R.Cade

I don't think I've ever seen a CD-i emulator in xports. Most of the original XBOX development has trickled off quite a few years ago. The only releases were mostly skins...

Look for code that modifies the addresses you found to contain the number of players...

I was responding to the "few years later" part, not the access to resources. Unrelated, but Woz did have access to Atari, but the TIA was being done offsite at CYAN, in secret. It was a clever hack using off the shelf parts. Not taking that away from him. It had been done before though, as it was a combination of the TV Typewriter design, and the video portion was like the Dazzler card, all of which were shown at the Homebrew Computer Club years before. He did combine it all and integrated it with the 6502 CPU. Unfortunately, then it was very overpriced by Jobs, which stunted it's growth against the TRS-80 (and to a smaller degree, the PET).

Well, some are repros... so how to tell 100%. Thick metal vs. thin plastic, I would assume?

Just for the record, the Atari VCS (TIA chip) was in 1977 (designed earlier than that, probably 1975-1976).

No, no.. not even close. What Jay Miner did was many orders of magnitude more advanced than anything Woz every did. Jay designed his own chips and entire architectures. Woz just threw together some off-the shelf chips in 1976-1977 for the Apple, and according to Chuck Peddle, needed help in getting it going. He was just a "hacker" type engineer using ideas from the "TV Typewriter", S100 video cards like the "Dazzler" for NTSC artifact color, and Atari arcade game boards for inspiration.

Still looking... Thanks. Thread was "jacked" a little...

Actually, it's the exact opposite. The ColecoVision used off the shelf parts, while the Atari used a custom chip (TIA) for audio and video. I guess they were able to clone it... Probably done in Taiwan at the time. It is really strange, but I guess they did it to say there were X number of games for ColecoVision, when there really wasn't. It was to make it a larger library.

Nope, don't need a Sears. They seem to be either much more common, or just not in demand.

It would be much cleaner to just find and disable the decrement when a life is lost.

Trinitron 14" and 20" PVM models... nothing better.

The strange thing is some of these games made it to the C64 like that also, and it doesn't even have artifact color. They just used the green and purple (or orange and blue) colors to "simulate" it. Datasoft's Conan is one for sure...

Thanks, but I already have a Sears heavy. I dig the walnut wood on the front, but wanted an original Atari...

Hi guys, Looking for one of these. I seem to have one of all the variations except the original Atari... Reasonable shape as long as it's not broken or missing parts, as I don't mind cleaning. Original box or joysticks not important, but of course I will pay more if you have them! I have tons of Commodore stuff for trade if there is any interest in that.

I figured everyone knew by now that not tested = broken. I always assume it and factor that into the price... Are you sure the 800 just doesn't have something loose from shipping? Reseat all the cards? Then the chips on motherboard if that doesn't help. For the original boxes and even for parts, this is still a good deal. You can hardly get any one Atari computer for $40. Not apologizing for the seller... but as the kids say... "just saying".

I would think what you got for only $40 was a "for parts" price anyway... If you are holding them to sell you 2 boxed and one loose completely working machines for $40 you are in fantasy-land. Yes I know there is shipping costs, and nobody made that money except the shipper. You can't even send all that stuff back for $40 probably, so you can't win.

VIC-20 in Summer 1983, but datasette in December 1983. Upgrade to C64 in 1985 sometime. Upgrade to Amiga 500 in 1988. Upgrade to Amiga 3000 in 1992 "Upgrade" to 486 in 1994, Windows 95 Beta (never used Windows 3.1!) New computer every two years is about right. Well, new to me.

Sure thing....

Thanks - I did burn to a 27256 (x4) with a 28->24 pin adapter and this works. Any reason not to leave this socket blank and just use a BASIC cartridge instead?

OK, I got it to work. I stupidly was trying to replace the BASIC ROM in the machine with the new XL OS ROM (with an adapter). I replaced the correct ROM and it works fine. I was not able to update my SDRIVE to newer firmware, but mine seems to work fine at the $02 speed. It appears I broke my BASIC ROM in this process as well, since the machine now boots to the self-test instead of BASIC with no drive attached. Not a big deal, though. Anyone have any spare BASIC ROMs? (I already burned a new MMU with 16v8 so I know it's not that).

Does it not ever boot the initial sdrive.atr at high speed, or does it only work after a reset?

Thanks guys. I opened up the device, and the board says it's an SDrive "micro". There appears to be a 5-pin programming port? I will have to find my AVRISP programmer if I have one... I was hoping it would be a DIP microcontroller so I could just pull it and program on my standalone burner, but no such luck.

I have an SDrive from a batch made by a member here a few years ago. (Identifies itself as SDrive01 20081012 Bob!k aand Raster, C.P.U.) Is there any easy way to speed it up to high speed SIO support? I have tried using the keys to change the FastSIO to $01 and $00, and also patched and burned a new AtariXL.rom for my 800XL with the Hisoft(?) patcher, but it seems no faster no matter what I try. Is there something I am missing or does it not work on this device? It seems much faster booting from serial SIO to APE... -Pete

It works pretty well, but the sound is wrong/off. It's like the music is out of key...

Thanks Tempest. I did open them and they appear to be mask ROMs on a purple circuit board, and are identical. Fortunately it's one screw and the metal part slides off, so no damage to the labels or anything. Not sure how I ended up with them... I guess a dealer dumped their stuff in a thrift store sometime in the 90's.