ancient homemade Atari cart? *now for sale/ trade*

[panamajoe]

Hi!

 

i just bought these carts...

now i´m wondering where they came from and how they were made...

any infos on these?

 

* PM me if you want to buy these carts *

Edited October 19, 2005 by panamajoe

[Bruce Tomlin]

i just bought these carts...

now i´m wondering where they came from and how they were made...

any infos on these?

I've never seen anything like that before. And it has _pins_ on the end?

 

What I'd do is dump the chips in an EPROM reader and then figure out what kind of instruction set was being used.

[attendo]

ahh I was bidding on that one a few times (jm9607) so I gues you must be metten? lol

 

Im thinking the adapter was sold by someone/some stores to be used for playing pirated/copied atari 2600 games. The reason I think its sold commercially is because of the 'cool' picture on it that makes it unlikelly they are protos. But then there should be some more of these adapters and 'cartridges' around in Germany.

 

Greets

[panamajoe]

ahh I was bidding on that one a few times (jm9607) so I gues you must be  metten? lol

 

Im thinking the adapter was sold by someone/some stores to be used for playing pirated/copied atari 2600 games. The reason I think its sold commercially is because of the 'cool' picture on it that makes it unlikelly they are protos. But then there should be some more of these adapters and 'cartridges' around in Germany.

 

Greets

901451[/snapback]

 

yes, metten, thats me

 

i also think that it was for pirating games but i don´t think it was sold commercially

i´ve never seen something like this before...

regarding the picture on the cart: i think its an hacked taiwan cart, modified to run eproms...

guess i´ll see more when i have the games

[supercat]

i just bought these carts...

now i´m wondering where they came from and how they were made...

any infos on these?

 

A photo of the back side of the carts would help answer the 'how they were made' question, or else an answer to a question: what color is the exposed metal on the back? It is shiny copper, shiny silver (i.e. tin), dull dingy copper, or something else?

 

If it's dull dingy copper, then the boards were probably produced in somebody's basement (or garage, or other such place). Using pin connectors eliminates the need for a double-sided PC board, thus simplifying home-built construction. If the adapter cart is constructed with discrete wires inside (use a flashlight to look in through the card-edge end if you can) that would suppose the home-built pirate-cart theory.

[attendo]

yes, your probally right that it is a hacked cart.

 

Seems there are many different ways people used to copy games, something similair as this is in this thread.

[Bruce Tomlin]

If it's dull dingy copper, then the boards were probably produced in somebody's basement (or garage, or other such place).  Using pin connectors eliminates the need for a double-sided PC board, thus simplifying home-built construction.  If the adapter cart is constructed with discrete wires inside (use a flashlight to look in through the card-edge end if you can) that would suppose the home-built pirate-cart theory.

They appear to be single-sided, with pins directly corresponding to the EPROM pinout. What I want to know is what the inside of the cart looks like. I wouldn't be surprised to see a salvaged EPROM board with a bunch of loose wires connecting it to the pin socket.

Edited July 31, 2005 by Bruce Tomlin

[panamajoe]

If it's dull dingy copper, then the boards were probably produced in somebody's basement (or garage, or other such place).  Using pin connectors eliminates the need for a double-sided PC board, thus simplifying home-built construction.  If the adapter cart is constructed with discrete wires inside (use a flashlight to look in through the card-edge end if you can) that would suppose the home-built pirate-cart theory.

They appear to be single-sided, with pins directly corresponding to the EPROM pinout. What I want to know is what the inside of the cart looks like. I wouldn't be surprised to see a salvaged EPROM board with a bunch of loose wires connecting it to the pin socket.

901797[/snapback]

 

just tested the cart and yes: looks pretty homemade to me.

Inside the cart are wires ending in the pin socket and the cart shell is from a german pirate game called "Bermuda"...

 

the games on the Eproms are:

- Freeway

- Donkey Kong

- Q*bert

 

So, if anybody is interested in this thing... PM me!

[panamajoe]

If it's dull dingy copper, then the boards were probably produced in somebody's basement (or garage, or other such place).  Using pin connectors eliminates the need for a double-sided PC board, thus simplifying home-built construction.  If the adapter cart is constructed with discrete wires inside (use a flashlight to look in through the card-edge end if you can) that would suppose the home-built pirate-cart theory.

They appear to be single-sided, with pins directly corresponding to the EPROM pinout. What I want to know is what the inside of the cart looks like. I wouldn't be surprised to see a salvaged EPROM board with a bunch of loose wires connecting it to the pin socket.

901797[/snapback]

 

just tested the cart and yes: looks pretty homemade to me.

Inside the cart are wires ending in the pin socket and the cart shell is from a german pirate game called "Bermuda"...

 

the games on the Eproms are:

- Freeway

- Donkey Kong

- Q*bert

 

So, if anybody is interested in this thing... PM me!

907477[/snapback]

 

I decided to sell this pirate cart...

 

PM me if you´re interested in buying/ trading...

 

THANKS!

[panamajoe]

it´s going the EBAY way:

 

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8730660478

 

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