weaselbrains

If you're interested in pirate consoles - take a look at this auction (it's not my auction). I've never seen a Hi-Score Mk I console before, but I have a Mk II and a Mk III. The Hi-Score Mk II looks just like a BitCorp Amigo console but the case is molded differently. The Hi-Score Mk III is a copy of a 2600 Jr I really wanted to win this auction but I can't afford to bid very high at the moment and I've already been outbid. Hopefully someone on this board can win it. mitchell

first of all - that's one damn impressive wall bfstats. Did you make it yourself? I have always wanted to make a wall like that with records but I'd never be able to build such a thing. My 2600 collection: 300 games - but quite a few of those are doubles 13 consoles - including 3 boxed and 3 pirate consoles So I guess I fall short of the cut off level to be a king. oh well mitchell

this sounds like an excellent idea. I use Cart Commander to keep track of my Atari carts. I think its a great program - but there are areas where it could improve. It would be good if your program gave the ability to sort the list based on multiple characteristics - like sorting by manufacturer with carts by each manufacturer listed in order of rarity or date of purchase etc. It would also be good if the program automatically detected when a duplicate cartridge is entered. The idea you have for comparing trade and want lists is great - suggesting a good trade would be nice too. Do you have a name for the program yet? mitchell

congrats on the nice find you should get a good price for this. Famicoms consoles are somewhat rare - but you have much rarer Famicon Disk System plus a bunch of games so you should get plenty of bids. mitchell

From memory there are some Rainbowvision games that have Suntek in the bottom right hand corner. mitchell

Alex, there are some other Rainbowvision titles that are missing from your list. The only one I have that is missing is Ski Run (SS 024), but I remember somebody posted a list of all the Rainbowvision games they knew of a while back (might have been Marco or Rick) and there were some that weren't on the list. By the way, its great to see the Australian section growing. NOTE TO CROPSY If you are interested in trading any of your Rainbowvision or other games then please email me - I have doubles of Mariana, Pac Kong, The Year 1999, Hey Stop!, Pyramid War, Space Raid & Bermuda. mitchell

I just wanted to clarify something that Marco said - that Hi-Score games come in generic blue boxes with a sticker indicating the name of the game. The Hi-Score games that he linked to say Hi-Score and don't have a sticker. I have one boxed game that is like what Marco describes (blue with a sticker) - http://www.blackshoals.net/~weaselbrains/i.../images/box.jpg but this box is clearly different to the Hi-Score boxes that Marco linked to. Here's a picture of the cart and a picture of it next to a Hi-Score cart to show the different fonts used on the end labels. http://www.blackshoals.net/~weaselbrains/i...images/cart.jpg http://www.blackshoals.net/~weaselbrains/i...mages/carts.jpg Another thing is that I'm pretty sure I've seen boxed Hi-Score carts before on eBay with v-shaped cases - can someone confirm this? (Marco maybe). I'm sure I've only made things more confusing now. Here's a photo of my Hi-Score and similar looking games - http://www.blackshoals.net/~weaselbrains/i...ox_of_games.jpg Shame you can't see all the titles properly, but here's the titles you don't have on the list. V-Shaped carts F18 (VS) ALIENS SURROUND 'EM JUNGLE BOY TIME WARP RIVER BATTLE FISHING OCEAN CITY SEA ADVENTURE HIGH WAY CRAB CONTROL DRAGON ATTACK GALAXY INVADER TANK CITY (label variation - skull label) OCEAN CITY PAC KONG CONDOR ATTACK (skull label) TIME WARP (2 versions - different fonts on end labels) WAR ZONE (skull label)

quote I wouldn't be surprised if there's a more direct link between BitCorp and Computec. This console looks identical to the BitCorp Amigo except for the badge on the top that says computec and the label above the ports on the back. Also the font that 'computec' is written is the same as the font used for 'bit corporation' on the sticker on the bottom of my Amigo. I think it would be pretty coincidental that Marco's console would just happen to come with a game made by BitCorp. My guess is that BitCorp changed its name to Computec. Maybe they used the computec brand name for hardware and continued making software under the BitCorp brand name. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Also, does anyone know anything about other computec products? I know I have seen computec joysticks before. mitchell

I was looking for previous posts about the Amigo console and I found this old thread. Did anybody find out what type of computer this connects to? I remember seeing an Amigo for auction a while back and I think they said it could be connected to an Apple II. I could be totally wrong about this though. Marco, could you please tell me what type of power supply this console takes? I have two Amigos but I think I blew one of them up by using the wrong power supply, so I don't want to repeat that mistake. mitchell

What this site is doing is stealing the images and layout from the real PayPal site and using a form that emails people's user Id and password to the owners of the site when someone tries to log in. Emailing the ISP and trying to have the site shut down is a good step, but how many people's IDs and passwords do you imagine they have obtained already? It might take a day or two for the ISP to get around to shutting the site down, and in that time they might receive a bunch of people's IDs and passwords - meaning they can drain their PayPal accounts. I think the best way would be to email freedom2@atrevete.com with huge attachments in the hope that they will push the inbox over its size limit and stop it from receiving anymore PayPal account details. Signing into their site with fake PayPal details is not going to do that much because it will only take them 2 seconds or so to check whether they are fake or not. I wonder how many people have entered their real details into this page already. mitchell

These carts are not Bit Corp carts - they are released by Rainbow Vision. If you add Rainbow Vision to the title you might get a few more hits. Shame I already have these carts two, otherwise I could have traded you some transformers for them. mitchell

quote: So according to your list, we are missing these titles: Motocross SS-022 Mole Hunter SS-023 Ski Run SS-024 Asteroid Belt SS-029 UFO Patrol SS-031 Walker SS-032 I.Q. Memory Teaser SS-033 Panda Rescue SS-035 Criminal Persuit SS-036 Do you have these Marco, or does anyone have pictures to confirm them? I will be able to take pictures of IQ Memory Teaser and Ski Run as soon as I receive them in the mail which should be in the next few days. I have 17 Rainbowvision games that I may be able to scan if I can get to a scanner. mitchell

quote Are you sure these are Hi-Score carts? I don't own any boxed Hi-Score carts and I don't claim to be any authority on the matter, but any Hi-Score carts I have seen that are boxed always have smaller labels than this and have a v-shape molded into the top of the cart. I have quite a few carts with this style of label but I have never seen one of them in its box. I have a boxed cartridge similar to this but it has a different picture on the label, and on the box it just says Atari compatible. Does anyone have any thoughts on who might make these cartridges if it is not Action Hi Tech? I'd be interested to know Mitchell

You need a 9 volt power supply with a plug that looks like a headphone plug. You can buy them from Radio Shack - someone from the U.S. can probably tell you the model number. mitchell

I've just noticed that the game Sternen Kampf has been added to the rarity guide under Rainbowvision. It doesn't look like a Rainbowvision game to me - the font for video game looks right, but it uses a different font for the title. Plus all the Rainbowvision games I have seen have a code in the bottom right starting with SS - this one does not. Does anybody agree or disagree with this? A lot of pirate games look similar, so the only accurate way to tell a Rainbowvision game is if it comes in its box. Does anybody know how many Rainbowvision games there are? mitchell

Wow, that's a great score. where did you get them? are any of them boxed? and how much did you pay for them? The first two sound like they are made by Bit Corp and they are pretty rare, but I'm not exactly sure how much they are worth The Supervision game is probably the rarest of the lot - they don't turn up too often. The Rainbowvision games seem to sell for around $10-$15 AU each loose and maybe $30-40 AU boxed on eBay. So congratulations. mitchell

I probably shouldn't have started ranting about the Salvation Army in the first place, but too late now and I feel the need to further explain myself. Here are a few of the reasons why I have a problem with the Salvation Army. [*]they were active in removing Aboriginal children from their families in Australia and placing them with white families [*]I called them right wing because they have lobbied against drug reform in Australia, such as heroin decriminalisation. [*]The Salvation Army member-charman of a drug reform committee in Australia on anti-drug advertising has steered policy away from a harm minimisation based approach and towards demonising drugs approach which has consistently failed in the past, and has sacked a number of members who favour a harm minimisation approach [*]On a more personal level, my uncle was sexually abused by Salvation Army members as a child when he lived in a Salvation Army orphanage Anyway, as I said, I probably shouldn't have started ranting about the Salvation Army. Its not really the sort of light conversation thats suited to a message board and besides, its WAY off-topic.

I don't think there's anything noble about the Salvation Army's work. The organisation is based on puritanical, right wing, whack values and is more concerned with winning people over to christianity than doing anything genuinely charitable. I would much rather support community organisations who do charitable work because they want to rather than because their god or cult commands them to. ...but thats just what I think Also, I agree that sometimes thrift stores overcharge like crazy. I was in Savers yestdrday and they had a Sega Master System behind a glass case and were charging something like $15 for it. mitchell

Hi Scott Yeah, it is IE5 for PC. I think you probably could get the same effect using tables if you use bordercolorlight and bordercolordark tags. But how many browsers support this? I'm not too sure and it just occurred to me now that older browsers might not support it. Anyway, I made a page quickly to show you what I mean here's my example mitchell

The site looks great, but when I use Internet Explorer (5.0) the boxes that the text is in don't join up right - the sides are a little higher than the top and bottom. I had a look at your code and saw that the borders of the text boxes are images - couldn't you achieve the same thing using a table with a border of 1 pixel and a cellpadding of about 5 pixels. That table would contain a single cell, then you could put another table inside it for the contents of the textboxes. Don't know if I'm making sense here so I hope you can understand what I'm trying to say. It works just fine in Opera 5 though. mitchell

Game description: The big octopus prevents the two treasured boxes in a high tower from being stolen. An explorer trys to get the boxes. The big Octopus will bear many little octopi with poison gas. If the explorer smells the gas he will be dizzy and fall down. - The explorer must get up to the top in 100 seconds, or he will die - Just when the explorer gets up to steal the box, a new video appears - The poison gas blows through the five stories in a random way - The explorer has five chances to get the treasured boxes Scoring: The higher the explorer gets, the greater the scores. If the explorer falls down from the third story, he earns 330; the fourth, 440; the fifth, 550; If he reaches the top to get the box, 999.

I just noticed a few days back that eBay has introduced 'make a personal offer' option so that if the reserve is not met the seller can contact the bidder via eBay and offer to sell them the item. I can't imagine too many people use this option - if you contact the bidder this way you still have to pay fees to eBay, but if you just send the bidder an email yourself you won't have to pay any fees.

I just noticed a few days back that eBay has introduced 'make a personal offer' option so that if the reserve is not met the seller can contact the bidder via eBay and offer to sell them the item. I can't imagine too many people use this option - if you contact the bidder this way you still have to pay fees to eBay, but if you just send the bidder an email yourself you won't have to pay any fees.

The game is a pirated game that uses the same picture as other Taiwanese pirate games. Rainbowvision games are mostly hacks of Activision games. Rainbowvision games were distributed by Rainbow Music in Australia - a record label that from memory put out mostly compilations and 'not by original artist' records. The same saller some more boxed Rainbowvision games up for auction. I bid $14.50 on two of them but Atari-France had already bid higher than me

Crab Control is a hack of Crackpots - the spiders really do look like crabs. I'm not exactly sure brand name it was packaged as - the label has the same picture as is used on some Hi-Score carts, but Hi-Score carts have a different case. I have a few of these carts, the only boxed one has a blue box that just says Atari Compatible with no brand name. I think it is probably the same kind of cart but I'm not sure. Here's a (crappy) picture of the boxed cart null mitchell