Steam Powered 2600?

[Blackjack]

Would it be possible to generate the needed electricity for a 2600 with a small toy steam engine?

[Blackjack]

And yes, I'm tired and bored.....

[awsomo3000]

" We have the techknowladgy(sp?) , we can rebuild it"

[hookem]

Would it be possible to generate the needed electricity for a 2600 with a small toy steam engine? 

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Why stop there? Go ahead and implement the 6502 using a series of small wooden gears. It shouldn't be that much harder...

[Ferris]

Hey anything's possible. I tried to build a nuclear powered 7800 once.

[Lord Thag]

 

Or maybe we could rig a bunch of potato clocks together and power a 2600!

[keilbaca]

 

 

Or maybe we could rig a bunch of potato clocks together and power a 2600!

913275[/snapback]

 

a 9 volt does last for 4 hours in an atari...

[Lord Thag]

a 9 volt does last for 4 hours in an atari...

 

You know, having a potato-powered 2600 with a steam driven LCD display would just about be the most ridiculously hilarious thing I've ever seen. Someone should seriously do that. Talk about your conversation pieces!

[Mindfield]

[keilbaca]

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Hahahahaha Mindfeld got owned.

[Lord Thag]

 

No link stealing here. Move along!

[shadow460]

Powering a 2600 from natural sources would require about a two dozen solar cells and seven NiMH D cell batteries. (1.2 volts * 7 +8.4)

 

Charge the battery pack by day and play whenever. Powering the TV is up to you.

[Mindfield]

Er, no... the hamster was the point. Hamster Power, baby!

[panda_racer]

Er, no... the hamster was the point. Hamster Power, baby!

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there is no picture of a hampster..

[Mindfield]

lol! I didn't even see that; I guess my cache was still displaying the hamster.

[crunchysuperman]

Am I the only one who read this thread's title and thought "streaming 2600 titles from Valve?"

 

[Mindfield]

Am I the only one who read this thread's title and thought "streaming 2600 titles from Valve?"

 

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No, you're not -- but lordy that would be annoying. You'd spend ten minutes connecting to Steam and downloading updates before you could play -- which probably wouldn't be so bad after spending 20 minutes decrypting each ROM.

Edited August 18, 2005 by Mindfield

[Rob Mitchell]

There was a steam powered time traveling locomotive at the end of Back to the Future lll. So why not a steam powered 2600?

 

Rob Mitchell, Atlanta, GA

[Famicoman]

Why not a Solar Powered 2600?

[shadow460]

I guess you could make a Hero's Turbine by cutting two holes in a tin can, sealing the top and bottom, and mounting it radially to an axle. Mount an L shaped pipe on each of the holes to make the can spin when heated.

 

Connect a small DC motor to each end of the axle and hook the leads in parallel, then run those into a voltage regulator set at 9 volts.

Put a little water in the can and build a fire underneath it. When the water boils, the can will spin because escaping steam forces it to.

 

Add water as necessary to keep the thing turning.

 

Once again, powering the TV is up to you.

[V.R]

I think it might be possible to power a 2600 from a steam engine. I actually own a few of those engines, and if geared correctly to a dynamo could generate a decent amount of current to power a console. good luck lol

[Inky]

I always told my friends that the ST in "Atari ST" stood for "Steam Turbine"

[dwh]

We could always get that old guy from Soilent Green to petal the bicycle to keep the batteries charged,so we can play Atari.

[Zonie]

Go Solar!