panamajoe

bottom line: don´t cover your 800 in gold, it will decrease its value!

Was JRC behind the Turbo2000 mod? Did they develop it? Or did they simply use it, because most czech Atari users had it?

great read!

In the early 80s in West-Germany the big mail-order company "Quelle" was selling Taiwan knock-offs of Atari 2600 games under an new german name ("Angriff der Teufelvögel" etc) and they somehow got away with that...

The ads in western germany looked like this - nobody said that they were selling copies, but they said they‘d sell „the newest stuff cheap“ and everybody knew what was going on.

where did you get your games from? BBS? Friends?

Did you sell pirated games back in the day? Or is this the list where you ordered your pirated stuff from?

and here is an ATR of the directory itself SDMX0001.ATR

The only floppy disk I still own from my original Atari equipment from the 80s is the one containing a list of software that was unbelievable to me at that time. Practically every commercial and non-commercial program that was available for the 8bit Atari in 89 is searchable via a database, including how much space it would take up on a floppy disk. The purpose of this "Software List of Fine Productions" was of course to supply young people with pirated software. You could write your wishes to the operator of this service, enclose 3DM in stamps and receive the disk with the desired content about a week later. I was 14, had 3DM and few scruples and used the service actively. I found the good man at that time via a classified ad in the legendary german ASM magazine ("no lamerz!"). Last week I dug out the disc again and - voila - it still works! Unfortunately you won't be able to order there anymore What are your pirate experiences from "back in the day"? Here are some screenshots from this pirate directory

there is a copy on Ebay right now…

I also would need the new firmware for my old cart - Thanks!

https://www.ebay.de/itm/Atari-800-XL-XE-MATTERHORN-Tigervision-CART-inkl-Anleitung-/165228711698?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m2548.l6249&mkrid=707-127634-2357-0

one for me please 1. Spancho 2. Philsan 3. Atari8guy 4. GGN 5. ndary 6. Dinadan67 7. Tigerduck 8. martinez 9. Panamajoe 10.

After a first, fast check: the new test bios works with my PAL 7800! That´s great, thank you!

Thinking of selling my Concerto-Cart as it won´t work with PAL-machines and there is no information if it ever will

any news regatding a PAL firmware?

That´s pretty much how Concerto works on my PAL (non-RGB) console, too. Seems like it´s NTSC only at the moment...

i have quite some trouble with Concerto on my PAL-machines: one of them won‘t play any 7800roms, the other 7800 machine plays only a handfull... is this just me, or is PAL-support problematic at the moment?

i would love to get two boards, shipping is to germany

or get yours here: https://www.ebay.de/itm/164231743634

thanks for the suggestions! I ordered a SD2IEC and a new PSU. Might get rid of that cardboard too...

i haven‘t said it‘s a bad computer, i said its build quality is poor

Never had a C64 back in the day and just recently bought one. While i´m of course impressed with the amount of software/ games available and especially with the quality of the homebrews i´m really a bit shocked by the piss-poor built quality of the Commodore itself: - cardboard shilding? really? - heat problems - power brick is more of a fire hazard than anything else + it´s glued together (!) - and that disc drive is slower than a dead dog So: is there anything i can do about the heat problems and about the terrible power brick? Bought a Epyx Fastload Cart already to get that disc drive spinning...

that was fast: already have mine (Germany)! Thank you!

Pre-order Position: 12 !!!