Is there any way to have a hard drive 4 2600

[Zebc1]

i dought its possible , but if u made a cart to boot to a hard drive u could have all ur games in one plus u could use programed games too

 

THX

ZEBZ

[Zebc1]

comp messed up go reply to the top one

[Lemmi]

heh this is the top one now

[Zebc1]

lot of games id be nice to put them all on 1 HD

[Nukey Shay]

Apart from multi-carts, Superchargers, and CuttleCarts...I'd have to say no along the way that you are probably thinking. The 2600 hardware just doesn't have the resources to control such a drive.

[Zebc1]

AN ATARI SWITCH :wink:

 

ZEBZ

 

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[CPUWIZ]

The closest thing to what you are thinking about is Kevin Horton's one of a kind Bankzilla but that doesn't require a harddrive.

[Viso]

Instead of connecting a hard drive to a 2600, connect the 2600 to a computer. The computer could supply the information to the 2600 so that the 2600 would never have to deal with interfacing to a hard drive or a file system. Plus, adding and updating games should prove much simpler than if the drive was attached to the 2600. The communication could be done over a serial line (RS-422 or 485 to facilitate long cable lengths) or over ethernet with the help of something like Dallas Semi's TINI.

[Inky]

Wasn't someone looking at putting an Ethernet card in an Atari cart for connection to computers? That's a better idea than a hard drive.

[Cupcakus]

I think HD access times won't work out well... plus the cartridge port doesn't supply enough of the correct signals to read from a HD... an ethernet port is a feat as well... I can think of several reasons why that wouldn't be possible... but engineers can make the impossible possible, or at least Scotty could.. :-)

 

My flash cart is coming soon :-) All will be relieved :-)