Chaos Protocol

July 4, 2003

Found ahuge lot of TI/99 stuff today at GW all for us$40

1 ti/99 4a system

2 comlete sets of hookups

2 controller pairs

games:

Ms. Pac-Man

Moon Patrol

Donkey Kong

Number Magic (x2)

Early Logo Fun

Jawbreaker II

Picture Parts

Star Trek

Chisholm Trail

Football

Parsec

Alligator Mix

Buck Rogers

Beginning Grammar (x2)

Reading FUn

Home FInancial Decisions

CAr Wars

A-Maze-Ing

Personal Record Keeping

Munch Man (x3)

Blasto (x2)

Tombstone City

Number Readyness

A stack of manuals and a compute book on the TI/99 4a

plus James Bond: 007 for Atari 8-bit and Defender for Commodore

I talked them into all the carts for a buck a piece since half were 99cents and half were 2.49

February 17, 2003

The most usefull method would probably be through a tv card, monitors run off of RGB and atari (and all other game systems) run off of composite (which is basically S-Video)

in order to convert Composite to RGB you need an Up Converter which can be found online for around us$250 (too pricey for my blood) although it would give the best picture and with an input selector you could hook up many game systems for hi-res graphics.

so it wouldf look like this:

game system1---

game system2-----input switch----Up converter----monitor

game system3---/

another thing you could use with this setup is an A/B switch between the converter and the monitor you that you could still use the monitor with your computer

I know that you can find input switches at Wal-mart for about us$20 (although it had the names for the current game systems written on the buttons) and an A/B switch can be found online at http://www.cablesnmor.com/goto/video-switch-box.html

without the converter the setup would only cost around us$30 but the converter is the expensive part... I know there used to be one called a Cheese Box that was around us$69

anyhow, hope this helps, as you can tell I've thought about all this before

January 31, 2003

drool... I want one.. any links to reference material on the mod?

January 31, 2003

I have spent WAY too many nights playing fricking star raiders

January 29, 2003

BASIC has the cake, but I also have a few Pole Positions... maybe tahat's jsut cause it was my dads favorite game... dunno... poac-man too... but I've also found quite a few Star Trek carts

January 28, 2003

I'm interested in the 5200 I'm in tacoma/Puyallup so let me know if it's availiable still

January 27, 2003

I also have a tempest 2000 Jaguar cart (well used), a ton of 8-bit disks I would gladly copy, and a handful of ti/99 carts with manuals

I would work out any trade, I just need a 2600 Ms Pac-man

January 27, 2003

have you tried it on an old monitor? I've found that min e wouldn't work on tv's at all... so I hooked it up to an old Zenith Data Systems monitor (composite input only on it) and it worked great

January 27, 2003

I think that's exactly what I saw when I woke up from a long night of playing gamesK last week...... mmmm..... Zork

January 27, 2003

Can anyone help me out? I need to trade a 7800 version of Ms. Pac-man for a 2600 version for my g/f. I am looking for a straight across trade from a reliable person. any help appreciated.

Cart is grey label, plastic in great condition. Label is in fair condition (intact but has creases over seem and slight indents over screwhole) Label has no tears and no peeling

I would say overall score of c+

I am not picky about the condition of the 2600 ver. it simply needs to work and have a label... I plan on using it quite a bit

January 25, 2003

thanks.. I think I know what I need to know now

January 25, 2003

I've done both the switchbox and the adapter... in fact I even tried the switchbox and the adapter at the same time.. problem was still there... adn I didn't notice a difference betweet that problem there and the way it showed up when I used the RCA jacks on the VCR.... what is the difference between those jacks and the jacks on the front of say my Commie 1702? and technical links you could provide? I am very interested in the atari video outputs...

January 25, 2003

I have the smae problem on my g/f's tv when I tried to use a 600xl and a 130xl... I tried the switchbox, and the auxilary channels... and the rca on her vcr... still showed up like the h-hold was off and the screen was skewed... both systems work fine on my commie 1702... so odds are you aren't out 3.50 (for a 600xl you lucky bastard can't find any comps here... just 2600's) I don't know how to remedy this problem...

January 25, 2003

http://www.ramelectronics.net/html/video_c...bles.html#s-rca

any idea if I could jsut use this to convert the composite to S-Video and then convert the S-vid to VGA? also anyone know how much a VGA to s-Video adapter would be? maybe that could be a cheaper route?

January 25, 2003

help is appreciated and I think I get it. I've found about 8 million sites that sell cables, but not a one that tells specifically how to get the Atari into a VGA and, more desired, how to convert luma chroma into RGB... I found boxes for sale around $120 minimum but there's no way I'm dropping that much just to pipe my atari into my VGA...

January 24, 2003

so the Cheese box would be good to go without the Chroma mod?

January 24, 2003

The site says they're working on modded ones, and if I could get a 7800 with all the right mods done (ie high score, current AV outs, maybe a modern look) I would consider paying about 100-150

Maybe they should consider making controllers and/or attractive game storage racks.... market matching ones of those with a custom 7800 shell on the system and they'd have a winner... at least imho

January 24, 2003

I have in my possesion September 92 of "AtariUser" so I know that exists also, other than that all other issues I have are in your list

January 24, 2003

if I did the MOD on that sight would it remove the verticle lines I saw on my old Commie 1702 when I used an RCA y-jack to use the Luma/Chroma/Audio jacks?

January 23, 2003

also.. is the 5-pin monitor connector the same as the 5 Din conntector form the old AT keyboards? if so what would I need to make an old keyboard plug into half the adapter I'd need for a 5-pin to vga setup?

January 23, 2003

Does anybody have information about what I would need to do in order to use my 800xl on my VGA monitor? is it just a matter you buying an adapter? I plan on using a switchbox and having the Atari use my computers monitor.

also, if I take an S-video cable and just attatch one of the large Atari plugs to it will it work?

January 21, 2003

Any idea how many issues there are total? what years etc

January 21, 2003

Any idea how many issues there are total? what years etc

January 20, 2003

I haven't found them archived anywhere, but I have about a years worth of issues, Nov' 91 through Nov' 92 except for May and July

January 12, 2003

got a bunch of 2600 today:

Street Racer

Super Breakout

Ms. Pac-Man

Basic Programming w/ manual and overlays

Keyboard Controllers w/ box

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