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  4. Posted · Edited by Andre81

    Hi, maybe somebody could help me to determine the value of these cartridges for Fairchild Channel F?

     

    I don't want to spoil your day, but practically they are worthless. As AtariBrian said, they are worth "whatever someone wants to pay for them". Unfortunately there are 0 buyers in the market for SABA games. And no buyers means they are practically worthless. I hope you enjoy them nevertheless.

  5. Posted

    I don't want to discourage you, but the market for the 5200 is pretty small. You won't be able to sell hundreds of controllers at $150. You won't even be able to sell 100 copies of a homebrew for the 5200.

     

    You may want to reuse parts of the original controller, for example the case and just make better internals. That would cut down costs.

  10. Posted

    Which kind of dollars are you dealing in? As you haven't filled in a location, I'll assume you're based in Zimbabwe and are looking to get 130,000 ZWD, which however went out of circulation five years ago but perhaps someone still got a few banknotes in a coffee jar.

     

    I'd offer 100 Trillion Dollars and a mint copy of ET.

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    The problem is with this tight knit community is, we want all the games and just not pick and choose. But some of us just can't afford them all. It's like a gambling disease. It's nobody's fault and nobody to blame. We can't have it all, but we want it all. :-D

    It's not what I can afford, it's to what extend I want to allow someone to extort money from a hobby.

     

    Charging extra for a low serial number is ridiculous.

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  17. Posted

    And if your looking for a real answer, id hate to give all my secrets away but there are other ways to search things than the old fashioned way. Look into it.

     

    He wrote some JavaScript that automatically buys all listings.

     

     

    if (item.title.contains("spiker") && item.price < 500)
{
   item.buyItNow();
}

     

    Just listed "Sea Battle not Spiker" for $499 BIN and it sold immediately :)

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  18. Posted

    Warshaw used an accelerator Framework like bB which multiplies development time by warp factor 10 :)

    (And Frameworks are awesome, just look at some of the incredible bB games today - you can't blame ET on the Framework)

     

    Development cost with the accelerator Framework for ET came to about $18k while a pure asm game like Defender cost $80k (in today's dollars); that's how it works :)

     

    Defender = 4k of awesomeness at $80k

    KCMM = 6k* of awesomeness at $130k

    *7k unpacked; there's a realtime compression layer for the fancy graphics; I wrote a RAM doubler in software :)

     

    And I didn't use an emulator, I used a 1982 Arcadia SuperCharger board and wrote straight Assembly code like bitd :)

    You got the equation wrong.

     

    Number of screens in KCMM / Number of screens in ET * 6 weeks / 2

  23. Posted

    I think he means that a white tray could have been switched over from another title. Shrinked games would be the only way to tell which titles truly got the white tray variant.

    Right. The switch could also have happened 20 or 30 years ago. A lot of collectors/sellers are also piecing a CIB copy together. There are also a lot of WTB threads here where someone is just looking for a box or manual. Next you'll find a gatefold box with Intv Inc. catridge and manual on eBay.

     

    So far I've only seen Atlantis and Nova Blast with a white tray.

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