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I am reading this from my 65" Visio "Monitor" that is the main "TV" (which it isn't) in my family room. I view everything from Comcast box, Roku, Blu-Ray, or attached older laptop in the cabinet. I haven't viewed anything over the air in close to 20 years. Now I have an amazing 36" Sony WEGA tucked away in the basement for dream classic video game room, and a 9" TV/DVD that I use for 2600 use.

I was wondering that comment myself. I think someone missed the point. Maybe they meant the Marketing people were Millenials, then it makes sense to me at least.

Cool, I could go for some Rally-X in my wallet. But I need to carry my glasses as well, plus my neck isn't so good either.

I posted it in the BatarBasic section. And yeah, not on FaceBook, no desire.

I'd buy the 393 Rally X if it was available anywhere, and price was decent.

I just re-read this thread, and dang. I'm glad I wrote it. I couldn't remember why some of what I did, I did that way. I need to find my pause kit, and get it working as well. It wasn't chucked in with that 2600 and circuit board. Also I need to see if it is safe to run the PICAXE chip off of 5v directly from the 7805 on the 2600 chassis, I think they should be fine, by default you run them off of 3 AAs which is probably very close to 5v with fresh cells.

Yes, it has been quite a while. But I still remember the feeling of accomplishment with getting something to work first in Stella, then putting it on a card for the Harmony and seeing it on an old TV. Then burning it to an EPROM, and soldering it in and testing and seeing it work "for real".

Sure, but you are assuming that I indented in the first place... ROB-Final.bas

Another project I had was controlling 3D glasses with an Atari 2600. I have working code but not sure which version was the one that actually worked, I need to test it on hardware. Basically some glasses (I started with the old crappy/tiny viewport) Sega 3D glasses, then I got a pair that came bundled with some video card or something. Let me 'splain, no, there is too much, let me sum up... The glasses have a mini 1/8" stereo jack on them with a common pin, and one pin for each LCD shutter. If I recall, you just apply 5v to a pin and ground the common, and that shutter goes dark. So to display 3D; Send power to 1 shutter, blocking that eye from seeing the screen. Display the image on the screen that the other eye should see. Remove power from 1st shutter, and apply to the other. Display the other image. I sent data out to the joystick port to turn pins on and off, and that actually controlled the 3D glasses directly. If I remember, no electrical components were used, only a wiring adapter from 9pin D-Sub to headphone jack. I can't even remember how exactly it worked in code, but this is one piece I found on my old HD. set romsize 4k set tv ntsc set smartbranching on dim frame = a dim rate=b rate=0 COLUPF = $06 main rightframe rem frame 1 frame=1 playfield: ................................ ........X.......X............... ........X.......X............... ........X.......X............... ........X.......X............... ........X.......X............... ........X.......X............... ........X.......X............... ................................ ................................ ................................ end for c=0 to rate drawscreen next c leftframe rem frame 2 frame=2 playfield: ................................ .....X.......X.................. .....X.......X.................. .....X.......X.................. .....X.......X.................. .....X.......X.................. .....X.......X.................. .....X.......X.................. ................................ ................................ ................................ end for c=0 to rate drawscreen next c goto main vblank SWCHA=frame SWACNT=%00000011 return

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Posted in http://atariage.com/forums/topic/288241-my-non-tendo-rob-project-controlling-nintendos-rob-with-an-atari/?p=4219711

Here is the manual I made back then as well. NonTendo Manual Legal.pdf

Here is the source code, I did different versions with only the actual color displayed being the difference, like a poke at Nintendo to sell the same thing over and over in different colors... EDITED: Source code attached in post #5

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/190214-i-got-my-atari-to-control-my-nintendo-rob-robot/ Is the old thread where I created and sold a couple. I am going to publish the source code and the .bin file for others. I recently got hit with I guess a type of ransomware on my main PC that I do this type of stuff from and I recovered everything from my multiple backups, and old HDs. The last files I recovered were my old Atari projects, and I would have hated them to be lost forever. I figured I will just post them here, and that should cover it. Remember, this is something I did back in 2011, and haven't touched since. I will see if Albert will want to add it to his Homebrew carts he sells as well. This is NOT A GAME, or anything remotely fun. To me it was something that was just plain cool to try and when it first worked, I was stunned. To control the ROB, you need to flash the screen of a crt bright/dim in a pattern that the ROB recognizes. Most of the code is controller detection (12 button controllers were by far the hardest, harder than the actual getting ROB to work) I can't remember everyone that helped, but; Albert with this site in general! I also got professional quality labels from him. I got boards from CPUWiz I believe. Then batari Basic is what really allowed me to be able to even get a flashing dot on the screen, heck to get a screen to display at all! Stella and then the Harmony cart for testing made it infinitely more convenient to test code, massive thanks to both. Everyone on this site that helped me with questions directly, or just from other posts...

I will check and see if this matches the newest source code I can find on my old PC's HD. I think it is.

OK, 7 years later... I got the bug again. I dug it out, and it is still intact as I left it. I got the bug again because of a PC issue with massive corruption that I just recovered from and had to dig real hard to find my source code for projects I used to work on. But I think I'm back for a bit, and will work on this some more until the weather breaks and I can go back to putzing with my 1967 El Camino, which is what sucked me away from Atari stuff years ago...

Do you mean just put the code in a post? I haven't been on this site in years and haven't looked at other's projects in a looonnnggg time. I'll make a new thread and put the source code in that for it and each of my other projects. I'll look at where the other BB stuff is.

Spyhunter, but one of them is rotated so the buttons are oriented correctly. There was a molded plastic holder that you put the sticks in. One or more of the other adventure games as well. Maybe Riddle of the Sphinx and Dragonstomper? Plus of course... http://atariage.com/forums/topic/190214-i-got-my-atari-to-control-my-nintendo-rob-robot/

Back in 2011 I wrote a program in BB that could control the Nintendo R.O.B. robot from an Atari 2600 and a TV screen flashes. Here is the original thread from back them. http://atariage.com/forums/topic/190214-i-got-my-atari-to-control-my-nintendo-rob-robot/ I recently recovered from a major PC issue, and the last thing I recovered was the source code for that project. I have always said I wanted to release it, and have it available for purchase on AtariAge. But, I don't know how to actually do that. I would hate to lose it for real some day when it would be cool if someone else could use it for something more interacting. Also I had/have a program that controls 3D glasses (I originally used the old Sega 3D glasses, then got some other one to test with). It cycles the screen image in sync with the glasses LCD shutter so (extremely poor) 3D images can be possible on a 2600. If I am going to have AtariAge sell them, should I not release the source code?

And getting the highest "The Mindmaster has declared you to be awesome" (IIRC) I know "Quaint" was one of the lower ranks.

Should I just post it here in a message, or on the Batari Basic forum? That is where I learned it all and what I used. I used to live on this site, but haven't been on in years. My spare time is all LEGO or my 1967 El Camino related now. I have seriously thought about selling off 95% of my Atari stuff.

Now if someone can explain to be the best way to share this with the community. I want to upload the source code for Non-Tendo R.O.B. as well as maybe the other stuff incase I get hit by a bus or something.

And face it, most of us with Atari crap are tech/gadget nuts, and hoarders. And the combination of those 2 things is what saved me. I am still going through it trying to find another project where I was programming a microcontroller to control all of the 2600 switches from a KeyBoard controller. I think I had it basically completed, but I need the code for it. I don't recall any of what I was doing on it. Basically, the 12 buttons were assigned in pairs to toggle all 6 switches (including the power) on and off from a keyboard controller. My initial goal was to make the perfect "Phasor Patrol" setup, and expand on that. So you would have a keypad like in Star Raiders controlling shields and everything else that the diff/color switches did.

I FOUND IT ALL, WHOO HOO. I upgraded to a SSD HD for my C: in May 2016. I put my old C: 500 GB drive on a shelf with all of my other old HDs. SO, since I haven't done sqaut Atari wise in years, I have it all. My source code for the ROB carts the source code for the 3D glasses I had working on a 2600, I think everything. SO those fargin 'bastages didn't cost me a penny, and I didn't lose anything that I really cared about.