Atari Computers

>>4205549
Did you know it's the Amigas grandfather?
The old Atari 8-bits are nifty machines.

You can be in the same missed boat as me. Atari 8-bit gamesused to be mingled in with the boatloads of VCS games at the same x-for-$1 prices. I cherry picked a decent collection for my 2600 but never picked up any XE games. Now I have a 400 but only a few games and prices are really blowing up.

Flash carts are relatively cheap but you need a special programmer that costs just as much in order to put roms on it. If you have several retro computers that you want to tinker with a floppy drive emulator might be a good investment at about $60.

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OP here.
It came with a dataset drive and some games. Frogger on dataset and then DigDug and Demon Attack on cartridge.

>>4205549
one starting point kinda thing to get/make is an sio2pc or sio2usb cable. Then you can use your computer as a virtual disk drive and download virtual disks onto your pc. Of course there are a bunch of other things like sd memory card interfaces and loadable multicarts.

>>4205549
to use the cassette tapes:
open up the lid in the middle and make sure no cart is inserted.
btw for the 800 it is cool/handy to have the BASIC cart to play around with
if there is a cart, remove and close lid (lid must be closed or you won't be able to power-up)
rewind tape, then power up the atari 800 while holding start button down
it should beep
hit return and tape will start loading

>>4206063
99% of carts, effectively all of them, go in the left cart slot. the right cart slot is only used for like 2 or 3 rare carts

Learn to mod it for composite output instead of RF. It's a super easy mod, and gives a way better picture. Plus, like that, you just hook it up via the standard Yellow/Red/White RCA's on your TV's AV input.

>>4206143
Oh shoot! Ignore this! The 800 actually had s-video output, straight from the DIN! No mods needed! You just need to either find or build the appropriate cable.

>>4205578
>Amigas
into the trash it goes then

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OP here again. Got it to power on but not getting video. At my mom's so only have the flat screen. Maybe it needs a CRT?

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Here's the drive it came with. Was in the box but has to sit the box outside the to some bugs.

>>4206376
You plugged it into the coax and set it to channel 3, right? If you plug it into the yellow AV input, you'll get nothing.

>>4206410
>Was in the box but has to sit the box outside the to some bugs.
makes perfect sense

>>4206414
Probably meant "do to" some bugs. As in, he bought the computer from somebody who had roaches. Which is eventually bound to happen if you go yard saling.

>>4206413
Ah thanks! I am dumb.
>>4206414
Meant Due to some bugs.

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Looks like I may have to wait until I get home to test the video. None of the TVs here have the right hookups.

Invest in this, my melanin enhanced compadre.

http://herculesworkshop.com/cgi-bin/p/awtp-product.cgi?d=hercules-workshop&item=80304

>>4206432
Grab the coax crimper and stick one of the forks into it. Then solder the other fork to the outside of the shield.

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>>4206450
Or, this costs 38 cents

>>4205549
How much did you pay for the system?

>>4206454
Was $50 and came with a lot of books and programming magazines as well.
Plus 2 joystick controllers.

>>4206453
That sounds good to me!
Think they would have it at Radio Shack or should I just order from DX?

>>4206463
Ratshack (if you still even have one in your area) will have them, catalog number 2780475. It's an RCA female to F male connector.

Still though, you'll want to go s-video eventually. The difference in picture quality is staggering.

>>4206461
DUDE! SCORE!

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Found the Owners manual for the cassette attachment at least.

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Most of the magazines are Antic which are archived. Found some interesting articles at least. Remember Electronic Arts?

>>4206507
EA's LHX was the first game I ever played on a PC. Oh man, how I loved that game.

Don't bother with finding a floppy drive. Get an SD card reader. I did and never looked back. I then put a Floppy Emulator in my 1040ST and A500 because fuck the law.

Here is the one I use. 30 Is a good price.

>>4206565
well I'm sofa king we todd edd. Forgot the link.

http://lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=49

>>4206432
Did Americans really use these fork things? What the fuck?

>>4206583
>Did people who aren't underage today really use these fork things?
Yes

>>4206695
We never had them here.Stupid yank. Why do you people get so upset when others question your retarded standards?

>>4206710
BECAUSE MY MOM WAS KILLED BY A STANDARD

>>4206727
Jomkes have to make sense to be funny.

>>4206789
OMKAY

>>4206432
You need a 75-to-300 Ohm balun.

>>4206710
Where is "here" champ? It was the worldwide standard for connecting the aerial to the TV in the early days. Just because you weren't born until HDMI was the in thing doesn't change history.
>Why do you people get so upset when underage think they know shit?
Not even mad kid.

>>4206895
>was the worldwide standard for connecting the aerial to the TV in the early days.
I seriously hope you don't believe that. America and Canada aren't "worldwide".

>>4206895
>It was the worldwide standard for connecting the aerial to the TV in the early days.
Not it wasn't. There has never been a global standard. Belling-Lee is older, anyway. Twin lead has been largely confined to NA.

>>4206090
I grew up with an 800 in the 80s but never new you could boot from tape until now. We had disk drives and I only used tape a little for saving BASIC programs when I was really young and tended to forget to boot DOS before writing a program.

>>4206895
>kid
Mad detected.

>>4206565
>I then put a Floppy Emulator in my 1040ST and A500
why an amiga 500?
why with a floppy emulator and not whdload?

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>>4206952
>>4206964
This is a Marconi (Italian) radio from 1896. Note the dipole antenna connector.

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>>4206952
>>4206964
This is a Baird (Scottish) Televisor from 1926. Note the dipole antenna connection.

>>4207154
>>4207159
Stop saying things that are true and make sense! What the hell is the matter with you? This is 4chan, you're supposed to spread shitty opinions, innuendo, and blatant falsehoods!

>>4205549
Go over that case with some Mr. Clean Magic Erasers. It'll do that computer a WORLD of good.

>>4207154
>>4207159
So how does this make it the global standard when I could pull up many other types of radio connection of which most were more widespread and in use longer?

>>4207239
Mainly, I was refuting that it was an American/Canadian standard and that Belling-Lee was older but the original standard was the only standard therefore it was the universal standard. What's the standard for air conditioners in Antarctica?

>>4207187
Oh jeez you're right what was I thinking?

FACT: Nicola Tesla invented the radio, the television, death rays, satellite communication and 802.11g all based on communications recieved from transdimensional demonic entities
FACT: 98% of the televisions in the world were in the United States until 1987 and 100% of them used dipole antenna connectors

>>4207253
So you're just misunderstanding? Okay. No one said twinlead connections didn't exist outside of america. We said it wasn't standard outside of America and was not a global standard at any time. You need to read more carefully, tripfag.

>>4207264
Show me a Japanese TV from the 20s that has an antenna connection that isn't dipole. Then show me a Japanese car from the 20s that isn't in MPH and a Congolese TV that isn't a rock

In case you still haven't picked up on my implication, it's that your definition of "global" is flawed.

>>4207315
How so? Global standard would imply that it is a standard used in areas around the world that use the technology. What do you think it means? Or are you just being purposefully obtuse because you misread a post? Only Amerifats have such trouble understanding English, though you do only speak a very broken variation of it.

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>>4207320
Yeah, see your euro-centrism is showing. We're really getting far far far off topic here though. How about this, show me literally any Atari brand OEM RF adapter with a Belling-Lee connector. I'm confident you won't be able to. Hell, show me a Commodore brand one! I'm legitimately curious if such a thing exists. I mean, since computers in Europe were the messiahs of gaming in the mid 80s presumably they if anything would have the "global standard" RF connections right?

>>4207349
You don't need an adapter with the C64, actually. If you ever owned one you'd know that. All you need to do is connect the cable to it. Same with the Spectrum. I don't know about Atari, but the same goes for Sega and MSX computers as well.

>>4207008
heheh, yeah, for a while i only had the tape. sometimes tapes would take a half hour or so, and then it would just poop out with an error lol. then when the 810 disk drive first came out it was like $600 or $800 or so!

>>4207120
The Amiga 500 doesn't have an internal hard disk and the side car hard disk is expensive as tits.

>>4207360
Still trying to argue semantics huh? C64s RF connection is phono like an Atari. Did they actually come with Belling-Lee converter cables in the UK?

>>4207360
This, you just need the RF cable. No adapter.

nice 'murifat vs yuropoor shitposting thread

>>4207418
Yes, what else would they come with? Pixie dust? All the computers then did. Christ.

>>4207263
>FACT: 98% of the televisions in the world were in the United States until 1987 and 100% of them used dipole antenna connectors
This is some nice bullshit.

I though you're cool Cabbage Pants, but you seem just like another dumb tripfag now.

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>>4206952
Don't have to believe it champ. I know it.

>>4206964
Yes it was. It was used everywhere, before you were born.

Took me 30 seconds on google to find this pic of a UK made TV with it.

>>4205549
a good resource is the 8 bit computer forum on atariage:
http://atariage.com/forums/forum/12-atari-8-bit-computers/
The personalities there are insufferable but you'll get a fairly good answer after a dozen iterations of folly (like in this thread)

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OP here, got it working somewhat, not super clear.

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>>4207445
It's irony, Anon.

>>4208396
This is about what you can expect out of old and/or unshielded RF on an hdtv but at least you know it works. Probably want to order an s-video

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Definitive version coming through. Any others best played on Atari 8bit?

>>4208121
>I found one tv, that means all TVs were like that
How can you be so stupid?

>>4208851
Reading comprehension sport. I never made the claim all TVs were like that. My claim is that the claim that this was only used in America is bullshit. I have proved that wrong.

>>4208908
Then tell it to someone who claimed that, I just said it wasn't the global standard.

>>4208912
Then why are you replying to a conversation debunking the claims of a couple faggots claiming it was only used in America/North America?

>>4209519
To clarify some points.