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  4. Posted · Edited by crunchysuperman

    Nice score, Jay! Your label is definately in better condition than mine.

     

    I was all nice & satisfied that I had all the Sears picture labels, and then the possibility of Tank-Plus & Target Fun had to pop up. Doubtful they'll ever surface (if they exist at all) but you never know. :ponder:

  8. Posted

    So I'm modding my 7800 to dump roms, following the instructions in the DEVKIT.ZIP file located here. Everything's going fine, but there's some info left out of the instructions when I get to here:

     

    5) Take the 74LS04 chip and bend up all but the four "corner" pins (1, 7, 8, and 14).

    Piggyback it over the 74AHCT08 or 74LS08 chip which is just above the biggest chip on

    the board. Solder down pins 1, 7, and Now bend up pin 8.

    6) Strip off the other end of the wire wrap wire and wrap the end around pin 2 of the

    74LS04. Before putting it on the 74LS04, thread

     

    There is no further mention of pin 14 anywhere, so is it also soldered down, or bent back up? The way it looks, I'm assuming that last sentence in step 5 was supposed to read Solder down pins 1, 7, and 14. Now bend up pin 8.

     

    So, if somebody here who has done this already could chime in and set me straight, I'd appreciate it.

  18. Posted

    Well, my cheap digital camera just won't focus properly up that close :x But no, it's not a proto board that's pictured in that link. It's tan with longer edge connections than most carts, but after some cleaning I noticed there is some green down at the bottom. Checking out my Atari original numbered carts, some of those are like this as well. However, none of my Space War or Space Combat cartridges have this style PCB inside.

  20. Posted

    Ok, here's some cartridge weights:

     

    Space Combat, Sears pic 4975106 62.73g

    Space Combat, Sears txt 4975106 64.04g

    Space Combat, Sears txt 699812 61.23g

    Space War, Atari pic 66.01g

    Space War, Atari txt 63.91g

     

    Space Combat, Atari txt 68.45g

     

    So it is definately the heaviest version, but they all seem to vary quite a bit. All these cartridges have locking dustcovers, so the shell should be the same weight.

     

    Pushing back the dustcover reveals that there definately is a different pcb inside this cartridge. All these other versions are green/white with shorter edge connections, but this one appears brown with long edge connections. Batteries died in my camera, but when I can get a shot of it, I'll put it up.

     

    I did go ahead & get some scans done. Notice the red border bleeding in "behind" the silver border on the left side of the end label. It's printed that way - it's not written on or altered.

     

    I'm gonna be modding my 7800 to dump roms - I'll put this one up when I do.

     

    space%20combat%20main.jpg

    space%20combat%20end.jpg

  21. Posted

    I don't count it against a complete collection for the fact that it's only a LVAR. It's not a unique game, it's not a unique title, & not even unique artwork.

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    By that way of thinking, why bother getting a silver Gravitar in addition to a red one? After all, as you say, it's only a label variation. For that matter, aren't all but 3 of the Sears titles just Atari games with different labels? Why get a Xonox single-ender if you already have the same game on a double-ender? Why bother to get both the standard & beveled US Games cartridges?

     

    In the end, isn't what we're doing collecting the cartridges and not just games? We could play the rarest of the rare on emulators all day long if it were only about the games.

  24. Posted

    So how much does it weigh?

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    Bare cart weight = 2.5 oz. / 70 grams

     

    My scale is digital, but only shows 1/4 oz/5g increments.

     

    Crunchy will tell you all about it later this week, I'm sure.

     

    Chuck

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    I just weighed two carts -- one a regular Atari 2 digit cart ("11 Indy 500") that weighs 2.3 oz, and a loaner cart I got from Tempest which weighs 3.1 oz. I'm guessing that prototypes were sometimes different weights as they were made with different board/chip combinations.

     

    Crunchysuperman can hopefully weigh it again to get a more exact weight.

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    I've got a .01g resolution scale put away somewhere - I'll definately try & dig it up.

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