Just ordered a Magicard!

[Cassidy Nolen]

Forget paying 2 grand, I just got one off the Sunmark website. The book, the overlays, and the cart for 88 bucks delivered two day express. I am so excited I cant stand it!

 

Now I can (hopefully!) actually have a book that tells me what the heck I am doing. They will be at the CGE, but I figure this bad boy will sell out.

 

Man, I havent been this psyched about a game since I got Quadrun!

 

Woo. I promise, if I ever figure out how to program something of value, I will share with all for free

 

Cassidy

[lonesome_pa]

Congrats Cassidy!

 

Wish I could order one.

[Tempest]

Did I miss something?

 

Tempest

[Cassidy Nolen]

Tempest,

 

http://www.sunmark.com/ is remaking the Magicard. There is really not that much to it. I just want the book, but for an extra 60 bucks, I get the cart, overlays, and can start playing in a few days.

 

Not too shabby. Now I drink cheap drinks this weekend, and its paid for!

 

Cassidy

[broncoman]

just think of the dumb @$$ that apent 1300 dollars for it on ebay lol!!! and now all of us can have one for 80 bucks

[XTClaus]

I have just ordered one...Cassidy Nolen, where is to crown to make you king of the day?

[ubersaurus]

I don't need to order one, for I have the cuttle cart, and its happy emulation of the magicard!

[broncoman]

just for the day man he needs to be king for atleast a month :wink:

[cschell]

I don't need to order one, for I have the cuttle cart, and its happy emulation of the magicard!

 

If I recall correctly he added the option to purchase the manual and overlays separately due to requests from Cuttle Cart owners.

 

Chad

[slimy007]

Just wondering when you write a game to the magicard how do you move what you have to a cart?

[Super-Genius!]

Just wondering when you write a game to the magicard how do you move what you have to a cart?

 

That is a good question! Moving it to a cart is VERY difficult! You would

actually have to copy the code "by hand" and include any MagiCard

subroutines you used for the "game" to the cart.

 

MagiCard games are better run on the MagiCard itself.

[ubersaurus]

I'm guessing that you burn your program, plus the magicard bios onto a cart.

Unless you mean write a game and load it up onto the magicard, in witch case you can build a connector to load up the game on.

[General Atarian]

Good deal on Magicard....

 

I was wondering if by remaking magicard. How will that affect its rarity of 10?

[Cassidy Nolen]

Well,

 

As for being original, there are no markings on the board to indicate it is original. I would only assume this, but there is most likely some marking on a real one that would differentiate it from the fakes.

 

I got my cart on Friday, and have been playing with the onscreen graphic abilities. For a newbie to programming (been at it since early spring), making something happen on the 2600 screen is thrilling.

 

As for the "transfer to cart" part, I have an eprom burner and am not afraid to rewrite anything I put onto the Magicard. The MC does have its own memory, but the manual tells you what addresses are on the cart, and what addresses you can use in the 2600. It is my thought (this may change) as long as you understand what the cart limitations are and where you can put things on a standard setup, you should have no probelm writing a program modified to work on a standard cart setup (I can hear the floodgates of disagreement opening! ).

 

In any event, even to make small changes on a 2600 thrilled me. And, for less than the cost of some rare carts I never play, I can tool around the inner workings on my 2600.

 

BTW, deilvery was speedy, quality is incredible. The overlays are freakin brilliant. They are a 10 on the quality scale. Even includes a separate pic of how to build the cassette interface box. That is next week's challenge!

 

Cassidy