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  2. Posted · Edited by R.Cade

     

    Well this isn't something you drop by the super market and decide to pick up. This is one of the rarest Atari 2600 games ever made with no recorded sales, prices and currently I'm the only collector in the world that owns it. As I mentioned as well I want to keep this game unless I hear offers that are higher than my expectations and can't refuse. I'm not sure what your trying to get at with what you wrote but the price is determined by what someone wants to pay for it. I'm here to see who pays the highest, simple as that

     

    Thank you!

    I think eBay will get you the highest price and it would be quite a spectacle. You'd have an article on every gaming site and more...

     

    But, only if it's a "real" auction. No super-high starting bid and no reserve. That would be a non-story just like the hundreds of other auctions like it where people want $50k for an Apple IIe.

  3. Posted · Edited by R.Cade

    This "make offers until my expectations are met" is bullshit. Name a price...

     

    I mean, I am not a buyer anyway, so ignore me, but that just seems like a shitty way to buy or sell something. Is that how high-priced collectibles are commonly sold? Basically a blind auction with a reserve? What's to say someone doesn't just price-drive and say "well, someone else offered me a million dollars, how about $1.1 million?" Or is it just so the seller can shit on people and belittle their offers and make themselves feel superior?

     

    Other than that- Nice find!

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    I find that I can easily get "addicted" to selling off things as much as buying them. Currently I am selling off... It feels great and lets you collect some other things you might not have done before you cleaned out the space and padded your funding.

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  7. Posted · Edited by R.Cade

    Just an informative post so you don't do what I did.

     

    Got my eBay UNO R3 + 2.8" TFT combo today from https://www.ebay.com/itm/1-set-UNO-R3-ATmega328P-Development-Board-Touch-Screen-Shield-for-Arduino/292243532939

     

    With excitement I opened the package and was immediately bummed...

     

    ...took a look at the TFT and realized it wasn't the one in the picture (this one has home, mail, phone, music, etc touchscreen).

     

    Went to www.mcufriend.com and saw that this is a HX8347G. Quick Google search and this came up ==> Chip ID: 0x7575 = HX8347G LCD driver

     

    I took a chance at $17.31 shipped for the combo and didn't pay off in the end. Still need to purchase the correct ILI9341 compatible LCD.

     

    Pictures. (Nice package, just wrong LCD)

     

    attachicon.gif0719182006.jpg

    attachicon.gif0719182006a.jpg

    That LCD is supported... Download the distribution and copy the HX8347G files over the ones in the main folder and run sdrive.bat.

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  8. Posted · Edited by R.Cade

     

    Cool. Do you have any tipes for compiling under Windows? I know I've compiled RespeQt before but that was prior to a motherboard failure and wiped hard drive last winter. I think all the dev tools I had downloaded went kaput.

     

    I was able to use this toolchain... http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.16/doc/projects/ftsmin/windows_avr.html

     

    I had to change the Makefiles slightly to remove the "date" command since it asks for a date in the Windows command prompt and fouls up the process. Other than that, no changes needed.

     

    Just ignore the part about drivers for your programmer. You can drop the hex files into the zip distribution and run sdrive.bat to program it same as the release.

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    In this pic it shows that it uses the ili9340 chip set which isn't on the supported list.

    attachicon.gifili9340.jpg

     

    The ili9341 is what most are using. Looking at the board info, there are a bit of differences between the two...

    Not sure if it will work with the ili9341 flash files or not.

    I just did a pull request with support for this display... It was an easy fix.

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  13. Posted · Edited by R.Cade

    I have one of the unsupported screens that was laying around my "box of crap". I can't tell what chipset it is, but it has hard buttons on it.

     

    The 9329 flash works, but colors are wrong and display is a mirror image.

    The 9341 flash is correct orientation, but still wrong colors and touch doesn't work.

     

    This screen is in between the two... It should not be hard to fix this.

     

    Has anyone compiled this from source on Windows? I tried WinAVR, but it is older and won't compile this...

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  17. Posted · Edited by R.Cade

    Since you have a parts board I assume you've already tried swapping (or removing) the 64k RAM card also, if you have one?

     

    Other than that, if the RAM is good it sounds like a RAM addressing issue.

     

    I guess it could be ROM, but that would be odd on a IIe. A II+, I see that all the time, but not on IIe.

     

    You are positive it's a 65c02 and not 6502? You could swap that and see for sure... although unlikely, it could be bad.

     

    There's not too much more in a IIe...

  19. Posted · Edited by R.Cade

    I still use XBOX for the ultimate easy multicart for all 8/16-bit systems. You can find them for about 20 bucks, and a couple hours of labor and you're up and running.

     

    Pros:

    * Everything is very fast, controllable with one XBOX controller, and everything is mapped for that controller. All emulators (XPORT, etc.) use the same controller layout.

    * I can pull all my ROMs from a network share on my PC, so I don't have to upgrade the hard drive if I don't want. Even SegaCD, TurboCD, etc. pull ISO/MP3 over the network with no lag.

    * You can reset it from the controller (IGR) if you need to. The SD card doesn't get corrupted after using it 2-3 times like the Pi.

    * Works in SD or HD with the right cables. You can convert to HDMI with a cheap box.

    * All the emulators work great in 720p, pixel-perfectly if you want, and if you want filters, they use ~0% CPU.

    * The emulators are *still* updated occasionally, even after 18 years. Most don't need it, though.

    * There are tons of themes for all the emulators, but I don't use them at all- NO themes. Just super-quick access to everything like a multi-cart on a real console (but better, no SD cards).

    * They run about $20, and soft or hard modding them is super easy. If you can't figure it out, find a tech friend to do it for you.

    * Tons of 2001-2006 games, which are cheap to collect.

     

    Cons:

    * No 240p, if you want that. The Wii has 240p, but RetroArch is a pain in the ass with video settings and pretty much everything. Very poor UI design and it locks up constantly or has to be screwed with whenever switching "cores". When you do get it set up it does look nice on a CRT, though.

    * You should remove the clock capacitor because it will eat up the board if left too long.

     

    I have never used the big Coin-ops distributions, so I can't speak to that. The video in the above auction looks like a customized XBMC theme with all the emulators. You are paying $280 labor for that, which may be worth it to you if you just want plug/play.

     

    The RPi is slower and buggy to me in my testing. Some people swear by it- I've never seen it work as well as my XBOX. The controller mapping, slow UI, etc. is a deal-killer.

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    I was able to get CFMGR to boot from the first disk image on the NanoPEB, and got some things to run successfully using just that and the XB cartridge (original, not 2.7).

    Thanks everyone- I wish it still were easier. It's still a two-step process to catalog the disk, remember the name, then go back to the menu to run an EA image and type the volume number and the name.

     

    Will BOOT let me browse the files and just run them from the menu?

  23. Posted · Edited by R.Cade

    AppleSauce is way too little too late... Most Apple original disks I attempt to image are already dead and falling apart.

     

    I do have a good bit of KF images where people have sent me disks for imaging over the years, but a large portion of A2 disks are educational titles anyway, and nobody cares about that.

     

    Also, this is not a new idea, and nothing is 100%.

  25. Posted · Edited by R.Cade

    I have a small Ti99/4a collection to play with. I used to have a PEB, but sold it to another enthusiast and got a NanoPEB instead.

     

    However, I still have the same problem. Why does disk management and loading programs have to be this hard? I mean, I have experience with most of the other classic platforms and the TI is by far the hardest to use.

     

    I really need separate Disk Manager II, Extended BASIC, and Editor Assembler carts to use it?

     

    There is seriously no way to get a disk catalog from BASIC or Editor Assembler carts? I have to catalog a disk with Disk Manager, and actually write it down to turn off the computer, put in another cart, then boot it?

     

    How can you know how to boot a given disk?

     

    99% of the time I play with it for a while, get nothing but I/O errors from either typos (my fault, but the keyboard is tough to type on) or not knowing which option to use to load the program, then give up. Only occasionally can I get something to boot and run...

     

    Has nobody made a menu system for this so that everything can be easily loaded?

     

    </rant off>

     

    :)

     

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