Matej Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 I am finishing my Kiiro: Yinja Story game project for XL/XE and want to release it on: - 10x FDD 5"25 - 10x Tape Cassette (Turbo 2000) - ATR / XEX And also maybe 20x Cartridge. So who is making cheap A800 XL/XE cartridges? And how much KB game can have? Kiiro: Yinja Story http://atariage.com/forums/topic/235972-kiiro/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Z Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 (edited) I am finishing my Kiiro: Yinja Story game project for XL/XE and want to release it on: - 10x FDD 5"25 - 10x Tape Cassette (Turbo 2000) - ATR / XEX And also maybe 20x Cartridge. So who is making cheap A800 XL/XE cartridges? And how much KB game can have? Kiiro: Yinja Story http://atariage.com/forums/topic/235972-kiiro/ Well, I'll start off by saying that I don't currently know of any cartridge manufacturing options in the EU. Other than that, here are the choices I can think of: Atarimax sells 1 mbit (128KB) and 8 mbit (1MB) flash cartridges. This is a bit more expensive option, I suppose. you can gut some existing cartridges and put new EPROMs in them, though you need to find carts with 27xx series EPROMs rather than those that use 25xx or 23xx (which the atari mask ROMs commonly used the pinout of, and can't be found easily anymore). Lastly, I am looking into producing a board follows the XEGS cartridge banking standard (two 8K banks, one fixed the other variable, and up to 1MB of ROM if you need it) and designing it to fit in a certain polish reproduction Commodore cart (or maybe it was german) which happens to fit all Atari 8 bit computers with the exception of the 1200XL (unfortunate, but there's little other choice in cartridge cases). I am in the US. Edited February 8, 2016 by Joey Z Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 I have boards that can support games up to 1MB in size, and I can produce 20 cartridges with a nice, printed label, using new Atari cartridge shells. I'm not in the EU, but can ship the carts over there. ..Al 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle22 Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 I have boards that can support games up to 1MB in size, and I can produce 20 cartridges with a nice, printed label, using new Atari cartridge shells. I'm not in the EU, but can ship the carts over there. ..Al Hi Al, would you happen to have any 2 chip OSS compatible boards to fit those cartridge shells? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle22 Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 I have boards that can support games up to 1MB in size, and I can produce 20 cartridges with a nice, printed label, using new Atari cartridge shells. I'm not in the EU, but can ship the carts over there. ..Al Hi Al, would you happen to have any 2 chip OSS compatible boards to fit those cartridge shells? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+orpheuswaking Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 I know I would be interested in a Cart version of the game Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathy Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Hello Albert .... using new Atari cartridge shells...Al As they sang in "Grease": "Tell me more, tell me more" Sincerely Mathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Defender II Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Hello, Please, put me down for two cartridges. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 I have a small number of new Atari 8-bit cartridge shells. Once I'm out of them, I'm unlikely to procure more. I am hoping to have a longer term solution to 8-bit carts later this year. ..Al 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathy Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Hello Albert When you say: "Atari 8-bit cartridge shells", do you mean "cartridges that fit inside the Atari" or "cartridges that look like Atari (could have) made them"? Sincerely Mathy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matej Posted February 9, 2016 Author Share Posted February 9, 2016 I have a small number of new Atari 8-bit cartridge shells. Once I'm out of them, I'm unlikely to procure more. I am hoping to have a longer term solution to 8-bit carts later this year. ..Al There is black cartridge shell for Atari XL/XE and C64 in EU. search enclosure: Z7/KP38 EU DISTRIBUTOR http://www.soselectronic.com/?str=371&artnum=50531&name=z7-kp38 PDF http://www.soselectronic.com/a_info/resource/n/economic/z7.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 I think those shells have come up before. Do you know how much they cost? ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 They closely resemble the original SIDE cart cases, which are also too wide for the 1200XL. The transparent cases used by SIDE also suffered from quite poor alignment of the two shell halves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matej Posted February 9, 2016 Author Share Posted February 9, 2016 I think those shells have come up before. Do you know how much they cost? ..Al I wrote to SOSelectronics. Waiting for their reply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pirx Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 it is most often called Z-7 here and cost little (http://www.sklep.cyfronika.com.pl/pl/p/Z-7-Obudowa-z-tworzywa-Z7-wymiary-90x68x19mm-CARTRIDGE-czarna-polistyren/16448) -- 2.40zł ~= $0.61 other places: https://sklep.avt.pl/z7.html http://elektronika-sklep.pl/sklep/p3398,obudowa-z7.html http://www.sklep.monster.pl/Z-7-OBUDOWA-19x68x90-CARTRIDGE(4,36130,35378).aspx are these really good? not really. but they definitely are here 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhusak Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 (edited) @Matej, I have produced several cartridges, they are ready to program. The usual way I arrange data is the xex loader and xex file on the cartridge. If you want some more control, the cartridge maps to A000-BFFF and now I have eproms as big as 128 kB (max is 256kB). The cartridge is as if it were AtariMaxFlash 8Mb, but with 16 banks only, not 128. The cost is not so high in the batch 20 pcs, about 10 Euro each with enclosure SIDEII-like (well, the same) manufactured by maszczyk.pl (type: km20b, http://www.maszczyk.pl/pl/offer/view/86/335/obudowy-km-20b). And yes, they are too wide (about 2mm) for 1200XL, if it is the issue, I will ask maszczyk.pl for cnc them a little. And yes, I am in EU Edited February 11, 2016 by jhusak 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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