Amp switching power supply, not to risk burning the standard one but runs fine on both.

Great stuff Shawn! Is there a way to boot directly into the image manager?

An xbox loaded with emulators! Okay I'll get my coat No seriously... either that or something like a GamePark 32 with an Atari emulator.

Why don't you just try? It won't break anything.

You might want to check out my webpage with info and mods on my 800XE (see link below)

A few days ago I stumbled at, what I thought, was a genuine 2600 at a local flea market. Upon second glance it turned out to be a clone with 128 games built in. I was really happy with this find as I allways just wanted to have an Atari VCS to re-live childhood memories and the only game I ever played on the VCS was Pac-Man and River Raid as far as I can remember, which are both included though the colours in River Raid are off. I opened it up to have a look at the PCB and it says 2600B 3 in 1 rev 1.0 There is room on the PCB for the ROM-select switch and an additional couple of ROMS but it just has the one with 128 games on it. Good thing about these clones is that they give a better image quality than the average original VCS, though I'm still hoping to be able to be able to add S-video output to it for even better image quality.

Mhhh... I wonder if I can save/load those multi-cart images onto my MyIDE disk... that would save a lot of hassle uploading games separately.

Oh I see... yes a promise is a promise

No I won't Who told you that? But it's very easy to do yourself and defenitely worth it. A few weeks ago at a dutch atari meeting I saw a guy with a TFT TV hooked to a standard A8, I wished I brought one of my modified ones with me to show him his waste of money (or at least his missed opportunity)

Sounds great! I'd be happy to test it on my Tungsten|T for you.

Nope... I suspect that's a faster one also? Older harddisks will work with the F-series but modern disks need faster chips to get them stable.

DOS partitions have a maximum of 65535 hi-density sectors which equals 16MB (I don't know exactly how many partitions/drives MyDOS supports). But when you run uut of drives you can fill the rest of the drive with disk images. A 20GB disk can hold 10GB of data because the Atari is ofcourse 8-bit and the IDE disk is 16-bit.

It isn't -my- solution, I just built my own version of Mr.Atari who "invented it". But I can tell you why I built a MyIDE circuit instead of a SIO2IDE solution... simplicity of the circuit. And it does everything I want from it too... play game images

I finally managed to get my homebuilt MyIDE circuit stable. The trick was to use faster F-series chips instead of the normal LS-series. Thanks to Mr.Atari for his support!