Rare Atari Bible Game Sells for a Biblical Amount
I know we've discussed red sea before. But I don't remember ever seeing a pirce. So here you go. And only a few months old. http://mvvg.blogspot...04/httpwww.html
View ArticleAtari funded the setting up of Lucasfilms Games Group?
This article about the making of Rescue on Fractalus http://www.nowgamer...._fractalus.html states ...Lucasfilm’s Games Group had been set up with $1 million of funding from Atari... Can our resident...
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Neodesk and Geneva!
Amazingly enough, there is a message thread over at AtariForum, talking about Dan Wilga of Neodesk and Geneva fame, actually responding to e-mail requests....
View ArticleGot a new to me 1040ST and hard dirves, now what?
I recently picked up a 1040ST and a couple of different hard drives. Now what? I have a hard drive for the Amiga 500, does the 1040ST hard drives work similar in that I can load that puppy up with...
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Panda Boards
Just took apart a non functioning Exocet and noticed that the board looked odd. As this is the first Panda cart I've every opened, can anyone tell me if this is how all of their boards look, with the...
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Atari++ / Os++ new release preview
I'm close to release an updated release of Atari++, the portable Atari emulator. This will be in some sense a minor update as the emulator core will not change, though Os++ will (minor), and I will...
View ArticleIs the Venezuala source bigger than the O'Shea's source?
About 8 years ago when games started to pop up from Venezuala I don't think any of us had an idea exactly how big this storage place was. At the time the O'Shea's over 1 million sealed video games...
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Power but no picture (Atari 800XL)
Hi, this is my first post here. I did see a similar thread to this (via a Google search which brought me here), but I don't think the problem is the same. OK, I recently picked up an Atari 800XL on...
View ArticleOpinions on this mod?
I noticed this recently and couldn't help but notice that it looks a lot like puppetmark's 7800 composite mod: http://tinyurl.com/c8dqcb5 Has anyone tried this mod or something similar? I'm thinking of...
View ArticleSomething's up with Starmaster...
I'll be playing and suddenly the screen will roll and whatever enemy was on screen (meteor, starbase, ship, etc.) will be in another spot. On my Coleco XM1, sometimes the sprite will appear in three...
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Miner 2049er upside down end label?
so just the other day I purchased a copy of Miner 2049er at this awesome video game store. My friend also purchased one (they had like 3 there). When we got back to my friend's house I noticed when I...
View ArticleHacking Basic Programming
There is no real benefit to doing so, but I was wondering if it would be possible to hack the Basic Programming ROM so that it could access more RAM. With room for more than 9 lines of code, it may be...
View Articlewhat is a copy card 7.0 for atari 1050
In one of my 1050's I found a green PCB with on it a 6502 CPU and a 6264 RAM chip. I guess this is some kind of Happy print, where the 6264 is a track buffer and the 6502 is a replacement of the 6507....
View ArticleA gentleman never asks and a lady never tells
I know your not supposed to ask a persons age but I was curious as to what the average age of an atari enthusiast is at this point in time. I myself am 29 and grew up in the glory days of the nes....
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[AC2k13 coding contest] : The castle of Khon-gis
This weeks, there was a coding contest at the french AC as usual. The goal was to make in less than 30 hours a game base on an old french game on french Victor computer : Baroudeur. We were 10 to enter...
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Anyone know what company this atari ad goes with?
I got some of these with a large collection of instruction manuals and never seen one before, anyone know what system it is for and what company packed them in? Would like to match it back up to one of...
View ArticleSIO2SD update
HI updated my sio2sd firmware to 3.5 -is it the last one?- but although it works fine, can't get hi speed mode pressing start any advice?
View ArticlePlaying PAL games in NTSC land?
I'm running out of NTSC titles that I want, so I'm entertaining the notion of starting to collect PAL titles. I also have a few rare PAL carts I'd like to play. What's the best way to play PAL...
View ArticleBare PCBs
Does anyone still make bare PCBs for games? I haven't seen one in the store in a long time.
View ArticleAtari 800 Main motherboard PCB
Does anyone have any good history links or information regarding the 800's motherboard (PCB)? Revision history. Changes, dates, etc. Some say rev A, some Rev 9???? I have different boards and have idea...
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