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    Sorry I did not think xg4bx was the actual seller. I thought xg4bx was just pointing out an auction of something new he found. If he is indeed the seller I apologize I was not trying to steal sales from this person and I will see if my comment about the price can be removed from my post.

     

    If he is not the seller then I apologize.

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    I was a pinball addict in the early 70's and my father brought home a dedicated Pong console one day and my sisters and I played for hours, every chance we got, I don't remember if my little brother played with us as he was extremely young at the time. It was mind blowing to be able to play a game right on our TV screen... how Star Trek was that?

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    I would not pay $69.99 for that. We should have ours in stock late this week or early next week. It takes us a little longer since we are in Michigan and all these wholesalers are in California. It will be much cheaper than that. Also the wireless isn't really anything to be bragging about on this system since the packed-in controllers are not very good, especially for NES/SNES games. Its the controller ports for each system that is the good thing about this system.

     

    Wow SAG. Way to hijack xg4bx's thread.

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    There is some guy that has done like 4 bids in a row all for $140 on my GT. Is this common or like a eBay glitch or something?

     

    I'm the "guy" ;)

     

    Not an eBay glitch in this case. Each bid was just an increase in my maximum bid- perhaps eBay hides that info from you. I've been burned one too many times by someone swooping in at the last second and outbidding me, so raising my max a few times was kind of an insurance policy.

     

    Cool. I was wondering why there were 4 :D

  12. Posted · Edited by the-topdog

    I have a great Atari XEGS system with an internal MyIDE... unfortunately my set is missing the light gun and joystick controllers and I wanna play! Please help me fill the empty holes in my XEGS box.

     

    If you have one or both, PM me with your asking price.

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    Here is a video of me messing around with my ECS. I know nothing at all about computer programming or basic, i was just goofing around typing some names on the screen to give some shout outs to my Youtube friends. But it doesn't give you much room to type with.

     

    Heheh... cool dude. It is always fun to see stuff like this.

  23. Posted

    I have both the manual that came with the ECS and the rarer "step-by-step guide" that Mattel would send you when you returned the ECS warranty card. I just looked through both and I don't see anything in either manual that talks about how to send output to a printer. So that makes the word processor your friend had a bit of a mystery. Maybe your friend's dad worked for Mattel and it was some prototype software? :) :) :)

     

    I need to study the manuals some more to see how much control ECS BASIC gives you over the text screen. If you can't even move the cursor around in BASIC, I don't think a Word Processor would even be possible in BASIC....

     

    Nope his dad was in the US Air Force. Usually deployed over in the UK.

     

    I'm just making assumptions since I never saw what program he used to make his letters. I just chided him for the resulting product. :P

     

    There are a lot of text editors that had no x,y cursor capability... EDLIN for MS-DOS springs to mind. They were cumbersome and clunky but got the job done. I remember writing .BAT files with EDLIN and it still gives me nightmares. http://www.computerhope.com/edlin.htm

     

    It would be a fun little project to come up with something like that for the ECS since it is such an ignored part of computing history.

  24. Posted · Edited by the-topdog

    Is it *possible* that your friend had a Mattel Aquarius? The Aquarius and the ECS shared the same tape drive and printer peripheral, and the "FileForm" cartridge worked like a combo word processor/database program.

     

    I am positive on the two points. It definitely wasn't an Aquarius and it definitely was an Int/ECS setup... we mocked him constantly about it. Kids can be so evil at times :D

     

    My guess is either a third party program, or just a BASIC program his father wrote. The odd thing is that his printer looked just like the Aquarius printer only it was black. Was it released by multiple manufacturers?

     

    EDIT: Found it. It is the Manta printer http://www.vdsteenoven.com/aquarius/manta.html

  25. Posted · Edited by the-topdog

    No, no word processor, but it could use the Aquarius's printer. It would easy enough to write a simple BASIC word processor.

     

    One of my brother's friends had an Intellivision w/ECS back in the day, and he was proud of the letters he would write to his grandmother and print them out on the tiny thermal paper from his little printer. So that would point to the fact that either there was a word processor for the Intellivision or someone did indeed write a simple word processor in BASIC as you surmised.

     

    Of course, we just kind of rolled our eyes at him since we used our Commodore 64 with a full carriage dot matrix printer to print full size, multi-page letters complete with graphics :D

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