Mot

In http://www.classicgaming.com/features/arti...les/atariapple/ you will see "Blue Boxes" mentioned. Blue Boxes are the thing that produces tones, one being 2600. Both Apple founders, Jobs and Wozniak, kinda worked for Atari. How come Atari was not mentioned in "Pirates of Silicon Valley" http://alt.tnt.tv/movies/tntoriginals/pirates/ (A made for TV movie, mostly about Jobs, but also showing how Gate stold from Jobs to get to the top.)

TI 99/4a computer joysticks.http://www.vassmer.com/computermuseum/imag...a-joysticks.jpg http://www.vassmer.com/computermuseum/ti99...a-pictures.html And they don't work with atari 2600.

Thanks to Cupcakes for this explanation but now I have more questions. I guess I think a cart is a cart is a cart and all they all have some memory that the computer system will access. So I guess what you are saying is this is not correct thinking. Did these early computer systems (game systems and computers systems) use different ways to access memory or something and there for not really compatible? And thank you for creating this flash cart; I wish you lots of success! NO... The Atari 8-bit must come first!!!!!!!

Yes, but maybe he, or someone else, could make one for other systems too? I would love to see something with different adapters for other systems. And maybe the 2600 adapter could have dip switchs for the high address lines (like the multi-cart) and you could store more than one game on the flash cart and switch between games with the dip switchs.

What if you had a flash cart thing with like a 26pin (com port) and then you stuck an adapter to that 26pin thing, that looked like a 2600 cart to play in the 2600 and then you could have a NES cart adapter, Atari 8-bit computer cart adapter and so-on. So the flash card would be a place to store the rom image and you plugged the system adapter into it and the system and away you go? I don’t know, just a thought.

Thanks all Now I know everything I wanted to know but the Dragonstomper ID thing. I guess I will have to try it some more. I just don't have a lot of time to play with one hour drive to get to work and kids and ... (I know, bitch, bitch) Did most of the supercharger owners do the mod?

A list of questions that I had ever since I got my hands on a Supercharger for $10 (with tape player and $5 for tapes 1-7). If a site has this info, then call me a SOB and point me to that site thanks! Arcadia stuff is worth more then Starpath stuff, right? Why are the ROM’s not currently on Atari-Age? Why can’t I load game X (a 4K rom) / is there a way to fix to make it work with the Supercharger? Do MP3’s work just as good as WAV files? How do you get the ID needed in Dragonstomper to get across the bridge? / Where is the walkthrough for it? If that smart card cartridge thing comes out, it will not be able to play the 13 games from Starpath right? What emulators (if any) play the Starpath roms? And do I need to read 40 pages of instructions to be able to play them? Supercharger and the 7800 works fine on the one with expansion port but not at all on the one without. Is this because of the smaller contacts? Does it work for anyone? Any advise on making tapes to use with the Supercharger? Like don’t use stereo, only mono. I tried making a tape and it didn’t work but when I plugged Supercharger directly into the computer, it worked great.

My kid has glue stick but this seems like it would never hold. Is there better kinds or are they all about the same?

I'll post my Super Breakout story stuff again for fun: http://www.geocities.com/mot505/sbrkout.html I see now it is worth $5 on e-bay, and I thought it was a good find.

My Centipede cart’s end label fell off and I need to know from you knowledgeable people what glue is best to put it back on? Thanks.

It looks like women are better because she can actually press the fire button!

One thrift here prices the carts at $5 but then they have the 1/2 off on them so they come down. I paid 2.50 for 1 that I didn’t have yet. I once found 5 7200 carts with no price on them and Super Skate Boarding was the best one. I was very bumbed because this store always put about $5 on carts. So I go to the back and ask them how much and lady asked what are they? I say very very old video games. So then she comes back with a big sticker said $5 for all 5. But guess where she put the big sticker…. RIGHT ON THE SUPER SKATE BOARDING LABEL!!!!!! I got it off but it took some of the black off with it! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Kid today barely know NES let alone Atari. I know HS kids here I say I got a Sega Master System. What’s that? Is that a Genesis? When at my house they mostly play Genesis and a little NES for the light gun and duck hunt. Even “The Video Game Bibles” is “from the NES through the Saturn”[/url]

I remember, back in the day, this made for your hand joystick. I found one at thrift picket up right away. This is a micro switch thing so it is clicky. Now I have one for NES. I guess these are not too hard to find. Does anyone else like the 500XJ? or do you have others that are better?

Ok getting off topic but still 80’s! Worked as lab monitor in 84 in Tucson, Arizona. A student asked the lab monitor for help with her 51/4 floppy disk. Monitor looks in the drive and see a very badly warped disk in the drive. Monitor gets pliers to get the dam thing out. You left your disk in the car didn’t you? Yes but all my homework is on that disk. Well I’m sorry but it is all gone now! Monitor makes big mistake by giving warped disk back to the student because…. Later student ask different lab monitor about help with a disk, original lab monitor heard her and came over to her and said “YOU DIDN”T PUT THAT THING BACK IN DID YOU?” and he looked to find disk back in a disk drive! 1 more: In 86 or so the line printer was having fits. I found that one student sent an executable (exe) to the printer. I told him he could not do that! And he says: “I’m leaving school and I need a copy of the program!” I tried to explain that he will not be able to use it but he didn’t get it. So, I just gave him what he had printed and went away.

I thought I came across a game where the black key was in the white castle and the white key was in the black castle and so they could not be opened. Was that just a dream? Let me get this straight... Does the program sudo randomly pick each object to a place and therefore the number of combinations are 18 choose 11? 18 places to put stuff and 11 objects to put. The objects are Chalice, 3 keys, bridge, magnet, 3 dragons, sword, bat. (Surely there are more than 18 places.) Or does one of the 18 say where each of the 11 objects go? I.E. number one will have the yellow key on screen x and white key will be on screen y and ? and therefore there are only 20 placements of objects in Adventure (18 for game 3 and 1 for game 1 and 1 for game 2).

I saw a a commercial for a new cartoon called Whatever happened to robot jones and I can hear 2600 Donkey Kong, along this cartoon uses a Steven Hawking's type voice synth. Also I use to here 2600 pacman all over the place! I belive it was in Cannon Ball Run (1 or 2) for example. Does anyone else hear this stuff or am I the only one that is crazy?

I just got 2 Activision carts that do not work at all on my two 7800's (one w/ expansion port); I don't have a 2600. I did look at the contacts of the carts in question (Decathlon, and Grand Prix) and they look like there is more space between the contacts then the older Activisions I have. So I think if someone had a high score cart, it might just work in one, can anyone try it? But I did mess with robot tank and it finaly worked but if you touch it, it will go blank (as stated b4).

Thanks Nukey Shay, I used debug in DOS to put EA in the adventure bin file and it is a great hack! quote: Originally posted by Nukey Shay: The program has a seperate subroutine that allows you to enter once you touch the dot (note that the dot does not necessarily need to BE in that room, the program just checks to see if it has been picked up or not). I found that if you just touch the dot and then try to enter it didn't work. It works iff the dot is not in the room that it starts in. Example, I moved the dot to the next room and then went to signature room, then I moved the dot back to the room it started in and tried to go back to signature room and no go. I know nit-pick!

When someone says they have a basement full of Atari stuff?You all should say "well I can come and help you appraise your collection because I know what the systems and carts are going for." That way they won?t go back home and think that they have a gold mine, and you will never see them again. Just a thought.

What about putting the magnet above the Gold Castle's gate, then take the bridge and get trapped on top of the Castle with the chalice then drop it and win, while being stuck on top of the yellow castle. quote: Also at the game select screen if you pull down and to the left or right your little square appears at the bottom of the screen. WOOOHOOO!!!! Now if we could just get the bridge to appear on this screen... I wonder where that would take you! I just tried it with holes in the walls and found the all walls wrap-around to the same screen.

Sorry that this didn't work before but I finaly got stuff together and here are the new links: (You will have to cut and past these into you browser) http://www.geocities.com/mot505/SBreakout1.mp3 http://www.geocities.com/mot505/SBreakout2.mp3 One for each side of the record.

I finaily found a record player (with a needle $10) and recorded that record that came with the Super Breakout Read along book. Here is the link you will need to cut and past this into your browser: http://www.geocities.com/mot505/SuperBreakout.zip So put on your pop and scratch ears and get ready for the dramatic story. Also the pictures of the book are here: http://www.geocities.com/mot505/sbrkout.zip Please feel free to use these or put them on your web site.

Does anyone have a reliable page for Sega Genesis game names? And maybe Rarity as well? I can suck the stuff into a quick Master List if ya all want. I found this one. This one has more names. But what to do about CD? I vote for putting in a second master called Sega CD or something.

Ok I suck! (and so does Primus) I sucked in the stuff from www.geocities.com/vvge2001/SegaRarity.txt and made: www.geocities.com/mot505/genesis.txt You will have to rename it to Genesis.csv (as geocities does not like csv files) and put this in your Masters directory: example: C:Program FilesCart CommanderMasters Anyone can do anything you want with it. You can even say you made it. Have fun. Here is the conversion of rarity C- = 1 C = 2 C+ = 3 U- = 4 U = 5 U+ = 6 R- = 7 R = 8 R+ = 9 [ 12-06-2001: Message edited by: Mot ] [ 12-06-2001: Message edited by: Mot ]

Hey Junie thanks for the post. Now at least I know the cost of the thing. I just wonder if I see (or saw) one at the thrift, if I knew what one looks like. (Well I did see something at the thrift that had that green chip socket thing on it but it said something about logic probe and was something around $60, so I passed on it not knowing enough about it .)