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The seller seems to be doing a different version at the moment with coin buttons and 1player start button. if you send him a question through ebay he will make you one i'm sure. seller is arcade-84

No 5200 here, just straight to 7800 in the uk, we actually had massive overstocks of the jaguar here and about 10 years back "Game" a big retailer over here were selling brand new consoles for £5 to get rid of them! I would imagine most ended up on ebay for a silly price!

Thanks thought it was on the 5200 but we never got the 5200 over here, i know it was on the c64 and 800 , i love it as game and reckon it would be a great game for the 2600, as well as picnic paranoia! ,

Does anyone know if the classic game "bristles" starring peter the painter was ever planned or started for the 2600? if not would it be possibel on the 2600, seeing as there are many new homebrews that are technically superior to the older games? many thanks

Just many thanks for making the effort for us pal users! will order from the store as soon as it shows u p

this would be truly amazing! The 7800 is alive and kicking! Can't wait for bentley too!

If they work on pal consoles i think i have to have both! Have you thought about asking Albert to help with the production?

That would be awesome! us Brits love our 2600's too.

Hi This is a review of a fantastic joystick i have just bought on ebay, it is made especially for mame etc and features 2 and 4 way movements needed for games like Pac-man, Donkey Kong, Mr.Do! , Burgertime etc It is a faithful replica of the old days of arcade gaming. Housed in a sturdy plastic box with suckers on the bottom and sporting a rather superb MR.DO! faceplate, this stick does everything you could want it to. while not suitable for 8 way direction games it is amazing for the older titles. It's construction is very sturdy and feels "right" when using. It really feels like you are standing at the machine. Put simply if you have mame and a pc then you must have one of these! The maker of this stick is a reliable and friendly person who is currently working on an eight way and 4 button version for later games. At a price of £20.00 this 2 and 4 way version is a real bargain!

are there any plans for a pal version?

would take a kung fu master-will it work on pal?

* Raises hand * actually atarileaf , the videos i watched were yours! loved em all! really made me want to try the tandy coco for myself, just can't get any games.

would love to come, will try and make it, it would be great to meet up with you guys in person. Just a bit of personal experience, i worked in hmv and was there when the bomb went off! Not a great day i can tell you, lost my new mp3 player which at the time were really pricey! i live in sunny frodsham which is in cheshire and only about 25 miles form the trafford centre, so will do my best to get a ticket.

Thanks, it was after watching vids on youtube and seeing some really good clones of atari type games that i became interested. they were quite popular over here, but nothing like c64 or amstrad etc, but there were always loads of games knocking about in shops. It just seems weird that of all the vintage machines, games for this have disappeared off the face of the earth! I mean over here we had a short lived machine called the dragon 32 (which is almost the same machine actually!) and there are still loads of games available, alot of them new, for a very fair price. would just love to play some of the games on real hardware. My all time love is the 800xl, but love trying out the ones that i never had a chance to play back in the day.

Not as far as I know. They were completely different systems. Didn't the model 2 use 8" floppies? The only games for the model 2 were those that ran in CP/M which means mostly text adventure games. @Matt: Correct. I don't think any games were actually released commercially for the Model II. I've read that maybe Zork or some of the Scott Adams games were, but I've never found any evidence to support that (which isn't to say it doesn't exist, only that I haven't found it ). A lot of the Model I/III games and semigraphics stuff fall well within the capabilities of the Model II, but they would have to be ported from the ground up. Consider also that the Model II runs the odd-duck TRSDOS-II, so even if you had a Model II somehow equipped with a 5.25" drive, Model I/III software running under TRSDOS would still be incompatible. As Matt said, the best bet for games on a Model II is CP/M, but good luck finding any in the 8" format. It's interesting to learn there was a flight simulator for it though. But regardless, this thread is about the Color Computer! And for what it's worth, I've never seen Color Computer stuff in the wild here in the States, either, barring the ratty boxed copy of Galactic Attack I got a church rummage sale 15 years ago. All my Color Computer stuff I got either from fellow classic gamers or eBay. It's a shame they've gotten so tough to find (which is strange because they really aren't rare or anything, these were relatively popular systems) because the Color Computer really is a cool little machine. If you've got a cassette cable, you can play the audio files of cassette games straight from the headphone jack on your computer. It's the same thing as loading a tape, if you don't mind going that route. It's putzy and finicky getting the volume levels right, but once you know what you're doing, you should be able to play shit-tons of games, and for free. Most of the cartridge games have been converted to a cassette file now, too. You'll need a Cas2Wav program to convert the .cas files into .wavs to run on your CoCo, though. See here for a whole pile of Color Computer games in cassette format: http://goyim.dyndns....coco/Cassettes/ As long as you've got the Color Computer, a set of cassette cords, a joystick or two, and a way to convert .cas files to .wav files, this should take care of the rest, games-wise. (Note that some games require 32K and/or Extended Color BASIC. A few will only run on a Color Computer 3. The attached index in the above link should tell you which are which.) many thanks!

Hi all recently found vids on youtube of pang and ghosts n goblins for the xl which look superb, both were w.i.p but there is no info anywhere on whether they are still in development or have been dropped. does anyone know anything about these two projects?

hi all selling a uk pal 7800 console with power supply, rf, and games. will trade if you have anything xe that i need. (space harrier on any type of cart! and a multi cart that has the other games i need flashed on it.) 7800 games commando boxed ikari warriors boxed dig dug cart only xevious-cart only dark chambers cart only-behaves a bit weird may need cleaning! choplifter-cart only super huey-cart only 2600 carts-all cart only mr.do! skate boardin' keystone kapers pressure cooker-faded label star wars empire strikes back-boxed also includes a sears/atari paddle combo joystick £50 plus postage £5.99 you can use your own courier if you like. outside uk you will have to arrange your own courier/collection service. paypal only as gift please atari 800/xl/xe cart-keystone kapers £20.00 cart only atari xe blue lable donkey kong cart £20.00 cart only postage £1.00 each uk, same applies as the 7800 above. pm if interested. many thanks

Hi , yes its the uk version of the coco 2. just seem to be none around!

Hi all been looking at getting a trs 80 model 2, which i can pick up in the uk easily enough, but there are so few games available anywhere!!! i never owned one at the time, i had atari, but always remember the tandy stores here in the uk being full of their games for their computer. And yet there are a pitiful ammount on ebay and elsewhere, and even then they are not any of the decent titles. Is there any particular reason for this? even on the ti-99 there are plenty of carts knocking about, but why not on the trs? many thanks

Collecting is over rated if you ask me, i love to play the games not hoard them away and never touch them. that is a great collection, keep going and most of the rarest games are god awful anyway!

telegames uk is still in operation,but they are stupidly expensive and all the re-releases are now poor quality at a high price, i got the lynx version of double dragon and it was nothing like the ones they used to sell! Although they work fine, they all look like a poor home printed effort. Just bear it in mind when you order any of their exclusive titles on any format!

Hi All quick question, which monitors can be used on an 800xl ukpal version? and are they worth using? or is it just as good with scart on crt? many thanks

Hi i would'nt mind a couple of them! i need scrapyard dog, mario bros and donkey kong, but would also like desert falcon and impossible mission. i am willing to pay about £15 in total for just the carts.

Thanks

where can i get the repro cart from?