I Read It On Ebay

[MrAtari2600]

This is a short post with not much description because my research cameup blank but i decided to post it here.

 

 

I was browsing ebay the otherday and found a rebuilt Atari 2600 System

 

It was an original atari but built with new parts.

 

Maybe this guy is full of Sh But I came on here to See!

 

 

Do they actually actually in 3rd party make Atari replacement parts ?

 

I've seen a few on the website basic ones but i'm curious to know if they do or not.

[mimo]

It is possible, Best Electrics have loads of parts to fix/re-build a 2600, including fully populated mother boards.

[Brian R.]

IIRC, wasn't the reason that it was so easy for other companies to make clones of the 2600 because it was built with "off the shelf" components?

 

Still, I would seriously doubt anyone claiming that they built a 2600 from scratch.

 

Maybe the got a new populated board. That's what I did for a 5200 I found in a trash can. It didn't work so good, but the case was OK, so I bought a new fully populated board. Take out the old one, plop in the new one, and BAM, new 5200.

[Prodos8]

They may have thrown a few replacement parts on, cleaned it and are now calling it 'rebuilt'. I don't see why they'd replace anything that was working though. On ebay I imagine the term rebuilt is used quite loosely.

 

The TIA/RIOT, available new from sources like Best, are the only custom ICs, everthing else is off the shelf.

[wogihao]

hmmm when they say populated board does that include the TIA/cpu and inpuit IO chip?

 

intresting.....

[[d2f]Iggy*SJB]

At the gaming store I hit for Atari games, they are selling these new consoles that play NES and SNES games(same console)....so I wouldn't really say a new 2600-clone is too far fetched.

[tremoloman2006]

It is possible, Best Electrics have loads of parts to fix/re-build a 2600, including fully populated mother boards.

Right on! I just ordered a replacement motherboard for my faulty 2600A since the individual parts were only $5 less than a brand new one. (NOS)

 

Best Electronics is run my great and friendly people... I can't say enough good things about them.

[mimo]

I agree, I have bought lots of stuff from Brad at Best and his service is fantastic, always well packaged and delivered quickly to the UK

[A.J. Franzman]

The TIA/RIOT, available new from sources like Best, are the only custom ICs, everthing else is off the shelf.

No, the RIOT (6532) was an off-the-shelf part, and was used in other equipment besides the VCS. The CPU (6507) was also technically off-the-shelf, but I don't know if anything else used it. Only the TIA was a true custom chip.

Edited January 13, 2008 by A.J. Franzman

[keilbaca]

It is possible, Best Electrics have loads of parts to fix/re-build a 2600, including fully populated mother boards.

Right on! I just ordered a replacement motherboard for my faulty 2600A since the individual parts were only $5 less than a brand new one. (NOS)

 

Best Electronics is run my great and friendly people... I can't say enough good things about them.

 

Sheesh if I had known about that, I would have gotten a new Atari Jr board, than throwing away my short rainbow Jr, because I have zero time anymore to fix things, and I needed to downsize.

[A.J. Franzman]

if I had known about that, I would have gotten a new Atari Jr board, than throwing away my short rainbow Jr

Oh come on, there are several people on these forums -- myself included -- who would take a dead console off your hands; no need to send stuff like that to the dump. Even if someone only replaced a motherboard and didn't want to keep the bad one, someone here would take it.

 

Besides, old electronics shouldn't be tossed with regular trash anyway -- due to high lead content, they're considered hazardous waste and should be collected for proper disposal or recycling.

[DarthCalvin]

Besides, old electronics shouldn't be tossed with regular trash anyway -- due to high lead content, they're considered hazardous waste and should be collected for proper disposal or recycling.

 

I should hang posters with this on it all over town and leave my home address as a dump site. Nah, I would probably just end up with 27,000 toasters and 4 million copies of E.T.