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  2. Posted · Edited by fernando marrin

    I used to have a Telegames Personal Arcade-now it's junk. At times the screen would turn black and white with static noise. I bought the game Alacazar and had to return it due to glitches-now I believe it the machine's fault- not the cartridge. The pause button was probably made for the SG games but cannot test- I fried the thing after trying to replace a cap and gluing a heat sink on one of the chips. I even broke the power connection and thing just went south.

     

    replacing the video chip and a good heatsink fixes this

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    we don't need it,

    with all the possibilities of the ataimax utimate sd cart -up to 512k + streaming data from card!-

     

    if i want sio2sd then

    i turn to the Xegs

  14. Posted · Edited by fernando marrin

    Question: Is there a C64 equivalent that lets you play images from SD cards or another computer and has the same bang/buck ratio as SIO2PC?

     

    This is reason why I don't play on C64/VIC20 too much - it's hard to get something there. I'm using 1541-II connected to P1 MMX machine with XE1541 cable and star commander. It's not really fast but it works - but you need 2 floppy drives and still it's not something like SIO2PC, but it's cheap :-D

     

     

    1541 ultimate II works as good or better -more options- than sio2sd

    but its very expensive :D

     

    Yeah, that's the problem - I've got C64 and 2 floppy drives donated so I don't want to spend much money on it - still preffer Ataris ;) Also isn't there problem with demos/games/etc. with speedloaders? iirc if the drive isn't emualted in lowlevel then it doesn't work.

     

     

    you need a pal c64 for 1541 ultimate 2,

    but

     

    if you have one, works like a charm with it

    emulates fast loaders, runs carts , includes 16mb ram expansion

    reads tap , reads prg, includes sid player, demo player .and of course .d64 -though these are bit slow-

     

    your eyes won't believe it's a c64 when you run some movies using the expansion

    -something that yet can't be done on the 8bit-

     

    and of course running 12000+ games and geos does not hurt either... :)

     

    but its around 190us$ and a lot of waiting

     

    for half that you can get Ide 64, with the same constrains of all A8 ide units,

    you jus't cant play ALL games on it, some of them are not 1 file only , and need conversions from disk

  16. Posted · Edited by fernando marrin

    Question: Is there a C64 equivalent that lets you play images from SD cards or another computer and has the same bang/buck ratio as SIO2PC?

     

    This is reason why I don't play on C64/VIC20 too much - it's hard to get something there. I'm using 1541-II connected to P1 MMX machine with XE1541 cable and star commander. It's not really fast but it works - but you need 2 floppy drives and still it's not something like SIO2PC, but it's cheap :-D

     

     

    1541 ultimate II works as good or better -more options- than sio2sd

    but its very expensive :D

  19. Posted

    TMS9918A gives good picture on composite

    audio on Dina in another story though...

     

    there are differences in bios with colecovision,

    still the ultimate sd cart does not work on the 2 in 1 :mad:

     

    I never had a problem with the DINA's audio, aside from the faint static that sometimes came through with the poor RF signal. And that's a fault of the RF box, not the audio itself.

     

    As for the BIOS, couldn't you just pull the BIOS out of a Coleco and stick it into a DINA though (with much desoldering/resoldering, of course)? I don't have a Ultimate SD cart and don't plan on getting one, so that's a nonissue for me. I wonder why it won't work with the DINA BIOS though; my understanding is there are no Colecovision cartridges that are incompatible in and of themselves, only games rendered unplayable by the keypad-on-console scheme or the inability to use special controllers.

     

     

    bios is incompatible so ultimate sd cart crashes,

    as some new hombrews

     

    the static in sound is present even after modding the thing

  24. Posted · Edited by fernando marrin

    will it have the awesome soundtrack of Tempest Xtreme?

     

    I'm not 100% sure, but from what I've heard & seen, Tempest Xtreme is a port of Tempest 2000 - a different game with far more memory available for it. (1Mbit?) 5200 Tempest will be the coin-op port we wanted back in the day, with GAME SOUNDS as our accompaniment. :D

     

    tempest xtreme is based on the unfinished 5200 game

    runs ok on a standard Xe game system

    no expansion needed,

     

    though i don't know the size of the cart...

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