cbmeeks

I want to start a small asm project for the 800. Are there any tuts or examples out there with smoooooth horizontal scrolling across many screens? Thanks

Mine is a 130xe with a 800/130 toggle switch.

Friggin' awesome!

My vote goes for Holger Bommer's design.

Any word on this? I am ready to buy. :-)

Any word on this? I just downloaded the PDF and Word copies. What about using a print on demand like LuLu? Thanks for the great work!

I have to admit. I really love my 130XE. Especially that I have S-Video support on my 1084S WOOHOO!!!

Ahh...cool. So, now I'm on a hunt for cool software that shows off my 130XE. hehehe

That's what I was thinking. What would you need to do in order to switch to 800 mode? Disable 64k of ram??

I just rec'd my first 130XE. While it was a little dirty, it is cleaning up very well. I fired it up and everything works fine and I noticed a toggle switch on the back. There was a sticker that said " 130 | 800 " I put it in "130" mode and loaded the 130 version of Mario 2007 and it works great. My question is, was this switch normal? I haven't tried 800 mode yet because I am still cleaning. There are no factory indications that the switch was normal. But, it is very professionally installed. I even took it apart and it looks good. Thanks cbmeeks

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How? I looked but it only appears to support ATR and PRO images?? hmm...well, I will see if I can just find those type of files. And feel free to explain in detail. I'm a programmer by day and amateur electrical engineer by night so I can take it. lol

Exactly. Does anyone really get hurt because I am downloading Pole Position for the Atari 800? The law is the law but some laws are stupid. Like the one in Arizona that says it's illegal for fish for wales!!! cbmeeks

One of the games was Pole Position. To recap, I have the following: 800XL (130XE will be here soon which will become my main Atari) I use AtrUtil.exe to convert xex, etc files to ATR. This has worked for a few. Lemmings (2005) doesn't work. It looks like the screen is definitely PAL because it fills the entire screen top to bottom when other games have more border. Mr Do! is one that doesn't work. I downloaded from your site. It was an ATX file and I don't know how to use those. So, I used the AtrUtil to convert to ATR. I chose several different formats and boot disk. Mr Do! is a "K" game. I would LOVE to. But where? I don't have a real Atari disk drive but I have a real 800XL. I have even thought about buying a real drive and trying to find some real games from eBay. I just want to play but I can't. I grew up C64 but I want to enjoy the Atari games too. I just can't figure it out. lol Thanks everyone!

Tried that. Did it both ways.

Thanks for the comments guys. Alas, I am still having trouble. A lot of the games I try simply don't work. I usually get a brown screen with a "k" and that is it. Some games do work like the Mario 2007 and M.U.L.E. Plus I have some REAL cart games that work. So I believe my machine is OK. So I don't know what the deal is. :-(

Thanks guys! IMHO, abandonware is up for grabs...lol

I have about 10 games that I found online (yes, I'm a bad boy). Anyway, I want to play games on my 800XL. Some of the games I have found (Lemmings, etc) seem to load but the screen is all messed up when I play. In the Commodore world, I am used to this because most games are PAL and I am NTSC. Is there a similar problem that I am facing with the Atari games? Hell, I will buy original copies of games if I can find them. I just want to play! lol And without starting a ROM flame war, I personally enjoy playing games I find to see if I like them. It's not like I can go to Blockbuster and rent them. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! cbmeeks

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...N:IT&ih=006 Expect it any day now!

Same here. Please don't let this project die. Or, if you aren't interested, release what you have as open source so that someone else might take it on. Bubble Bobble rocks! cbmeeks

AWESOME WORK! I ran it on my 800XL and it works great. When "Mario" gets too high sometimes he fades out...I'm assuming that is the multiplexer fading. VERY nice work.

OMG! I swear, I almost don't believe this entire thread. It's like too good to be true. Some sort of emulator trickery. :-/ I'm off to work now but tonight, I am going to fire up my real Atari 800XL and see just how nice this sweet piece of demo works! wooohoo!!!! Don't give up! cbmeeks

Thanks guys. I think I might try and un-do what I did and see if I can get a good luma signal. Afterall, there's my brightness. I might try and get to that this weekend. :-) cbmeeks

Ah...sorry fogot to mention. NTSC, 2600 JR

if its a 1st gen, you can overclock it I am curious...what would be the benefits of overclocking a Genesis? Unless you ran custom software. Wouldn't the timing of games get really screwed up? I dunno...maybe you like that. lol thanks cbmeeks