Goochman

Turmoil.............

Did the XEGS come with the monitor ports???? You'll need a different cable for the monitor jack to hook into your TV's composite RCA jacks.

Lee Krugers 'Worship the Woodgrain' CD contains a bunch of 2600 carts converted to WAV format for loading from CD into the 2600. His site is here: http://home.earthlink.net/~resqsoft/

If you took the spaghetti overlay out maybe we could see the board

Play the Jumbo Jet simulator on the Atari 800 - same category

No idea - If you had another machine that might help Maybe someone else around here with more info on the 8bit PS can help

The Powersupply for hte XL (if working) is worth the $$$ in shipping. It could be in the long run a bad power supply anyway and the 600XL might work ok

800XL over the 5200 is a no brainer IMHO. 99% of the same games plus 1000's more with a disk drive. Joysticks are better and the XL series has a much smaller footbprint. I love the 8bit series and continue to play those games today

No prob - no go get that 800XL

Good. Thats the best solution, though dont count your chickens until you recieve the check. I bought a 5200 that claimed to have 2 working sticks - none of them worked, I was promised a partial refund that 'was already sent, oh I didnt realize my husband forget to send it but its going out today' I never got it. Fort the 3rd stick was a Wico Command stick so that made up for it a bit

I think ndary has dumps of almost all XE carts and has converted a few games to work from carts to burn and sell. Funny the fake Epyx label - thats prob going a bit too far.

It uses the standard RF cable like a 2600/7800. It runs on Channel 2/3 or 3/4 depending on the select switch on the console. With the RF cable hooked into the TV switchbox you should be good to go.

Check here for a resonably pricedone: http://www.collectorscardsandgames.com/games01.htm

Those are compressed disks for the 8bit - You need to run the utilty to 'uncompress' them back into real disks. These were used back in the BBS to shrink disk sizes for ZModem transfer (or Xmodem if you prefer ) One of the various disk utilities handles these but I forget which one (APE???)

IMHO he prop plugged it in, turnd it on and saw the 'red' light on the 600XL come on- therefore working. Based upon his writeup it is not in 'working' condition. People who write 'no warrenties', etc... use that to cover the faulty merchandise they are selling. Id write a simple and clear email that the 600XL doesnt work and you'd like to resolve the issue by having another 600xl shipped (one tested on the TV) or a refund of your money (minus shipping since you can keep the garbage you have). Thats my opinion.

Look at Dig Dug on the 2600 to see how bad Mr Do is. It should be called Mr. Doo Doo with all that flicker and reduced gameplay. * and NO SOUP FOR YOU DOO!

cschell, Hmmmmmm.........you are very worried about what other folks are doing when there is a good chance the other products may never come out - In fact an Atari 800/5200 'cuttle cart' might be very attractive since both systems used the same core hardware (ok, the cart pinouts - 2 connectors - are differnt but is the storing and loading different?) You already have a successful product launched so people would trust you. Waiting cause someone else is trying something or other folks who are hadny with a soldering iron could do it shouldnt stop you. There are many like me who arent good with soldering irons and chips that would like something like this. Since the 7800 'ramcart' wont support 2600s there may be a market for such a device that does both - Dont let us hang in 'neutered 7800 only land', 2600/7800 would be great!

Im #45 and holding Ahead of Lee kruger I might add

The ST has a cart port but is wont handle 8bit carts. You're only bet at running 8bit software on the ST is with STXFormer which is slow and not very compatible (Though Donky Kong works slowly )

I was never a 'special' move type of fighter I never played enough for most of these to learn all the moves, but the few I figured out never required CD access - If someone has a move they'd like me to try I can.

Yesola. I would be interested if it would handle 7800+2600 carts (as many as posible anyway). Without POKEY what games wouldnt work besides Ball Blazer? Im not good with a soldering iron therefore would be stuck without POKEY if it wasnt a pop out pop in type deal. Seriel interface would be fine since USB appears to be too much hassle.

Im not good at fighting games but loved PR - It is really well done on the Jag and is the best fighter type game on the platform IMHO. Load times are a bit slow but that gives you more time to rub in your win

Dunno but love your Avatar icon

So whats up with this guy: http://www.collectorscardsandgames.com/games01.htm anyone do business with him? I might buy the 5200 2port just for the sticks!

Berzerk default game is also very easy with the amount of men you keep getting Asteroids is too easy Laser Blast as well. I think Phoenix is also not too hard I found Defender II to be a bit challenging as well as Solaris.