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  7. Posted

    Calling all 7800 hardware experts!! Hopefully someone can straighten this out for me once and for all. Here is the situation:

     

    I bought a 1984 version of a 7800 a few years back in a thrift. The console would work OK but quite often I would have to switch it on and off 5 or 6 times to get it to work and sometimes it would not work properly at all. It did however always display some sort of image being either distorted or perfect.

     

    If I could describe what happened when it didn't work properly I would say that I would get a video image but the image would usually be garbled, "wavy", and it would skip the Atari intro screen. After a few posts here at AA, I decided to act upon a suggestion and exchanged the TIA to see if this would do anything. Unfortunately it did not. I eventually used the 7800's TIA in a light sixer to see if it was in fact the TIA and learned that the 7800's TIA worked fine.

     

    For what ever reason, I cannot find the TIA I extracted from the 7800 and now have a 7800 mobo without a TIA. I have inserted a TIA from another 2600 to see if the console fires up and it still appears to be doing the same thing as before.

     

    What is happening here and how can this be fixed? Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

  10. Posted

    The essence of what Bushnell is saying is that he would prefer to see people engaging in video gaming as a peaceful and constructive socio-cultural gathering as opposed to casting their souls away to a commercialized carnal frenzy of hopelessly addicted reality escapism. Furthermore, for all of the ways for video gaming to have evolved, it is disturbing and disappointing for him to watch it all unfold as it has while many of it's participants seem to be completely missing the point of his original intentions.

  12. Posted

    If the VCS was intended to be a gaming system for one player, they would have manufactured it with one joystick port only.

     

    How does a person really play any game with one's self?

     

    If Bushnell is so dissatisfied with the video game industry, being the well known and respected person that he supposedly is, why doesn't he join the helm of some new project and produce something along the lines of what he is talking about? Rescue the minds and families of today from this onslaught of "trash" games. Put your money where your mouth is buddy.

  17. Posted

    I just scored a few games for this system (Parsec, Fathom, Super Demon Attack, and Chisholm Trail) but have yet to find a console to play them with. I would like to start a thread devoted to this system seeing as it appears to be more of an obscure line. Could all of the TI-99/4A collectors please show yourselves and contribute to this discussion. Right now all I am looking for is sort of a "My Top 10" favorite games list from you as well as maybe some "things you should know" suggestions or ideas. Thanks in advance.

  21. Posted

    WARNING: Sticking one's member into the 7800 console's cartridge slot may cause a severe electrical shock and could result in harmful injury or death. Please ensure that the power supply for the 7800 console is removed from the wall before attempting to insert.

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