Interested in 2600 Development. Have a few questions.

[JesterDev]

I was just looking around on ebay for a decent Atari 2600 (Have tons of games) since mine seems to be fried, and some how I ended up here.

 

About the 7800, I understand it can play 2600 games? Never got one so I have no idea. If this is the case can I still use it to play homebrew games, and games that I might create?

 

About the roms and rom burning. Can these only be burned once? I know I can use emulators for testing, but I was just curious.

 

Been a long time since I played my Atari. I miss it. Only been about a year but still; thats long enough.

 

One more thing. About the Cuttle Cart, is there anything else like this around? I know about Cuttle Cart II but just curious to see if there's anything else.

[Susuwatari]

7800 can play 2600 but not all. A small number won't work on many 7800 models.

 

If you don't plan to get 7800 games and they don't interest you, stick with 2600, it's cheaper.

[NorbytheRobot]

- Yes, atari 7800s will play 99% of atari 2600 games.

- If you have and eprom programmer and eraser you can burn them as many times as you would like. Though you would need a socketed cartridge.

- The cheapest way to run homemade stuff on a real system is a Supercharger (Maybe $20-$30?)

 

-Billy

[Susuwatari]

- The cheapest way to run homemade stuff on a real system is a Supercharger (Maybe $20-$30?)

 

That is if you don't have an access to a burner. An EPROM is like $1.50 and you could modify an existing 2600 board with socket and hex inverter or buy one fully assembled for I think $15.

 

If you don't have a burner, you're talking around $100 or so ($50 for used old burner that doesn't support large EPROM would work) and the UV eraser is not the same as a blacklight bulb, that bulb's pure 100% unfiltered UV.