OldAtarian

It seems like King's Quest I is at least doable since I used to play that from a 360K floppy disk drive on a CGA system and 4.77Mhz PC. CGA is still far in excess of what the A8 is capable of video wise and a 4.77mhz 8088/8086 is still faster than a 1.77mhz 6502 and ANTIC can't compare to a good video card in the PC.

Neither do I. It's stupid considering the white ones go for around $75. I can't see paying a 10x premium for it.

I have a Mountain King and a K-razy Kritters that don't work in my XL's. I was hoping someone could tell me so I don't have to unpack one of my 800's to test them. I don't know if they don't work because they are broken or because they are incompatible with the XL.

Are they incompatible with the XL/XE?

So you're going to pay a minimum of $22.00 for a broken 2600A that has nothing else special about it?

Then I leave myself exposed to snipers. If an item worth $500 only has bids to $400 and I drop my second bid then the snipers will zoom in at the last second. I leave myself a $100 cushion against at least some of the snipers if they know they have to beat $500 instead of $400. I may be in there sniping a bid higher than my max myself if it's something I want badly enough to overpay for. A once a decade buying opportunity is definitely worth being in there fighting for no matter what it costs. I don't know why you bother with all this. If you are really concerned about side-dealers, you'd be far better off sending the seller a side-deal offer of your own at the start of the auction for what you are willing to pay. If the seller doesn't accept it, then you know that the seller is not open to side-deals and the auction will run its course. If the seller accepts it, then at least you get your item and the seller gets a reasonable price for it. You can get the seller to add a BIN to the auction so that e-bay gets its cut. Everyone's a winner... I think he stated that he thinks side deals are shady. This would be akin to saying to someone who is opposed to steroids to just juice up on steroids if they are so concerned about weight lifting. Would he hav had a problem if the side-dealer had offered $1k and did a side-deal? Probably not. ...but then poor Ebay would lose there fee money Not if it was done via a BIN. As I said, everyone's a winner! Okay, now I get it, everyones a winner...well except the guy that over pays but hey thats his own fault. That would be OldAtarian Even if I did overpay for something, it wouldn't be for something that you can get everyday on ebay. It would have to be something extremely rare. I'd rather overpay a little and have the extremely rare item than not bid enough and not get it at all. Winning the item is all that matters.

But...the redshirts never finish the mission. They always die within minutes (or sometimes seconds) of landing on the planet. How can you base a game on them?

I think you mean the Model III and IV. The model II was the business machine with the 8 inch floppies. Any of those monolithic, all in one computers from the CP/M era are best sourced locally. Shipping is killer.

Maybe someone tried to do a 1.44 meg floppy mod and screwed it up.

I wish you luck Alan. Those things seem to be rarer than Hen's teeth. Kinda like Dave Smalls SST accelerator. I'd love to have one of those for my Mega ST! I'm glad someone else said it. I was going to post pretty much the same thing yesterday but was afraid I'd be flamed for it. I really don't think anyone who has one is going to let it go and if they did, it wouldn't be cheap. It would probably be easier to just get a TT or Falcon from Best or B&C.

Honestly, if it's not something simple it might be better just to get another Colecovision and keep the old one for parts or sell it for whatever you can get for it. I broke one of the controller ports off mine and it had been sitting unused for around 15 years until I found someone selling a motherboard for $20. It wasn't worth the labor charge to fix the old one. Even if you have to buy a complete system with games, you can always sell anything you don't need to get some of the money back. You might even be able to get one with games you don't already have and fill some holes in your collection at the same time.

I saw two of these on ebay recently and both are going for a lot even though one of them is torn up all to hell. Why was DK released in a box? Didn't they come packed without a box with every Colecovision?

You sure it wasn't this one? Dream Gear Plug n Play

Definitely time for a new webhost when one of the largest UK Atari sites is banned from being accessed by one of the largest UK ISP's. They have to have noticed a traffic slowdown in the maintenance logs recently because of it. It can't be a complete surprise to them that there's a problem.

"So any plug-in cards that work in the 800, will no longer work. No Omnimon, no Omniview, and no memory cards of any kind. XL/XE hardware compatibility and full 800 compatibility are mutually exclusive, period." Can someone please clarify this for me? If no upgraded memory cards of any kind can be used, how do you get to 64K? You're going to need at least one 32k board in there somewhere or bad things will happen when a program goes looking for RAM over 48k.

And the little piggy went 'Weeeeeee' all the way home.

Is the 5200 cart slot technically the same as the 400/800 cart slot? I've opened up my 5200 and the first thing that stands out is the actual cartridge slot inside is a lot smaller than it is on the outside. Is there a Harmony cart for the 400/800? If there is and the slots on both machines are the same, then shouldn't it just be a matter of sticking it in a 5200 cart shell?

Minus the usual AAer discount, of course.

Relistings eBay Auction -- Item Number: 230556796456 eBay Auction -- Item Number: 350417970877 I guess the buyer pointed out his mistake.

Wow, very very impressive lot Yeah. Even the imports are in there.

This happens a lot when someone owns a system with a 2600 module. They forget which games were for which system. You frequently see Colecovision and 2600 games being sold together or Intellivision and 2600 games but the system and adapter have long since departed.

Relisted eBay Auction -- Item Number: 320623931072 This time listed as a Colecovision cart.

Maybe we would have gotten a top loader from the beginning instead of the "control deck". We also probably wouldn't have gotten R.O.B. If we had gotten a top loader from the beginning, we also wouldn't have needed the oversized carts.

No, you misunderstand again. You sounded like you were accusing someone of saying ZX81's were Spectrums. Who in this thread said that?

I saw that one. If it relists for $30 BIN with free shipping I'll consider it. I'm not paying $50 for a lot of 3 repros with Coke Wins in it.