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Tripper - a new audio/video extravaganza!
Can 3 minutes and 34 seconds of audio and 23 320x240x256 colour pictures be compressed into a 4MB ROM? After a couple of days of fiddling around, the answer is "yes"! We were really deeply touched that...
View ArticleJag CD Eject button replacement parts?
I found an old jag cd that is in absolutely horrible condition. I opened it up and I'm 100% sure someone spilled soda in it about 15 years ago but after some elbow grease I got it to spin up a cd and...
View ArticleAtari 5200 Tempest Review
Here is my review for the 5200 version of Tempest!! Covering the packaging to the game play. I used both the standard controller and trackball and gave my opinions of both. Enjoy....
View ArticleNewbie needing a little help
I bought myself a PAL 600XL today at a flea market but it does not have a power supply. Where would I be able to buy one or failing that what can I do to use an american power supply without burning...
View ArticleProblems booting a light sixer
Hi all! First of all, sorry for my english - I'm from Spain. I entered in this forum 6 years ago now, but I wasn't really active. Recently I got interest again about Atari games, and purchased a light...
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Midnight Mutants - Color Me Impressed
Embarrassingly I am admitting I never 'really' gave this game a thorough try. Sure, I constantly tried it, basically walking around exploring areas trying to figure out what to do, but nothing even...
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HSC10 Round 4 Poll
Details of games below. Checkout Atarimania for other links and instructions. Feel free to add any games you'd like to see in the HSC to the games list thread Astro Droid Fandal [still hanging in there...
View ArticleWho can explain me how training part in Fight Night works
Hi! On AtariMania I found manual Fight Night. In this Doc I read I can setup a few things in Training Mode. I have original XE cart Fight Night, unfortunately not with docs, but I thought the 1985...
View ArticleAll But Donkey Kong
All of the early/legendary arcade ports to the VCS have been rectified and improved on save for one. Pac Man has been fixed with Pac Man 4k, Hack Em and Pac Man Arcade Asteroids = Asteroids Arcade hack...
View ArticleUpgrading the TOS on a 6 chip system
Hi all, I'm trying to upgrade the TOS on my 520STFM from 1.02 to Rainbow TOS (1.06). The chip vendor is understandably a little vague on how to do it, is there HOWTOs available on how to do it? It...
View ArticleNo sound with 5200 system
I've got a 5200 system with no sound here. After reading the following post: http://www.atariage....-5200-no-sound/ I tried swapping the pokey chip as well as both 820pF polystirene caps (with another...
View ArticleAtari 800XL Field Service Manual for download
Atari 800XL Field Service Manual. Click on the white FSM at the bottom of the page. Then click the underlined text in the upper right to download it. There's one PDF for the text and two JPEGs of the...
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Verified Atari 2600 Popeye High Score Cheat
Was wondering if this was true, and then I did it by accident, then tried again to verify what I did. Simple. 1. First loop. 2. Play up to when you have one more heart to collect in the second to last...
View Articleatari air raid prank call i did.
hey hey guys, i know i dont post here a ton but some of ya know me. i saw this total DIRTBAG who had posted this ad, and i host a prank radio show, so i figured i'd give him a ring. spread this around...
View ArticleAtari 2600 "Darth Vader" Instruction Manual - Search
I looked here in Atari Age for the Atari 2600 "Darth Vader" instruction manual. I couldn't seem to find it on here, perhaps I didn't search for the right keywords. Does anyone know where I cand find a...
View ArticleAtari 2600 - Universal Game Case - The Cover Project
Has anyone here on Atari Age used a Universal Game Case with an Atari 2600 game cover from The Cover Project? I think they look great and requires little skill to assemble, unless you have to create a...
View ArticleS.F. Bay Area Atari Distributor 1990's - WHO AM I ?
Hi all, why do I ask you say, well long story short, an employee of Atari Corp. who was responsible for cleaning out a large warehouse of Obsolete Atari stuff the Trameil's got after the buyout, threw...
View ArticleIncognito Instructions?
Thanks to adam242 I got my Incognito installed yesterday and everything I've tested so far seems to work. However, I'm a bit overwhelmed by all the features. Is there a set of instructions out there...
View ArticleGames that won't run on NTSC systems?
Is there a list somewhere of PAL games that will not run on NTSC systems or games that have major troubles doing so?
View Articleloading saved state (altirra) on real atari
A while ago (in a thread about Syncalc) I got a bootable art with on this disk something that I would call a 'saved state loader' ... it loaded a saved state from Altirra into atari memory, and then...
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