Vintage Firebeard

I recently purchased a few Atari games and Demons to Diamonds stood out from the rest because I had never heard of it before. Hopefully once I get my system up and running I will understand this thread.

I didn't know I could get the OEM adapters here, thanks! Does this seem to be the general consensus? The voltage regulator might not be a problem to swap out but I know I would probably screw up the IC chips.

On a side note, is there anyway to repair an old Atari DC adapter? When I got this it had the original adapter and it was DOA, so I tracked down another Atari DC adapter but I'm only assuming if my first one went, the second one's clock is ticking. I know there are replacements but I like to stick with OEM, makes me feel better for some reason.

A few different games give me different patterns so I took a handful of pics. I've noticed some even distort the channel and mute on the TV. Sadly, ET gives me the most hope because what is orange in the pic, turns from orange to gray and back to orange again. But a few games, including Pele's Soccer, act as if I never installed a cart at all. Hope these help! This is Pac-man: Space Invaders: Submarine Commander: ET: Pele's Soccer:

I can get some pics and post them up.

This, I have never heard before. What would be the reason for this? I was going to say the exact same but I figured they wouldn't say it without reason. Now that there is more than one person in doubt of this theory...where exactly does it say that?

It's an official Atari 9v DC adapter. And yes, it's the Vader! I was pretty excited until I actually turned it on and found it wasn't working right.

Hello everyone! First off let me start by saying my name is Sam. I love vintage games of all kinds but of course the Atari 2600 was my first and the most important video games console I've owned. As a child I had the large 6 button Atari 2600 but it somehow got lost along the way. More recently I acquired an Atari 2600A (all black) and until even more recently, I hadn't had a chance to test it out. I bought the small RF adapter from Radio shack so it plug right into my TV, although I am running it through the antenna in on my NES'S RF adapter. I have tested it both ways, directly into the TV and through the RF adapter and that makes no difference. But when I start the system up without a game inside I see a purple line on the left of the screen and a green line on the right, everything else is black. When I turn the system on with any games inside, each game gives me a different pattern but none of the games boot to what I remember. Most of the time it's just screen roll with a buzzing. Sorry for the first post being a help needed but I didn't know where else to turn. Has anyone else ran into this and is it fixable or pretty terminal?