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The video chip has 4 digital outputs that go through a resistor ladder (poor man's DAC) to form composite. If you want s-video, you'd have to replace the video chip with your own. An FPGA might be fast enough, dunno.

It's doable as a hack. PSX analog stick voltage to op-amp (for scaling and buffering) to an 8-bit ADC. The 8 ADC outputs drive two 4066 chips that connect or disconnect a selection of 8 resistors of a 10k-500k ladder network into the 5200 joystick lines. It's basically taking the Masterplay approach and adding in more bits of resolution. BTW, Space Dungeon and Robotron are only 8-direction games anyway. I play with my psx dualshock through a genesis adapter, and yes they are fun.

I'm another old C= monitor fan, I have 5 C1084S monitors. Simply awesome for classic gaming/computing. My main tv, a Philips 27inch crt, blew out a week ago, so I hooked up a 1702 until I get a replacement. It's amazing how good those things still look.

Deathskull via Wayback Machine

I've been adding a bunch of emulators to a MAME cab and checking into MESS for the first time. I like that it's the same controller interface as MAME, so analog joys are no problem, and for some consoles like 7800, colecovision, and vectrex it's the way to go. But for some systems, it complains about needing a bios rom with some weird alphanumeric name like for the Studio2 . Also spent over 1/2 hour trying to get Vectrex overlays to appear, then saw a post saying it had broke in the latest MESS release, somewaht aggravating.

MESS might be worth a try also, thought I read that it was near to Virtual Jag standards. Haven't tried myself. You might want to throw Typhoon 2001 on that pc as well.

If anyone's interested in this and missed the post on Digitpress, the Dragon's Lair people are celebrating the 25th anniversary this week by selling the various DVD formats for 25% off and signed by Don Bluth with the other creators. I'm gonna order blueray and remove some of the bad karma from the Daphne setup. Digital Leisure

Samsung makes some lcd monitors that are standard aspect with 20.4 inch diagonal, but 19 inch are more common. The best part about an LCD based cabinet is that it can be real shallow, check out the pic halfway down this page: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=64251.0

From what I've read, and Nolan's CGE speech a few years ago, it seems like there's enough material for a hella funny movie. 1. Building the first Pong arcades by buying B&W televisions and taking them apart for the picture tubes. Nolan: "It turns out that black and white TVs were an easy item to fence ... we were having an inventory control problem for awhile" 2. Production line workers with slightly warped 2600 cases doing the "VCS karate chop" to put them together 3. Employees running to the banks to cash their paychecks while there was still money that week. 4. Steve Jobs sticking his bare feet up on the bosses desk and whinning about wanting to go to India 5. Jobs and Woz building the Apple I with "borrowed" components. 6. Jobs and Woz asking Nolan to fund Apple. He declined, convinced it wouldn't succeed. 7. New college grad proudly giving his parents a tour. "Look Mom and Dad, there's our CEO over there in the hot tub" Nolan: "Want to join us." Parents horrified. 8. Nolan after Atari giving the same This-is-going-to-change-your-life speech every year for a different product.

In my gameroom it doesn't take any extra room. I bought a $50 Star Wars Foosball table from Walmart. Instead of installing the flimsy legs, I just sit it on my covered pool table when it's time to play. With expensive models, all you're paying for is the sturdiness.

I saw one at Fry's Electronics about a year ago, but none since. It's a little too cluttered and pricey for my tastes, but I bought and enjoyed the 50th issue. GTA, Yar's Revenge, and Dreamcast articles, yum-yum.

Been in storage 4 years, so they were still jammin on it in 2004?

I liked Game Over, it was a fun read. Nolan Bushnell: "This amazing new product allows your children to lean interactively through videotape technology, it's going to change the world" One trade reporter whispering to another: "Isn't this the same cat whose product was going to change the world last year?" Security Guard: "Nice store display, do you work for Atari?" Nintendo Rep: "No, this is a new system called a Nintendo which is a huge seller in Japan. We're doing a Xmas release here in New York City. If things go well, we'll go nationwide next year and hopefully revive the console market" Guard: "You work for the Japs? I hope you fall on your ass!"

You know, I did my 4016 circuit because Kevin Horton reported that for Bankzilla, he was never able to find a cart that didn't short the two ground pins together. And Kevin is never wrong, you younguns may not know the name, but he did some incredible stuff in the late 90s before anyone else. So I got that project done, and guess what? Found carts where the grounds weren't connected together, especially on Activisions. So I'd say use a level switch.

I'm not too surprised. Joe probably has more stress and less free time than ever because of the store. The toughest boss you'll ever have is the business you start so you won't have a boss.

I was looking into it once. Was thinking about cutting a intv-2 board in half, folding over and jumpering the broken traces, then packaging it with a Jaguar pad. Seemed like a lot of work for something I could never get small enough. Plus there's like three different power supply voltages needed and the chips aren't too standard.

OK, I'll be serious. Always thought it was 60hz hum from the standard AC power supply, hooking up a GEN1 supply made mine disapear. I'm surprised the 5200 supply didn't eliminate it completely.

Plug in an Intellivoice, they stop humming once they know the words.

Joe Santulli has a funny story. He gave the game a horrible review in the DP price guide, then met Joe Decuir, the programmer (and a 2600 hardware designer) one day at an event. JD: "I want to read what your guide says about Video Olympics" Dead silence JD: "So what exactly is this review based on?" JS: "Those are nothing more than MY opinions" JD: "Well my kids like the game"

I remember how rare Playstation 2s were for almost a year. Now they're all over the place at flea markets.

I was a unix nerd back when I did it and this worked for me (should also work on Linux command line): cat 2KGAME.BIN > 4KCART.BIN cat 2KGAME.BIN >> 4KCART.BIN

I wish he'd sell them individually, half would be doubles for me

These guys really should pre-build, then sell. Even if it's only five units at a time and that revenue pays for the next five sets of supplies.

I've been happy with mine, only drawback is that it's a little noisy for a home theater.

Run away now while you can. Once you get one, then you want two, then three, then you keep going until one day you look up and notice there's no more room, money, or significant other.