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Hi All, I got a Raspberry pi pico a few weeks ago to have a play with and forgot about it. Then, after noticing a post here, I realised I couldn't resist having a go at using it to make a multicart for the Atari 8-bit. A couple of PCB revisions later, I'm pretty much done, and proud to announce the A8PicoCart! Unfortunately the official Pico board hasn't got quite enough pins to make a proper multicart - you can emulate 8k and 16k carts, but that's about it. However I discovered that you can buy £3 purple Pico clones from China with 16Megs of flash, USB C and, more importantly, all the GPIO pins broken out, which is just enough to hook up the whole cartridge port. So I've made an Atari 2600 multicart with the official Pico, and an A8 multicart with the purple Pico clone 🙂 (If you are interested in the 2600 version - I posted earlier today about it here). Neither cart has any other components other than a Pico board and the PCB - so this will be a very easy DIY build. Although the RP2040 used in the Pico is not formally 5V tolerant, it is rumoured that the non-ADC pins are, so I've used these, and hoped for the best. No problems so far after many hours of testing firmware versions! I wanted to go for an easy build, so wanted to avoid extra components. The firmware is a purple themed tweaked version of the original UnoCart firmware, though I've added the 4 extra cartridge types recently added to the Ultimate Cart firmware. As there is no SD card, I've also written support to make the cartridge a USB mass storage device, so you can simply plug the cartridge into a PC with a USB cable and copy files over. This provides 15Megs of flash storage onboard for ROMs and ATRs. Oh, and its also very easy to update the firmware on a Pico - just plug into USB with the BOOTSEL button pressed and drag a file onto the device. There are 2 versions of the PCB at present - one with the Pico facing forwards so the status LED can be seen, intended for uncased use on an XE. The other has the Pico facing away so it will fit in a case and there are mounting holes to assist. At some point I will design a 3D printed case for it. As usual I've got a load of spare PCBs, so if anybody wants an assembled board to help me test, get in touch? Robin Pico and even cheaper purple clone PCBs New Firmware USB Mass storage mode With its 2600 brother

the Atari 2600 PlusCart ist based on Robin Edwards Unocart-2600 , and the extensions of DirtyHairy's fork. The PlusCart has no SD-Card, but an ESP8266 to connect to a local WiFi Network and the Internet. The PlusCart downloads the ROM-files from an Server in the Internet called the "PlusStore". The way this is done is similar to the way the Unocart-2600 loads ROMs from the FAT filesystem on the SD-card, while the VCS is performing a waitroutine in RAM. Additionally the PlusCart has one more interesting feature. It offers internet access to the ROM Developers, these functions are called "PlusROM". In the first bytes of a PlusROM the path and the backend hostname or IP address has to be encoded (as strings both terminated by '\0'). Sending and receiving bytes to the host does not need a waitroutine in the VCS RAM! At the moment the PlusROM functions can be used at 2K, 4K, 3F, 3E and 3E+ cartridges and any standard bankswitching cartridge with or without 128 bytes of RAM (@ 1000 to 10FF) and a 'Standard' F4 Bankswitching (@ 1FF4 to 1FFB). So now all kind of online ROMs (Games, Chat Clients, Mail-Clients, Web-Browser, MMOGs, etc. ) should be possible with the Atari 2600 VCS. more info at: https://pluscart.firmaplus.de Source: https://gitlab.com/firmaplus/atari-2600-pluscart Shop: https://pluscart.onlineweb.shop/ VID_20191013_033946.mp4

Vectrex VecMulti Purchase multicart Direct from the creator Richard Hutchinson (@Richard H.) Richard can be contacted by email ("richard.hutchinson@dsl.pipex.com" , richard.hutchinson (at) dsl.pipex.com ) for direct purchase of his VecMulti micro SD card based flash based user upgradable Vectrex multicart. How to Get a Brand New VecMulti Direct from its creator Richard Hutchinson: Instead of using the eBay listing to purchase the VecMulti (it is my listing), or some expensive secondary listing sale on a third party site,,, Contact VecMulti's creator Richard Hutchinson for a direct purchase at the original price! You will save on VecMulti price, tax, shipping, customs costs and eBay fees! Richard is located in the UK. If you are local in the UK you will not experience customs charges. For Contact and Purchase of the VecMulti micro SD card multicart the best method is to directly email the creator Richard Hutchinson. "Richard Hutchinson" <richard.hutchinson@dsl.pipex.com> ( richard.hutchinson (at) dsl.pipex.com ) Or Contact Richard on AtariAge at @Richard H.. Current price for VecMulti is $100.00 [USD] and includes shipping to global destinations. Payment in British Pounds, Euros, and other currencies also welcomed by Richard. Contact Richard for the specific amounts in other currencies. Richard Hutchinson's PayPal address for payment is the same as his email contact address. If you send your payment via PayPal Friend's payment then be sure to include your address and phone in the payment note. Additionally, since PayPal's payment note removes most text formatting including line separations, it's also a good idea it to follow up the payment with an email that has your address in the correct format for shipping purposes. For and additional cost, packages with a destination outside of UK locations can also be sent with tracking information. Contact Richard for the extra cost needed for global tracking of packages outside the UK. . #VecMulti #micro #SD #Card #Game #Cart #Richard #Hutchinson #microSDcard #SDcard #card #Flash #Cartridge #Cart #Multicart #Multigame #Vectrex #光速船 #Kousokusen . VecMulti Description and Contents: VecMulti By Richard Hutchinson (@Richard H.) Complete with micro SD Card installed and populated with games ready for use. Created and Made in the United Kingdom. For Vectrex / 光速船 / Kousokusen 2022 design update revision. Brand New. VecMulti is a micro SD card based Flash Memory Vectrex multicart. The micro SD card is included, preloaded, and preinstalled with your VecMulti purchase. Games, Demos, Testing Programs, and Utilities list included with the purchase can be found at the bottom of this listing description. Menu software and utilities included on provided micro SD card. VecMulti features: • The micro SD card is pre-installed with original GCE/MB Vectrex games. Homebrew indie games and demos. Diagnostic and utility Vectrex programs. Documentation. PC utility software. VecMulti documentation. • The micro SD card includes about 137 various Vectrex program titles. Some of the included program files are a multi-game image file with two, or more, included games. e.g. "Vecmania-1", "ProtectorYASI", etc. See VecMulti Vectrex program content list below. • Runs most Vectrex game, demo, and utility programs. • Older game binary images with sizes up to 32KB. • Automatic support for newer game binary 64K bank-switched games. Bank switching up to 2 x 32KB. • Multi-load game support. • VecMulti Menu software for launching Vectrex programs after boot. VecMulti Menu software by Frank Chevassu. • Vectrex controller used for navigation and loading of Vectrex programs via the on-screen menu. • Menu list capacity for 999 software titles. • Software title name support for 13 Characters. • micro SD card capacity support for up to 2GB partition. • PC based (Windows) Menu Maker software utility for updating VecMulti Menu program title listings seen on the Vectrex. For Mac users see the third party utility below. • PC based (Windows) ROM Patcher software for updating incompatible Vectrex binary titles for use with VecMulti. LED on on board to illuminate the cart shell. • Custom designed, 3D Printed, Vectrex cartridge shell for housing the VecMulti board. The cartridge shell provides easy access to the micro SD card when performing content updates. • Developer support for computer connection and Vectrex program loading via serial interface cable. Accomplished using the 4x1 header pads interface port on the VecMulti board, and included Dev Mode File Loader software. (External Serial to USB interface adapter required, not included.) Current VecMulti design (2022 design update). • Extra RAM on board supporting "Animaction" is no longer present. The change affects only Animaction. All other Vectrex program title support remains the same as in previous VecMulti production. All other Vectrex titles play the same as before. Since VecMulti is a micro SD card Flash memory based cart the user can manage the contents to add more games. Or remove games no longer desired. Menu generation software and instructions for updating the on screen menu included on the micro SD card. Easy update of the micro SD card contents by copying / deleting the Vectrex title to the SD Card and running menu generation software. Also allows for a connection to PC for use in development work or loading games. See instructions and loader software included on the micro SD card. At the present time about 137 various titles are included. Consisting of by permission, the original era GCE and MB games, educational, and diagnostic test titles, other home brew games, demos, music, and diagnostic test titles. The included software may change as modern homebrew authors agree and approve their titles to be distributed with VecMulti. See a VecMulti video by Vectrexer Here: VecMulti - revision - Vectrex SD Card based Flash Multicart Startup Demo - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT0tkZan2ao) Third Party VecMulti Menu Maker: For people who use the Apple Macintosh as their desktop PC, a Third Party VecMulti Menu Builder application is available. Vectrex enthusiast and AtariAge.com forum member, "SpiceWare" has posted their VecMulti "MenuMaker" revision 0.4 for MacOS users. The Mac based MenuMaker VecMulti utility by SpiceWare is freely available at the URL below. https://forums.atariage.com/blogs/entry/17902-menumaker-04/ VecMulti is designed and loaded for use in an actual Vectrex/光速船 / Kousokusen video game system console using the cartridge slot. Usage for any other purpose including loading the SD card into an emulation platform is not guaranteed to work. No support will be provided for use in any device other a real and properly functioning Vectrex / 光速船 / Kousokusen video game system console with VecMulti inserted into the system console cartridge slot. Compatible with, and for play in, all regions of the Vectrex video game system by Milton Bradley (MB), General Consumer Electronics (GCE), and Bandai バンダイ (光速船 / Kousokusen). Vectrex games, Controllers, 3D Imagers, and other accessories are not region specific to a particular Vectrex console. The manual language printing (Canada dual / Europe multi / Japan), box printing (Canada dual / Europe multi / Japan), and overlay printing (Japan) are the only differences. The Vectrex is a classic 1982 vector graphics based video game system created by Smith Engineering and General Consumer Electronics (GCE). Later purchased and marketed by Milton Bradley (MB) as well as licensed for distribution and sale in Japan by Bandai. Made in 1982, 1983, and 1984. The complete list of titles currently included on the micro SD card included with the VecMulti shown below. There is more space avaiable on the micro SD card to add other games. Note: Some titles are multi-game files including 2, or more, titles inside each. e.g. "AllGoodThings, "Vecmania-1", "ProtectorYASI", etc. ● 3DStars ● 99LuftBallons ● AllGoodThings ○ More Invaders! ○ Rockaroids ○ Spike's Water Balloons ○ Vectris ○ 23 Matches ● Anthem ● ArmorAttack ● ArtMaster ● Bach'sPrelude ● BCORFTS ● BeckysMessage ● Bedlam ● BelugaDreams ● Berzerk ● Beth ● Blitz ● Block ● Bloxorz ● BlueSkyRacer ● Bonnie ● BTTQ ● C19MusicBox ● CantinaBand ● Chimney-64K ● CityBomber ● CleanSweep ● Continuum ● CosmicChasm ● CountDown ● Crossfire ● DarkTower ● DemoParty-64K ● Doodle ● Drum ● EngineAnalyze ● Etch ● Figgy ● FortNarzod ● Fresssakk ● FrogsNFlies ● FunkyDrummer ● GetVectrex ● Gravitrex ● HeadsUp ● HeraPrimera ● Hex ● Hexed ● Hyperchase ● Inkubations ● KokoRetribution ● Kolonie ● Lichtbringer ● LordOfRobots ● MailPlane ● MDrWho ● MelodyMaster ● Minestorm2 ● MonsterHouse ● MoonLander ● MrBoston ● MusicDemo ● NagoyaAttack ● Nebula ● Nonagolf ● Oldskool ● OnslaughtDemo ● P1X3LPushr ● Patriots ● Patriots3 ● PitchersDuel ● PolarRescue ● PolePosition ● PresentDrop ● ProtectorYASI ● RAMTest ● Revector ● RipOff ● Rockaroids ● Roli-DasSpiel ● Rounders ● Royal21 ● Scramble ● SkullShot ● SolarQuest ● SpaceFrenzy ● SpaceWars ● Spectrum ● Spike ● SpikeBalloons ● SpikeHoppin ● SpikeSkiing ● Spinball ● Squarez ● StarCastle ● Starhawk ● StarTrek ● Tanks ● TestCart ● Thrust ● TourDeFrance ● Tsunami ● Ulti-Berzerk ● Untot ● V-Theremin ● VabomVectrace ● VecBoxing ● VeccyBird ● VecDrum ● Vecfahren ● VecFu ● VeciBird ● VecKingpin ● Vecmania-1 ○ Star Fire Spirits ○ Repulse ○ Birds of Prey ○ Vector Vaders Remix ● Vecmania-2 ○ Patriots ○ Rockaroids Remix - 3rd Rock ○ Disc Duel Demo ○ Abyss Demo ● Vectopia-64K ● Spike's Water Balloons ○ Trakkers ○ Wormhole ○ Control Test ○ Mad Plane ● Vector21 ● VectorClock ● VectorLife ● VectorPong ● VectorVaders ● Vectrexagon ● VectrexPong ● VecWars ● Verzerk ● VFrogger ● Vibri ● VTwist ● WarOfRobots ● WebWars ● Wormhole ● XmasCart ● Xylo ● YMusic-64K ● Yoehl ● Z4HL3N-R473N ● Zantis ● Ztagger ● Zufallstrefer Programs list also found at the URL below. https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.vectrex/c/6-HHdnkpLXA •

Hi All, I thought it was time to post about my latest mini-project - I've ported my original UnoCart 2600 code to run on a Raspberry Pi Pico which is a very low cost (£2-£4) ARM based microcontroller board from the Raspberry Pi Foundation in the UK. The idea is to make a very low cost (<£5) DIY multicart project, which really just involves soldering a pico to a PCB - there are no other components. In theory the pico requires voltage level shifters to connect to the 5V atari bus, but there are rumours to the effect that most of the GPIO pins are 5V tolerant (and in practice others have not encountered problems to date), so I've skipped them on the basis that this is supposed to be cheap and cheerful. I've been running it for many hours so far without problems, but your mileage may vary. There is no SD card slot - the Pico has a 2Megs of flash, so I've written code to expose it as a mass-storage device when plugged into USB. In practice that means you can plug it into your PC with a USB cable and drag and drop files directly onto the cart from Windows. The 1meg of flash allocated to ROMs is in practice enough to fit all my favourite stuff and more. The PCB supports both the cheaper castellated edge pico version which can be soldered directly to the board surface mount style, or the Pico H with headers. The firmware is basically the UnoCart 2600 firmware, and I haven't finished porting all the cartridge emulation code yet, but it basically seems to work great, though I do get a noticeable amount of RF interference on the TV compared to the original unocart - I'm waiting for some new PCBs to arrive from China that will hopefully improve matters there. The new PCBs will also have mounting holes, and a PAL/NTSC solder bridge for selecting the firmware. When I've finished the firmware, if anybody wants a finished cart to help me do a bit of testing? Initial Prototype Version 1 PCB Pico-themed green firmware (Pal) Atari XL/XE Version I've also made an Atari 8-bit version using a purple 16Meg Pico clone that has more GPIO pins than the original Pico (the Atari 8-bit cartridge port has slightly too many signal lines to interface to the original pico). I'll post about that in the 8-bit section seperately.

(latest update: January 23rd 2024) ALL THE VINTAGE CHANNEL F GAMES ...AND MORE - ONLY $172 GET ONE NOW! FREE Tracked Shipping Worldwide Get it now: https://paypal.me/e5frog/172 If not using the PayPal "friends and family" option it's US$184 https://paypal.me/e5frog/184 Make sure payment is sent in US$ Auto switching Multi-Cart with more than all original software. Fits all System Fairchild machines no matter what the TV system is (so Fairchild, Zircon, SABA, ITT, Nordmende, Luxor, Barco, Ingelen, Grandstand, Dumont, Emerson). Please, either answer in this thread, send a personal message or e-mail to address further down. Multi-Cart will be delivered in a brand new box. Cartridge shell is a used original with new labels and new PCB. The shell will have signs of wear. If you wish to provide your own cart shell - let me know. I can have 3D-printed shells made at the buyers expense, last time I checked it was about $70 for the cheapest material at a professional manufacturer. If you want to print your own shell I can provide 3D print files. To my knowledge the Multi-Cart contains all original games and variations (both Democarts, all dumped protos, newly made games and known homebrews) for the System Fairchild, and a bunch of homebrew - even the complete version of Pac-Man! Games can be chosen via a menu that you reach by resetting the system while holding button 1. Holding other buttons or combination thereof while resetting will immediately start one of the more popular games (according to previous requests), just check the instructions on the back label (before inserting, afterwards will be tricky). How to select game: Try and find the Easter Egg(s) in your cartridge menu... Payment Instructions: Please use the friends/family/personal payment so I don't have to pay the fee, you can use the link on top. For manual payment with the same prices: http://paypal.com my address is e5frog@gmail.com I will also answer e-mails sent to that address. Make sure payment is sent in US$ ... and not KR/SEK - as PayPal seems to change the currency by default. If you read all these instructions, ask me to knock off $10 on the price. Please write your shipping address as well as email address as a message in your PayPal payment These are not automatically included with personal payment, if you forget to include it send an e-mail to the same address or send me a PM here. For European customers I also accept bank transfer, just write me a message and I'll supply needed information. For Swedish users there's the above but also the option of using Swish (you send money with your phone almost as easy as a text message), let me know. Customizations are possible, if you want something special, let's talk about it, I'm not difficult. List of games (Latest update April 20th 2020): All the happy customers until today: ================================================================= This is a hobby of mine, I build these in the order they were purchased. It may take some time for it be built and to reach you from Sweden. I hope it's worth waiting for. Waiting orders:

This is intended as a discussion thread for the Ultimate Cart hardware - an SD-card based multicart for the Atari 8-bit, featuring an altera FPGA and 1 meg of SRAM. If you want to ask me (or someone else) to build you one, you can ask in the pre-orders thread. This is an open-source project and has its own github repository: https://github.com/robinhedwards/UltimateCart The fpga firmware source will follow in the next few days, but for now there are PCB files, programming files for the FPGA and a Bill Of Materials. Everything needed to assemble a board yourself should now be there. If you want to build one yourself and need some help, ask here. Since it features an FPGA, the hardware will allow lots more to be done with the cartridge. Co-processors, hard-disk functionality, other cartridge types (e.g. Corina) and stackable (e.g. SDX+other) carts should all be possible. The JTAG header makes it possible to reprogram the FPGA with a $10 USB blaster. I'm hoping people can get together to implement and discuss this some of this stuff here. Robin

Updated 2022-12-30: The board works! Only GROM support tested so far. Original message: I have several Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller boards which I find quite adorable as they are very affordable, in some respects very powerful and in other respects not too much so. Nevertheless I have been playing around with them for a while and trying various things, I built a prototype eurorack synthesiser sequencer with one for example. I've also used them with some boards I bought from Pimoroni to drive VGA screens and DVI monitors. In the last pandemic call which I participated (I guess around a week and a half ago) we also talked about them. Anyway it was high time for me to get one connected to a TI-99/4A. I know that other folks such as @arcadeshopper and @jedimatt42 have also contemplated the same idea. Perhaps someone has already done it, but if so I'm not aware of it and anyway making boards is fun when there is time for it. So I designed a prototype board and just submitted an order for them. I did not quite have enough time to really do this well, so I decided what the heck, let's see what happens with a quick design. It's a bit bulky, and will not fit into an ordinary cartridge case. This of course also means that I have no idea if this is going to work for sure, but of course I have reason to believe it will. It is not too different design-wise from the StrangeCart, except that the microcontroller is different. The RP2040 chip which powers the Raspberry Pi Pico is not 5V tolerant, so I threw in four 74LVC245 buffer chips and some other stuff. Since the board is large, I used some of the extra space to add a prototyping area, and I added breakouts for three SOT-23-5 footprints and two extra SOIC-8 footprints as well. One SOIC-8 footprint, U5, is fully connected to a SPI port and can serve as flash memory expansion or alternatively house a PSRAM (pseudo static RAM chip). As can be seen from the pictures, the buffers are through hole components, the idea being that if I get it to work and others are interested in these, it would be quite easy for people to build these. I don't like through hole resistors or capacitors, so I used 0805 sized surface mount parts for those. In my opinion they are easy to work with. The only slightly challenging part to solder for some could be the 74LVC1G125 buffer I put in to drive the GREADY signal. It can be replaced with a transistor circuit in the prototype area. To get quickly up to speed, I used FlashGROM99 board as the basis. I removed everything else except the outline, regulator and the edge connector and started from there, to have a basis for the design in Kicad. After placing the parts it became obvious it would be hard to make this fit inside a cartridge housing, so I just gave the board more space which made it easy to route the signals to the Raspberry Pi Pico. Now I just need to wait to get the boards and hope for the best during bringup...

Hi All, Some of you may know me from the Atari 8-bit forum - I've designed a couple of open-source multi-carts for the Atari 8-bit (the UnoCart and UltimateCart). The Atari 8-bit was my childhood home computer, but I picked up a 2600 jr on ebay at xmas, since I fondly remembered playing Combat on a friend's Atari VCS after school. However I thought it would be nice to play some other games and try some of the more recent homebrew creations, and so... Over the last couple of weeks, I've been busy building a version of the UnoCart for the Atari 2600 - The UnoCart-2600. The video below shows it in action (code from a week or so ago - I've renamed it since then!) Like the UnoCart, this is something you can build yourself with minimal soldering. It just requires an off-the-shelf STM32F4-DISCOVERY board, an SD-card breakout board, and a breakout board for the Atari 2600 cartridge slot. Everything can be hooked up with jumper wires. The source code, firmware, breakout-PCB design and (very rough) building instructions are on a new github page for the project: https://github.com/robinhedwards/UnoCart-2600 The cartridge successfully auto-detects and emulates pretty much all the ROM dumps available on AtariMania (with the exception of Pitfall II, since I'm not emulating the DSP stuff). So far, this has just been tested on my Atari 2600 jr - would anybody else be interested in building one and helping me find any remaining bugs in the cartridge emulation? I've got a few cartridge breakout PCBs spare, since that is the only part that is hard to obtain. PM me if interested? Robin

Super Vectrex Multicart 2021 Jason Kopp 174+ Games Clear Cart LED WHITE PCB XMAS https://www.ebay.com/itm/Super-Vectrex-Multicart-2021-Jason-Kopp-174+-Games-Clear-Cart-LED-WHITE-PCB-XMAS/325883408980 Super Vectrex Multicart (SVM) Author: Arcade Jason (Jason Kopp) and Ralph Kornmann Creation Year: 2021 Production Year 2023 Installed into the Vectrex cart shell and labeled by Vectrexer For Vectrex / Kousokusen / 光速船 White Winter Holiday Color just in time for Christmas in the snow Vectrex gaming fun! Tested. Working. BETTER THAN NEW! Originally delivered as a board only. Installed inside an protective and easy to handle Vectrex cart shell! For use with General Consumer Electronics (GCE) / Milton Bradley (MB) / Bandai (バンダイ) Vectrex 光速船 Kousokusen video game system. Super Vectrex Multicart (SVM). By Arcade Jason Kopp & Ralph Karmann. From a SVM run made in January of 2022 with a White Printed Circuit Board (PCB). Pre-installed with original GCE/MB Vectrex games. Homebrew indie games and demos. Diagnostic and utility Vectrex programs. 174+ various Vectrex program titles. Some of the included program files are a multi-game image file with two, or more, included games. e.g. "Vecmania", "Protector/YASI", etc. • Super Multicart (SVM) Printed Circuit Board (PCB). • Custom code to control board LED by Ralph Kornmann. • Custom reproduction Vectrex game cart shell, in "Clear Translucent" color by Sean Kelly, • Vectrex Game Cartridge Shell custom modified and fitted to hold the SVM PCB. • Cart Label Art Design by Dino T. Manzella. • Comes inside a RetroProtection Clear Vectrex Box Protector. • Relatively low serial number "#1863". • White color printed circuit board (PCB) made in January of 2022. Software on the SVM Cart: • Super Vectrex Multicart Menu Software. • 174+ Various Vectrex game types, education, demos, utilities, and diagnostic and test programs. Super Vectrex Multicart (SVM) Usage Overview Video: A look at The new Super Vectrex multi cart - YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aktsV90lcY&ab_channel=ArcadeJason Included in this listing as shown in pictures: • Super Vectrex Multicart game PCB by Arcade Jason (Jason Kopp) and Ralph Kornmann. Serial # 1863. • Translucent Reproduction Vectrex Cartridge Shell by Sean Kelly in "Clear Translucent" color. Specially modified to fit the Super Vectrex Multicart PCB. • Super Vectrex Multicart game cartridge label. Label Art Design by Dino T. Manzella. • Both items above are delivered inside a RetroProtection Clear Vectrex Box Protector. Super Vectrex Multicart (SVM) Usage notes and ROMs titles List of the 174+ Games, Educational, Demo, Utilities, and Testing. All programs included are authorized for use on SVM by their respective owners and creators. Titles is located here: https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.vectrex/c/LaYA-7N1ako/m/RjlVnmhTAwAJ For those people on Facebook, The Files section of Vectrex Fan Unite! Facebook also has Super Vectrex Multicart (SVM) Usage notes and ROMs titles List of the 174+ Games, Educational, Demo, Utilities, and Testing Titles is located here.: https://www.facebook.com/groups/vectrex/files/files Also, see below for program list and usage instructions. This Vectrex item is compatible with, and for play in, all regions of the Vectrex video game system by Milton Bradley (MB), General Consumer Electronics (GCE), and Bandai バンダイ (光速船 / Kousokusen). Vectrex games, Controllers, 3D Imagers, and other accessories are not region specific to a particular Vectrex console. The manual language printing (Canada dual / Europe multi / Japan), box printing (Canada dual / Europe multi / Japan), and overlay printing (Japan) are the only differences. The Vectrex is a classic 1982 vector graphics based video game system created by Smith Engineering and General Consumer Electronics (GCE). Later purchased and marketed by Milton Bradley (MB) as well as licensed for distribution and sale in Japan by Bandai. Made in 1982, 1983, and 1984. ##### Super Vectrex Multicart (SVM) ©2021,©2022,©2023 by Arcade Jason / Ralf Kornmann. Super Vectrex Multicart (SVM) Games, Educational, Demo, Utilities, and Testing Titles list: • 23Matches (BCG) • 3D Crazy Coaster (IL) • 3D Crazy Coaster • 3D MineStorm (IL) • 3D MineStorm • 3D Narrow Escape (IL) • 3D Narrow Escape • 3D Scape Demo Collection • 3D Stars • 3d vector space cab • 99 Luftballons • Acey Ducey (BCG) • All Good Things • Armor Attack • Art Master • Auld Lang Syne • AY38912 • Bagels (BCG) • Bedlam (IL) • Bedlam • Berzerk (IL) • Berzerk (Speed) • Berzerk • Birds Of Prey (Joystick) • Blitz! • Blue Sky Racer • C19 MusicBox • Call Me • Cantina Band • Chimney Hunt • Clean Sweep (IL) • Clean Sweep • Climax Slideshow • Continuum • Cosmic Chasm (IL) • Cosmic Chasm (Spinner) • Cosmic Chasm • Crossfire • Dark Tower • DarkTower (IL) • doodle jump • Doodle LP • Doodle • Dots • Draft4 • Engine Analyzer • Every Day is Halloween • floor is lava • Fortress of Narzod (IL) • Fortress of Narzod • FrogsNFlies • GhostbustersII Music • Glider Rider Music • Gravitrex • GWSL • Handy Pick Hank! • Heads Up • Hex • hexed • Hyperchase • Jingle Bell Hero • Joystick Test • Karl Quappe • knightex • Light Pen Test • Lord Of Robots • Mail Plane • marinefox • MegaApocalypse • Melody Master • Mine Storm 1 (Level Select) • Mine Storm 1 • Mine Storm 2 • MineStorm 2 (Buttons) • MineStorm 2 (IL) • MineStorm 2 (Invincibility) • minex • Monty OTR Music • MoonLander • Mr. Boston • Nagoya Attack beta • Narrow Escape (2D) • Omega Chase • OregonTrail (1978) • Overseer • Patriots • Patriots3 • PegSolitaire • Performancevx • PitchersDuel • Polar Rescue • Pole Position • Pythagorean Theorem • Quick Shot • Raid Over Vectrexia! • RaidingParty • RAM Test • Release • Repulse • Rip Off • Rockaroids • RockaroidsRemix (Spinner) • rotor • Royal21 • Scramble (IL) • Scramble • Sectis • Skull Shot • Solar Quest (Buttons) • Solar Quest (IL) • Solar Quest • Space Force! • Space Frenzy (Spinner) • Space Race • Space Wars • spidex • Spike (IL) • Spike Balloons • Spike Hoppin • Spike • Spinball (IB) • Spinball • Spinner Test • Spud • Star Castle (IL) • Star Castle • Star Fire Spirits • Star Hawk • Star Trek (IL) • Star Trek • stevedore • Super Simon • Test Cart v4 • The Dice • Thrust (Spinner) • TouchMe • Tour de France • Tower (BCG) • Turkey Pop • unblockme • upsidedown • Veccy Bird • VecDrum • Vec-Man • Vecmania-1 • Vecmania-2 • vecribbon-demo • VecTalk • Vectopia • Vector Pong • Vector21 • VectorClock • VectorVaders • Vectrex UFO! • Ventilator • V-Frogger • V-THEREMIN • WAM • War of the Robots • warrior • Web Wars (IL) • Web Wars • Wormhole (Spinner) • wwry • Xandoz • Xmas Space Race • XmasCart 2014 • XmasCart 2015 • Zantis • ZOAXMAS • Zodiac • ZSB ##### Super Vectrex Multicart (SVM) ©2021,©2022,©2023 by Arcade Jason / Ralf Kornmann. Usage notes. Usage notes and titles list in this document were compiled from various posts. Super Vectrex Multicart (SVM) Usage Notes: Super Vectrex Multicart title selection functionality as used with the Vectrex Reset button. SVM supports a feature to use the Vectrex front panel "Reset" button in two different ways. A quick press. Or a long (greater than 1 second) press. Using the quick press feature of the Reset button will result in restarting the currently selected ROM title. Using the long press feature of the Reset button will result in returning to the SVM Main Menu allowing for selecting of a different ROM title. Some of the ROMs in the titles list are a multiple game title ROM in themselves. (e.g.: All Good Things.) After selecting the ROM the player will be presented with the title's menu inside the ROM for choosing other individual games inside the ROM. Some of the ROMs below require accessory hardware in order to start and use the title. Such as a Vectrex 3D Imager, Light Pen, or third party spinner controller. All "3D" ROM titles requiring the Vectrex 3D Imager will show a blank display after starting the game without the 3D Imager attached. (e.g.: "3D Crazy Coaster", 3D MineStorm", etc.) This is expected and normal operation for a 3D title. To see game play graphics displayed plug a 3D Imager into Vectrex Controller Port 2. All ROMs requiring the Vectrex Light Pen (LightPen) will provide only limited usage after starting the title without the Light Pen attached. (e.g.: "Art Master", "Mail Plane", etc.) The title will start and the game can be selected. But actions needing the Light Pen will be unavailable. (e.g.: In Mail Plane game play destination selection and package loading cannot be accomplished.) Original era and homebrew ROMs requiring extra RAM on the printed circuit board (PCB) are not supported by the Super Vectrex Multicart. No RAM exists on the SVM PCB. Those titles are not included on the SVM. (e.g.: "Animaction") Extra RAM was not included on the SVM PCB to keep the sale price as low as possible. All titles in the list noted with "(IL)" are a modified version of the title with infinite lives for use by the player. All titles in the list noted with "(Invincibility)" are a modified version of the title where the player cannot be hit and killed. All titles in the list noted with "(Level Select)" are a modified version of the title where the player can choose the starting level. All titles in the list noted with "(Spinner)" are a modified version of the title enabled to use a spinner controller. Usually in controller port 2. All titles in the list noted with "(Button)" are a modified version of the title enabled to use a the controller's buttons to control player movement. All titles in the list noted with "(Joystick)" are a modified version of the title enabled to use a the controller's joystick to control player movement. All titles in the list noted with "(2D)" are a modified version of the title enabled to operate without the use of a Vectrex 3D Imager. All titles in the list noted with "(BCG)" are a ports from BASIC games by Ralf Kornmann based on the original games in the 1973 edition of "101 BASIC Computer Games" by David H. Ahl. All titles in the list noted with "(Speed)" are a modified version of the title incorporating increased speed of one or more game design elements as compared with the original title. (e.g: For Berzerk (Speed) the player, bullets, robots and Evil Otto all move a bit quicker.)

Vectrex Homebrew Permission and Programs wanted for the NEW "Ultimate Vectrex Multicart" ! HELP!!! Arcade Jason Kopp and Ralf Kornmann are working on a new multicart to replace the existing Super Vectrex Multicart (SVM) ! They are asking for your permission to permission to add your homebrew games and software to their new "Ultimate Vectrex Multicart" (UVM). For version programs are preferred. But if you would like to create a version only for distribution on the Ultimate Vectrex Multicart they would be welcome too. All types of home brew software is welcome. Games. Educational. Demos. Songs. Utilities. Diagnostic and Test. I am sure the team of Jason and Ralf will once again over-deliver and under-price their new "Ultimate Vectrex Multicart" (UVM)! Even if you have already given Jason and Ralf previous permission to include your Vectrex program into their current Super Vectrex Multicart, Jason would like to touch base with you again to renew the permission for the new "Ultimate Vectrex Multicart". Please submit your Vectrex programs and permissions to Jason Kopp's email address: koppjason83@yahoo.com, with the subject "Vectrex Program Permission Grant for Ultimate Vectrex Multicart" Gmail Message response: Here is email reponse link for use with Gmail koppjason83@yahoo.com, Subject: Vectrex Program Permission Grant for Ultimate Vectrex Multicart Alternatively, you can reach out to Jason Kopp via his Facebook account @jason.kopp.923 (https://www.facebook.com/jason.kopp.923), or Respond in the Vectrex Fans Unite Post thread about this same same topic. (note group membership is required to post in this thread) https://www.facebook.com/groups/104852679725118/?multi_permalinks=2210917792451919 Thank you in advance to any Vectrex Developer responding to this post. Even more appreciative if you allow your Vectrex program to be included into the new "Ultimate Vectrex Multicart". Vectrexer

I recently recieved an email response from Klaus who makes a pretty great Tomy Pyuuta/Tutor multicart. They are still available and I was going to order one. He suggested that a group buy might bring down the shipping cost and make the final price little more bearable. I thought I would ask here as this is the greatest concentration of occidental Tutorians I know. These are the prices (rounded to the nearest dollar) he has posted (shipping was confirmed in the email from Klaus), but I am confirming everything else with him. 8kb/16kb Multicart: $42 (€38) 32kb Multicart: $48 (€44) Game-Adapter: $17 (€15) [needed to use the 32kb 3D games] Shipping: $22 (€20) The link above describes what you will be getting with each cart. I checked USPS flat rate from my home in Phoneix and it is $10.20. All you would have to cover is whatever you want and the shipping from AZ. I think we would need at least 3 Tutorians to get into the black with shipping. If at least four people respond, I will post some sort of a sign-up.

Hi All, The UnoCart is my latest multi-cart design for the Atari XL & XE. Its basically the little-brother of the Ultimate Cart (using a cheap microcontroller) and you can read about its development here. The UnoCart cartridge uses a micro SD card for storage, so you can reprogram it simply by copying new files onto the SD card from your PC/Mac. Like the Ultimate Cart, the UnoCart can emulate a wide range of cartridges and it also launches XEX files. However it is limited to 128k cartridge and XEX files, rather than the 1024k limit of the Ultimate cart. Most importantly, this means it does not emulate 8mbit Atarimax cartridges - so you still need an Ultimate Cart for that. However, it does have a couple of other features not present in the Ultimate Cart: - Fast search of all directories on the SD card, including partial matches (so you can search for "dig" and it will find "Mr Dig.XEX" and "Dig Dug.ROM"). - Limited support for ATR files (including the 16Meg ATR game compilations) with read and write support. There is also a review video from ndary below showing some of the features: Note there are a couple of inaccuracies in the video- it uses micro SD cards (not micro sims) and it does NOT actually support AtariMax 8mbit ROMs. You can read about the full set of features in the PDF manual available on the project website. The shell is a cheap 3d printed design which is mainly intended to keep the PCB safe and allow it to be inserted in an XL. It is not a proper Atari cartridge shell. The firmware is open source, and was written by myself and flashjazzcat, and we are planning to make a few cartridges available for sale. If you'd like an UnoCart, please reply to this thread (please don't ask for more than 2 cartridges). The price is £40 cased or £35 uncased + £3 P&P. There will be 14 cartridges available initially. I've got 5 ready to post out, so the first 5 will be dispatched immediately. Flashjazzcat is going to make a further 9, but these won't be ready for 2-3 weeks. For those that miss out, or prefer to DIY, there will be a construction article in Excel magazine issue #4, involving only a small amount of through-hole soldering and a readily available development board. Reserve your copy of the magazine here. Robin

I've been donated a nice device from 1983, which seems to be multi-ROMs device with switcher for demonstration in gaming shops ? Have you ever saw one of these ? I've been trying to make it work but didn't succeed for now ? So I need your help Do you think the empty chip slot on the cartridge board, which is actually empty, need to be populated? If so, with what ? The only trace connected to it seems to be the A12 rail which, if I understand well, is used to tell the VCS to use external ROMs... Thanks for any help !

Have a multicard for the Magnavox Odyssey from @Boojakascha and @Mikebloke and got a handle for it from Laserbear. Took measurements and with the new handle, it's about 11cm x 9cm, and about 1.5 cm thick. I'm looking for a hard case or possibly a shock box to store it, ideally with a little bit of extra space, so I can line the case with antistatic plastic to protect the PCB Does anyone have any ideas on what the most similar cartridge would be in terms of size? (NES, SNES, Megadrive...?) Or if repurposing one of those wouldn't work, does anyone make custom cases that would fit it? Thanks!

Hi All, This thread is intended for people that want to ask questions about the Ultimate Cart. Due to the good efforts of Santosp, there's a lot of new users that have just got this cartridge - and there are bound to be questions. So this thread is the place to do it. Before posting, it might be worth checking if the answer is in the documentation I've written for the cartridge. A copy of this should be sent out with every cartridge. If you didn't get it, you can download it from: https://github.com/robinhedwards/UltimateCart This covers (briefly) how to use the cartridge, how to update the firmware and how to modify a cartridge case to fit. There is also a technical thread here - intended for people that want to develop for the cartridge, or discuss the technical aspects of it: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/241888-ultimate-cart-sd-multicart-technical-thread/ The technical thread also has some photos of the internals of modified cartridge shell, so might be of interest. There is also a thread where some compilations have been posted: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/242957-ultimate-cart-sd-multicart-info-bits/ Finally, regarding the firmware. There is no need to update it, unless you want to add the new XEX loader functionality. The process is a bit technical, and probably not for everybody. I'm willing to update the firmware for anybody in the UK if they PM me. Perhaps somebody can make the same offer for those in the US? Robin

Does anyone know anything about the multi-cart that John Lester is playing with in this video? It appears to be by Sean Kelly, but John says it's got 154 ROMs on it, and on the menu screen we see "The Ultimate Multi-Cart". John says he picked this up at the Vegas CGE (I assume the 2010 expo). This particular multi-cart is not listed among the multi-carts in NIAD's Collector List so I just want to know if this is a previously undocumented product, maybe a CGE exclusive, and/or if it's a Sean Kelly creation.

Hi friends, I recently bought this wonderful AtariMax SD Multicart, I would like to trade it with a fully working and in good shape Atari 5200 trak-ball (+Centipede bonus ?) . This Atarimax cart originally contains Beef Drop and Venture (which I will miss) and is loaded with the usual 5200 stuff. The reason I am selling it, imo it is taking a bit of the magic of taking out a cartridge from the box and inserting in the 5200. Note : I asked Steve of Atarimax, to send me the unit without the label on the cartridge so I make a custom one, but I never did. It will be shipped with the original label and stuff.

Hi all! Last month I saw the following ad on eBay: I thought the appeal of this kit for homebrew development was very limited: No bankswitching/mapper (only 2K games or 4K games with further modifications on the board) It required messing around with UV lamps, programmers, etc Required some knowledge of electronics Buying the parts separately would probably be less expensive Not possible to ship as a product to customers It would be probably easier and faster to use one of the existing USB/SD carts to test on a real hardware. This did make me think though that I had never seen a development kit for the 2600 which would allow homebrewers without knowledge of electronics to self publish their games. If a mapper is required, then that knowledge need goes up real fast. As in Europe we have very limited offers of good homebrew games available (most of them are from the USA and shipping quickly becomes a problem), I thought about making this my next project. The idea is to have blank carts (populated with all required components but without any game image in them) and a simple to use cable and PC software which would allow the user to create a cart ready to be shipped to customers as well as test games in a real atari. Is this something that would interest the homebrew community? Here are some requirements I have come up with: The final product must cost under 10€ (populated cart PCB) All components must be easy to find. Preference should be given to components still in production Must be usable by people with no experience in electronics No soldering Must support mappers (the ones used by batari Basic at a minimum, as a lot of people seem to use bB) No physical alterations to select the desired mapper (or no mapper) Must fit in a standard Atari cartridge case Components should be SMD to keep production cost as low as possible All comments will be appreciated!! Cheers.

UPDATE: As of 18 Mar 17: 34 Ordered, 16 to go. All payment emails sent. We are OVER HALFWAY THERE!!! If we can get to 40 orders, I will order the parts and this thing will be a go. We will still need to get to 50 to pay the balance for the SMD assembler, but if we can get to 40, we can start this process and move the timeline up. I have found another supplier for some of the parts and they had a deal, so I have started to order some of the parts. . Let me be clear: I STILL NEED 50 PRE-ORDERS. Tell your friends. Hell, I even gave Facebook $10 to advertise! Folks, As promised, here are the details: Starting TODAY, 17 FEB 17, I am taking pre-orders for Electrotrains' Ultimate Atari Cart. Here is how it will work: Process: 1. Send total payment via PayPal to marlin4@gmail.com. Please, make sure you use the "Pay for goods/services" option. 1a. Please include email & AtariAge handle somewhere in the notes when sending PayPal. 2. You may order as many cartridges as you wish, but your payment MUST be received IN FULL (including shipping) for you to reserve one or more of them. 3. There needs to be 50 pre-orders by April 18, 2017. If there are not, all pre-orders will be refunded IN FULL. 4. I will send you an email verifying receipt and telling you your # on the list. The number does nothing but let you know how close we are to starting production. 5. As soon as I receive 50 pre-orders, I will order the parts and start the process of making the cartridges. TIMELINE: 17FEB: Pre-Orders Start ASAP: As soon as 50 pre-orders are made, I will order the parts. I already have the PCBs. The LATEST this date could be is 18 APR 2017. Faster pre-ordering means, earlier start date. 25 APR Parts & PCBs to assembler 02 MAY Assembled boards received back. Begin doing hand solder parts (3), programming, casing, testing 16 MAY Begin shipment 01 JUN All carts should be in your hands NOTE: If the 50th pre-order comes earlier than 18Apr, then everything gets moved up. It is all dependent on how fast the 50 pre-orders happen. Costs: US$95.00+shipping Includes one Ultimate Atari Cart inside of a custom printed, 3D case. Case is BLACK, unless you choose differently. The label is waterproof and laser printed. If you do not want the case, subtract $5.00. If you want a different COLOR for the case, ADD $5.00 (See the attached PDF file for available colors. Do Glow in the dark!!) Shipping is as follows: US-based PayPal Addresses: $10.00 for up to three carts Canada-based PayPal Addresses: $15.00 for up to three carts Rest of the world PayPal addresses: $20.00 for up to two carts US shipments will go out Priority Mail, insured. Everybody else will go out International First Class Package. WHAT IS THIS CARTRIDGE? It supports most ROMs up to 1 megabyte in size, including standard 8k and 16k cartridges, XEGS, AtariMax 1 & 8mbit ROMs, SIC! Cart, Bounty Bob, OSS, SDX & Williams. ROM dumps can be easily converted into CAR format with my html/javascript conversion utility, RomToCar. It will also load .XEX files directly from the SD card. Design, PCB & FPGA firmware by Robin Edwards (electrotrains at atariage) Atari boot menu & XEX loader by Jonathan Halliday (flashjazzcat at atariage) Debugging - Matthias Reichl (HiassofT at atariage) Help, suggestions and FAT32 LFN code from Mark Watson (foft at atariage) For more information, here are some links: #1 #1 http://tinyurl.com/gtwzaew Also details further down in the thread here: #25 Inland PLA Colors.pdf

Hi All, The Ultimate Cart is an SD-card based multicart for the Atari 8-bit, which I've been developing for the last few months. It allows you to browse the SD card on the atari and launch cartridge images from ROM and CAR files from the menu. The PCB is designed to fit in a standard grey cartridge case (after a bit of modification with some clippers and a file). It supports most ROMs up to 1 megabyte in size, including standard 8k and 16k cartridges, XEGS, AtariMax 1 & 8mbit ROMs, SIC! Cart, Bounty Bob, OSS, SDX & Williams. ROM dumps can be easily converted into CAR format with my conversion utility. To learn more about the hardware and development, the original thread is here. The project is open source. PCB files, programming files and source files will be available on github shortly, and I'll open a technical thread for discussion when this has been done. The hardware includes an FPGA and could be used for a lot more than a multicart - co-processor & SD-card based hard disk are two possible future avenues for development. There is a JTAG header to allow the cartridge firmware to be reprogrammed in the future. Now that I've assembled and tested the second board I think its probably time to open a pre-orders thread so I can get some idea of interest. The price will be £70 (+postage) for the cartridge board (ready to use, but uncased). If you are interested in one, please reply to this thread. At the moment, this is only to give me some idea of numbers and to reserve your place in the queue. It is not a commitment to buy or for me to supply one. I'm not sure how many of these I'm prepared to make, and it may take me some time, so I will contact people as I make the boards, and check they are still interested. Since its open source, I'm hoping some others may make the boards too, and might be able to charge less than me. Initially, I've got 3 more PCBs on the way, and I will prioritise any UK or European orders, since it will be easier to post/return if there are any unexpected teething problems. Beyond that I'll see how much interest there is. Robin

I've ordered my first ever Atari 800XL, and I'm really excited. Unfortunately, I didn't order a disk drive. I was thinking of ordering one of those multicart things that you can insert SD Cards into. The question I have, though, is if they'll run disk based games at all?

Hi all, I have created the following post yesterday: Someone just told me that I should have created it in this subforum. I don't want to duplicate the post but I have also not found how to move the post here. Any suggestions? Also, if you can comment on the bankswitch schemes you currently use in your programs and any experience you can share on how to implement a bankswitch controller on a 8bit Microchip PIC will be much appreciated. Cheers!

Thought would post on here first to see if any interest before putting it on eBay. This is the French RCA Studio II clone the Victory. Complete with two joystick attachments (which I believe are unique to the Euro models ?) along with a multi-cart. The system powers on fine, but there is no AC adapter included in the sale. I cannot get a clean picture, I don’t know if this is down to the system or the fact I am trying to use a French system on a UK CRT TV. I am also including the multi cart containing RCA Studio II games, MPT-02 Roms and homebrew titles. Regarding price I’m just looking to get back what I spent which is around £100 (shipping costs on top). Feel free to ask any questions and I’ll do my best to answer them. Payment via PayPal only. Thanks for looking.

VecFever on eBay It's a flash multicart for the Vectrex. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vectrex-VecFever-Multicart/323953128604 Vectrex VecFever Multicart Current released firmware. Comes in a Vectrex cart protector. not mine

Here is another item of mine SOLD here, my AtariAge 2600 Harmony Encore SD card multicart. SOLD PM me if interested, SOLD.