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Yes yes yes thank you! Awaiting a power supply, and then we are off to the races!

Since the Atari computers went down to 2 controler ports after the Atari 800, all of the 4 player games must be early games. Can anyone list most or all of the 4 player games available?

Ewwww I had a Coleco Adam, I gave it to a friend, for his kids. His wife made him give it back, ahah, and I pitched it. Takes up too much space, otherwise it would be a nice system to have.

It seems I biased the post with the mention of the TI994a. Speaking of Apricot, I remember seeing these at the computer store where I bought my Apple IIe. Those were nice looking machines.

I think after I started my first nursing job in 2006, on like my second pay check I went spending all kind of money, and bought an Blueberry IMac 300-400 mhtz range off of Ebay. The picture seemed a little bit off, and I had a 2 ghz PC at the time, so the Mac just seemed too slow. To make a long story short, I tossed the IMac in the can, and I kept the nice little keyboard, and hooked it to my PC. It wasn't a total loss. Still use the keyboard on my newer 3 ghz PC system.

This kid was a total cluts. He told me he put the cart in backwards on his TI994A. In the Drugstore, he I saw him insert the cart into a working TI994a, and the seconds later it became a nonworking TI994a. I don't know how he did it, but he did it!

Back in about 1981 or so, my friend got a TI-99/4A computer from his uncle. He had this cool munch man game, and something else. It was a cool little computer. One saturday I went over to his house and it was broke. He told me he put the cartridge inside upside down, and the computer did all kind of weird shit and freaked out and died. About a year later or so, we were in Eckerd Drugs drugstore, and they had a TI-99/4A set up on display, with that munch man game. Anyway me and my friend were playing with it, and my friend put in a new cartridge, and then the screen went all colorful and the computer spazzed out, we got out of the store. The next day we went back to the store, and there was a sign on the computer that said "out of order". So I teased my friend so bad. He killed two TI-99/4A's. The TI99 was another victim of the C64 price war. I even heard stories of the TI994a's shocking children. As for my friend, he got an Atari 800XL a few years later, and he did okay with that.

What does everyone think about good looking computers? As far as style and looks, I think the old Mac Color Classic is the most attractive looking computer of them all. A nice little color screen in a classic Mac all in one tiny box design, with a nice Apple keyboard. There is/was someone on the web, who upgraded Mac Color Classics into PowerPC Macs. I bought one in the late 90's and early 2000, to play around with, and browsed the net with Netscape and all. My dream classic Mac is a Mac Color Classic with an Apple IIe card to run 8 bit Apple II software. Other computers I like as far as design are; Apple IIgs(best keyboard of all time), Apple //c(a Tiny apple II!), and Atari 800 XL(nice looking design!)

World Series baseball is awsome, it also takes advantage of the Intellivoice unit, as well as requiring the ECS computer unit. The voice adds a whole extra dimension to the game. I only had two games in the old days for the computer module, World Series Baseball, and Mindstrike, both of which are two really fun 2-player games. As far as units I would say the Intellivision II is the best of them all, because of its smaller size. It doesn't play 3 or 4 of the early Coleco games, but aside from that its a nice little unit.

Thats right, it does access the disk often. It was just a thought. It is very hard to play on Atari or C64. I grew up with the Apple II version, with two button joysticks, it plays good. I recently found the MSDOS version of Castle Wolfenstein, and that is a two button joystick version as well, so that plays good also. Too bad you can't map any of the keyboard keys onto the joystick with Atari800win, that would make it really easy.

Just think how well Donkey Kong and Dk Jr would have sold, if Atari could have produced it for their Atari 5200 (I believe Coleco has the sole rights for U.S. video game systems). Fast forward, and people have ported those titles to the 5200. I am guessing it would be possible to port Castle Wolfenstein, and Beyond Castle Wolfenstein to the 5200. But would it be possible to remap the gun button on the keyboard to the Atari 5200 "joystick". The way it is setup now you must aim your gun with one button, and fire with another button, one being a joystick button, the other on the keyboard, which really takes away from the Atari/Commodore versions. Just think if the Castle Wolfenstein series had been ported to the Atari 5200! That would have been a major coup for the 5200 over Colecovision, which in my opionion(the CV) had better games, and utilized graphics/colors much better.

The only computer module that was released to the public was the white unit. There was an expensive unit first proposed and built with like 64k, but it never saw release due to price concerns, so the cheaper version ECS computer was built. Baseball and Mindstrike are fun if you have a 2nd person to play with. If you examine the unit, there is even a small lid that comes off the base unit, that allows you to add a never-built memory card. I would of definately taken advantage extra memory is my basic programs back in the old days.

My first "computer" was an Intellivision ECS computer system. It added 2k of ram to the Intellivisions 8k. In basic language only 2k was accessible. I would always use this limit up. It had a cool looking keyboard. World Series Baseball kicked ass. It took advantage of the extra memory and also the Intellivoice voice module. It was a very good 3D baseball game, and it was a lot of fun, and probably the best baseball game of its time. Mind Strike was another fun game. It was a checkers like game with numbers that jumped around, and the object was to land on your opponents castle and occupy it until it blew up. The best part of the game was that you could design and play your own boards, or use 1 of 100 or so in the game. I never really considered it a real computer, but I used it like one. Me and my friend Marvyn would program text based games adventure games, where you had to make choices like "You are walking down the street to Charlies house, and all the sudden a car swerves in front of you, you can (A)Jump to the side of the road, (B)Stand there, ... etc.. The good old days of computing!

Don't you love those mizers on Ebay who try to jack you with 5 dollar shipping for a freakin Atari 2600 game. And they list each of their 70 games separately.

I remember in the 90's when I collected a lot of classic games and systems. Every once in a while you walk into some extra crappy thrift store, and some fat guy behind the counter is selling a moldy space invaders for 2$ and all the other Atari 2600 games for like $5 a pop. Or what really gets me is these freaking MIZERS, trying to sell an Atari 400 system that they got in 1980 for 500 bucks for like 499 bucks in modern times, saying "it's still in new condition". These idiots think they can use something for 15 to 20 years and then turn around and sell it for no loss.

Decathlon kicked ass! I forgot that was on the Atari computer. We played that on the 2600, a lot. When it first came out, we played the maximum players on it like 4 people in all or whatever, fighting for our "medals". haha.

We all know the Atari 8 bits and Commodore 64 computers were all designed very well to play games, and the C64 has improved sound over earlier machines. I loved Castle Wolfenstein on Apple II. Last week I finally played a PC-MSDOS version of it. It was maybe as good as the Apple II version, which I have always though is the best. So that got me thinking. What games actually are better on Apple II or old PC's versus machines built with gaming in mind? The one small advantage Apple II and PC's had was 2 button joysticks. Here is my very short list Castle Wolfenstein (graphics better,plays better 2 button joystick)Apple/PC Beyond Castle Wolfenstein(same)Apple/PC Lode Runner (Apple 2looks better, 2 button joystick)Apple Karateka(Looks better Apple? 2 Button Joystick)Apple

In the very last I think it "Electronic Gaming" magazine I bought in the 1980's, it reviewed the "new Atari" video game system, the 7800. I think it might have been December 1983 edition of the magazine... anyway, I remember it looked real nice, but my attention was on either getting a home computer, or I already had a home computer, so I lost interest in video game systems like a lot of people at that point. Why was Atari killing off the 5200 so quick with the 7800? Just imagine if the Atari 7800 had been the machine released in 1982, with a distinct difference from the Atari computer line. I think the Atari 7800 would have been a bigger hit than the 5200 was. Those games were just past their peak in 1984, and by 1986 they were growing a little stale. Oh well, what could have been!

My favorite keyboard of all time is the Apple IIgs keyboard. I read somewhere, that there is a ADB to USB adapter, if thats true I am gonna use my IIgs keyboard on my PC. http://obsoletecomputermuseum.org/app_iigs/funkykey.jpg I am currently using an Apple Blueberry IMac keyboard on my PC. Its a little bigger than the Apple IIgs keyboard, but it is still compact and a great keyboard. It has really small function keys and a really nice design. http://monkey.org/~aaron/photos/misc/nicks...ac-keyboard.jpg I still miss the clicks of my Apple IIe spring loaded keyboard.

What if scientists discovered the Atari 2600 was really a metal and plastic based biological entity, which could learn to talk and communicate emotions, after a couple decades of life more or less. How would this change the way we view our favorite little machine? What would be the moral implications?

I know sports games aren't the most popular, but what is the best sports game for the Atari 8 bit Computer? I am familiar with the Apple II series, but not so much Atari. So far the only Apple II sports game I have found also on Atari is Hardball, which is a fun game.

Coolo! I just sent you my information. I am in the breakaway Republic of Chechnya. You may have to deliver it yourself, since Federal Express doesn't dare come in. Just kidding. I am in Tennessee, which is not quite as bad as Chechnya. Jeff

Yes I am blaming my 1050 drive. I am going to take him outside and teach him a lesson. I may end up throwing it in storage with the Atari 800 and like 4 broken joysticks. I just want something cheap to play around with. I have been real sick for almost a year and haven't worked, so I have no money to do anything with. Just trying to entertain myself. Maybe I will just drag out the IIgs I have in storage, it just needs a monitor. Just looking for something cheap to play around with, thats all.

I just got my Atari 1050 disk drive today. There were no power supply, or cord to connect to the computer. I should have looked at the auction page closer. It looks like there is a cord on the back of the unit, but that is part of the floor it was on. The unit was "tested", so i just assumed it had everything. I guess I am going to have to just buy another disk drive to get the cables? Will the Atari 810 power supply, connector cable, work with the 1050?

I always prefered Word Perfect on the Apple. On IBM PC Word Perfect used to also be king, but was overtaken eventually by MS Word thanks to the MS stranglehold on the IBM OS. I still use WordPerfect on my PC to this day. I installed MS Office for college, because I had to but that was it!