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  1. Atari Systems

    1. Atari General

      A general discussion for Atari-related topics that aren't covered by a specific Atari console or computer forum.

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    2. Atari 2600

      The Atari 2600 is the system that started it all for Atari, and is by far the most popular classic gaming console. This forum covers all 2600 systems produced by Atari, as well as 2600-compatible consoles produced by third-parties.

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    3. Atari 5200

      The Atari 5200 was Atari's second cartridge-based game console. Based on the Atari 8-bit computer line and labeled the "SuperSystem", the 5200 was Atari's answer to growing competition in a market they were losing control over.

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    4. Atari 7800

      The Atari 7800 ProSystem is a contemporary of the Nintendo Entertainment System and the Sega Master System. Based on extensive feedback from Atari customers, the 7800 features a streamlined design, backward compatibility with the 2600, a powerful graphics processor, and simplified controllers.

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    5. Atari Lynx

      Lynx was Atari's first portable game system, and world's first color handheld. It was designed by Epyx and the engineers who created the Amiga. Ahead of its time, the Lynx sported a backlit color screen, stereo sound (in model 2) and an impressive range of games. Check out our rarity guide or explore many games listed on Atari Gamer.

       

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    6. Atari Jaguar

      Atari's last game console, the Atari Jaguar represented a huge leap in technology from previous offerings. Featuring a 64-bit architecture, the Jaguar had great potential, but its power was difficult to tap. Even then, many great games were released and the Jaguar has an avid fan base today.

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    7. Atari VCS

      Discussion forum for the new Atari VCS console.

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    8. Dedicated Systems

      Before Atari produced the famous 2600, they created many standalone consoles such as Pong, Speedway, and Stunt Cycle. Recently, Atari has been creating new dedicated consoles, such as the Atari Flashback.

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    9. Atari 8-Bit Computers

      Atari's original 8-bit computer line, featuring the Atari 400, 800, XL, and XE series of computers. Powerful and well-engineered, the Atari 8-bit computers are still popular with fans today!

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    10. Atari ST/TT/Falcon Computers

      Atari's next generation computer line, the Atari ST computers were based on the Motorola 68000 series chips, the same as the Macintosh at the time. The ST would also be followed by the TT and Falcon.

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    11. Atari Portfolio

      The Atari Portfolio is a palmtop, IBM PC-compatible portable computer released by Atari in 1989, the world's first palmtop computer!

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  2. Classic Consoles

    1. Classic Console Discussion

      Discussion of classic gaming consoles outside the Atari realm.

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    2. ColecoVision / Adam

      Coleco launched the ColecoVision in 1982, with the console quickly becoming popular due to its library of arcade ports. The ColecoVision has a large homebrew following today.

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    3. Intellivision / Aquarius

      This forum is for discussion of the Mattel Intellivision, Atari's primary competitor against the 2600, as well as the Mattel Aquarius computer. Intellivision systems include the original Intellivision, Intellivision II, INTV III, and the Sears Super Video Arcade.

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    4. Bally Arcade/Astrocade

      Discussion forum for the Bally Arcade/Astrocade console.

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    5. Odyssey 2 / Videopac

      Discussion revolving around the Odyssey 2 / Videopac G7000/G7400

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    6. Vectrex

      Discuss the world's only vector-based video game console here!

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    7. Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) / Famicom

      Discuss Nintendo's first cartridge-based system, the NES, here!

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    8. Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) / Super Famicom

      Discuss Nintendo's second cartridge based system here!

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    9. Sega Genesis

      Sega's popular fourth-generation 16-bit system, would ultimately compete head-to-head with the Super Nintendo.

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    10. 3DO Interactive Multiplayer

      Discussion forum for the 3DO console and the unreleased Panasonic M2

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    11. Dreamcast

      Discussion for the SEGA Dreamcast console.

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    12. SMS High Score Club

      Join the Sega Master System High Score Club today!

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    13. TG-16/PC Engine High Score Club

      Compete for high scores on the TurboGrafx-16 and PC Engine!

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  3. Classic Computing

    1. Classic Computing Discussion

      Use this forum to discuss the plethora of classic computers outside of Atari 8-bit offerings. These include the Apple II, Commodore 64/128, Amiga, TI 99/4a, MSX, TRS-80 and others.

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    2. Apple II Computers

      Discussion for Apple's 8-bit computer line.

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    3. TI-99/4A Computers

      Discussion for TI-99/4A Computers

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    4. Commodore 8-bit Computers

      Discussion for Commodore PET, Vic-20, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, and other 8-bit Commodore systems.

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    5. Commodore Amiga

      Discussion for Amiga Computers, CDTV, and CD32

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    6. Tandy Computers

      Discussion for Tandy computers, including the TRS-80 Models I, II, III, and 4, Color Computers, and Model 100.

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  4. Modern Consoles

    1. Modern Gaming Discussion

      This forum is for discussion of all modern game systems, including gaming on consoles and computers.

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    2. Sony Playstation 5

      Discuss Sony's Playstation 5 console here!

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    3. Xbox Series S/X

      Discuss Microsoft's latest Xbox Series S and X consoles here!

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    4. Atari VCS (Redirect)   (8,836 visits to this link)

      Discussion forum for the new Atari VCS console.

    5. Nintendo Switch

      Discussion about Nintendo's latest game console and games.

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    6. Microsoft Xbox One

      Discussion forum for the Xbox One.

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    7. Sony PlayStation 4

      Talk about the Sony Playstation 4 here.

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    8. Microsoft Xbox 360

      Discussion about the Microsoft Xbox 360 (not including the original Xbox).

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    9. Sony Playstation 3

      Please discuss the Sony Playstation 3 and games here.

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    10. Nintendo Wii / Wii U

      Discussion forum for the Nintendo Wii and Wii U consoles and games.

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  5. Gaming General

    1. Gaming General Discussion

      Gaming discussion not covered by other specific gaming forums.

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    2. Arcade and Pinball

      Many of us grew up pumping quarters into arcade games, and here's where you can discuss all your favorites. From Pong to Pinball to the latest arcade games, if it has a coin slot, then you're at the right place!

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    3. Emulation

      Emulators allow you to experience classic games on modern PCs (and other devices!) Discuss the latest emulator developments and ask questions about emulation here!

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    4. Hardware

      This forum is for discussion of hardware at a more technical level than you'll find in the other forums. If you have a hardware question you'd like to ask or have some interesting knowledge you'd like to share with others, post it here!

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    5. Prototypes

      Ever wondered about all those games that were announced but never released? Or games that have been discovered over the years that no one even knew existed? Or have you discovered a new prototype that no one's seen yet? Here's the place to talk about prototype games, led by Tempest of AtariProtos.com.

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    6. Gaming Publications and Websites

      This forum is for discussion of gaming related magazines, books, websites, and other publications.

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    7. International

      Internacional - Internazionale - Internationaal - Internasjonal - This forum is for discussion of classic and modern gaming in languages other than English.

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  6. Marketplace

    1. Buy, Sell, and Trade

      Please use this forum as a tool to buy, sell, and trade games and hardware.

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    2. Auction Central

      Use this forum to discuss auctions on eBay. Have something up for auction you'd like to share? Post it here! You can also highlight amusing, off-the-wall, or interesting auctions that others may want to hear about!

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    3. Wanted

      Use this forum to post a list of the gaming hardware and software you're looking for!

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    4. Free Games and More

      Spreading the Love with Free Games and other items.

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    5. User Feedback Forum

      Please use this forum to leave feedback about other users on AtariAge that you've had good and/or bad experiences with. Please read the sticky at the top of this forum before posting!

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  7. Community

    1. Events

      Use this forum to discuss gaming events of all types, including expos revolving around classic gaming, events catering to modern systems, arcade expos, and local gatherings of collectors getting together or a day of gaming.

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    2. Show Us Your Collection!

      If you're a repeat visitor to AtariAge, it's likely you also collect classic games and systems. Here's your chance to show off to the rest of the community your collection!

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    3. Member Blogs

      As members update their Blogs, messages will be posted in this forum so you can more easily keep tabs on who's writing what!

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    4. High Score Clubs

      Participate in high score contests for your favorite systems!

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    5. Poll Forum

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    6. Contests

      These forums are for discussing and participating in contests started by AtariAge, contests run by forum members, and of course, the weekly High Score Contests!

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    7. User Groups

      This forum and its subforums are for classic gaming and computing user groups. Find people in your area who share your love of this hobby!

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    8. AtariAge News Discussion

      Discuss news posted on the front page of AtariAge!

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    9. User Submitted News

      Please submit classic gaming news here!

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  8. Game Programming

    1. Homebrew Discussion

      Here you can talk about homebrew games that don't have their own forums allocated (which will be most of them). Have an idea for a game that you'd like to see someone program? Are you programming a game and want some feedback? Discuss it here!

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    2. Programming

      The programming forums are technical discussions of programming various classic gaming consoles. The more popular consoles have their own dedicated programing forums, so please only use this forum for topics that fall outside of those forums.

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    3. Hacks

      A hack is an existing game that has somehow been modifed in terms of graphics, colors, sounds, and/or gameplay. If you've modified a game and would like to share it with others, or have an idea for a modification you'd like to see done to an existing game, you can discuss it here.

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  9. Site

    1. Announcements

      Important site or forum-related announcements will be posted here. If you see a new announcement, please stop by to read it!

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    2. Forum Questions and Answers

      Have a question about how to use the forum?  Ask here and others can answer (including admins and mods!)  

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    3. AtariAge Store Discussion

      We'll post announcements about the AtariAge Store here, and you can also post your questions and comments about the store in this forum as well.

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    4. Site and Forum Feedback

      Do you have suggestions for how AtariAge can be improved? Please post them here, as well as criticisms, and kudos about the web site!

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    5. Rarity Guide

      The AtariAge Rarity Guide is a living, breathing document! If you have feedback regarding rarity guide values and the database in general, please discuss it here!

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    6. Archived Forums

      Resting place for forums that have have run their course and are archived here for reference.

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  • Recent Status Updates

    • Living Room Arcade

      Living Room Arcade

      Who wants FINAL FIGHT for Atari 2600?
      Look good?  Holler out to @alfredtdk in this thread and let him know!  
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    • TheGameCollector

      TheGameCollector

      I finished uploading my August 2022 gaming videos playlist. That month I played a lot of Sonic. First, taking up the most videos I finished up my first playthrough of the launch version of Sonic Origins, then played the Sonic Triple Trouble 16-bit fan game and Esrael's then-current version of his Sonic Delta Reloaded hack, plus I started the Donkey Kong Country: The Trilogy fan game and made more progress in Pokemon Yellow.
       
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    • Charlie Cat

      Charlie Cat

      *Sigh* it's Monday. 
       

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    • 7800Knight

      7800Knight

      Why did Johnny Rotten and Bananarama never go on tour together?  They could have called it - the Rotten Banana Tour!
      1. aeberbach

        aeberbach

        Banarama probably had too much artistic integrity to work with him...
      2. John Stamos Mullet

        John Stamos Mullet

        Because Bananarama only went on one proper world tour for 6 months at the beginning of 1989 ending in May 1989, and didn't tour again until 1999/2000's. Johnny Rotten was in studio recording PIL's album until October 1989.
      3. Atarian7

        Atarian7

        "It's a cruel summer, leaving me here on my own..."
    • bent_pin

      bent_pin

      Can you imagine a world without hypothetical situations?
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  • Recent Posts

    • flashjazzcat
      New (alt) BIOS for Ultimate 1MB/Incognito

      By flashjazzcat · Posted

      Yes. Since you also have a SIDE3 cartridge, can you confirm whther the U1MB reset issue still occurs when SIDE3 is NOT connected to the machine?   Dependant on the above, I'd be inclined to suggest a Phi2 timing issue (usually easily fixed), or an installation issue of some kind. Problems with U1MB when that's the only upgrade in the machine are rare.   I'd also be interested to know which JED version your SIDE3 reports (see the info menu in the loader), since I recently encountered a SIDE 3.2 cartridge purchased at RetroLemon in the UK which had a 'GoWin' CPLD (Lattice substitute of which I was already familiar) and a JED with version number 2.3 (which I had never seen before) dated Feburary 2024. The back of the cartridge looks like this: My own SIDE 3.2 cartridge (with GoWin CPLD) has JED 1.3 and works perfectly well, but the 'JED 2.3' cartridge refused to work properly in any machine, even those preemptively stabilised with 74F08 in place of 74LS08.   Regarding U1MB itself, I'd also be interested to know what brand of SRAM is on the board, and whether it looks like this:  
    • watercooler
      Discovered this 80's Arcade near me and I love hanging out there!

      By watercooler · Posted

      Here's about 10 minutes of raw footage from the last time I was at Replay in Tarpon Springs. It'll give you a good idea of the sights and sounds.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wmgfFFKFx8
    • kisrael
      Rehashing the Crash

      By kisrael · Posted

      Yeah you and I are on the same page here - the Golden Age of Consoles had "arcade at home" that just lost its luster. 7800 is an interesting case too, with its busted developmental delays. Like both it and NES had like, Galaga and Donkey Kong and Xevious, but who could really care at that point? And then all those Atari Flashback-like things with the same damn set of games over and over, and/or Williams/Midway.
    • Vorticon
      Pascal on the 99/4A

      By Vorticon · Posted

      Here's a real life code snippet on how to check the position of a moving sprite. It uses VSBR (VDP Single Byte Read) from my VDPUTIL library. In testing I had this a repeat/until loop checking for a destination position and it worked really well and was reasonably fast.   set_sprite(sprnum, car[sprnum]); (* start sprite moving *) salloc := 3072 + (sprnum * 4); (* find location of sprite entry in the Sprite Attribute List *) vsbr(salloc, y); (* get y position *) vsbr(salloc + 1, x); (* get x position *)   Below is the listing of VDPUTIL ready to assemble.    
    • kisrael
      Rehashing the Crash

      By kisrael · Posted

      That's awesome but I feel like the scale of this vs then is like... a high quality speed boat vs the Titanic... I think there's a similar thing happening in pinball, and while I support it whole-heartedly, those industries are orders of magnitude less than what was (and like with the non-Barcade Arcades that are now just ticket-dispenseries, some of it is still a nostalgia play, like "giant space invaders" or "giant Pac-Man") Swinging back to the 80s... maybe it's important is that when it did swing back (mostly via NES), it was a different vibe of game. HSW talks about how he worked to evolve Atari's "easy to start, hard to master" into "hard to start, hard to master" - figuring people were more invested and you could stop trying to challenge them 3 minutes at a time, and give them a longer term challenging than milking a quarter, or reaching for a score. But NES modulated back a bit - "Nintendo Hard" was still a factor, but the idea was "easy to start, hard to get to the end"  (And I'd say that attitude persisted until games had to compete with Internet for people's focus and attention) - and that required the technical advance to dole out content and game world as a reward. So a lot of the crash was focused on "arcade at home" mentality. Arcades took a hit - but could still offer cutting edge tech, but those consoles and the types of game they were feeling old and busted, so things shifted to home computers until Nintendo trailblazed And I remember that - like I *knew* the C64 likely had more raw horsepower than the NES (just do side by side comparisions for like, "Skate or Die") BUT - no one was making a "Metroid" or "Zelda 2" for it Come to think of, the black-covered "Official Nintendo Gamer's Guide" was probably a HUUUUUUUGE sales booster for NES- take a look at https://archive.org/details/The_Official_Nintendo_Players_Guide_1987 those little maps just grabbed my 7th grader heart and never let go - nothing at that level for the C64 or Atari 8bits -and once I got that book it was  the only way I could have beaten Metroid and Zelda 2 (in fact I still don't trust Metroidvania as a genre - if I don't have a book for it how will I know where all the damn missiles are 🙂 ) And man, beating the original Mega Man (3 lives, and no save system) was like my crowning accomplishment.
    • Porkroast
      New (alt) BIOS for Ultimate 1MB/Incognito

      By Porkroast · Posted

      I should also add, the RTC of the Ultimate 1MB similarly resets when the power is turned off as well. Clock & settings stay OK on the Side3 cart.  THanks!  
    • sramirez2008
      Collecting for the 2600+

      By sramirez2008 · Posted

      If you’re into artwork, it’s definitely worth a look and a purchase IMO. 
    • Beeblebrox
      Robocop (C64-Theme) (Pokey Version)...WOW!

      By Beeblebrox · Posted

      love it. Synth sound is great. is there a downloadable xex for this track? 
    • Yautja
      A new game that is coming VERY soon...

      By Yautja · Posted

      I wish I could edit the title or add HT. But I can't see the options to do so...
    • Porkroast
      New (alt) BIOS for Ultimate 1MB/Incognito

      By Porkroast · Posted

      Hi there. Forgive me if this is the wrong place to ask for help. I've been reading on this for days & this site seems appropriate. After a few months delay I was successful in install my Ultimate 1MB into my NTSC Atari 800XL. I was successful in getting the firmware flashed to 4.2 and the Side3 plugin working so that it interoperates fine with my S3 cartridge.    One quirk I am still having, I cannot get any settings to save in the Ultimate 1MB. Every time I powercycle the computer, the Ultimate looses all its settings. This happens even if I try to change profile (I usually use profile 1).   I can use the device OK if I set it up & then just cold boot via the menu or warm boot via the reset, but as soon as I loose power to the computer, the settings revert and I have to set up PBI and everything back up again.   I did check the CR2023 battery, I took it out & made sure its getting good contact. I did not swap it yet, but it reads a solid 3.3volts so that seems OK to me. Any suggestions on what could be wrong? Thanks in advance & thanks for such an amazing project!   -Pork    

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