Possibly Making an Atari 2600 Portable

Electric Rain · Post by **Electric Rain** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 8:26 pm

bicostp wrote:SIDE NOTE: There is so much empty space in the 2600 because Atari origionally designed it to have dual stereo speakers internally.

That would have been kinda cool actually... don't you guys think? a) No console has ever even done that, and b) they would have made more games in stereo.

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 8:28 pm

Some homebrew 2600 games take advantage of the stereo sound. Id have to look it up, but I think skeleton+ is one of them.

Post by **bicostp** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 8:31 pm

yeah, Asteroids (((( IN STEREO ))))

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Booop.                 Boop.
Boop                             boop.                                     
                 POW

or PONG [(||)] In Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound.

Sorry. I feel sarcastic tonight.
It would be cool for the Synthcart and Pitfall 2, though!

Electric Rain · Post by **Electric Rain** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 6:32 pm

bicostp wrote:yeah, Asteroids (((( IN STEREO ))))

Booop. Boop.
Boop boop. POW

or PONG [(||)] In Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound.

Sorry. I feel sarcastic tonight.
It would be cool for the Synthcart and Pitfall 2, though!

Hey... pong in 5.1 would be awesome!

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 11:21 am

MMMM Thrust+ Platinuim in (((SURROUND))).

keilbaca · Post by **keilbaca** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 4:16 pm

If you want to build an Atari yourself, you need the 3 chips. Buy an Atari 2600, and gut it. Once you gut out the 3 chips, you can rebuild the circuitry (plus remove the RF part) to make the board MUCH smaller. You can easily make the board at least a 3x3 if not smaller by rebuilding it yourself. AtariAge as well as a few other sites has full schematics that you can rebuild it, or just check out the traces on the Atari itself. Its a single layer board, so its easy to do to rebuild it.

Post by **gannon** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 4:19 pm

my prototype atari pcb should arrive next monday. I'm hoping it works right

keilbaca · Post by **keilbaca** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 4:22 pm

You should do an added feature to your atari Gannon... a pause switch

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 5:44 pm

gannon wrote:my prototype atari pcb should arrive next monday. I'm hoping it works right

So you can sell me one! Seriously, are you gonna make the pcb for yourself, or sell some?

Post by **gannon** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 6:08 pm

If it works I'll most definatly sell some. Although I'm kinda lazy so I'd probably just sell the bare pcb and give you the parts list

Electric Rain · Post by **Electric Rain** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 7:15 pm

The Linux tan girl eh, HK-47?

I just found out about OS-tan characters (usually girls) yesterday... interesting story behind them. I also like how they each have there own thing that corresponds to their respective OSs. Like the MS-DOS one, she's shy because MS-DOS is always running in the background, but out of sight.

Rain

Post by **gannon** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 7:20 pm

yeah, hk-47 is lin-tan and I'm 98-tan.... now if only BlackSix becomes OSx-tan

Electric Rain · Post by **Electric Rain** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 7:24 pm

gannon wrote:I'm 98-tan

Um... your avatar doesn't show up on my computer. I wasn't aware you had one...

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 7:27 pm

What does that have to do with Windows 98?

Electric Rain · Post by **Electric Rain** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 7:32 pm

vb_master wrote:What does that have to do with Windows 98?

Because, he said he was 98-tan. I was pointing out the fact that 98-tan isn't his avatar. In fact, nothing is.