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Star Raiders is a classic must-play. Also, it's not that it has it's own games or that it's backwards compatible. It can run all Atari 8-bit software, just like any other Atari 8-bit can run all Atari 8-bit software. There are no XE exclusive titles. Anything made for the XE was made for all Atari 8-bits, assuming the machine in question had enough memory for the later, more demanding titles. There was never anything that required more than 64KB that I can recall though. The XEGS is basically just an Atari 65XE in a different case with a detachable keyboard a different ROM and no PBI or ECI port.

I believe, if I were to win one of the $500M+ Powerball lotteries or something, I'd try to make him an offer and try to buy it, not to expect to make any money on it, or to even ever recoup my investment, but just to have something to do in retirement and as a service to the Atari community. That being said, we all know what astronomical odds there are of anyone winning a lottery. Still, someone's gotta win, eventually. It might as well be me!

It is true. He is the best, if you can actually order what you need/want from him. Personally, I've never had an issue, but it's like walking on egg shells every time I call to order from him. I know that going in though, and act accordingly. Maybe that's why I've never had an issue.

It kills me. His constant use of the plural, we, rather than I, and mentioning our shipping guys, again, all plural, like he and his hoard are some big fortune 500 corporation with hundreds of employees with hundreds of daily orders rather than just one guy doing this himself, which I'm 99% certain is the case and most of us know it. It really is sad. Sad for him, sad for our community, and sad for what will likely happen to all that inventory when he inevitably passes on. Actually, I'm a little embarrassed for him. Like we've said many times though. It's his business and he has every right to run it, or run it in the ground, any way that he sees fit.

I won't swear on it, but I installed a Gotek into an external SF drive for a 520STM that I sold a few years ago and I'm fairly certain that it was an SF354 drive. If so, I never experienced any issues with it that I can recall. That unit was TOS 1.0 too.

I was never that big into racing games, but I do remember going through a spell in college playing Great American Cross Country Road Racefor hours on end.

I might be interested in that Commodore 64 or the Amiga, but I see kheller2 has already asked about it, assuming you were going to get rid of those as well. I don't know what those are going for currently, or what I'd want to pay, but I've always thought about picking up one or the other or both.

I easily see some 800s go for $100 or over plus shipping, depending on condition. I also see them go for considerably less. It really depends on the condition of the machine. Shipping is always a crap-shoot too. These old machines have to be packed really, REALLY well to be shipped with any hope of arriving intact. Most are getting really brittle in their old age.

I spent quite a while looking through archive.org after I read your post last night, thinking they were bound to be there and I'd save the day by finding them and posting a link, but no such luck. It really is hard to believe that a decent scanned copy of these hasn't turned up somewhere over the years.

I'm sorry, I don't have an answer to your question, but I have to ask, are there really that many footbag games for the Atari 2600 to justify their own folder?! I mean, really, how many different footbag games are there? I hope someone is able to help you find an answer to your question.

I'm pretty sure they did NOT come with universal PSUs. I have no explanation for your situation other than possibly it isn't an original PSU. I do know for certain that not all PSUs were universal, even if yours is. It is definitely a mystery.

I still use mostly my UltimateCart for the bulk of my multi-cart needs. I built mine as a cool little project and to have an extra multi-cart for use in one of my lesser used machines if needed. It's still an awesome little cart and was a cool, cheap little build project, but I'd never intended it to replace any of my other devices. I haven't really loaded mine up all that much yet. I won't try to fit my entire cart collection onto it, as it takes up more space then the PicoCart has available, so I'll probably try to put together a smaller, curated collection of my favorite carts; ones that I'm more likely to actually use on any given day. If there's room left over, I'll fill it with xex files.

When I said two, I think I was counting Hillsfar and Curse of the Azure Bonds. I'm pretty sure that AtariMania has an ST image for Curse, but I'd need to confirm. EDIT: AM does have a page with images for Curse, and they show Atari ST disks, but they don't have an actual disk image. It shows as missing.

This is pretty freaking awesome! Congrats on getting it up and running.

Yes, you are correct that the SSI Gold Box games were officially licensed D&D games. However, even though these were mentioned, none of the Gold Box games were ever released for the Atari 8-bits. Only two of them were ever released for the Atari ST for that matter, but none for our beloved 8-bits.

Reading through these is getting my 1400XL/1450XLD fanboy vibe going again and, since I know nothing good will come from it and it will forever be an itch left unscratched, I've go to get out of here!

Well, certainly not easy, but you could take this image, which seems to be fairly high resolution and quality, measure out in pixels something with a known dimensional value, say one of the ICs, then extrapolate out from there. I've done similar things with other projects before at work. Barring someone with an actual board sending you dimensions, that may be about the best you're going to get. Like you said though, you still really need an image of the under side as well.

Well, like was mentioned, Brad had some and was selling them off. I'm not 100% certain, but I'd think at least a few went to AA members, but I can't recall who. It seems like I've seen some here, other than Curt, of course, RIP, mention having a board. If so, hopefully someone will see this thread and your post and post some dimensions and photos.

Man! It's really a shame I didn't get back into Atari way before I did. I was too darned busy with family and career. I'd have loved to have picked up a 1400/1450 board. That would've been so freakin' awesome! The 1450XLD was always the great white whale of my youth. I remember spending more time looking through those early 80s XL sales brochures than I did that famous Farrah Fawcett poster. You know the one I'm talking about! 😉

I'm not aware of anything other than the help of fellow users on this forum. I've had a couple of users send me their computers and I've made some minor repairs or upgrades for them, but it's not something I make a habit of, and my skills are nowhere near the level of some of our more advanced users. It would be most helpful to know where you're located. The world is a big place and without knowing where you're located, there's really not much for anyone to go on. It would also be very helpful to know what you mean by TLC. What exactly do your devices need? What's wrong with them? Your question really can't be reliably answered very well without a little more to go on.

The 400 I was gifted came with a 32KB card, a Mosaic I think, but I'm not 100% certain, so I know there are, or at least, were plug-n-play options.

Yes, I think that was my suggestion. I did the same thing.

I'm not sure how old the manual is that you're using, and I'd have to verify against my installation, but there was some talk at one time about the jumper settings in the manual being reversed. I'm not 100% certain if that was the case, or if they've been corrected if it was. Do any of the rest of you recall? For what it's worth though, I can't see Marlin letting a mistake like that go on for long without correcting it, so I doubt that's the case.

He actually doesn't have those any longer. Those are listed as sold out on his addendum page. He does show 800XL motherboards though. Atari 800XL NTSC U.S. Mother Board Populated CA061854 $129.95 https://www.best-electronics-ca.com/addendum.htm