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Ill let you know if I strike out, but your help was all I really wanted! This site is awesome, thanks for helping to keep the old machines going!

What about controllers? I can get a much higher score in many 2600 games with my competition pro over a cx40. I feel genesis pads are almost cheating. Ever watch a speedrun video of someone playing say dragster with a genesis pad where they arent even holding the controller? Not a gripe just curious.

Confirmed the warmup theory. Twice today I leery it sit powered on and corrupted and about 8 minutes later it stabilized. Benn playing an hour, switching games and using the 2600 module, no issues.

It's the brown fella right in the middle on the right side of the board.

It's almost like it needs to "warm up"

Also, yes I checked and touched up the solder. Either the part is janky or its something else. Once it works, jiggling it does nothing to corrupt it.

Hi all! I am fixing a colecovision with a corrupted display issue. It will work great forever, until I power it off for a few minutes. On start, it will boot to a corrupted screen and degrade to unstable noise. The power supply i fine, I get good supply at the switch rails so it's not that. Here's the rub. If I push down on L-14 in this state, it will correct. Once it "stabilizes", it will continue to work indefinitely, as long as I dont take any breaks. I played 2600 on the module 1 for 3 hours last night. Any ideas, and also if it is l14 (believe it's a 2.7uh inductor in the video circuit), where can I find one? google only shows me completely different form factors. T.I.A.! Yjzep

Yes I believe so. I have a U.S. release XEGS with the mod so I hope!

http://mixinc.net/atari/books/Super_Video_S_video_for_the_XEGM.pdf This is Mark's take on the mod for the xls with an s-video mod as well. The mod improves both the s-video and composite video. You retain both, and I use both due to the games that use artifacting, which come out monochrome thru the s-video. Also, mark, or Puppetmark on here, is a super nice guy that is more than willing to help and answer any questions you may have. I had a problem, and he not only helped, but mailed me a resistor i was lacking out of kindness. Hope this helps, Jeff

My Favorite games that don't make many lists... Embargo..part defender, part frogger..nice colors. Addicting. Dark Chambers...Dandy (gauntlet) clone Buck Rogers....Vertical shooter with "gates" like in skiing. Eastern Front...I am a wargamer so maybe this is just one I like... Anteater...harder to find romox title. I like it. kinda like a cat and mouse chase mixed with dig dug. I have 130+ carts and dozens of disks, not to mention sio2pc and all the .atr files si I am sure there are more I am forgetting. Jeff

LOL. I own a pest control company. My cherokee typically smells like dead mice and pesticide mixed with BO and coffee. GREAT theft deterrent!..Not to mention the huge logos and phone number kinda squash the incognito getaway..

It's funny, I am not worried about robbery/home invasion too much. I live in a semi-wealthy town, in a neighborhood dominated by two of the wealthiest families. They have their mini-mansions, and own at least 5 or 6 other homes each occupied by family members. Not that my home is trash, but it is the smallest on the street. I let my lawn go due to being busy and it looks so bad because the same landscapers whose only contract is this neighborhood do every other lawn weekly like clockwork. The only other home on my end of the street that is separately owned is owned by a late 20s couple with toys, toys, and more toys. Harley, quad, nice honda generator just sitting there, and a garage full of tools and toys that he leaves wide open constantly. It's almost like camoflauge. My couple thousand worth of Atari stuff in my basement isn't even worth half of that unsecured generator lol. Plus my street is sorta busy and my house is very close to the road..Too close. I think it's only 15 to 20 feet to the curb from the front door.

Fair enough. I also get a warm fuzzy feeling when I close the door on the 810 and flip the switch. I don't go anywhere, my basement is my sanctuary where my kids don't go and mess with my stuff. I have had working disks develop boot errors suddenly and don't want to risk it. Also haven't bought any blank floppies in quantity yet. Is there a good source? (I think best has them not sure) I have always been "retro" I like to drive older cars, prefer older games, listen to vinyl etc.. So I guess I see the "taint" that modern silicon could bring to the experience.

Hello, I use an SIO2USB with my laptop and APE. Mostly for OG hardware preservation. While I do use my drives sparingly to keep them running, I don't want to wear them out. Also don't want to put some of the harder to find disk games in jeopardy. My game collection is up there, so many times I am playing .atr files of games I own. (except that excellent Dr Mario port..I play that a lot.) Also nice to make "save disks" on my pc instead of having to continually find obsolete media. As far as "portability", huh? The laptop is the most portable part of my atari setups. I have an xegs with a keyboard extender hooked to a 27inch trinitron for couch gaming (except eastern front...damn start button on the console) The 800 is hooked to a commodore 1702 on my desk next to my desktop PC. I use that for basic tinkering and plan to write a book on it. Just seems more "atmospheric". I started outlining, and there is a definite appeal to typing on that keyboard than the steelseries. What portability do you need?

I have a bunch of stuff. 1 400 1 800 1 really nice 600xl with an MPP Microram 64k pbi 2 800xls (one in box mint, one super video modded) 2 XEGS..one mid mod 1050, 810,410, 1020, 1030, 1027(doorstop..print head disintegrated surprise!) huge box of cleaned, fixed working controllers, light guns, trackballs, wicos, etc. bunch of disk games, some rareish 107 carts (not including 30 or so doubles and a few triples) I won an estate sale cheap with the 600xl, and some of those periphs. Most in boxes. They listed "various books", which was in fact a VERY nice score. Most every good book ever written about atari back then, programming books, and a stack of mint manuals, many for games not in that auction(some I needed!) Also, the very nice 810 was "Not working". No further explanation. Turned out to be just the pins on the garage door, the part was $5 from Best. I recently found a stack of Magic the Gathering cards in my safe from the 90s. I sold maybe 15 cards for 1200$, and turned some of that into atari stuff. One of my 800xls is my original, picked up used in maybe 86 or 87. I played that more than my NES. Also wrote a term paper on it in 1994 and printed it on my Okimate10, due to a fight with my dad and not wanting to spend time at the school computer lab. Jeff

One tactic I have used with Ebay resellers is to offer to buy some other items they have as well at full price (the more reasonable ones). Obviously if you go in guns blazing with proof of lower sales they may take offense. I usually butter them up. $60 item...."Hi, would you be willing to take $30? I understand that seems like a lowball offer, but I am not willing to take the plunge that high. $30 would be my max, so no counteroffers please. Please feel free to decline, it is your business and I get it. I just have been watching this for 3 weeks and it hasn't budged so I figured what the heck." This has worked for me a couple times, even on items not marked OBO. I am curious how low an offer "happiestsellerever" on ebay takes, considering the prices. If you don't know that seller look him up. The prices make me choke.

I enjoy the auctions where people are selling opened, used, microprose disk games for $75.00. Yes the same ones that Best has for $9.99 brand new. To be fair, the resellers do have a business to run, and some buyers are gullible. Many will also come down significantly if you ask nice, best offer button or not.

Thanks for the answer! I ended up messaging mark on here, and he was very gracious in his help as well. It ended up not even being the mangled R78, but I borked the trace from R79 to the collector of Q3. The old flashlight under the board to illuminate the traces trick. I just went point to point and fixed it. As it is I am still mid mod because I don't have a 470 Pf cap, Radio Shack is now a joke, and I have a large stock of everything else and don't want to put an order into small bear for 1 or 2 caps. I COULD solder up 4 100pf ceramics I have to the stock 68, but that would be ugly lol. I even spent 1/2 an hour looking through all my half done projects for the cap (I build guitar pedals and amps).

Hi all. I will introduce at a later time. I was doing the Mark Dusko super video mod to my xegs and pooched one side of R78. Dont ask. Anyway, I was just going to catch the circuit in the correct spot, except the only schematic I find online (some polish guy I believe) does NOT show R78 anywhere! What does it hook into?