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sock2828 · Post by **sock2828** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 8:33 pm

hey has any body seen this atari 2600 portable before this looks very hard check it out http://www.tripoint.org/kevtris/Projects/puma/puma.html

Post by **Sparkfist** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 9:25 pm

Yep that's Kenin Horton's. His Atari is quite difficalt as you he custom wired everything together. You can do what he did but ofcourse you'd have to download the schematics and then translate them into a wiring setup.

Post by **SpongeBuell** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 9:31 pm

Ah, good ol' Kevin Horton... when he has a project, he takes it all to a new level. I'm surprised he never comes here.

sock2828 · Post by **sock2828** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 9:40 pm

SpongeBuell wrote:Ah, good ol' Kevin Horton... when he has a project, he takes it all to a new level. I'm surprised he never comes here.

yah me too

Post by **Sparkfist** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 9:50 pm

We're not techical enough. Really this guy rebuilt an Atari 5200, built a device to send NES roms to the NES, and handwired up an NOAC. He goes nuts on hardware hacks.

Turbo Tax 1.0 · Post by **Turbo Tax 1.0** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 10:07 pm

i never saw the atari of his before neato torpedo

he sure does like nomad cases though

EDIT: damn he sure is good at this stuff check out this k-razy pic
and i cant even wire a damn amp

http://www.tripoint.org/kevtris/Project ... rd2_r2.jpg

G-force · Post by **G-force** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 10:09 pm

Thats true I'm afraid. we care more of what something looks like, where he is more interested in the redesigning the hardware. He's a friggin genious and most of us know just enough to reroute some signals.

(just because its been a while since I used a cpuwiz smiley

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Post by **gannon** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 10:36 pm

Have any of you really checked out his FPGA console hardware emulator? Really nice

shmagoogin77 · Post by **shmagoogin77** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 7:46 am

gannon isnt your PCB similar to that??

Post by **Sparkfist** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 8:07 am

shmagoogin77 wrote:gannon isnt your PCB similar to that??

No Gannon has an actuall PCB with traces and layout for the compoinets. Kevin Horton used a perf board. It has copper around each hole but he connented each pin or connection by making traces out of solder or using wire.

In the long run Gannon did it much easier.

G-force · Post by **G-force** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 11:55 am

Turbo Tax 1.0 wrote:i never saw the atari of his before neato torpedo he sure does like nomad cases though

EDIT: damn he sure is good at this stuff check out this k-razy pic
and i cant even wire a damn amp
http://www.tripoint.org/kevtris/Project ... rd2_r2.jpg

Heh heh, I guess he dosnt like people linking to his pics

And don't worry turbo, you're still light years ahead of all the other people who only know how to plug a GameBoy cartridge in.

Turbo Tax 1.0 · Post by **Turbo Tax 1.0** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 4:56 pm

thanks

he sure is one crazy mo though i want him to make a portable snes in a nomad case too that would be pretty cool

Wayne Venomous · Post by **Wayne Venomous** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 7:09 am

I love the Nixie tube clock here:
http://www.tripoint.org/kevtris/Project ... index.html

I was gonna try making a multicart with LED numbers on the front to tell you which game is selected (I hate dipswitches!) Not too difficult either, just need 2x 4bit binary counters, 2x 4bit binary to 7 segment LED and two LED displays.
BUT..... Wouldn't it be cool to make a 512 in 1 games system (or similar) using a VCS with woodgrain and a Nixie tube display like that on the front to tell you which game is selected?! Gonna be a bit more complicated as Nixies need at least 150 Volts DC to work but what the hey, life's not easy

Hmm.... I've got some Nixie tubes I rescued from some scrap Telefunken TV sets....

MM007 · Post by **MM007** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 12:36 pm

Might as well use an LED system for a game system. 150 volts is dangerous to play with when you have an alternative as easy to get a hold of as 7 segment LEDs. XD

I am certain I could make my own digital clock easily enough, but not so sure about the alarm system. If I refreshed my memory on how digital comparator circuits worked though, maybe I could. I wouldn't mess with neons though. I'd use LEDs.

Wayne Venomous · Post by **Wayne Venomous** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 1:37 pm

MM007 wrote:Might as well use an LED system for a game system. 150 volts is dangerous to play with when you have an alternative as easy to get a hold of as 7 segment LEDs. XD

I am certain I could make my own digital clock easily enough, but not so sure about the alarm system. If I refreshed my memory on how digital comparator circuits worked though, maybe I could. I wouldn't mess with neons though. I'd use LEDs.

Neon's rock! They look cool too. Sure, 7 segment LEDs are easy to get hold of and easy to drive but....
it's a bit like saying why play an Atari when it's easier to get games for a PC or PS2? Or why drive an old VW Bug (my other hobby!) when you can get a VW Golf easier? I like old quirky stuff! And I like to be different too.

Power to drive neons is pretty easy to get anyway. Those electro-luminescent glow wire things that people decorate their XBOX, PC, car etc with - the driver unit chucks out about 110 volts AC, stick a bridge rectifier on it and you have summat like 220 volts peak to peak, get a suitable resistor and there you have 150 volts DC. Best thing of all is the driver units only need about 3-5 volts to run, like what the Atari has at your disposal!

If you're scared of using neons though, how about an edge-lit display like this:

Doddle to make too. Just get some plastic like from a CD case, chop it down and drill the numbers with a PCB drill. Stick some bright LEDs in the bottom or top and there ya go. Best of all, if your circuit is using a BCD to 7 segment decoder to drive the display, just replace it with a BCD to decimal display to drive it.