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Look at this page: Rebuilding the Atari 5200 CX52 Joystick You can see that the analog stick is made with 2 "Analog Potentiometers (Pots) for X Y Movement (PC Joysticks)". This makes it is easy to make a nob for Tempest but harder hard to make a digital control for H.E.R.O, and Ms. Pacman. (aside: Frogger lets you use the KEYPAD 2,8,4,6 buttons to move frogger) Maybe this is what you are looking for: Using 2600 joysticks on a 5200 has a ASCII schematic (wiring diagram) of the Masterplay interface. I use a Masterplay interface to hook up arcade control joystick (I actually found in a thrift) for digital games. if you want to try to wire up an analog stick to replace the two Potentiometers like CZroe said with a playstation original: ----> this is what I think you want <--------YouTube. other googled links. http://old.pinouts.ru/Inputs/JoystickAtari5200_pinout.shtml https://hackaday.io/project/1021-atari-5200-custom-controller-build

deal pending to save2600

How about Sunday night.

I needed attachments so I posted pictures in a new topic

Deal pending... The bad: writing and tape on the box and no sponge on the mic I don't have any of the MB games to test it.

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I have got these 3 shrink wrapped games. 1 7800 Tank Command unopened 2 7800 Water Ski by Froggo Games I think I will let these stay up for a while and I will sell to the highest offer? Starting at $150.00 PS: I have a bunch of stuff to unload also: commodore 128 in box TI/994a in box w/ voice module ~20 games, keyboard strip, 2 sets of joysticks, and I think the tape player cord MBX voice for TI/994a in box (like this) Atari 600xl in box but the connector is not working 100%, $20 Tandyvision (Intellavision) w/games Atari 5200 w the box (4 port) Sega stuff consoles, a Nomad (with out battery) Sega Master System Sega GameGear w/ TV, case, a ton of games GameGear converter to play Mater System carts APF M1000 So if you are in or know anyone in Colorado and want to play with or look at any of this, let me know.

Bought some 5200 games from me and he paid right away.

I don't know if I can part with these extremely priceless heirlooms I just found one here at AtariAge: Kitsune Sniper Sold one: NEC TREK Canyon Climber ebay for ~$25 Well let me know what you think is a fare price.

Mr SQL, on 09 Apr 2015 - 5:01 PM, said: Thank you. I think you are right! PC Jr nick name the peanut is about what it was. I'm sooooo old that we had some of these in the computer lab (Pima Community collage in Tucson) and they had infra-red keyboards and one day I turned on two of them and sat back with one keyboard and operated both!

I have these two NEC TREK games for the "NEC Personal Computer PC 6000" I only find a few sites on the internet about these and no one has pictures on them. Guys please post what you think I should do with these

I have a lot of 5200 commons. $1 each plus shipping I'm in Colorado Springs - 80919 How do you guy's handle payments usually? 2 Space Invaders 2 Defenders 2 Robotron 2084 2 galaxin 2 Digdug 1 Berzerk 1 Super Breakout 1 Football 1 Kangaroo 2 Missle command 1 Vanguard 2 Pengo (one very faded) 4 Countermeasure 2 Qix (I have a few big items, like a 600 XL, should I just keep adding to this one?) Thank you.

Here are some: Hay, Your space boots untied. Ha ha ha ha. Burwor, Garwor, and Thorwor, will do you in. Hey, insert coin. Another coin for my treasure chest. Are you fit to survive the pit? Ha ha ha ha. My creatures are radioactive. You've just been frayed by the Wizard of Wor. Ha ha ha ha. Your bones will lie in the dungeons of wor. ha ha ha ha. Your explosion was music to my ears. Ha ha ha ha I went though all the speech codes and wrote down every thing it said. I found all of them in the ROM file, they are all in one place. I can post all the sayings if anyone wants (75 in all).

see also: Atari Home Pong Part 1 And from Atari Home Pong Part 2: ... but Atari would want a few things, one being that Atari's name had to be on the product. This was unheard of by Sears on its own branded products, it never had a manufacturer name on their brands. AtariAge - Sears

Noooooo, the big mess up here is that BLACK JACK IS NOT 21!!!!!!!!!!!

So did you ever try to win by being on top of the yellow castle? If you took the magnet and put it above the gate then take the bridge in to the hallway below the castle and go off the bottom of the screen with the chalice and then drop it and it will float to the gate and you will win with the square at the top. A slight variation: magnet above the open gate and the chalice in the path of the gate (I can’t remember how to have the magnet not attract the chalice) but then have the key with you as you fall off the bottom of the hallway to the top of the yellow castle and then drop the key and the key would start closing the gate and then it would touch the chalice and then you would win. (Or maybe it was have the gate closed and the magnet above and the chalice below it and then when you dropped the key it would open the gate and touch the chalice and win.)

I would like to open it up a bit and not talk about a game or games, sorry. So my dad had 6 kids (me included) and more than a full time job managing a Woolco (kinda like a Target) (4040 N Oracle Rd Tucson, AZ) in the 80’s. So he didn’t have a lot of time with me individually and so when he brought home an Atari (six switch model) and I think I got the most joy playing that thing and I felt like a big shot going behind the counter at Woolco where the Atari games where because my dad was store manager! That is why Atari in general to me really gives a nostalgic connection with my dad (now passed). This is probably why I collect and visit Atari Age still! The games that the whole family played together were Combat and Air Sea Battle and then Space Invaders and my mom would even play it and I would come home and find her playing by herself! Adventure was one that I spent sooo many hours playing that “Created by Warren Robinett” is a thing of worship! But it was not just the games, I would drool over the manual and catalogs and cartoons that came in the box because the TV was not always available for Atari. The manual always made the very rudimentary graphics more palatable because you would know what it is (oh the arrow is a sword).

http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-2600-vcs-4-game-in-one-ice-hockey-phantom-ufo-spy-vs-spy-cosmic-avenger_13679.html Looks like they have the manual there also. Atari age's database/Rarity Guide search defaults to North America but you can always change it to ALL but I could not find your title here at Atari Age I found a Activision Super Hit Pak from Australia (with a CA$H CONVERTERS's price tag (a store that looks like it is well known there) in a video game store but I can't play it because of my TV's/2600's do not work with it.

Yes. Oh, I didn't know that Stella had a database. Is this in the Stella emulator code or is this a web site? Is this cataloged by ROM's CRC32 signatures?

I could write a program to detect and write the PADDLE roms into a directory called paddle and then when I have the paddles out and want to play a few games I would select games from this directory. Or have a program add (Paddles) to the ROM name. I did modify the CC2ROMDB.TXT to have more information: Demons to Diamonds Paddles DEMNSDIA 4K 78BIOS 7e18d535 Atari 2 P Demons to Diamonds (PAL) Paddles DEMNDIAP 4K 78BIOS 3e7ece9b Atari 0 P Like Controller (if other than joystick) in the title and new columns at the end: company, rarity, controller But I only wrote the menu gen in java and no one seems to use or like java.

We know that the emulators (such as Mess, Stella…) auto detect the bankswitching used by looking for specific instructions in the ROM. Example: Bankswitch method 3E is used when STA $3E; LDA #$00 or in HEX 85 3E A9 00 is in the ROM. Would it be as easy to see specific instructions in a ROM to detect that it uses the PADDLES (mostly) or JOYSTICK? And less important are: keyboard/kid/touchpad, and driving controller. This would be useful if a Harmony(or other multicart) user would like a directory of PADDLE games/ROMs.

Writing this because: - People on YouTube seem to be missing some history - I'd like my kids to maybe read it (someday) - Some of these things I can't find on the internet Please add your own stuff and corrections. What would you highlight (add asterisks to) as being significant? ------------------------------- Early 70's I remember being in Disneyland with family waiting for "American the Beautiful" Circle-Vision 360 and they had a play tic-tac-toe agents a computer or electronic something. I just remember it winning every time. Watching rockets blast off going to the moon. Mid-70's Balsa wood airplanes w/rubber ban windup propeller. Tandy Leather co (get tools and kits to make designs in leather mostly for wallets. My dad had a lot of tools)(Tandy co owned Radio Shack) Burning wood kits (no lawsuits back then) No 8-track tapes but still had cassette adaptor for the car 8 track player. ONLY 3 TV channels! (Maybe a UHF fuzzy channel)(something called VHF and UHF (one dial U-2-3-4..12-13 and the other channels 15-20-25-...–80 that didn't click) Saturday morning cartoons (Hanna-Barbera: Speed Buggy, Scooby-Doo) CB radios (new language "breaker one-nine"), 8 mm home movies (no sound), board games (master mind, monopoly, battle ship), bikes (kid would do wheelies, and jumps ala Evel Knievel) First calculators (I remember a magnifier on each digit) Library no computer! card catalogs, microfilm, microfiche 1972 Magnavox Odyssey home ~pong system with gun (Magnavox latter sued Atari and others for Pong) 1975 Oct Saturday Night Live 1975 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Atari/Sears pong 1976 Bicentennial (USA 200 years old, Red, White, and Blue everywhere, posters with 1776-1976 on them, special quarters) 1977 May Star Wars IV (was such a hit that having a Star Wars T-shirt made other boys envious)(Kenner Star Wars Early Bird Kit) 1977 Space Wars arcade (my big brother and I played this in Disneyland after riding Space Mountain in the Starcade (currently they have Fixit Felix with Wreck-It Ralph they look like Donkey Kong machines)) 1977 June ****Apple ][ **** $1,300 (Atari employee #40: ) 1977 June TRS-80 computer $600 (Radio Shack) 1977 handheld electronic mastermind 1977 Sep **Atari 2600** heavy 6er $200 with Combat, fun but you need another person. 4k rom addressing 9 games (all early games are 2k, it is more expensive to make 4k) 3 different controllers: joystick, paddles, driving (Indy 500 only(game was to bring home a fun arcade game that had big steering wheels for multiple players) 1978 Merlin game, Handheld LED Football, Simon 1978 ****2600 Space Invaders ****(Atari 2600 killer app) (pretty much first game you can play by-u-self for hours. (Well maybe Surround or Code Breaker) Otherwise you had to get a friend over or convince a sibling or parent to play with you) 1978 Dr. Demento (radio show of funny songs, this show will start "Weird Al" Yankovic, Space invaders by Uncle Vic, ((Locked In The Closet With You by SuLu))) 1978 Adventureland text RPG on the TRS-80 1978 Basic Computer Games book (a book with basic programs to type into your computer to play games) (We also would have magazines with type in games and latter some would be rows of data statements : "100 DATA 4E 00 48 63" and the basic program would write the data to a cassette tape and then you could load the games and play Late 70's - Early 1980's Shacky's Pizza all you can eat with the whole family with video games silent moves would play on a big screen and a player piano would play music. 1979 Galaxian arcade game (Shacky's had one we would flick pennies up the return slot to add a credit until the owner bent the metal on the return slot) 1979 Steve Jobs goes to PARC and see a GUI! 1979 Nov 2600 Asteroids (first bank switching game:8k) 1979 Nov Atari 8-bit computer With Star Raiders killer app Arcade: Pac-man, Missile Command (first trackball), Battle Zone 1980 Commodore VIC 20 1980 Intellivision $300 1980 ***Adventure*** (OMG saw this at a friend’s house and got this game within a couple days) 1980 first Activision games 1980 July Airplane! Movie (A friend was playing Adventure at my house. He saw the maze blinking with only one object. He said there must be something in here. I'm all naw. We said there is a little square right here and he got the ladder and got in there and hit something in the corner. It was a dot but it was late and he left to go home. I was so excited. While carrying the dot I went to the main hall way and the line on the left disappeared! But it didn't let me through ahhhh! Well eventually I got through the other line but didn't know what it said.) 1981 we started seeing arcades in strip malls with tokens! (I use to go after school and play Gorf and centipede and they expanded the arcade and Robotron: 2084 and Donkey Kong came.) And Golf and things had a ton of arcade games. 1981 Arcade: Gorf, Donkey Kong 1981 Dec Pac-Man Fever song 1981 Aug IBM PC (thus starts the monopoly switch from IBM to Microsoft (also hardware to software). 1982 July Tron movie 1982 Aug Commodore 64 1982 Aug ColecoVision with ****killer app: Donkey Kong****** 1982 Sep Star Raiders 2600 with touch pad 1982 Tron arcade game 1983 Kid controller 1983 Dragon's Lair (first laserdisc video game) 1983 Oct Coleco Adam home computer attachment to ColecoVision video game (a quick story: Adam was sold in JC Penny's (Tucson El Con downstairs) in Video games in the toy department and they had a computer department. Someone walks up to the guy behind the counter at the computer department and asks “where is the Adam computer?” Reply: that would be in the toy department. The person leaves and we both crack up laughing.) 1983 video game crash(or home video game console crash) I remember outside the KayBee toy store ("where you guna find a KayBee toy store?" (Tucson mall bottom floor) loads of 2600 games in a bin, one box I remember had a big tank on it with the title: "Tanks but no Tanks" and no one wanting to buy them because they mostly sucked and we wanted computer games. (watch David Crane video on Pitfall (54 min in): no quality control/lockout chip and 3rd party crap games) A stupid home computer commercial with a kid going off to collage on a train and coming back because of "lack of computer skills". Part of the Video Game crash for me was that parents said if we are going to spend money about $200 on a video game thing why not buy a computer that plays video games and my kid will learn some programming and not just waist time. 1984 Firefox video game with laserdisc background (based on Warner Bros (parent company to Atari) Firefox movie. (First 7800's had a laserdisc port) Arcade: Paperboy, Marble Madness 1984 March IBM PC Jr (home/cheep computer w/ inferred keyboard) 1985 Oct *****NES *****(rebirth of console gaming) ... Bulletin board systems distributing pirated software

Thanks but mine is nothing compared to yours but in my defense: I didn't get any of these on the internet, local sores only.

Bonus points to anyone who can say how Marvin the Martian, Bugs, and especially Buzz Lightyear are related to Atari.

You should only put Atari related guards.