MopedFreak
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Darn, I picked a bad weekend to go out of town....
PLEASE put me down for one!!! make more then 10!!! I'm positive you could sell 100!.
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Ok, Ok here are some pictures of the "Rare Birds" I found in the wild yesterday.
I would say the Wall ball cart is in good shape, a little dirty, but the label is intact.
The Crazy Climber cart is a 10. It looks unused. The Manual is also a 10. The box... I guess its a 5 or maybe a 6. its not torn, but does have crush marks.
Thats about it, hope you enjoy!
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I can't belive it...
I found Crazy Climber IN THE BOX! with instuctions for $3.00 !!!!
and picked up Wall Ball (A 7 rarity) loose for another $3.00 at the same time.
I couldn't belive my eyes when I was walking past the vendor at the state fair grounds in raleigh,NC today and saw these sitting there with all the commons. I kept thinking, "isn't crazy climber a 8 or 9? I must be thinking or another game."
Anyway, the moral of the story is Don't give up there are still some kick ass carts out there in the wild!
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Great Idea!
The original raiders game was kick butt fun back in the day... It took me weeks to figure it out, and I had a blast playing it to death.
I remember being amazed at how many screens they jammed into an atari cart.
I think a reworked pitfall II would be best, but impossible to put on cart. maybe private eye? it had lots of screens, and a puzzle to solve.
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I all but gave up on getting a high score cart, I know they are no longer being made.
But maybe someone out here in 7800 land bought two of these and would like to part with one?
Or, does anyone know if a second batch will ever be made?
thanks.
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Well, My Time with Travi is almost over. This week he moves on to his next home. We've had a good time hanging out with friends....
I took Travi out to me favorite local spot, but the damn pictures didn't come out too well, so I'm hoping to sneak out there again before tuesday and get a few good ones.
But here he is with "The Homemade Club"...
And of course today we had a kinda going away party for him and EVERY atari 7800 cart came out to wish him well...
And before they all went to bed for the night, there was a secret meeting of the rare cart club....
So thats about it. Its been fun, and He did get to see the sites of Moncure,NC and Apex,NC. But like I said the camera had some flash issues and none came out. I will try and swing by and take a few shots during the day on monday.
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Just wanted to let everyone know Travi arrived safe and sound here last weekend. Were hittin the town tonight, going to take a few pictures around my home town.
I'll post some up tomorrow or friday.
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GEOS 2.0 for the Commodore 128 is, when the computer is well equiped (Ram expansion, 80Col monitor, 2 drives with a 1581drive) The best 8 bit operating system period.
Very close in operation to a Win 3.1 system or a Mac system 6.XX it cxan do it all.
>Gif to Geos paint conversions.
>Desktop Publishing that REALLY WORKS! I wrote many little "newspaper" articals back in the day.
>Terminal program to connect to BBSs (geo-term 6.0)
>GEO-basic a sort of visual basic for Geos
>Geosprogrammer Although I never used it many shareware pieces were written with this
>Paint program is very nice for its time.
Well, the list goes on and on. I currently have a maxed out CBM system and I spend a lot of time in the geos enviorment. There are TONS of software items for this system, enough to fill 100 800K disks.
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I'd like one too, but at this point, I'd me MUCH happier if he finishes the Atari 7800 computer he's been working on.
Then maybe I'd like another run of High Score carts... I can't belive I didn't get one of those!
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PM sent!
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I'm Having the same problem With both the Pac-man collection and Santa Simon. All the other 2600 and 7800 carts I own (over 350) work fine.
Are these carts made with new parts? I wonder if maybe there is a incompatibility issue with it. I own a 1987 model unit that I bought new in 1989. I tried the carts on another unit 1984 make, and they work fine.
Any ideas why it won't work on my 87 model?
I had ordered Pac-man, pac man plus, and ms.pac man fast from Pacmanplus a while back, and the pac-man cart didn't work, but he sent a replacement and it has worked fine, so I thought it wasn't my console.
Anyone else have any problems?
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Mine is a sad, and long story that still hasn't ended......
Back in the Atari 2600 "hay days" (1977-1983) I craved one SOOOO bad, but Never got one. I hadto be content watching others play On there own when I went over to "play"
I was in second grade when the bug really hit (1981) and Two of my close friends had them... It sucked!
I asked every X-mas and Birthday, but to no avail...
Finally one day Dad took me to go see WAR GAMES... (A great movie by the way) About half way through it he got up and left me, I thought to go get more popcorn. but after the movie ended he brought me out to the car and stood by the trunk.
He looked me deep in the eye's, and asked me if (as he opened the trunk) if I wanted one of these.....
There sat a NIB Atari 2600! I almost pissed myself! It was the happiest day of my life, but as I would later find it would also be one of the worst of my youth.
We got it home and My dad went to work setting it up on our tv, A 25 inch old school console unit with tuner knobs and rabbit ear antenna on the top.
But.......... But......... IT WOULDN"T COME IN!!!!
He tried, and tried, but no luck the damn thing would not come in clear.. it was just a crap load of static and come sound of Combat....
Later that night I hooked it up to a tv in the den. A 10inch B/W tv. There was Combat in all its glory! I played (by myself) For HOURS!!!!
The next day a "TV rapair man" came out and tried to get the damn thing to work on the family room TV, but it was a lost cause. our TV was one of the first color models, and it just couldn't get a decent lock on the signal.
Thats when Dad gave me the "TALK" the Atari would have to go back..... I was Ruined!
But thats not where the story ended thank god.
Fast forward to early 1985..... The Good name of Atari has been tarnished, and kids everywhere are tossing the old 2600 in the closet. I'm almost in 6th grade, and I go with my parents to visit the old town we lived in back in 1979-82
I visit a friend, and we hang out all day doing stuff. Somehow we get into his basment and find one of his dads beers.
After drinking this beer (remember 6th grade) we are both flying high. One thing leads to another and I ask him about his atari....
He tells me how much it sucks, and to prove the point, he takes a 4 switcher, and tosses it down the stairs!
It is smashed to pieces, and he gets a good laugh as I look horified at the poor thing.
But my mind is working things out inside..... When my mom arives to get me, I ask my fellow 6th grade drunk if I can have the "guts" of the Atari. He gives it to me with no hesitation.
Now I have a "naked 4 switch Atari" with no power supply and no joystick, let alone any games... But I hang on to it until we get back home....
I find that the Brand new cordless phone plug is the same as my atari, and manage to get my hands on a copy of Chopper Command and plug it in...
IT WORKS! the colors we off (3 years later I figured out it was a Pot out of adjustment.) but IT WORKS!
I convince Mom to goto Radio Shack and get me a $7.00 "quickshot" joystick and I'm off and running....
Now fast forward to 1991 I've still got that damn 2600 (it now lives in a shoe box with a hole in the top for carts.) and I've got close to 100 carts I've picked up at yard sales over the years.
Everyone is into NES, but I have my Eyes set on that wonder of wonders the 7800!
My family has a year sale, and I sell every thing not bolted to the floor os I can afford one. I end up with a Atari 7800, Xevious, choplifter, and Ms.pacman, Plus A new 19 inch sears tv.
Later that year, when I have about 14 carts for the 7800 Everyplace aroung me stops selling Atari stuff....
But fast forward again to 1996 (the year I found the Net, and E-bay) I still have my 7800, and Now I have about 140 carts for the 2600, but still 0nly 14 for the 7800. But here is internet, and I find that guy that has all the Atari carts new in box.... for like .90c a piece. I get them ALL, and instead of dumping my 7800 for a PS1 I'mliving large with all the coolest games for the 7800 and 2600.
Now its 2006......
I have every game released for my 7800 plus several proto's and homebrews.
I have over 250 games for the 2600, and just about every controler, or add-on made for either one!
I never bought another system, I never thought about it either. I love my Atari, and if they every make a atari 9800 I 'll but that too!
I am "Brand Loyal" but only in a way. I never felt like getting a Jaguar, or a XE, or even the 5200. They just didn't have that 2600 thing going for them.
SO thats my story, Hope you liked it.
Atari owner 1985-2006 !
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That Rom site had a good pile of Adam Images. I've been looking for someplace like that FOREVER!
Lets keep digging, and see what else we can dig up.
I'd Love a copy of Adamlink Version 3, 4 or 5 All I have is 2 and it offers no file transfer options
I'm Surprised to see such a responce to my original "Rant" I thought I was in the vast minority on the whole ADAM thing. I'm glad to see I'm wrong.
I'm in negoatiations with someone trying to get my hands on a disk drive for my Adam, and if it goes through I'll transfer my Adam softwre to the Net. I have one (slightly Buggy) homemade database program that I wrote in 1994 in Smartbasic. Its the only ADAM program I wrote. I haven't looked through them all, but I think one or two of the blank Datapacks I have here has some other PD software I downloaded from a ADAM site in the early 90's
If its still there I'll upload that as well.
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I've bought stuff from that site, and its all New Old Stock, but its WAY to pricey for my tastes. Ebay produces some neat stuff from time to time, but rarely do you see a large amount of ADAM sotware for sale.
If someone can point me to software on the net for transfer info to the IBM I'll attempt to figure it out, and up load my software (all 10 tapes) to the net.
Maybe It will start a trend.... hmmm... maybe not, but it might.
The Adam's power supply being built into the printer was a really crappy idea. in all the years I owned my commodore, I only used the printer maybe a dozen times. and even now in the modern era, My lexmark all in one printer fax sanner sits unsued like 99.5% of the time.
The Adam's printer to computer cable was also too short, so it kept you from stowing it on another shelf or somewhere out of the way. Mine is jammed under a homemade monitor stand.
I guess the C64 had a 2 year head start on the ADAM, and the Atari line had even more, but still I would have thought with the adam's ready built software supply of all coeco carts on the market would have helped more.
I'm not sure of the Adam/Mac comparison, they were Very far from each other in price. But I do remember an artical where they put up against the IBM PC Jr. (and there was a computer that sucked) and the C64 And Atari 800xl.
As I recall Adam won on the price vs. features, and ease of use, but the C64 had the progam avalibility locked up tight.
Anyway the Adam did fail, but I'd still like to see its software (even the usless ones like smart file, and recipe filer) make it to the archives.
I have damn near every C64/128 program ever made on DVD, some 18,000 files. and the Atari 800 is well preserved as well. Hell, they even have software online for older and even more usless systems then the Adam like the ZX-81 and Timex/Sincliar 1000 (another Computer I loved) and even the spectravideo Sv-318
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Ok, here it goes...
The Coleco ADAM was a Flop, no doubt about it, and it almost sank Coleco the company with it. There is no two ways about it, BUT....
I bought one back in 1991 for $10.00 N.I.B at a yard sale after I had to sell my awsome C64 setup to pay for car repairs. And I used that thing untill 1995 for writing letters, playing colecovision carts, and atari 2600 carts with an adaptor I picked up a year later at another yard sale for 10.00. I even bought a 300 baud internal modem for visiting BBS's from a defunct mail order company that must have bought out some coleco wherehouse, because they had EVERYTHING for the ADAM. Disk drives, tape drives, tapes, and ram expanders among others...
Anyways, in 1995 I finally upgraded to a IBM computer and sold the ADAM, but not the tapes or carts, I've kept those for all these years. Well, I recently found and bought a well used ADAM system at a yard sale, and dug out all my old tapes, and carts. I "Upgraded" the system to dual tape drives, and a 300 baud modem, and I've played with it quite a bit lately, and I can't figure out why this system failed so badly. I know the first run of units hadc major defects, but I assume that that was worked out as both the ones I've owned have worked well, and the printer is Slow, and LOUD, but it prints a letter quality page that is Perfect.
I used mine for Games, letters, databased my parts dept in my shop, and for surfing the Pre-net, I always felt the computer had TONS of potential, but no user base or software base to exploit. the few programs I had served me well, but compared to the C64 it was a joke.
I've compared the two and I think the adam could have been every bit as good as a C64 had the wind blown the other way.
I mean it was easy to expand. had slots for an internal modem, 2 super fast and mostly reliable tape drives with higher capacity then the 1541. and also a slot for ram expansion. upto 256K as I remember and it was used just like the 1764 ram expansion for the C64. as a high speed ram drive.
It also could be equipped with a disk drive, although it wasn't really needed, and you could get a card for hooking up a dot matrix printer.
The other major problem I have is that Of all the computers that came and went, Almost all of them have a dedicated userbase, and an internet presence with most if not all Programs avalible on the Net.
I have searched High, and low, and I find a few very brief websites about the ADAM, but no software depot.. I'm talking about the 100 to 300 actual programs for the ADAM not the colecovision.
I only have about 10 programs, most of them are no longer of any use to me, but I can't even find a I copy of any of them on the net..
I know there is a nice emulator for the ADAM, but with nothing but coleco cart dumps out there, no one else is ever going to get to see how the adam worked.
Isn't it time for the old timers out there to upload there long hidden collection of adam tapes to the net? You can transfer the tapes to IBM computers using a null serial cable between the two and a simple terminal program.
Am I the only one that cares? I see they have a ADAMCON every year but it seems nothing every comes of it. Its a shame that all those datapacks are sitting there gettting bit rot, and there are no ADAM Software CD's out there to replace them...
Well, thats it, Thats my Rant... I'm mostly a Lurker on the 2600, and 7800 boards, I recently completed my 7800 cart collection, but this Adam thing got me to come out of hiding to speak my mind.
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LUNAR LANDER!
It should have been an easy game for the atari 2600, but no one ever made it....
oh well.
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