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Fletch

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  1. Actually on the TV in the picture it is quite fuzzy. However when connected to my Commodore 1702 it looks quite nice at 800x600. I have the s-video adapter for the iBook that allows me to hook it up to a TV. The picture looks better on a VGA monitor, but somehow it just doesn't feel right. My next task is to move the ports to the rear of the 810 so I don't need to open it to attach peripherals. I think something like this might help.
  2. The backlight on my wife's iBook recently failed. I had an old dead Atari 810 in the basement. Rather than fixing either one, I decided to bring my two computing loves together. Thus the iBrick project has begun. I still need to relocate some ports and snazzy up the exterior a bit, but as of this afternoon it is functional. Enjoy the pics and suggestions are welcome! Pete http://homepage.mac.com/pfletch/PhotoAlbum24.html
  3. That cable is used to connect an Atari 8-bit computer to a monitor that has separate composite, chroma, luminance, and mono sound. Most old Commodore monitors had inputs like this. Essentially its a s-video cable before s-video was created.
  4. Anybody else see this? http://www.portablesystems.net/jaguar.html
  5. That would totally rock. My g4 Cube would finally be complete! Pete
  6. I have States and Capitals on tape Always a favourite, but man does it take long to load.
  7. Ah, figured out my problem I think. After you asked about disabling basic I figured I'd try a different program that needed basic disabled and found out the mylar in the keyboard must be shot. I sure wasted a bunch of time over a non-functioning option key. Guess I need to find a new one. Pete
  8. I was messing around today and installed Frotz on my OS X machine. Basically this lets you play all the Infocom games via the terminal. So, for giggles I telneted in from the wife's iBook, sons iMac, and the scary thing known as a winblows 98 box all at the same time and had them all connected and running various infocom games at once. I figured i'd try to see if the 800xl could connect via APE's internet modem with bobterm. It worked, but the screen was all messed up being 40 col. So I broke out the 130xe and tried the copy of ICE-T that came with APE. It would start to load, but gives me an error that the lower 48K is not free. I'm really not sure if i'm doing something wrong or if the 130xe is having issues. Any suggestions would be great. Pete
  9. I was at the Velodrome last night and they had a kiosk set up where you could ride a bike on a trainer and move a rider around the track. It was a CycleFX system I believe. It was pretty cool and sure would make training in the winter more interesting. It reminded me of a system that used to be advertised in cycling catalogs in the mid-80's that attached to the Atari 800 and Commodore 64. Does anyone else remember this? If someone remembers or better yet has one of these systems let me know. Thanks! Pete
  10. I need to drum up some cash to buy a new bike and am considering unloading some of my Atari stuff. I have an 800 and an 810 that have only been out of their respective boxes maybe a half dozen times a piece. Any idea if there is a market for such a thing, or is it just sentimental on my part? Pete
  11. I'd guess a 1701 is good shape might fetch $15-$20 on ebay. I doubt you'd get more than that.
  12. I was looking at one of my Atari 850's the other day and it occured to me that it might be possible to use the serial ports to act as programmable on-off switches for small 12v devices. I guess my first question is whether or not the 850 would give off 12v dc from it serial ports? If so, what pins would be needed for power and ground? Alternatively, I guess I could use the joystick ports from an 800 if that would work. If this is possible, i'll try and dig my 850 manual out of the attic and give it a go. Any hints would be awesome. Thanks! Pete
  13. Why people use any OS from Microsoft is beyond me. Pete
  14. I have an XEGS that pretty much fills my collection needs. Other than that its really overrated. The keyboard really blows and the unit itself is pretty cheaply made. I usually use an 800xl, but have a major soft spot for my 1200xl's. The keyboard on the 1200xl is top notch. Pete
  15. There was a ton of Jag software being sold. I didn't see many Jaguar consoles for sale though. In the two hours I was there I did see at least five people walking around with Lynx boxes. I didn't see which booth was seliing them, but it was cool to see people buying. Pete
  16. I was at the Philly Classic today and was quite impressed with the AtariAge booth. Lots of cool stuff for sale. I wanted to buy the Stelladapter, but my 4 year old son wasn't in a very good mood so I had to move on. I bought a copy of Once Upon Atari though and enjoyed watching it this afternoon. Tons of 2600 carts throughout the show floor, but not much 8-bit stuff. I belive Sunmark was there with multi-carts, but didn't seem to be generating much traffic for the brief time I was there. I would have liked to have stayed longer, but the small son made it quite difficult to really enjoy the morning. Oh well, next year he stays home. Pete
  17. Well, I know most early Warner stuff was made domestically, but my 2600 and 800xl were made in Hong Kong and they were both during the Warner years. I guess the US made 1200XL might have been an earlier production run or maybe production occured in The US & Taiwan at the same time.
  18. I have two Atari 1200XL's and I just noticed that one was Made in Taiwan and the other was made in the USA. I was just wondering if they were commonly made here in the US or if its an early production model. Just wondering. Pete
  19. I too have a Mac and often transfer programs i download from the internet to my Atari 8-bits. I use a null modem cable for this. You'll need an 850 interface to get it done. If your interested I can give you more information. Pete
  20. My first computer was an Atari 400 in 1981 or early '82. My first game was Atari Basketball. I loved the fact that we could play 4 players on this sucker. I retired the 400 in '83 when I got an 800xl for Christmas with the 1010 cassette drive. My favorite game by far was Ultima III. My brother and I bought it together when we "figured out" that we were getting the 1050 Disk Drive for Christmas. We had the game weeks before Christmas in hopes that our box measurements were correct. Thankfully they were! I also enjoyed MicroLeague Baseball quite a bit. We made a team of all of our friends and kept stats with the compiler disk. We would play as many as we could and simulate the rest. Pure genius. Pete
  21. I actually have a Jeff Minter signed copy of the Tempest 2000 soundtrack. I won it during a rountable online discussion on GEnie back in the early 90's. Pretty cool stuff, but I doubt its really worth anything. Pete
  22. Egad man! B&C have the suckers new in a box for ~ $100. I wish you'd have asked here before plunking down that sort of scratch. By the way, I have some swamp land in Florida if you're interested Pete
  23. I just bought the Multicart and have a couple of questions before it arrives. 1st, I have many 5 1/4" floppies that have multiple games on them already. Is it possible to upload more than one of these multiple game disks as long as I don't exceed 1 mb? 2nd, being a Mac user i don't have the luxury of using a sio2pc at the moment. In the past, I download ATR images and transfer them to my Atari via a null modem connection with the 850. I then have exploded the ATR's into real disks. If I transfer the ATR's in a similar fashion, but don't make them into real disks, can I then upload them to the cart? BTW, I hope to have a sio2pc set up very soon. I am currently converting a dead Atari 810 into a Mini-ITX PC. I've replaced the floppy drive with a slot loading DVD drive from an iMac. I've retained the spring loading door from the 5 1/4" and have installed a 2.5" ide HD under the cast aluminum housing. I've order a 800mhz Mini-ITX board that measures only 6 3/4" x 6 3/4". I plan on mounting the board on the underside of the roof of the housing, thus allowing room for the DVD-Rom to remain in the shell of the 5 1/4" drive's aluminum housing. I'll show you all some pics as I progress over the next month or so. Pete
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