The Vagabond board as of 10-17-00...

Today (the 17th of October) I sawed off the rest of the circuit board, well, the stuff I didn't need at least. In this picture I am holding all that remains. The rest of the board in the background is still hooked up because it has the power jack. It has only 3 wires going to the main board I am holding. +5 volts, Ground and +9 volts. For some reason you have to hook up the color adjustment potentiometer to the 'positive in' on the circuit board, so that's why the +9 volts is hooked up. But for all intents and purposes, that little board that the game is plugged into is a completely functional Atari 2600. Notice how it's actually smaller than the cartridge itself. Try that on for size, Gameboy Advanced!

Here is the model TV screen I am using. A Casio EV-660 B. It has an active matrix screen just like the VCSp, except this screen is 3 inches in diameter, the VCSp's screen was 2.5.

A picture of the TV from the side. Why am I showing you this?...

So you can see the difference between that and THIS! These somewhat straight colored lines represent how I am going to 'sandwich' the Atari's circuit boards around the TV.

The PURPLE stripe is the control pad area. I am working on a new type of control pad for this unit, I am not going to use old Nintendo parts, since they wear out. Hopefully my new control pad will be 1/8th of an inch thick, since as you can see, there are parts on the TV which protrude quite a ways on the front (including the speaker which I have to put someplace). I have an idea where the control pad ITSELF is ground, and when you push it, it contacts to a circuit board with 4 spots on it. I think that would last longer than the way control pads usually work...

The BLUE stripe represents the Atari's circuit board. The GREEN things represent the chips on the Atari. See how it nestles into the shape of the TV's circuit board? Pretty clever, huh? The circuit board will overlap the edge near the YELLOW ARROW but there are no chips on that part of the Atari board anyways, so it will only add 1/16th of an inch at most.