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[carmel_andrews]

Looks about the same size as the original lynx


Must be an internal epyx prototype as the games cart defo says epyx and not atari

Edited by carmel_andrews, Mon Jul 20, 2009 10:32 PM.

[Horst]

Is this Rygar's prototype? Looks familiar.

[108 Stars]

Horst, on Tue Jul 21, 2009 6:32 AM, said:

Is this Rygar's prototype? Looks familiar.

Obviously it is, since the video is from him.

[The_Laird]

Wow that is seriously weird looking!

[doctorclu]

The_Laird, on Tue Jul 21, 2009 8:04 AM, said:

Wow that is seriously weird looking!

Love those yellow buttons.

[108 Stars]

The best thing is that instead of a d-pad we have another 4 seperate buttons^^

Epyx must have really taken care of building the ugliest and hardest to control system they could.^^
I am so glad the final design was nothing like it.

Still a cool collector´s piece; I wonder what rygar paid for it?

[rygar]

Yes this is my computer. I have write a little story of the history of this piece of my collection (sorry again all in french) :
http://jeanphilippe......iere LYNX.htm

I have buy this item with a very big sale of epyx computer system so the price is very difficulte to estimat... but it is a very wonderfull piece of my collection and is thing never sale !

[carmel_andrews]

just to clear things up then rygar...is the system something you bought from epyx (i.e a proto or beta version) or did you design your own version of the lynx and put it in a different box etc

Also can you explain how you got an Epyx CA games card instead of an atari one

[108 Stars]

He says it is a prototype, so he did not make it himself.
As I understand it he bought a lot of Epyx inventory; maybe like it happened to Atari stuff, where some guy in Germany bought the Panther dev system for a 20 Dollars or so when everything was cleared out.

It seems on those occasions lots of stuff is sold, and only later can one understand the collector´s value.

I´d guess Epyx used this in presentations before making the deal with Atari.

Much more important: Is the lady in your videos your wife, rygar?

[108 Stars]

Here is the babelfished translation of Rygar´s article:

Conceived in-house by the sector research and development of EPYX it is about a gross limps rectangular out of steel which integrates an opening on the top to insert the cartridges, a screen, two loudspeakers, four buttons for the direction, and the buttons “has”, “B”, “Pause”, “Option I” and “Option II”. It is possible to very slightly regulate the luminosity of the screen as well as volume thanks to two potentiometers.



I recovered this object in California at the time of a sale to the enchèrex of computer material dating from the Eighties. Hidden at the bottom of a case, forgotten, crushed it is the housing cartouche which drew my attention because it strongly resembled those which equipped the LYNX. Of return to the house I undertaken to test the “thing”.

Machine left a tablecloth wire similar to that equipping the turns with PC and four black wire wire kind of helmet of walkman. Considering what no housing did make it possible to put of pile, I deduce from it that two of these four wire were to be used for the food but which? The frame is entirely riveted what prohibits disassembling, impossible thus to look at the mother chart more. Was temptation large to connect all these beautiful people to an energy source but how? Which wire? Which tension? Which amperage? An error and I risked of all cramer! I was pulled about between curiosity and the fear, my impatience increased still more when I noted that the plays lynx fit perfectly in the port cartouche. I was sure it was a LYNX! Good go! Courage…!

I slip a cartouche of the play Batman, I take two wire randomly and I delicately approach them a pile of 9 volts, my hands tremble, a few millimetres separate wire from the pile… contact! The wire are on the terminals, I supports on the various buttons, nothing. I reverse wire, I supports on the buttons, nothing, I change wire, I tests all the possible combinations nothing…! In an ultimate attempt I connect the wire two to two and there miracle, as of the contact with the pile the screen ignites! I fix the whole so as to have the freehands to test the machine. Unfortunately if the screen ignited anything well is not posted, I withdraw the cartridge in order to clean it, always nothing, while playing on one of the serrated roller I to vary the luminosity of the screen, and while making turn the other I hear grésillements coming from the high speakers but this rotten screen remains hopelessly empty…!

I remember then a a little particular cartridge of the play California Games which I have had for a few years and which, with the dires of its salesman, is the only cartridge of play produced not by ATARI but by EPYX. Would this cartridge not having never functioned neither with LYNX I nor with LYNX II it is with this dream nutcase at the head that I try this ultimate combination, be possible that these two objects bought at 5 years of intervals and more 15000km of distance can today link and take again life 20ans afterwards?

The answer .......... YES!!!!!

[BillyHW]

Wow this is incredible.