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I've posted about this few years ago but couldn't find thread..and never got around to it, but am ready now
Coco 3 is only system I own that I don't have extension cables for to reach my bed from TV stand. Has someone possibly made these by now? If not any advice on where I could find one compatible? Last time I remember the only compatible cables I could find were like 50' designed for security cameras..I can't even remember the kind of cable needed either if someone can please fill me in lol There was also a site I found where I was told they could build me custom extension cables, I just had to give them info & find them the diagram. Worst case scenario, guess that's what I'll do
Thanks in advance
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Looks like I'm late to the party on this...but put me down for an NTSC copy for sure
Been wondering what ever came about with Toki, but haven't been on in a while, stoked to see the cartridge is happening
Looks amazing for a 7800 title, such a shame we didn't have more of these kinda games back in the day.
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I'm just happy that people actually want the game!
Can't wait to get back into 7800 programming; it's been too long. But unfortunately it's going to be a little longer.
Haha yea been anticipating it for a long time!...I totally understand it takes a lot of work and people have lives outside of their hobbies. Just wanting it to be known I wasn't trying to come of as whiny..been away for a while & was hoping to get caught up
Anyways I had a friend over recently & I showed him some of the footage of it out there on YT...He was blown away to see that kind of game on the 7800 & made a post about it on his Instagram with a clip lol
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Christmas 1988..I thought some of the games in the 7800 commercial on TV at the time seemed cool, and a nice step up from the 2600...I knew the NES blew it away though & it was what I really wanted..& wanted badly...Instead I wound up getting a 7800..and was one hysterically upset kid after playing the NES at cousins later that day for the 1st time & not getting one lol..I learned to love my 7800 though & although I only had a few games for it, I have many fond memories of playing it with my sister in the late 80's. The next year my Grandfather returned it I believe (He was notorious for exchanging & returning items to stores WAY past the deadline, talking years or even over a decade old in some cases, never knew how he did it lol) & we finally got the NES
Fast forward to 1997 & my new retrogame collecting hobby is born..mainly fueled by going online in the earlier days & learning about the mindblowing amount of games I never knew existed
It started with the 2600. and soon I found a website called O'Shea's limited that had about 30 7800 games NIB + a bunch of 2600 for..I can't believe I'm even saying this now...88 CENTS A PIECE! It was ON from then on..I ordered a new 7800 from Best Electronics.... and on and off again within the past 20 years I have picked up all original NTSC games aside from Tank Command + the Super Pacman homebrew, and I'm currently using my 3rd 7800, a composite modded unit I also bought from Best since the coax out on my 2nd one looked like crap on my HDTV
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Yea that's the same thread I read a while back regarding Bentley Bear...seems nothing has changed since "Should be availiable in November 2016"
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Haven't been on here in a year or 2 I believe, but have checked back a couple times to see if Bentley Bear was availiable to purchase on cart yet & it seems years later it still isn't.
Also remember someone did a Flappy Bird..wasn't that supposed to come out as well?
And then Toki, another one I was excited for..still seems it's not done..last I remember it was PAL only but they were working on it
& finally Paperboy..My memory is fuzzy, but I think someone discovered a demo of this game on an old computer, but couldn't continue it for some reason?
Thanks in advance for saving me time searching around, sure alot of u are up to date on all those
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Does anyone have one for sale? Or know somkne that mods them? I do not want to mod my 7800 I've had since 1993. If I can't find one already done I'll pick one up off of eBay and have someone mod it for me.
Best Electronics sells them modded. I ordered mine few years ago from them
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LOL. I'm betting that after you get a suitable 90s PC to run your games, you'll find just as much nostalgia even with the different hardware. Using the older operating systems (like DOS, Windows 95, or Windows 98) is as much a nostalgia trip as anything. And go ahead and try to find that old IBM you used to have. They made a ton of them back in the 90s, they are just hard to find today. A huge percentage of them have probably been sent to the scrap heap or recyclers at this point, and the remaining units are stashed away in people's closets/garages/basements/attics all across the U.S.
Many times I have been to estate sales where all of the 80s/90s computer equipment was thrown away a few weeks earlier so room could be made to run the sale. Any that are donated to charity or thrift stores like Goodwill are often immediately taken to a recycling center. 99% of people don't place any value on outdated computer systems and components, other than their fairly high scrap value.
Lol I think my best solution would be to try & find a Pentium III PC first, but keep my eyes open in the meantime for the model I had, prob do a followed search on Ebay..I really think last time I researched it I saw somewhere it had it's own video connection & wasn't standard VGA too, so going to have to look into it again...
That all makes sense though, I was thinking as many PCs that were out there in the 90's its insane how hard it seems to find them nowadays...I really haven't began looking online much aside from Ebay, but I'm under the impression there isn't much there either...been checking my local Craigslist the past week or 2 & haven't found anything pre XP
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Found this site that does av mods for many systems. Hope this helps.
Thanks but have to update & say I managed to find a pre-modded system & just had it shipped today
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From what I can see, it looks like you are looking for an IBM PS/1 model 2155 style computer (they apparently made a few PS/Valuepoint computers in this case style as well). The "Expert" and "Consultant" titles are generally marketing names, and I wouldn't worry about them too much. Just focus on finding a good, clean, functional example. If you get too picky, you are likely going to be hunting for the thing for quite a while. Possibly years, if you hold out for a nice, clean example of one particular model, and want to pay a reasonable price.
As I said before, get yourself a cheap Pentium III (or equivalent AMD processor) which should be vastly more powerful than your old IBM, and still run most of the programs you'll likely be using. It'll also likely be easier to find decent video and sound cards with a later machine (good 486 era sound and video cards are hard to find and can be very expensive). While you are enjoying the Pentium-III era computer, keep looking for that particular IBM model.
I'm speaking out of experience. I remembered fairly well that the family computer I used as a kid growing up in the 90s was a small PC tower with a greenish power button, and somehow I remembered it had an AT&T logo on the front. Sure enough, with some thorough internet searching, I figured out it was an AT&T Globalyst 630 with a Pentium 100mhz processor and a 1GB hard drive (I remember my mother remarking back in the 90s about that 1GB hard drive, which she was amazed about after working with computers in an office environment since the 70s). I've been looking for quite a while now for a nice example of this model, and haven't even found ONE available for sale ANYWHERE. Fortunately, I picked up an old generic tower PC that is very similar in appearance and specification to that old Globalyst 630, and have been having a great time with it ever since. I'm sure I'll run into a Globalyst 630 one day, but until then, that generic tower will work perfectly fine.
BTW, most people who have two "retro" PCs often do so for convenience and software compatibility. Some of the older DOS games don't run well on something as fast as a Pentium III, so they also have a slower 486 computer running DOS. With this two-computer setup, you can basically run (and with less fiddling) all of the games made from the early/mid 1980s up to the early 2000s.
yea...I was sure it'd be kind of hard to find & thinking maybe i should let go of the nostalgia & get something with a pentium III, having better video card options def a plus being I want to run it to my TV...& yea, the oldest games I'm wanting are a couple late 80s maybe & the majority from 90-99, so guess i'll be OK for the most part with one
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Was going to say no, becuase I was sure the CD-Rom & 3 1/2" Floppy were under that door, (Almost positive it didn't have a 5 1/4 slot) but under closer inspection looks like there was a drive on the bottom in the same place the CD-Rom drive is on that Ebay listing...hard to make out & for some reason I thought I had to open that door to put CDs in..could be wrong tho..&it looks like the models had different versions such as "consultant" & I think "expert" was another I saw too...maybe we had another variant lol...whos knows...cant believe I don't remember better
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Correction: I believe it was a PS/1 that I had when I was young, not a PS/2..that would explain why I was having so much trouble finding an image of a model online that looked similar to what I had lol This is it & me sometime in the late 90's hahaha I completely forgot it had a little door that you pulled down to reveal the CD-Rom & floppy drive...anyone possibly ID the model this might be? The specs on these I seem to be finding are so outdated I barely understand them
I know it's ancient but it ran whatever DOS/Windows 95 games we had well, not sure if it could be upgraded a little better or if it could handle Windows 98 games at all
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So I haven't been very active on these boards for awhile now, but I still regularly hit the thrift stores and yard sales in search of vintage games. But I have seen a decline over the past few years in the amount of finds in the wild... Depressing this is. But it makes me wonder just where all the games are? I check craigslist regularly. I don't think everyone is out selling theres on ebay. So where they at?
Yes & it is indeed very depressing..I have completely gave up a couple years ago, & like someone mentioned PS2 sports games is about it....Gone are the days of the thrill of the hunt..In the late 90's when I started that was one of the things I loved about this hobby, going to thrift stores knowing there was a good chance I'd find something & the anticipation of what that might be..Same for video game stores, they were all selling Atari games $1 a piece around here which made it easy for me to jumpstart my collection..I mean that was nearly 2 decades ago but still hard to believe how good we had it at one time..And to think that i used to feel I started too late during those times even, Nowadays I'd kill to go back to the way I had it compared to today lol
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Wanting to get one soon...last I looked a year or so ago, you could find pre-modded consoles on Ebay, but not anymore (that don't seem sketchy anyway)...can anyone refer me to somewhere that has a good record for doing mods that i can ship it to?
I also want to mention, my regular model is run through composite cables ATM but has some interference/lines on screen. I learned this varies with the power supply I've used, the actual OEM NES plug is by far the worst with wavy lines descending down the screen during gameplay..a couple other random plugs I tried just to test weren't as bad, but both varied with the style of lines on screen & intensity (one was small diagonal, another had 2 groups of slightly larger lines crossing eachother ) From what I understand there's a mod out there that just changes the RF to composite & another that does the same but actually improves the video quality & I'm guessing prevents the interference & lines on screen...I'd definitely want that one if it's availiable to be performed out there...& if anyone has any advice on that issue period, please let me know
Thanks,
Steve
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It's driving me crazy...To be kind I gave a seller a comment for good feedback that i bought some games from..now ONE YEAR LATER..the comments from the 100s & 100s of people after me keep showing up & its ALWAYS at the top of the "my content" list...so annoying..I've tried everything as well & still stuck seeing it...
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I have 2 retro pc's i currently use. For early dos games until 96/97 i use a pentium 100, 32meg ram, 1mb pci vga card, a logitech soundman wave (until i get a working sb 16/32 awe) and a gravis ultrasound max. Later games that need win95 i use a pentium 233mmx, matrox g200 2mb, 3dfx voodoo2 12mb, and a opti soundcard.
As a display i use a sony lcd monitor. This hasn't given me any issues running dos games. It has a 4:3 screen ratio, that i think is a must have. In most cases tv screens aren't the best choice because they cannot display every screensize.
For win 95/98 a pentium II 233 would be nice, in combination with a bx chipset mainboard. Soundcard doesn't really matter because of directx. Back then i used a sb live, it's a nice card and not very expensive. Guess for video a geforce graphicscard would be nice.
Is there a reason for having 2 different PCs ? Seems this is common...do later models or Pentium II/III's not run some of the DOS games right??
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Good decision to build a retro rig. Very fun and rewarding. IBM actually invented the VGA standard with their PS/2 line back in 1987. The output is not proprietary AFAIK. IBM did have its own proprietary bus, MCA, which required card with the proprietary connectors. I'm not sure if the video cards used MCA or not (there is one MCA Sound Blaster model, however). I think that the PS/2s eventually dropped MCA and adopted PCI.
If you want to play later DOS (1995 and after) and Windows 95/98 games, you should shoot for a Pentium II at least. I have a few retro boxes, but my main one is a Dell Optiplex GX1 that I upgraded with a 700MHz PIII. Its only downside is no AGP slot, so I have a Geforce FX5500 PCI. This combo plays intensive DOS games (e.g. Duke Nukem 3D and Blood) at high resolutions and does a great job with Win98SE. I get excellent framerates with classics such as Quake 2, Half-Life, and Unreal.
If you want to play early DOS games, you'll need a 386 or 486, depending on the era. I have a 486DX2-50 box that plays well with late 80s through early 90s DOS games (e.g., all the great LucasArts and Sierra titles).
This is a hobby that can really suck you in because the hardware is fairly inexpensive. I found myself buying all makes and models of sound and video cards just to try them out. Some cards are rare and/or collectible. 8-bit ISA sound cards, 3dfx Voodoo 2/3/4/5 video cards, Roland equipment. If you want the best advice, go to vogons.org. Just poke around, and you should find what you need to know. The people there are super helpful and mature. Good luck!
Thanks I'll check that website out, going to have to do some research anyway soon. The thought of building my own seems fun, but don't think I'm confident enough doing it, if that's what I choose to do, have one built from the ground up, I'll have to find someone lol...
I'll have to look around some more & find exact model I had..I had a ROUGH time finding it last time I looked & can't remember where I wrote it down...If I could somehow get that same model I had ran to my TV & possibly give it some updgrades, that's def the way I'd want to go..or the same with the Aptiva I had maybe..Im mainly wanting 90's & a couple late 80's DOS games such as some of the Sierra titles...& other Widnows 95/98 CD-rom games...Something like a late 90's Aptiva should be able to handle all those right? Kinda worried getting a 98 opposed to a 95 will still give me trouble playing that casino game & others.
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Hello
I collect for multiple retro consoles & have been thinking alot about some DOS, Windows 95 & Windows 98 PC games for my next round of collecting. Was never a huge PC gamer, but for a long time I've been wanting to get around 30 games or so, ones I had, grew up with & a few I remember wanting.
Any advice or recommendations as to a certain model I can get that has good specs for that time period that I should be able to run a VGA out into my flat screen & have it look decent?
(Or maybe a referral to a place that can build a vintage gaming PC at a reasonable price?) I do not want to get a CRT monitor that I'm sure alot of people will swear by, nor do I have any room whatsoever if I did want one..I have all my consoles ran through a switchbox on my TV stand & would like to add a vintage desktop too.
I had an IBM PS/2 in the mid-late 90's (forgot which model, it had a CD-ROM that I believe came installed..& if I'm not mistaken had Windows 3.1 at first until my Dad installed Windows 95) I would love to get the same one again for nostalgic reasons, but last time I checked think it had its own proprietary video output...if that was the case would their be any possible adapters or video mods I could have someone do to run it on my TV? The IBM Aptiva was my second, and would be my second choice
One more thing I have to mention is I do not want to just use DosBox or any other emulator...for some reason most of the time I mentioned collecting Tandy Coco3 games on here, I was told I was better off using emulation..lol...I am a collector, just not interested..&the awesome "big boxes" of the 90's PCs are a big part of the appeal
And besides, I hear they can't run alot of old games properly or sometimes at all. I bought an old casino game I had recently (Masque World Series Of Poker) & it wouldn't even play on my old Windows XP system, compatibilty mode or not..something about an old mouse driver it needed rendered it unplayable on newer systems...I just want something I can run old CD-Roms & floppies on from the era they came from on my modern TV with no worries...any advice would be appreciatedEDIT: My TV has a VGA input, but cannot read certain resolutions...My Dreamcast doesn't work on it, I had to wind up getting a VGA to HDMI upscaler....so guessing I might run into that too if I do find a good option ?
Thanks
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I've had nothing but simple transactions.
Am I reading this correctly?
You have purchased things from him for ages and now somehow feel bad? So is 18 years the breaking point and yet you purchased the whole time yet frustrated with the lack of professionalism? Odd.
I worded that wrong...should have said the customer service I've had from him has been the worst I've had in 18 years of collecting classic games. If you would have read my earlier parts of this thread, you would see I'm new to buying from him...but sure you knew what I meant anyway
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Luck, or simply checking often enough to notice updates to the inventory lists for the various systems. Then again, I did ask for an image or so before sending payment so as to confirm the item was what I was interested in buying. Mike was and always has been happy to oblige, both by email and over the phone for various requests.
Lol what does checking the inventory have to do with anything? He even admitted it was very outdated. Half of the games I ever wanted that were listed on the website I was told he no longer had.
Not getting a reply for 2 weeks to a month on several occasions+ 3 ignored emails from at least 6-7 months ago or more is the furthest thing away from "easy to get a hold of " & "excellent communication" to me, cuz that was my experience from him & from what I remember reading on here, I'm not alone either. He has great prices though, I will give him that, which was the only reason I ever put up with the most unprofessional customer service I've ever had in my 18 years of collecting from him
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Just completed a fantastic transaction with Mike for a fairly high-end game and am absolutely happy and satisfied with it
As with previous transactions Mike was easy to get a hold of, provided excellent communication and pictures, and fast shipping at a very fair rate. His prices are still good, too.
Yea well maybe your just lucky or he got it together more recently, because I gave up....Months ago I emailed a list of Lynx games I wanted, he didn't get back to me til almost 1 month after I sent it so by then I already had the games shipped from someone else...He sent me a Genesis game that didn't work..when I finally got ahold of him about it he said I could send it back & I told him I had a few other games I'd like to send in to trade towards credit. He said that was fine, so like 3 emails to him later he NEVER got back to me & I'm still stuck with a non-working game.
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Pretty cool...like what was done with the scoring menu at the top & the tanks
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I've always daydreamed about this, from when I play it now to back to when I was a kid & felt cheated when I saw the Choplifter machine in my mall's arcade lol (I didn't know until fairly recent it's history of it being an Apple II game first & the enhanced arcade version coming later which had nothing to do with Atari)
Would this be hard to do though as a homebrew, an upgraded 7800 version that would keep the 1st mission either the same or slightly altered & then add in the additional levels? IDK just a thought I've had for a long time & was curious if anybody might have brought it up before. If I'm not mistaken I saw mention of a Donkey Kong with the missing level & possibly another title too?? Would love to see this, it's always been one of my favorites for the system, for some reason I never get sick of playing it...lot of memories of it from my childhood too. My Dad's got a home movie from the late 80's of us playing it a birthday party & my 2-3 year old brother pointing at the screen & giving all my family members on the couch a play by play hahaha
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I spent the weekend going through the catalogs in the site you mentioned. Thanks again.
If anyone sees any more sites with catalog scans, please let the AtariAge community (and me) know.
Sure, man & glad to have been able to put some people on to it. I was so stoked upon discovering...awesome to take a trip back in time like that..The 7800 was the 1st thing i went for, but man was it a trip to see some of the toys I had & wanted ...so much I forgot about...& the electronics....the clothes....80s Fashion RULES!!
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Arcade Games You'd Like To See Ported To The Atari 7800
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Paperboy, Roadblasters & Pacmania...just like I wished they would when I was a kid & was introduced to them all at Showbiz pizza..I even wrote Atari a letter about them, typed on a typewriter hahaha
&what a tease it was when they announced the discovery that Paperboy was actually being worked on after all this time..only for nothing to come about with it (AFAIK)