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Link to pictures below Need help identifying this stuff, I own a small retro store in Dracut, Ma called Bazaar Game Trading (Facebook.com/bazaargametrading) and being the only retro gaming store in the area that takes anything pre nes, I am seeming to run into a lot of really really cool stuff. I got an atari 400/800/xl/xe lot in recently, most CIB, most including ALL inserts, most having pristine beautiful labels, and I'm seeming to only find loose cart copies circulating for a lot of these. so, 1. anyone know what these are worth? These are here because it's hard to find reliable salse data on them within the past 90 days from ebay, amazon, half.com etc. So, I've already done all that =] 2. How rare are these titles in this condition exactly? I am at heart a collector, I love what I work with so I am tempted to keep stuff all the time ; ;. 3. I have people who are wanting them but I need to find a price for them that's fair for me, and them. So I told them I had to do research here to find out what's fair. Thanks everyone! Message me by reply, private message, email- bazaargametrading@gmail.com, or facebook message at facebook.com/bazaargametrading My pictures are uploaded on flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/128465609@N08/with/15471969531/

Price: Paypal 220 euro Bank transfer iban + bic 200 euro Shipping ask for you country, but package is heavy so for Europe is around 40 euro Ship from Croatia to worldwide trackung number included Atari 5200ST top condition box styrofoam Atari montior SM 125 used condition + box Floppy unit mouse atari Original dust covers Atari for 5200st and monitor only controller is sold from picture all other is included

I was fortunate enough to score a storage locker find that included some great finds. I'll start putting these in the market place for interest before eBay. The first group is Adventure International. The War disk is an incredible find. Since I focus on carts. Here they are. Please PM me if you have interest. They're in pretty decent condition.

Hello! I am very soon moving abroad for a living. so the time has come for me to sell most of my collection. Everything is on sale, except my "main" CreatiVision stuff, which I'm keeping jealously. :-) What I am selling: - Atari 2600 - Intellivision - Colecovision - Videopac - CreatiVision (duplicates only) - handheld electronic games and tabletops - miscellaneous consoles - Italian videogames magazines (contact me for a full list, incl. TGM, HC, EG, etc.) - a few German magazines with articles on CreatiVision Everything must go before the end of October. Some items are VERY RARE, some other items are worth next to zero. I have set up a list of stuff, with also pictures, and prices. We can discuss on prices, I'm open to suggestions. The list is here, and it includes a set of pictures of each item on sale: http://www.madrigald...y/saleslist.zip Be the first one who makes a good offer, and you have a deal. Or, in case you're not interested in the stuff, please spend a minute to spread the voice to your friends. Thanks much for your attention :-) PS: I will make separate posts/threads with all the pictures equally divided Attached pictures: * Atari computer: Aufgepasst (aka Concentraction), Italian release, extremely rare * Atari computer: Boccone (aka Gulp!), Italian release * Commodore 64: Music Composer * Sinclair ZX-80: Data Base * Sinclair Spectrum: Aspect Assembler Editor * Sinclair Spectrum: Horace Goes Skiing * Sinclair Spectrum: Music 1 * Sinclair Spectrum: Spectres * Sinclair Spectrum: Vu-3D (still sealed) * Sinclair Spectrum: Italian book "Ai Confini dello Spectrum" + demo tape

Complete Atari set for retro gaming all items are NEW and UNUSED ATARI 130XE, PAL, NEW, unopened box SDrive NUXX NEW, never used IDE plus 2.0 host adapter NEW never used 2x Atari XE (65/800/130) keyboard NEW, unused Scart cable only once used professionally made (maybe 2 pcs) price 390,-€ for complete set

I have ended up with two of these but only need one, so the other one's available to anyone who wants it. £18 or nearest offer - buyer to collect or pay postage. Will consider swap for the AtariLab Light Sensor set.

It's been sat unused on my shelf for years, so it may as well go to somebody who will make use of it. Was working last time I fired it up,although that was a very long time ago. It's loose but will come with a (tatty) manual and a copy of printer utilities on cassette. Offers welcome (buyer to collect or pay postage - bear in mind that the 1029 is a somewhat weighty beast).

FOR SALE: Atari 8-Bit List Various 8-bit kit for sale: Offers please: Buyer also pays postage but can choose which category/rate by which items will be dispatched. Will also accept collection buyers. There's a quite a bit here, so have a browse and let me know and reply below or at: mbrennan@blueyonder.co.uk Atari 1029 Printer : No Box - powers up, print head seeks, no SIO. Atari 1027 Printer : No Box - powers up, print head seeks, no SIO. Atari 1020 Printer/Plotter : CIB . Atari Touch Tablet : sale pending CIB. KoalaPad Touch Tablet : CIB. Various Atari 8-bit Cartridges : £10 each Loose carts. Atari 400/800 Programming Language PILOT with "Turtle Graphics" : Complete. Atari 850 interface : sale pending No Box - powers up, no SIO or power lead. Atari Track & Field Controller : No Box. Atari Turbo Basic/Turbo Compiler XL/XE : Complete. Ultimate 1mb (Candle 'o' Sin) XL upgrades : sold Not sure if these are complete or working as never fitted - see pics.

A short time ago I found some (debatably) useful utilities for the Atari 8-bit while scraping a crate of old floppies into ATR files. One of these is a character set editor I have been working on (and off) for a few decades. I spent most of July adding a few useful features for the modern era of Atari emulators, and dealing with some bugs. So, here's a new toy to play with, GRID EDIT. The attached ZIP file will unpack to an ATR. I ordinarily use this as D2:. GRIDEDIT_ATR.zip Better docs should be completed soon, (Copy and paste from a word doc is not looking very good.) Here's a first stab at useful info... ==================================================== REQUIRES 40K RAM, OSS BASIC XL, floppy disk drive or emulator supporting Host drives. PROBABLY REQUIRES DOS 2.0S, or other DOS with an equally small (or smaller) footprint. With DOS2.0S there is about 1.4K of free ram between the end of the program, and the fixed location of the first character set in RAM. RECOMMENDED Joystick, or Touch Tablet FEATURES Edits 8 fonts in memory. Most functions/operations can be applied to a single character or an entire font. Reverts font changes to the last saved version, the version read at startup, or the original ROM version. An onscreen doodling area allowing preview of the fonts with font and color changes permitted per line. Keyboard, Joystick, or Touch Tablet operation. Non-modal (mostly) input methods allow open workflow for the user. (Simultaneous editing, menu, and doodling operations.) ==================================================== INTRODUCTION My favorite Atari 8-bit feature is redefined character sets, because it is fairly simple to utilize and so readily fit into my tiny brain. Atari’s character set magic provides considerable bang for the buck allowing even slow BASIC programs to achieve graphics movement approximating animation. Over the years I’ve collected and written countless character set editors. GRIDEDIT is one of my old, much-abused BASIC prototypes of unpolished features and experimental user interfaces hacked up prior to writing better versions in Assembly. This is a simple character editor for ANTIC Mode 2 (GRAPHICS 0) text fonts. It can also be applied to Mode 6/7 text with the understanding the program does not show colored characters. GRIDEDIT was originally developed using the Atari 800 with 48K (and cassette!). A few changes were recently added using Altirra emulating a 64K 800XL. Seems to work fine. ==================================================== SUMMARY In the upper left is the edit grid to change the current character. in the top center of the screen is the menu to choose actions, switch fonts, etc. In the upper right is the character selector showing all 128 Atari font characters. Below the selector is a status line reporting the state/behavior of the program. In the center of the screen is a preview line that shows the current font centered on the current character being edited. At the bottom of the screen is a doodling area. Each row of text can have its own colors and fonts assigned. (DLI abuse going on.) The user’s input cursor appears as a flashing block on the screen. Move the cursor with the current input device – the arrow keys, the joystick, or the touch tablet stylus. Press a controller button or use the Space Bar or Enter key to select the item under the cursor. The display/user input is primarily non-modal. While a Menu is waiting for input the Edit Grid is still functional, the Character Selector can choose characters in the current font, and the Doodling area allows drawing characters. ==================================================== EDIT GRID The Edit Grid presents an 8 x 8 grid of the current character's bitmap. Within the bitmap the controller button(s) (or keyboard) turn bits on and off: Use the joystick button to toggle bits on and off. Use the keyboard’s ‘Return’ and ‘/’ keys to turn bits on and off. Use the touch tablet’s left, right, and stylus buttons to turn bits on and off. The outer borders are shortcuts for bit shifting operations. Selecting the outermost border containing arrows will move the entire bitmap contents in the direction of the arrow. The next border inside will move just the bits in that horizontal line or vertical column. The ‘S’ or ‘R’ characters at the corners of the inner border indicate the current bit shifting mode when selecting the bit shift shortcut borders. The character displayed in inverse video indicates which mode is in effect: S – “SHIFT”: bits shifted past the borders of the grid are lost, and the new bits shifted in are zero/clear. R – “ROLL” bits shifted past the borders of the grid “roll” around and reappear as the new bits on the opposite side of the grid. ==================================================== MENU The menu allows choice of functions or operations. A choice is made by moving the cursor to the corresponding line and pressing the controller button or Return key. Some choices will present other menus. Most menus have a Cancel option as the last entry that will quit the current line of prompting and return to an earlier menu. Some Menus include an OK option to accept the changes made on screen. ==================================================== CHARACTER SELECTOR This array presents all 128 Atari characters. Move the cursor to the desired character and press the controller button or Return key to edit the character in the current font. ==================================================== STATUS The status box provides important information to the user. The first line reports the current Font (1 to 8 ) and the character being edited as a hexadecimal value for its position in the font. The left half of the second line displays the list of possible input devices. The current input device is shown as an abbreviation – “Joy” for joystick, “Key” for keyboard, and “Tab” for Atari touch tablet. The input devices not in use are represented by a single inverse video character of the key to press to activate the device. (‘J’, ‘K’, or ‘T’). The right half of the second line displays the current mode for bit manipulation functions and other operations. The values may be “Char” or “All”. “Char” mode means the function or operation chosen works only on the current character. In “All” mode the functions and operations act on the entire current font. The first character of each mode appears as inverse video indicating the key to press to set the mode. The last line of status displays the font and character information marked as the intended source for the Copy operation. The first value is the font number, then a slash, then the hexadecimal value of the character’s position in the font. ==================================================== PREVIEW The Preview lines show the current font on the top line, and inverse video on the second line. A flashing marker appears above and below the current character. Additionally, the Preview display also allows choosing the character to edit. Move the cursor to the desired character and press the controller button or Return key to edit the character in the current font. ==================================================== DOODLING The Doodling area allows plotting the current character in a 40 character x 8 line display. Each line of the display can be adjusted to set a new value for font (CHBASE), character control (CHACTL), Border color (COLBK), line color (COLPF2) and text luminance (COLPF1). The joystick button plots the character on screen. The ‘Return’ key also plots, and the ‘/’ key plots the inverse video value of the current character. Likewise, the touch tablet buttons plot in normal and inverse video. ==================================================== STARTUP LOAD the program into OSS BASIC XL, and RUN it. After a few moments the program will present a list of disk drive devices choices numbered 1 through 4. Choose the disk device to use as the default device by pressing the corresponding number key. The Return key is not needed. The chosen default device will be used for all subsequent save and load operations. The program will attempt to load eight fonts from the default disk drive. The fonts have fixed names on the disk: FONT1.FNT, FONT2.FNT, etc. up to FONT8.FNT. If a file is not found then the program will automatically use a copy of the internal ROM font. The program will save a backup file on the default disk device for each font. The backup for FONT1.FNT is F1.FNT, FONT2.FNT is F2.FNT, and so on. The backup is created only during the program startup and never written again. If the DOODLE.DAT file exists, the program will load the configuration of the Doodling area from that file including the characters that had been drawn in the Doodle area, and the fonts and colors chosen for each of the lines. ==================================================== INPUT The cursor may be controlled and input provided via keyboard, joystick, or touch tablet. Special keys controlling the operating configuration function regardless of the current input method. KEYBOARD Use the arrow keys (with or without the ctrl key) to move the cursor. JOYSTICK Use the joystick plugged into the first joystick port to move the cursor. The joystick button will choose items, draw pixels in the current character, or draw in the doodle are depending on the location of the cursor. TOUCH TABLET The tablet stylus will move the cursor around the screen. CONFIGURATION KEYS Configuration keys are always available regardless of the type of input. K - Set keyboard input J – Set joystick input T – Set touch tablet input C - Set Character-only mode for Functions A - Set All (entire Font) mode for Functions S - Set Bit Shift mode for Grid Editor R - Set Bit Roll mode for Grid Editor ==================================================== BUGS There are certainly more than enough bugs to go around. Share with friends and enjoy. You’re welcome. “All” mode has side effects when editing a Doodle row’s configuration: When a Doodle configuration item menu is entered (CHBASE, COLBK, etc.), the program automatically changes all the lines’ values to the current value for the chosen line. Since only the last value of the current row is remembered for the case of the Cancel menu choice, it causes Cancel to return all the rows to the previous value of the current row, not the previous value of each individual row. Switching back to “Char” mode will cause the Cancel menu item to revert only the chosen Doodle row’s configuration, leaving all the other rows modified. ==================================================== RANDOM NOTES Disregard that FRE(0) says there’s about 10.5K of free memory. The 8 fonts are at fixed locations starting at $7800. This works out to about 1.4K of actual free memory. The lowest hanging fruit for optimizing has been done – using variables in place of constants. Without that the program would probably be looking at space for only 5 fonts. This program had little pre-planning - - or 30 years of design consideration depending on the point of view. It has been hacked on over and over to add features and change behaviors. Due to this there are redundant variables and temporary variables that occur only once in the code. Finding and optimizing this is an exercise for the masochistic. The easiest way to free up a ton of memory is to remove the many, many REMark lines. That is, if you never intend to understand the program. Reading comprehension plummets without the comments. Those who understand Display List Interrupts will recognize that the DLIs for the Doodling area are doing three and one-half things more than can actually fit in the horizontal blank time allowed. It is what it is. The DLIs are there just to provide a rough guess of what the characters sets will look like. The most recent round of hacks made the program play nicer with an emulator (Altirra preferred for Windows). This added support for Host drives (really trivial) and touch tablet input. An emulator implementing a fake touch tablet is a cheap way to have mouse support from the Host environment without handling the mouse in the Atari itself and so frees the Atari from the overhead of a polling (or frequently interrupting) machine language handler. Tablet support took just about an hour to work out tablet coordinates vs the Player/Missile screen cursor. ==================================================== WHY OSS BASIC XL? I work in straight Atari BASIC only if someone requires it. OSS BASIC XL is 99% of my BASIC use and one of the underappreciated gems on the Atari 8-bits. It bugged me that Atari magazines back in the day printed articles for Action!, but never for BASIC XL which had a much larger user base. It loads Atari BASIC tokenized (SAVE’d) programs without changes, 99% compatible ENTER’ing programs previously LIST’ed by Atari BASIC. It is faster (much faster) than Atari BASIC. BASIC XL provides a heap of neat, built-in extra features… Player/Missile graphics support. Memory move at machine language speeds. String arrays. Structured statements: If/Else/Endif and While/Endwhile FAST mode that predetermines line location to eliminate the line lookup overhead. [*]It fits in a ROM cart occupying the same memory as 8K Atari BASIC. [*]Everyone and their cousin should be able to easily get the ROM running under emulation.

Make an offer on anything or everything, even if it's just to pay for shipping on some of these items. I am moving and cleaning out a bunch of stuff I don't want or need. I don't want to throw this stuff away. I want everything out in the next day or two. I'm not sure if the virtual boy works, I think it did, no controller. The intellivision doesn't work. I only got it to work with Vegas Poker, other than that a green screen. The gameboy looking thing is a famiclone with a bunch of games. The thumb stick on one of the controller broke off. The gameboy pocket is missing the battery cover. All the games should work. I can't make any promises on the controller. I will also post a TI-99 with games and controller next, look for that post. Any questions, just ask

No joke!! I looked on Ebay for Atari XE stuff just to see some cool things, and wow! 2 out of the top 3 searches for the system on Ebay are above $100-$150. What is making XE stuff, specifically the Entire package itself in original box, get so expensive?

The first episode of a new Atari 8-bit podcast, Player/Missile, is available at http://playermissile.com It should be in iTunes soon. I'm going to look at games and classic magazines that covered the Atari 8-bit systems, and go chronologically. This first episode is an introduction, and next episode I'll start covering 1979. My goal is to review one game per episode as well, and for the first episode I'm going to review Star Raiders. Sort of like Ferg's 2600 game-by-game podcast, I'll be looking for feedback from folks about the games that I'll talk about, so I'll announce the games in advance if you'd like to send in stories about the games. I'm looking forward to playing some of these games again, and maybe finding games I missed. If you have any suggestions, let me know!

Hi folks, For trade with similar kind of silver boxes only (mostly released by Atari FR or Atari DE). Atarimania rarity 8 : http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-pay-off-_3909.html Content : 1 Disk (Complete) From: Atari UK Atarimania rarity : Unlisted (they don't have it) - http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-schluck-richtungspfeile_6993.html Content : 1 disk + Docs (Complete) From: Atari Germany More pictures on demand. Regards, Marsup

Lot of 11 Atari 400/800 XE/XL 8-Bit Home Computer Games Boxed Complete CIB eBay Auction -- Item Number: 121375836255 Not mine, no link to me, just saw it whilst browsing and it looks like a nice clean collection! Paul

http://austin.craigslist.org/ele/4545434902.html This is a huge trove, it is not mine and I am not interested. Looks like the person is not willing to ship.

I have a whole bunch of games I don't want any more. Perhaps you do? United States only, all are NTSC games. PM me. I'll try to respond to all when I can first come first served and I'll try to update and remove things that have been sold. All the games are loose except where noted. atari 2600 game lot all these for $5 asteroids championship soccer - missing end label dodge 'em home run missile command othello realsports baseball x2 street racer surround target fun video chess Atari 800 games ($5 each): asteroids defender dig-dug donkey kong jr. (pending) frogger (pending) galaxian (pending) joust missile command pac-man pole position space invaders super breakout Atari 5200 (note: I don't have a 5200 to test these on, so as is.) all 3 for $7.50 galaxian pac-man super breakout CD-i $5 each compton's interactive encyclopedia defender of the crown jigsaw laser lords mystic midway - rest in pieces pinball treasures of the smithsonian video speedway NES CIB games snake rattle & roll - $10 loose games alfred chicken - $15 (pending) al unser jr. turbo racing - $2.50 excitebike - $2.50 (pending) millipede - $2.50 (pending) rolling thunder - $5 xevious (yes i have a loose one too.) - $2.50 saturn (all have boxes except mr. bones. some of the boxes have a crack or two, you know, saturn and all.) $5 daytona usa frank thomas madden 97 madden 98 minnesota fats nba live 98 $10 amok black fire croc grid runner last gladiators pinball machine head mr. bones myst robotica tetris plus wipeout wii-u Sonic All stars racing - $20 Nintendo Land - $15

I am working on a project (still working out some display and register issues) when it dawned on me. The original 400/800 had four controller ports and each port, in simple terms, had its own player register in PM Graphics (or in the OS). XL and XE machines removed two of the controller ports I assume to cut production costs. Does this mean that the extra player registers were removed as well or are they still intact? I'm asking because my game project is designed on paper to take advantage of all four player registers. I don't want to create something for just a specific line of Atari 8-bits...I want it to be able to play on all of them. Thanks in advance!

Hey fellow Jaguar fans, On Saturday, June 14, 2014, the free-to-the-public Sunnyvale Atari Party will take place at the Sunnyvale Public Library from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm. Please come and join Bill Kendrick and the rest of us there. There will be Atari 2600s/Flashbacks, 5200s, 7800s, XE Game System, Lynxes, Jaguars, arcade machines, Atari 8-bit computers, Atari STs, and modern PCs emulating the classic consoles. In addition, we are fortunate enough to have two legendary ex-Atari employees who will be speaking. The first is Al Alcorn, Atari employee #3, builder of Pong, who worked on the Atari 2600, Atari's holographics, and countless other items. He later became an Apple Fellow*. And then there's Dan "The TrakBall Man" Kramer who is personally responsible for the 2600 and 5200 TrakBall Controllers, amongst many other projects during his time at Atari Inc. He is also promising to show off some prototype hardware as well. http://www.newbreeds...tariparty/2014/ Sunnyvale CA is, of course, Atari's old hometown. Please visit the website link above for more details. Volunteers are also welcome. And there may be present a custom Jaguar paddle controller for use with Tempest 2000. This is a kid-friendly event so bring the whole family... *If you've watched the recent Steve Jobs film [Jobs], Mr. Alcorn is represented in the film. He's referred to as "Al" during the Atari scenes and "he" is the one who tells Jobs that he's "an a$$hole".

Hey fellow Lynx fans, On Saturday, June 14, 2014, the free-to-the-public Sunnyvale Atari Party will take place at the Sunnyvale Public Library from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm. Please come and join Bill Kendrick and the rest of us there. There will be Atari 2600s/Flashbacks, 5200s, 7800s, XE Game System, Lynxes, Jaguars, arcade machines, Atari 8-bit computers, Atari STs, and modern PCs emulating the classic consoles. In addition, we are fortunate enough to have two legendary ex-Atari employees who will be speaking. The first is Al Alcorn, Atari employee #3, builder of Pong, who worked on the Atari 2600, Atari's holographics, and countless other items. He later became an Apple Fellow*. And then there's Dan "The TrakBall Man" Kramer who is personally responsible for the 2600 and 5200 TrakBall Controllers, amongst many other projects during his time at Atari Inc. He is also promising to show off some prototype hardware as well. http://www.newbreeds...tariparty/2014/ Sunnyvale CA is, of course, Atari's old hometown. Please visit the website link above for more details. Volunteers are also welcome. And bring your Lynxes…maybe we can ComLynx a bunch of them together! This is a kid-friendly event so bring the whole family... *If you've watched the recent Steve Jobs film [Jobs], Mr. Alcorn is represented in the film. He's referred to as "Al" during the Atari scenes and "he" is the one who tells Jobs that he's "an a$$hole".

Hey fellow Atari ST [sT/STe/TT/Falcon] fans, On Saturday, June 14, 2014, the free-to-the-public Sunnyvale Atari Party will take place at the Sunnyvale Public Library from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm. Please come and join Bill Kendrick and the rest of us there. There will be Atari 2600s/Flashbacks, 5200s, 7800s, XE Game System, Lynxes, Jaguars, arcade machines, Atari 8-bit computers, Atari STs, and modern PCs emulating the classic consoles. In addition, we are fortunate enough to have two legendary ex-Atari employees who will be speaking. The first is Al Alcorn, Atari employee #3, builder of Pong, who worked on the Atari 2600, Atari's holographics, and countless other items. He later became an Apple Fellow*. And then there's Dan "The TrakBall Man" Kramer who is personally responsible for the 2600 and 5200 TrakBall Controllers, amongst many other projects during his time at Atari Inc. He is also promising to show off some prototype hardware as well. http://www.newbreeds...tariparty/2014/ Sunnyvale CA is, of course, Atari's old hometown. Please visit the website link above for more details. Volunteers are also welcome. This is a kid-friendly event so bring the whole family... *If you've watched the recent Steve Jobs film [Jobs], Mr. Alcorn is represented in the film. He's referred to as "Al" during the Atari scenes and "he" is the one who tells Jobs that he's "an a$$hole".

Hey fellow 2600 enthusiasts, On Saturday, June 14, 2014, the free-to-the-public Sunnyvale Atari Party will take place at the Sunnyvale Public Library from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm. Please come and join Bill Kendrick and the rest of us there. There will be Atari 2600s/Flashbacks, 5200s, 7800s, XE Game System, Lynxes, Jaguars, arcade machines, Atari 8-bit computers, Atari STs, and modern PCs emulating the classic consoles. In addition, we are fortunate enough to have two legendary ex-Atari employees who will be speaking. The first is Al Alcorn, Atari employee #3, builder of Pong, who worked on the Atari 2600, Atari's holographics, and countless other items. He later became an Apple Fellow*. And then there's Dan "The TrakBall Man" Kramer who is personally responsible for the 2600 and 5200 TrakBall Controllers, amongst many other projects during his time at Atari Inc. He is also promising to show off some prototype hardware as well. http://www.newbreeds...tariparty/2014/ Sunnyvale CA is, of course, Atari's old hometown. Please visit the website link above for more details. Volunteers are also welcome. This is a kid-friendly event so bring the whole family... *If you've watched the recent Steve Jobs film [Jobs], Mr. Alcorn is represented in the film. He's referred to as "Al" during the Atari scenes and "he" is the one who informs Jobs that he's "an a$$hole".

Hey fellow AtariAge users, On Saturday, June 14, 2014, the free-to-the-public Sunnyvale Atari Party will take place at the Sunnyvale Public Library from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm. Please come and join Bill Kendrick and the rest of us there. There will be Atari 2600s/Flashbacks, 5200s, 7800s, XE Game System, Lynxes, Jaguars, arcade machines, Atari 8-bit computers, Atari STs, and modern PCs emulating the classic consoles. In addition, we are fortunate enough to have two legendary ex-Atari employees who will be speaking. The first is Al Alcorn, Atari employee #3, builder of Pong, who worked on the Atari 2600, Atari's holographics, and countless other items. He later became an Apple Fellow*. And then there's Dan "The TrakBall Man" Kramer who is personally responsible for the 2600 and 5200 TrakBall Controllers, amongst many other projects during his time at Atari Inc. He is also promising to show off some prototype hardware as well. http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/atariparty/2014/ Sunnyvale CA is, of course, Atari's old hometown. Please visit the website link above for more details. Volunteers are also welcome. This is a kid-friendly event so bring the whole family... *If you've watched the recent Steve Jobs film [Jobs], Mr. Alcorn is represented in the film. He's referred to as "Al" during the Atari scenes and "he" is the one who tells Jobs that he's "an a$$hole".

Hello everyone. I am parting out an Atari 800xl Stackpole type keyboard. I am selling one key cap, white carrier, small spring and large spring as a unit for $1.50 each unit (example in photo below). That price will include shipping in the 50 US states. If you are somewhere else and need these, we will have to add some appropriate shipping. Right now, I have most keys EXCEPT - I do not have: the space bar or the plus (left arrow) key and do not have one of the square silver function keys.

*** SOLD *** Thanks for looking! See the full thread at: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/162420-ram-320xl/ I purchased two of them nearly four years ago; I'm only using one. Includes the power cable for 800xls. Asking $60USD shipped anywhere in North America.