doctorclu

I'm trying to get a list together of the various beige products that Atari made, or was in the CX-8XX line of product numbers. So far I can remember.... (Edited from comments, and Atari-History.com referrenced) X-800 Computer * CX-800-DS Developers System CX-801 10K Rom OS * CX-801P 10 Rom OS (Pal) CX-810 Floppy Drive CX-815 Dual Disk System * CX-816/817 Prototypes CX-820 Drum Printer CX-822 Thermal Printer CX-825 80 Column Printer * CX-827 (Proto 80 Column printer - just recently found an engineering sheet and a sample label as well CX-830 Acoustic Coupler Modem CX-835 Direct Connect Modem * CX-837 (300/1200 DC Modem Prototype) CX-85 Numeric Keypad CX-850 Interface Module CX-852 8K Ram board CX-853 16K Ram board I know there was a dual drive and a thermal printer in there as well. Forgot their numbers. So what other ones were out there? And if a third party used a CX-8XX number (I think I have one printer interface that did) throw those in as well. Thanks!

GP2X? What is that?

Who me? I know compact flash quite well. Use it with at least three different platforms. Great stuff. What I don't understand is why it couldn't run rom and CD images? Actually, in this case I don't think it is so much a reason of can't but don't want to.

LOL!

First , Just try to find shells, PCB and eproms 27C160 to make carts with only 4 MB ... Second, Look the price and the size of a CompactFlash ... JagCF is the jag future ! 1015676[/snapback] How an exchange program. The user provides an Atari Jag cartridge they want to scrap, along with the cost of the module? This would save some time having to find catridges, and with every one you send out, you get a catridge shell to replace it.

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Sorry to hear about Sunday. However, there is the chat in thirty minutes at 8 CST in the telnet Atari chat room. Hope to see everyone there.

Reason to get an Atari Jaguar? I think for me it is just the uniqueness of it all. Guess I could could enjoy about any system, however, finding people with a Jaguar and more than five games is fairly unique in the gaming world. And with at least five games you can have hours of fun. Best thing to do, as I did, see if you can find a Jag user in your area, or something along those lines, and try out some of the games. Or visit one of the video gaming conferences. I picked up Club Drive and Missile Command 3D after someone showed them to me. Trying it out helps a lot in my book.

159.95 in the original run 1014550[/snapback] And I thought that was very expensive back then. Luckily I got on the tail end of that one. Bought it knowing that it had the CD Bypass, plus the demo disc that contains the Jaguar Mod Player, Native, Asteriods, and Slam Racers. And of course BS Gold was a good game as well. And the clear cartridge case makes it easy to find in a box of Jaguar games.

Interesting pictures. In my view, with Battlesphere being basically Star Raiders, all we need now is Joust and Warlords. (Holds hand over heart for "Bonk", the first attempt at Jag Warlords.) So the Qudrapong idea with castles... heck yeh!

I thought that was the case and have always wondered why it seemed little was made for it compared to the 800xl. 1003376[/snapback] I think that in easier times it was too expensive to tinker on the 8-bit stuff since they were the price of computers today. By the time that 8-bit Atari's were cheap, people had already grown used to the idea thatn the Atari 800 was limited, too much would need to be done to make bankable memory possible, and just tinkered with XL's and XE's. Atari 800 XL and 1200's were always popular due to the sockets. The 130 XE was popular for it's size and built in memory from the start, though nothing really socketed. The Atari 800 became the machine you used if you like sleek but huge machines with a nice keyboard and for people that could get by with 48K of memory. However, Atari 800's have had some amazing things. Atari 800's have commonly had 256K that they could use as a ramdisk. And that was the common upgrade, there have been much higher. Other cards like the 80 column card, Omnimon, hard drive interfaces and other things have come up too. But the one card that I thought was missing was the ability to change out the OS board.

Ok, it's been a day now as I said I would give myself (almost 24 hours to the minute) before I posted. Since my post I have had a lot of people writing me not to sell my Jaguar collection because, if nothing else if I left Bubsy would loose his fan club and fall into obscurity. Nope was showing my Jag collection to my brother in law last night and realized a bunch of great titles I wanted to show him. So yeh I might seemed a bit over the top yesterday, but I was furious. Anyway, so that's that. I'll wait with the rest for a happy ending on this.

It really makes it like a whole new machine. The memory of the XL, the great keyboard of the 800. Yeh, it's a lot of fun. And I forgot... 6) Not having to hold down option to bypass basic! 1011314[/snapback] Actually when I had DavidB and Docrotcod over for a visit a month or so ago, we took a XE and removed the basic chip. Booted no problem. We tried to insert a rom from another cartridge (To see if we could have it come in a game like the XEGS), but most cartridges are 2 chip not one. But yeh, remove the basic chip from the motherboard, no need to hold down option.

I am so tempted to sell my Jaguar collection to spare me of the disappointment I feel right now. I was so happy to hear Gorf released, and so so... ANGRY.. that it is not there. I just got paid and was ready to buy one. Past experience has taught me when I am angry to give things time. So I will give at least a day to post anything else about this. Angry posts... give a day, then respond. And major actions, like the liquidation of a collection and a hobby, I give a month or two. There are many games on the Jag I would miss, but I would be saddened to look at the "what if" caused, not by Atari, but by "fans". Yep, this is my very nice message compared to how I am feel about all this. Very disappointed and extremely angry over here. But stopping here and giving time to pass before I post more. (I guess I could keep a Jag around for Bubsy... unless I can emulate it. I think Bubsy, due mainly to fond memories with friends, would be all that I would REALLY miss if I sold my Jag today.)

Instructions, not really, but Warerat plans on making a small run on these. All I have to say is, one, talk about this more on the XL OS ram upgrade post, and two, having the beige 800 doing stuff the XL and XE can do now is just awesome.

I'll tinker with it tonight. I know there are multiple images to this game. I would like to introduce the first team of two members: "Team 800". "Team formed to celebrate the new XL upgrade for the 800 thus making it possible to play Olympics 88 and other XL games for the first time on the beige 800. Other fans of the beige 800 are welcome to join. Though modified beige 800's will be used, only fandom of the beige 800 is neccessary." Members: Doctor Clu, Warerat. (so far)

Good to hear you're still around The Dungeon - w00t! 1010802[/snapback] I don't care what anyone says, with the cool stuff everyone is building for the 8-bits these days, I think these days are the best days for the Atari fan. (Says the man who got Warerat's XL OS upgrade for the original Atari 800 working.)

Played it a lot as a kid. But then I don't play sports games much. But Home Run, Basketball (still like Basketball), now those were fun. Then Intellivision came along and made games with 5x more detail. So Atari made the Real Sports series. Real Sports Baseball replaced Home Run at that point. But weren't those early sports games just charming?

Absolute favorite are the Atari 8-bits, and more specifically the Atari 800. Aside from that, the Atari Jaguar was just "awesome!"

I write my life out here and on BBS's, so I said AtariAge was my blog. The Atari Hangout (ran on a linux server under Perl) had one of the first blogs that I knew about in 2000. Others came along and said the server was ahead of it's time. That went down sometime last year I think. I have one blog I wrote to for a bit, which I've forgotten where it is.

Don't forget the Atarinews chat too.

It really makes it like a whole new machine. The memory of the XL, the great keyboard of the 800. Yeh, it's a lot of fun. And I forgot... 6) Not having to hold down option to bypass basic!

I've been working with an XL OS board for the 800 that Wareat made for me. Nice piece of work. Plug in the board in the rom board slot, and then you run a wire from the XL OS board to the 1st wire in joystick port three. Took me a bit to find the right cable, but I finally found a broken joystick I didn't mind scrapping. Put the XL OS board in a shell from a 800 16K ram board (I like to protect the unique rom boards while the ram tends to overheat in those shells anyway. I had Dave B (Undead Mechanic) on the line over here as I working with the board. He gave me some good ideas as I was working on this. Well, have to say, I love having an Atari 800 that can... 1) Not play the Gorf cartridge (knew it was a true XL then since Gorf only works on a 400/800) 2) Was able to load Olympics 88 (the upcoming game in the high score club contest, that crashes quite well on a stock 800. 3) Plays Crazy Ball Version II.. this was the game that told me I had the memory wired up correctly. (Since I had established that it did not work on the 800, and did not work with the XL OS BOARD once plugged up) I found a great way to test that the banked memory was working with this game. Image is at.. http://www.mushca.com/f/atari/index.php?idx=C 4) May not load Sparta DOS 3.4 yet (gets 45 sectors into loading it) but it does not stop the load three sectors in the load to say it is not a XL/XE. 5) An Atari 800 where you can play Asteriods with the XL OS BOARD hooked up, and joystick port 4 STILL works. Yeh this is amazing. Will be a lot of fun to play with more memory as time goes on. Warerat, thanks for making possible what was once thought not possible