Help a newbie out!

[Help a newbie out!]

That sales receipt is pretty cool!

[Help a newbie out!]

Yup, do what they said. I forgot about the direct connect method...<facepalm>. Toss aside the switchbox and use the RCA to Coaxial.

[Help a newbie out!]

There are connectors out there to hook them up to cable ready TV's, such as: http://www.solidsignal.com/pview.asp?p=WMXFMR&d=Perfect-Vision-Push-On-75-to-300-ohm-Transformer-(PVAB10)&utm_campaign=base&utm_medium=organic&utm_source=google_base

 

This will allow you to connect the switchbox to any TV without screw terminals, including some HDTV's with an analog-capable (pre-2009 made in particular, but not exclusively) tuner in them.

 

It will make no noise and as you noted has no LED or anything, but when on Channel 2 or 3 it should do at least something once hooked up, black screen when powered, game screen, whatever.

 

Not sure on the super game labeled carts on the 7800. I think it was more of a marketing ploy than anything else; not necessarily anything different about those carts overall.

[The Official "Thrift finds" Thread]

Saw this at the TraderBaker's flea market in Martinsville, Indiana over the weekend, but did not purchase. Games were priced too high (Dig Dug @ $8!), but the Tele-Games center was all there, although a bit nasty. Did not have a price tag on it and didn't want to mess with finding out the price, so if anyone wants to go get it, it's there! (Games there were Football (M Network white label), text label combat, Empire Strikes Back, Q*bert, and Dig Dug.)

[How to grow that collection]

I hit yard sales, flea markets, especially "Hamfests", or Ham Radio flea markets, where I've found a LOT of old computers and Atari stuff. I also kinda like Gamegavel.com.

[Cassettes are back in style]

I noticed most of these articles on Sony's announcement immediately tied this medium (or implied as such) back to audio cassettes, which they most certainly aren't/will not be. They'll likely be in this form factor (LTO Family) or one similar. It has more in common functionally with VHS (spinning head, etc) than audio cassettes. I use these at work for server backups of over a TB of data nightly. they manage to increase it's storage capacity every few years, but NOTHING like Sony has announced. That's just crazy storage.

[100 cartridge club]

147 at this point, not counting duplicates. (Dupes not pictured)

 

Most recent = Marble Craze, my first homebrew purchase

[30th anniversary 7800 MultI Cart #1]

I too would love to be on any future wait list, can also pay immediately. Thank you!

[Atari 800 Spotted at Children's Museum]

Still on display as of last Tuesday. There is a cool early 90's display too with a Game Boy and some other mostly mario-related odds and ends.

[The 3.5" HD drive for ATARI 8-bit.]

I too would likely purchase one.

[New Atari 8-bit game in production by RPC Games!]

I'd definitely be interested in taking a look and even perhaps making a purchase for my 800XL...

[Why did the Atari 2600 console design change so much]

 

I never knew that any of the 2600 woodgrain models used real wood. All of the ones I have ever come across, including the heavy sixer and light sixer, were all plastic with a woodgrain paint scheme.

 

 

I'm reasonably sure no model of the 2600 ever used any real wood. Faux woodgrain finish was huge in the mid 70's to about the mid 80's.

[The Solution to Solaris]

This document is spectacular. Thanks for your hard work!

[Games you could play for hours]

I tend to play these more than an hour, usually trying to beat my high scores:

Midnight Magic

Kaboom

Alien

Space Invaders

[Princess Rescue Binaries Released!]

Very nice. Gonna buy a cart soon for my collection.

[One Sears light sixer got across the pond]

Here ya go CatPix, to compliment your purchase.

 

[waynes world yars revenge]

Doesn't Wayne's World open with an ad for Noah's Arcade? Back then, movies used to use Atari 2600 sound effects to represent any "generic video game sounds." I'm guessing that's what it was.

I think it does, and that makes the most sense to me.

 

I remember seeing an episode of Chip 'n Dale's Rescue Rangers when I was young that had sound effects from Pac-Man in it while a video game of some sort was being played.

[One Sears light sixer got across the pond]

Enjoy! I bet that telegames console will get some looks for sure over there!

["Please Don't Break My Atari" by Weird Paul Petroskey]

Awesome. Loved it! Well done WeirdPaul. Well done sir.

[AtariRC Prototype]

Seems to work fine to me in IR, not sure what would be better...and too late to redesign it/not worth the trouble. Understand on the price, I more or less said it was too much as is in the first post...Not seeing much interest so far anyway, but it was worth a shot.

[AtariRC Prototype]

You do what you've got to do to get it in the shot! haha

[AtariRC Prototype]

My business partner and I have come up with something that I don't think I've seen on the scene before, and I'd like to share it in order to test the waters to see what kind of interest we might have in the product if we were to go into production with it. It is an infrared remote control system we call AtariRC. Designed for the 2600 VCS. It includes the pause modification, select, reset, and two joysticks (no paddles), all controlled via the IR transmitter that is powered by a 9 volt battery. It is very much a prototype right now, but is completely working.

 

We're unsure if we're going to sell them as completed products or just kits. We're unsure what all we are going to do with them in general honestly.

 

We're still working on design and trimming the costs down, as right now a finished product would be rather pricey (probably about $150 a set, $180 if we install for you.) We hope to drive that cost down, obviously. Finished product will probably be vastly physically different from this prototype.

 

Would any of you be interested in such a setup?

 

(forgive my southern Indiana redneck twang...)

 

Thanks everyone

 

-Tim

 

[2600 Hot Wheels]

I may have to go out and look around my area for these...very cool.

[7800 emulater]

I like EMU7800 also. It is a bit tricky to get it to load lesser known or homebrew ROMs though, as it wants to only load known ROMs by design. I'm sure if I studied on it a bit more, that wouldn't be an issue.

[Imagic Kiosks at the Houston Area Arcade Expo]

Very, very nice display! Those kiosks rock!