OldAtarian

My copy was called Dark Wizard. Don't know who released it, though.

Does the ECS actually use any of the Intellivision hardware or does it just pass a video signal through the cartridge port? If it only passes the video signal through, might it be possible to do an A/V mod to it and use it as a standalone system?

I snagged a 2609 with computer module for $50 recently. Normally you can't touch the computer module alone for that, and it comes with the sometimes hard to locate power supply.

That's an Atari Age member. Homerwannabe, I think aka Mr. Galaxian. And I would tell the poster of the question no, you did NOT have one of these carts unless you signed up for the contest way back when and qualified for the finals. There's a lot of night label Atlantis's out there but not many that actually have Atlantis II on them.

Don't wait too much longer. You only have a limited amount of time to open a claim. Sometimes they give you some slack, but most of the time once the deadline passes, that's it. You lose.

You're a lot more lenient than I would be. It's not your fault he can't tell the difference between Mario Brothers and SUPER Mario Brothers. I hope you explained the difference to him and told him that SUPER Mario Brothers was never released for any Atari system. Just the fact that Luigi is on the label should have been a big tip off that it wasn't the same game. Luigi is not in SUPER Mario Brothers.

With 0 bids on it. Since you didn't bid before the auction ended, why are you so stressed about it? Do you really think a listing with a Quadrun cart had zero bids? The bids were cancelled by the seller before the listing was ended. That happened to me before.

0 feedback seller with Atari 5200 for $4000. No pictures. eBay Auction -- Item Number: 160522284708

You have to look at completed listings in green, not red, to determine the going rate. BIN's, reserve auctions or auctions with a high opening bid are bad indicators to use. I could list one for $100 but that doesn't mean I am going to get it or that they are all suddenly worth $100.

I salvaged the RF cable from my Darth Vader for another project that was missing one (a 400, I think, can't remember now). Is it possible to get RF cables that are like the originals without having to take one from another 2600? The RCA cables you get today aren't the same as they are thinly shielded and the pin is too long.

Slot Racers is a horrible game with a horrible name. Real slot cars race on tracks, they don't navigate mazes and they don't shoot at each other. The name is very deceiving if you bought it expecting it to be anything like slot car racing. I do real slot car racing on the big tracks and it's nothing at all like it.

Here's one that got miscategorized as Colecovision eBay Auction -- Item Number: 190475129676 Take special notice in the photos of the Congo Bongo and Diner. Those two make the price alone.

Yar's isn't particularly valuable in either red or black and peeling it might cause irreparable damage to both labels leaving you with a label-less or damaged label cart that will definitely be worth less than a cart with either label intact.

So I was looking at this recently http://www.amazon.com/Retron-Genesis-Triple-System-Nintendo-Entertainment/dp/B003O3EFY2 Plays NES/SNES and Genesis carts in a single console and it got me to thinking if it would be possible to make one of these with 2600/7800, 5200 and Jaguar slots to play all four. It even has ports for NES/SNES and Genesis controllers. So having ports for 2600/7800 joysticks, 5200 joysticks and Jaguar controllers would be required. Can it be done?

Baseball Stars and Baseball Stars II

Is it possible to burn ROM images from carts that weren't released as CD's so they work in the Neo Geo CD?

The Neo Geo did 2D fighting games better than ANY 32-bit system and even the N64. You had to move up into Dreamcast/PS2/XBOX/Gamecube territory before you could find a system that looked as good. King of Fighters probably looks even better in some ways on the NG than the Dreamcast.

I've tried it with old Macs. The problem comes in when Goodwill has a contract with a recycler to take everything electronic off their hands and they can't break the contract. Once they have the contract, the recycler drops off a locking bin and the employees have to put ALL electronics donations into it. Once the items are in the bin, only the recycler's driver can take them out when he makes his pickup because the employees don't have the key. Another thing, even if they don't have a contract, they take out all the hard drives and if you know anything about old Macs, those hard drives are very difficult to replace because they are Apple specific drives. Once the original hard drive is gone, I won't pay more for it than I would if it was non-functional because stripping it for parts is practically all I can do with it. It costs too much money to buy those drives separately for it to be worth paying full price for them except for some of the really rare models like a IIfx or Color Classic.

The Intellivision is dominating my Atari's now. I wish I could stop, but building a huge collection is so cheap except for a handful of ultra rares that are CIB/NIB. You can assemble a fairly complete Inty collection for next to nothing.

Hehe, the retro store near me just got in a 7800 unit that they're selling for $129.00 Knowing I'm a big Atari collector he asks if I'm interested because he knows they're really rare and that even I, the mighty atari collector, wouldn't have one of these and at this amazing price I should get it now before its quickly gone. I just shook my head, said no thanks, and told him I already had 6 of them, including a boxed one and never paid more than $25 or $30 for a bare unit. His reaction and the way he said "Really?" made my day PS - This was a month ago, this "buy it quick before its gone" unit is still there at $129.00 At that point I would have pulled out a photograph of the 6-7800's you already own and say "Oh, you mean these?" I just corrected one guy on ebay selling a Sears light sixer as a heavy and he was also saying that they only came from Sunnyvale. I expect a profanity laden email any minute now.

http://www.shopgoodwill.com/auctions/6-Nintendo-Handheld-Games-7169579.html $550? Really?

It's very probable that Atari had a lot of older, loose carts leftover in the warehouse when the red boxes were printed so they slapped red labels on top of the older ones and put them in the newer red boxes. It would have taken too much time and people would have had to have been paid to peel off the old labels from each one before applying the new ones so just covering up the old labels was best. What would be interesting would be to discover that something really rare, like Gravitar with a silver label is hiding under some of the dirt common red label versions of that game and all you have to do is separate the top red label from the silver one underneath to increase the value of your cart.

I'm pretty sure that's incorrect. I know for a fact that I can run TOS 3.06 on my 1040STf, at least from floppy, and can't you use the TOS 2.06 chips in any ST prior to the Falcon and TT?