Cambouis de l'Atari

Hi everyone, Toiletunes Let's start with the easy one : Pitfall! : 44874

That's good, let us know !

Aaand... there was 5 Pacman and 3 Combat ?

Yes, back in 80's it was common for us (belgium and france) to say "cassette atari", even if today I only use the term "cartouche" (cartridge). Here's a page from the first issue of a french mag which is self explanatory

Nope, unless you use some kind of capture device, you can't use your laptop screen for anything else than your computer.

This game is on black background, so the display shouldn't be too funky on a pal console I forgot to point out that you'll need a 60Hz capable tv too.

Ntsc carts usually work on pal consoles, but colors might be scrambled... what game is it ?

Well actually I always assumed it was a pal version. But thank to Nukey Shay I now have a certitude On the back of the box I indeed have the Texas address, but also a London address.

If this helps, mine is a (pal) Telegames :

My favorites : HERO, Berzerk, Gravitar, Jr Pacman, Wizard of Wor, Gorf, Phoenix, Popeye... A bit special but I like them : Dragster, Space Shuttle You'd have paddles I'd add Super Breakout, Circus, Night Driver.

But no need to be a top handyman to do that ! Just a screwdriver needed. The most difficult part imho is to find a new TIA

Well, if your space is indeed limited, best would be to give it to another retro gamer, and maybe try to find a smaller one, a 14" for example, to keep the crt feel ?

Maybe the tv channel isn't exactly the same on the two consoles ? Did you try to fine tune your tv ?

That's the principle of advertising, get your attention. And at that time where a game was not just about graphics, a nice artwork is more catchy. I love the Infocom's one ! Even more obvious for them as they mostly don't have graphics to show

You maybe forget to shift the gear ?

You need to pass a certain amount of cars to reach the next race, that amount is displayed. Here is the manual : http://atariage.com/manual_thumbs.php?SoftwareLabelID=163

Hey, is it the 8bit Guy on that ad ?

These cheap things are just crap ! For portable emulation, you should get a real PSP, it's really a neat machine for, and there are plenty of tutorials to help you build it.

Nope ! Is the atari flashback the end of real hardware ? It's 20 years I own a PC that can run emulators, but nothing compares to the real thing ! The feeling of the cx40, of inserting a cartridge, to watch rounded pixels on my old crt, for all these things real hardware is important. Even my harmony cart doesn't prevent me to buy real carts ! Nor my rasp pi inside an out of order junior would https://cambouisdelatari.wordpress.com/2016/04/28/la-2600jr-passe-a-3-14-voici-la-pi-junior/

All the international manuals I own only show these 5 languages, no sixth one ! About the dutch, there is sometimes a simple black and white page text (courier) only.