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4. Sword of Sodan? Also a Genesis/MegaDrive title, but not as good as Amiga version.

It says there is no TV or "system". This unit had a circuit board with 40 chips on it, didn't it? Does it have that? Without that it's worth very little...

I got mine today- this is a really nice, well made unit. Thanks very much. I would think you could continue to make these in batches as long as you wanted and sell them.

There was a storage wars episode on over the weekend (not sure if re-run) where they found a Ms. Pac machine. It was in very bad shape and they were upset the operator wouldn't give them more than $150 for it. So... get this, they "restored" it by repainting and applying new sideart and sold it to a "collector" for $1300. They didn't restore the board, coin mech, control panel, or put the correct color t-molding on it. Of course, I call BS at $1300. The guy even mentioned it was decals and not stenciling, and still "appeared" to pay that price.

It is a big project, dependant on MAME, and someone has to take ownership of a bug in order for it to be fixed. Free is free, you are welcome to fix it.

I've had this happen to a couple of the units I've picked up over the years. Is it corroded traces as mentioned above. The repair is not terrible, but you need some soldering experience. They are pretty cheap now, though, so you may just want to harvest parts and pick up a 1.6.

Damn, man, just stop it. Nobody wants it. It's not worth what you are asking. Just drop your price to something somebody might buy casually buy, stop bumping it, or put it on eBay. Had to be said. You never even wiped the dust off the thing, even.

This topic can be closed. Thanks to 'poobah' I have a fully working 800!

Looks home-made...

That's not "other versions", it's only C64. I knew from the start that you're gonna be picking at Commodore. Huh? It's the same exact game, except with *maybe* slightly higher apparent resolution on C64. This is one of those games that have compatible technology between the Atari and C64. It seems to play to neither of their strengths.

Thanks, give me a PM when you get back in town. Enjoy the holidays!

Hi guys, I've just about given up on eBay- it seems any classic computer I buy in the last few years arrives poorly packed and in broken condition. I am still looking for an original NTSC Atari 800 with 48k RAM and whatever is needed to use it normally (Basic cartridge?) for my collection. I have one of most all of the other models (except the odd ones like 1200/1400) but have never tried to get an 800 after receiving 2-3 broken 400's in a row. - Pete Rittwage Augusta, GA USA

I will say that I am not a proponent of expensive, gold plated cables and that kind of thing, but on these cables, there is a difference. I had one of these cables and it had bad ghosting on the edges of screen elements. I went ahead and blew the $30 (this was 7-8 years ago) on the Monster cable (used) and the ghosting went away.

That's not "perspective"- they are right next to each other. Unless that is two photos stitched together, one 600 is much wider than the other.

You will probably have to open it and look at the electronics around the power socket to figure it out.

I have a bone-stock old A500 also, with an A501 expansion, and the USB HxC. It really is a nice compatible solution and less work to keep running for games than an A1200 with WHDLoad. The only mod I would make is a switch to turn off the extra 512M trapdoor RAM, which is an easy mod for the few early games that don't like it. I think mine has KS1.2, and since I never use a hard disk with it, it is the most compatible. To my knowledge, the only addition to 1.3 is the ability to auto-boot from a hard disk. There are some early EA titles that don't work with 1.3 or the extra 512M (Skyfox, Archon, etc.) but most games do... I don't know of any that won't work with KS 1.2 that needed 1.3...

It's really easy to make this patch. Just use a Windows tool like NitroHEX. 1) From the files on that FTP, grab mm1_side_a.dsk.gz and unzip it somewhere. 2) Open mm1_side_a.dsk in NitroHEX and change to "replace" mode (instead of insert). Edit->Input mode 3) Use Find->Hexadecimal, and put in 8E EB B7. It will find one instance (luckily) right near the beginning of the file. 4) Click on the first byte (8E) and type EA EA EA. Make sure you are in replace mode, it will overwrite the 3 bytes. If it inserts, undo and goto step 2, or it won't work. 5) Save file. 6) It now boots fine in AppleWin, and likely the real thing.

I guess the photos just don't do them justice. The cords look dirty, but the controllers still appeared to be the "right color". I wasn't arguing for the seller, I've just seen worse. Sorry, and good luck. It doesn't seem to matter which side I am on in a bad eBay deal. Whether I am the seller and someone screws me, or I am the buyer and get screwed. Either way I always get screwed. Ebay or Paypal never do the right thing in my cases.

I've looked at the pictures and they don't look that bad for sets of 25 year old controllers. I think you might be over-reacting a bit. They provided photos- were the photos not of the controllers you got? They are certainly dirty- like sitting in a box at the flea market in Georgia for 20 years dirty, but they don't look like underwater to me from the photos- they would be really filthy. What makes you say that? The wires keeping their shape happens when they are coiled around for years. That will even cause discoloration on the plastic of some items that looks like cigarette burns, but isn't. Not trying to argue - I'm sensitive to the problem. I've gotten crap from eBay and been pissed about it before, but that is the problem with as-is auctions. Usually I get a box with no attempt at proper packing material and a broken computer/console.

I was there this summer and they still had about a dozen working classic games, and many pinball machines. It's more than I've seen in a long time anywhere else. Of course, there was nobody there playing them except me.

Commodore's rise to the top of the consumer gaming market with the C64 took over console popularity for a few years. Until the NES came along. That's what happened in 1983.

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Thanks! It's real clean, there are a few blems but they are minor. It works perfectly and the drive is in pretty goo alignment. This will replace my old 128D. I'll clear it up and post it for sale. It's a good system but the poor keyboard is so yellow it's almost orange. But it work great also. The yellowing is easily fixed in an afternoon. Retrobrite...

That is very normal for old Synapse disks. The Mylar coating comes off on most of their old originals. I usually try to image them the first time they are used, but commonly they don't even survive one time.

That seller will waffle on it when they try to ship all that for $15. That will cost quite a lot more.