+Andrew Davie Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 Over the years I've managed to collect a small hoard of "development" carts for the '2600. By that, I mean hardware which can be used for development. The supercharger, of course. Then there's my prototype Krokodil Cart And the UnoCart And of course the lovely PlusCart What am I missing? I know for sure the Cuttle Cart. I'm starting to become obsessed with finding one. Trade, anyone? Probably the Harmony Cart should be in that list too... What have I missed? I know I must have posted this somewhere before...couldn't find it with a quick search. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+-^CrossBow^- Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 Doesn't CPUWIZ have a Dev cart he made that some devs have used? I don't know the specifics but I thought there was one? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Al_Nafuur Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 (edited) deleted Edited January 19, 2021 by Al_Nafuur 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickeycolumbus Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 I can think of two that I'm also missing from my collection, the cuttle cart 1 and Atari 2600 Maxi cart, which supported 16k ROM no extra RAM from what I can gather. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 Do you have one of the original Atari dev carts? It connects to an Atai ST computer. Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Andrew Davie Posted January 20, 2021 Author Share Posted January 20, 2021 1 hour ago, Mitch said: Do you have one of the original Atari dev carts? It connects to an Atai ST computer. Mitch No... not yet.... one day... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Al_Nafuur Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 The frob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhd Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 Does the Magicard count? It was intended to be used for software development... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 On 1/19/2021 at 11:02 AM, -^CrossBow^- said: Doesn't CPUWIZ have a Dev cart he made that some devs have used? I don't know the specifics but I thought there was one? You are thinking of the 7800 and that cart does not support 2600. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Andrew Davie Posted January 21, 2021 Author Share Posted January 21, 2021 3 hours ago, jhd said: Does the Magicard count? It was intended to be used for software development... Yes, probably. Ta for that one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Andrew Davie Posted January 21, 2021 Author Share Posted January 21, 2021 Looks like I need a Harmony Encore Cart for some dev/testing I'm doing on my Chess project. So, if you have one you'd like to trade/sell.. hit me up. I'll look for a 2nd hand one first, but the "new" price is extremely reasonable so I'll go that route in a week or two, if I need to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 Was going to mention Harmony, but saw it already was. So just wanting to say how much I like my Harmony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SvOlli Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 (edited) When I did the research for my talk a couple of years ago, I found an advertisement for development system that was an expansion cart for the Apple II that had a daughterboard that would go into the 2600. But doing a quick search now, I couldn't find any of those stuff any more. Edit: d'oh! I should click on the links of the other posts before posting myself. The Frob is most probably the dev-system I've seen a couple of years ago, though I only found an advertisement back then. Edited January 22, 2021 by SvOlli Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickeycolumbus Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 There's also this open source EPROM emulator, which can be used with any EPROM board. Emulates 2716 -27512 (2k-64k) and what ever RAM or bankswitching your board has. You can upload a new ROM in a few seconds and it will automatically reset the target when the new image is ready. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 On 1/20/2021 at 6:27 PM, Andrew Davie said: Yes, probably. Ta for that one! I can confirm that, Dave Akers is an old colleague of mine, he told me he used his MagiCard (blue label) for coding at home (which I sold for him 15+ years ago, with everything, including a personal letter of the background). I think Cody got it back in the day. He did Star Strike and Bump'N'Jump BITD. Heh, I should check my copies and see if he signed them, forgot. ? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 7 hours ago, Wickeycolumbus said: There's also this open source EPROM emulator, which can be used with any EPROM board. Emulates 2716 -27512 (2k-64k) and what ever RAM or bankswitching your board has. You can upload a new ROM in a few seconds and it will automatically reset the target when the new image is ready. That is precisely what I was using, when I worked on Space Taxi for the 5200. I had 5 level's, identical to the C64 running, now I don't even remember why I abandoned it, was so long ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
high voltage Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 (edited) These? Prom Blaster 8K Eprom Cart from Control Technology Personal Game Prorammeing System (PGP-1) from Answer Software Corp. Edited January 23, 2021 by high voltage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 Here is a Cuttle cart for sale. Mitch 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhd Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 On 1/23/2021 at 12:28 AM, CPUWIZ said: I can confirm that, Dave Akers is an old colleague of mine, he told me he used his MagiCard (blue label) for coding at home (which I sold for him 15+ years ago, with everything, including a personal letter of the background). Wow! I am shocked that anyone had the patience to actually use the MagiCard for a non-trivial project. That is amazing talent. I looked at the manual (online), and just shuddered. I find assembly language difficult to use; I cannot imagine manually entering hex codes byte-by-byte. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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