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  1. Posted

    In the CV case the end is a 'cap', therfore if you 'saw' nicely you can just 'cap' the new end again!

     

    The with a rotozip cut a few holes for the moved components and wala it looked great!

     

    Maybe someone can put a 5200 in a stick like the 2600 - then again you'd have to buy a new one every 2 months or so :x

  3. Posted

    Sku, tough question - The Atari 800 works with alot of carts but not the XE ones. The 800XL works with the XE carts but some of the earlier 800 carts wont work.

     

    The 800XL is prob the best inbetween bet to get (or the 65XE or XEGS)

  4. Posted

    I know mr SAM very well - had some fun getting 'curse' words to come out of him - The ole Antic off routine was used alot early on to save CPU cycles and do 'talking' type stuff, though it appears this prob wasnt as necessary as new techniques get around that (atleast turning the screen off :) )

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    I am by no means a technical expert on this but in terms of computer/game playing capability the Pokey was a better chip - With 4 voices, good range and excellent noise generation it had more flexibility than SID. Everything I heard on the C64 sounded like it came from a harpsicord - excellent instrument play but most other sounds/noises didnt sound right. The SID had a larger octave range (I believe) but POKEY could cover most everything that humans wanted to hear :)

     

    POKEY was 3 years older than SID but Arcade developers used POKEY for their stuff vs SID.

     

    If I wanted to hear synth music Id pick SID, all other things I think POKEY can do better.

     

    Sheddy, could SID/C64 handle the 'voice' you have in your Space Harrier demo?

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    I purchased a 5200 specfiically for Twin Galaxies 5200 specific tournaments otherwise I wouldve neveer gotten one.

     

    Personally I would keep my 800XL for less hassle and more games.

     

    If you want all the consoles the 5200 is fine but I got working controllers but didnt use the system for awhile and now its acting flaky - $25 for 30-40 games and repair kinda stinks IMHO

  9. Posted

    You still need a working 5200 controller with the Wico sticks (for the numeric keypad and start/reset/pause

     

    So,

    Can someone point us to a place for reliable rebuilt 5200 sticks? I remember one place would swap you a rebuilt one for $25 with trade in of a good condition broken one???

  17. Posted

    The Cassette drives are flaky - as are the cassettes themselves. I tried to collect some of these for the fun of it and all I got was a pain in the arse trying to get it to work. Someone told me to adjust the spindle in the drive to make better contact with the tape - All that got me was a meltdown in my 1010 which doesnt work at all now :x

     

    Ive also heard that a bad 1010 can ruin your cassette tapes therefore even if you find a good one its too late.................

  19. Posted

    I used a 1.2 meg drive (the older the drive the better) and formmatted the disk on the Atari - SS/DD in MYDOS. I couldnt get the format part to work.

     

    I was able to get this thing to work, however you need to calculate start/stop sectors for each file, therefore I was most successful writing 1 program at a time and copying it on my 8bit - not very efficient from my end but it worked when I needed it to.

     

    Its not very easy and best run from DOS vs WinDOS

  22. Posted

    It is a 1.2 meg 5 1/4 - You basically had to calculate the start and end sector for your files as input and I think it just wrote raw dat in Atari format - you may have had to format the drive on the Atari first????

     

    I was not very succesfull in getting more than 1 program transferred at a time (which was ok) - but a few times I almost got the whole disk done.

     

    I prob have the Util around somewhere still if someone wants it - send me a private msg with your email address and ye shall receive :)

  24. Posted

    I wonder about that though since there are 5-6 titles that are not available on the 800 at all - I would assume if these were originally developed on the 800 then some kinda of test cart would be avail?

     

    Though pre-5200 titles on the 800 were def just ported.

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