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  2. Posted

    buy 'em where you can find 'em

     

    starting out, Ebay "lots" are good , figure in the shipping + total price divided by amount to see if your getting a fair price per unit

     

    record shops, pawn shops, comic book stores, flea markets "collectables" stores are good places. if their prices are fixed per game and seem kinda high, look for the more "rare titles" at the fixed price.

     

    If you think you want to be a "completioninst" start small , maybe one manufacturer at a time , is a decent way to make chunks out of the 400+ commercial titles

     

    allow some rough boxes, usually the cart & manual is still in really nice shape and can always "upgrade"

     

    enjoy the journey

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    Let me know if that worked

    wow great pic , says it'll expire in a month or so ....

     

    Looks like "Star Fighter" was hand written on it. For awhile there was a question of what the title of the game was I recall. from reading some other posts here.

  9. Posted · Edited by chas10e

    Welcome to Atariage. posting here is a good start :)

     

    the "How to" section for the 2600 has some good tips , http://atariage.com/howto/index.html. for cleaning cartriges use a high percentage rubbing alchohol (90%+)

     

    The power supply: an origonal power supply is always best but a generic one will work if it matches. does the one you bought put out an AC voltage or a DC voltage? if it puts out AC it probably "popped" the voltage regulator inside the unit. For an ATARI 2600 you want to output 9V DC center tip positive ;)

     

    I live in USA so here the input voltage is different than Aussie-land I'd imagine

     

    I don't have a Colecovision myself so I'm sure others will chime-in I would guess that with some kind of picture might be where you start to make more progress , try cleaning the game cartridge. For a newer TV you might have to do an analog channel search and/or look for a channel selector switch on the console (ch3-ch4)

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    It's been a while since this thread was opened. I originally wanted Arkyology released as a cartridge after all this time. After several years trying, I've decided to just release Arkyology here as a ROM file, and let it out into the world.

     

    It's been many years since I, George Hefner, Rick Harris, and Barb Ultis designed and created this game. Those were fun times. I didn't realize at the time what a special era we were in, and how enduring the legacy would be.

     

    So without further reminiscing, please find attached to this post, the Arkyology game image. This game is 8k in size and requires the F8 cartridge in order to run.

     

    Enjoy!

     

    Paul Walters

     

     

    --edited for clarity

    Thank you for the binary: I was hoping for a cart release with box and manual with a bit of the history described. I think about it as I play the Leprechaun game at Funspot NH.

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  15. Posted

    Yeah his wifey was a buxom cougar in the documentary. I don't think they ever showed his daughter though, plus she'd have been way younger at the time the doc was filmed. Pretty sure Steve Weibe's kid is all grown up by now too...

    At 7:14 minutes into the film she is sitting on his lap with a blue gameboy color

    https://youtu.be/4zhMlFOyZvQ?t=428

     

    I "get it" you don't like Billy , but no need to slander him over the people he loves

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    I think it's the Taiwan H6 (still an H6 so cool IMHO :P )

     

    there is a notch on bottom for channel selector switch

     

    I went looking for a post I made in the serial # thread & my post was gone :o

     

    anyways found the photo comparing a couple of mine

     

    Amdb1i4.jpg

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    Scottish and Irish Gaelic I think. I've heard some awful pronunciations from Americans so far. It's stra as in "strapping" plus "mash" with the emphasis on the second syllable. Last Youtube review I watched sounded more like "Strammish" with the person emphasising the first syllable.

     

    The connotations to a Scotsman are not so much a pitched battle as a brawl - a fight in a Glasgow bar at night might be described as a stramash :-) If it was only a couple of guys rather than the whole pub, though, it might just be a wee rammy!

     

    G

     

    vector pilot, vector patrol, that's Kristof's bag.

    I like Stramash. Lovely word. If you don't like my native tongue, haud yer wheesht. ;-)

    Again I had to Google it the first time & the Oxford English Dictionary only kind of made sense

     

    I knew it had to be something quite clever and the "bar fight" analogy made perfect sense and the added definition of a "Rammy" was icing on the cake for the title of the additional game..

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  25. Posted

    you probably got "driving controllers" as stated above, there was only 1 commercially produced game to work with them. "Indy 500" (sears Race)

     

    the knob will be able to spin continually in one direction or the other.

     

    paddle controllers have a wye cable as shown above and turn something like 270 degrees, look for "jitter free" ones or clean them yourself

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