[e5frog]

Hello again.

This time I need pre-paid pre-orders for Fairchild System Multi-Carts made from new PCB:s.

I have decided to initially offer them for $100 each, shipping included.

Answer here or send a message.

Previously I have offered the Pac-Man cartridge as you can see here:
http://www.atariage....__fromsearch__1


I'll make a box and instruction booklet for this as well if I get enough sold, but for now it will ship cart only, I'll design and buy boxes and booklets as I sell enough of the carts to pay for these things. I managed to get box and instructions for Pac-Man after only 15-20 sold carts. Box and instructions will be shipped to all buyers as soon as they're done.


The Multi-Cart will contain all known games and variations (also both Democarts and homebrews) for the Fairchild System, even Pac-Man but the intermission music and animations will not fit in the Multi-Cart. Games can be chosen via a menu that you reach by resetting the system.

Previously I have offered four personal choices, quickstart options - your four favorite games start immediately if you hold key 1, 2, 3 or 4 and press and release reset.
I will keep supporting this option, I might also offer a name of your choice to be displayed on screen depending on the interest.
These new Multi-Carts will be numbered starting with #2 for the first pre-payment and so on. #1 is going to be sold at a special occasion.

Any questions are welcome, and also your money at PayPal.com, my address there is e5frog@gmail.com I'll also answer mail to that address.

Thanks for looking!


Non-paid pre-orders (interested list):
coyo5050
dalder
Disco Scottie


Pre-Paid orders:
1 Auction winner: Stonan
2 toymailman
3 Other forum: P.P.O.T.
4 Other forum: Carlsson
5 jeffgamer
6 darthkur
7 Other forum: Freiztan
8 Other forum: GreatGuy
9 Bill_Loguidice
10 horseboy
11 hafrazee
12 retrogmr
13 Other forum: furor
14 jasoncslaughter
15 masschamber
16 lgallair
17 Jan-Erik
18 JayBad
----------------- all above are delivered
19 RPJr
20 jmonzon
21 Joe
22 Judith
23 Brad
24 Laurent
25 Scott
26 Rick

This post has been edited by e5frog: Sat Aug 28, 2010 9:16 AM

[toymailman]

Sing me in!

[lucifershalo]

Can you list the games that will be on the multicart?

[e5frog]

lucifershalo, on Wed Sep 2, 2009 8:31 PM, said:

Can you list the games that will be on the multicart?

Yes, all of them:

Menu

cart
#1 TIC-TAC-TOE + 3
#2 desert fox + 1
#3 Video Blackjack
#4 Spitfire
#5 Space War
#6 Math Quiz I
#7 Math Quiz II
#8 Magic Numbers
#9 Drag Race
#10 Maze/J./B.b./Trailblazer
#11 Backgammon/Acey-Ducey
#12 Baseball
#13 Robot War/Torpedo Alley
#14 Sonar Search
#15 Memory Match
#16 Dodge It
#17 Pinball Challenge
#18 Hangman
#19 Checkers
#20 Video Whizball
#21 Bowling
#22 Slot Machine
#23 Galactic Space Wars / Lunar l.
#24 Pro Football
#25 Casino Poker
#26 Alien Invasion


Democart
Democart 2
Saba #1 mühle + 3
Saba #3 German abbreviations
Saba #16 rat'mal
Saba #20 Schach
#10 alternative version
#17 alternative version
#22 alternative version
TETRIS by Peter Trauner
Pac-man by blackbird & Blaoholtz
Lights out by SEAN RIDDLE
COLORTEST by SEAN Riddle
ALT. BIOS (tennis in four directions instead of just two)
F8 of NATIONS
SCROLL MOUNTAINS (DEMO)
Swedish wordlist hack HANGMAN by Fredric Blaoholtz
RETrogathering 2008 pac-man by Fredric Blaoholtz
TEST CONTROLS by Fredric Blaoholtz
RAMtest by Fredric Blaoholtz
INTERNATIONAL KARATE BETA BUILD 5 by Fredric Blaoholtz

Color-organ prototype

I think that's all of them...

This post has been edited by e5frog: Wed Sep 2, 2009 2:54 PM

[jeffgamer]

I just PayPalled a pre-order to ya'...looks like I'm lucky #4!

Thanks!

[e5frog]

I have increased the number of carts to five as things were a little more expensive than I had expected. It looks like the next larger batch will cost more than the $100 per cartridge than these first five - maybe as much as $20 more, so if you want one and can afford it right now - get one of the two that's left...

[e5frog]

First five are sold, I'll continue to take pre-orders for the same price, but the waiting time is a little longer. The price will most likely go up when I have gotten price information on all needed parts. If you pay now you'll get it at the cheaper price.

[e5frog]

Here's a preview of the menu of the Multi-Cart, originally made by Sean Riddle and edited by me.

As mentioned before, buyer's name will be displayed before the currently first screen is showed:

Old version: http://www.youtube.c...h?v=7Iw_iBkcfEI

NEW:

This post has been edited by e5frog: Thu Sep 24, 2009 7:33 AM

[Disco Scottie]

Add me to the list!!!

[e5frog]

I'm done with the menu for now, I also added the prototype "Draw Poker" to the menu as it differs in the sound effects from Videocart 25, uploaded a new YouTube movie of the menu:


If you check my other videos you can also fid recordings of Draw Poker and Casino Poker.

This post has been edited by e5frog: Thu Sep 24, 2009 8:18 AM

[darthkur]

e5frog, on Thu Sep 24, 2009 9:33 AM, said:

I'm done with the menu for now, added prototype "Draw Poker" as it differs in the sound effects from #25,

That's excellent. I never knew that even existed. There's more great stuff on there than I ever though possible that I'd get to play on my Channel F.

[FND]

e5frog, on Thu Sep 24, 2009 9:33 AM, said:

I'm done with the menu for now, added prototype "Draw Poker" as it differs in the sound effects from #25,

If its the same proto dump as the one I have pictured here
http://fndcollectabl...prototypes.html

Then there is also some slight graphics differences as well (numbers in different position)

fnd

This post has been edited by FND: Thu Sep 24, 2009 2:20 PM

[Bill_Loguidice]

Ack, I just saw this. I'd of course love one, so please add me to the list.

[e5frog]

Yes FND, that's them, I see you have gotten hold of two other prototypes as well, I hope we can get them dumped...

I added the five prototypes that were actually playable:
DRAW POKER (Casino Poker)
COLOR ORGAN
FOOTBALL
GLACTIC SPACE WAR
SPITFIRE

Some are very different in the binary-file but seems to play the same.

There's probably missing code in Color Organ, but even if you just use the first 512 byte it plays the same, the "Robot Wars" code are very different but I think about half the code of that one is missing... That's why it resets after the players are written to screen. I hope we can get new dumps of them eventually.

It seems I haven't mentioned that the alternative Slot Machine was dumped OK and added to the Multi-Cart earlier this week.

You can check my YouTube-page for new recordings:
http://www.youtube.com/user/e5frog

This post has been edited by e5frog: Thu Sep 24, 2009 2:53 PM

[horseboy]

So if I get one now and you decide to make a box later will you send me a box? Or should I wait a while to see if you decide to make a box?

This post has been edited by horseboy: Thu Sep 24, 2009 6:59 PM

[FND]

e5frog, on Thu Sep 24, 2009 1:50 PM, said:

It seems I haven't mentioned that the alternative Slot Machine was dumped OK and added to the Multi-Cart earlier this week.

Glad to hear it dumped OK, any hidden code ? or just blank space

FND

[e5frog]

FND, on Fri Sep 25, 2009 4:22 AM, said:

Glad to hear it dumped OK, any hidden code ? or just blank space

FND

Now that's a good question, that would require some extensive testing. I know that Sean Riddle edited the M.E.S.S. code to mask out any unused code of a cartridge and then looked closer at that. I don't have near his knowledge to do something like that, I'd have to disassemble it and then go trough the code from the beginning...

[e5frog]

horseboy, on Fri Sep 25, 2009 2:59 AM, said:

So if I get one now and you decide to make a box later will you send me a box? Or should I wait a while to see if you decide to make a box?

Yes, if you buy a cartridge you have also bought any future box and instruction booklet. I'm thinking I might gather the on-cart instructions in a pamphlet or something like that.

[horseboy]

e5frog, on Fri Sep 25, 2009 3:07 AM, said:

horseboy, on Fri Sep 25, 2009 2:59 AM, said:

So if I get one now and you decide to make a box later will you send me a box? Or should I wait a while to see if you decide to make a box?

Yes, if you buy a cartridge you have also bought any future box and instruction booklet. I'm thinking I might gather the on-cart instructions in a pamphlet or something like that.

Sweet. Count me in then.

[e5frog]

EDIT:

The Sonar Search I found was not a new version, there was eight bytes missing a little more than half way through the first half of the dump.

It wasn't even playable - which I should have checked of course.

It seems I need to look over the dumper code, it was a very strange place to miss data. I had the same dump with four different carts so I thought it was OK...



I'll remove it again from the Multi-Cart code... *sigh*






I found an earlier version of Sonar Search today when I dumped some carts, there are (so far) a version before week 45 1978 and one from week45 1978. The later version is previously known and dumped. Here's the zipped binary.




I updated the Multi-Cart and added both versions of Sonar Search, also changed the numbering to only be present on actual released cart versions, so there's 36 different dumped carts and a bunch of other software as well. Pac-Man is not listed as a cart since it's not the full cart version (no intermission animations nor intermission music).


Here's the new full list:
CART 01 TIC-TAC-TOE
CART 02 DESERT FOX
CART 03 BLACK JACK
CART 04 SPITFIRE
CART 05 SPACE WAR
CART 06 MATH QUIZ 1
CART 07 MATH QUIZ 2
CART 08 MAGIC NUMBERS
CART 09 DRAG RACE
CART 10 MAZE
CART 11 BACKGAMMON
CART 12 BASEBALL
CART 13 ROBOT WAR
CART 14 SONAR SEARCH
CART 15 MEMORY MATCH
CART 16 DODGE-IT
CART 17 PINBALL
CART 18 HANGMAN
CART 19 CHECKERS
CART 20 VIDEO WHIZBALL
CART 21 BOWLING
CART 22 SLOT MACHINE
CART 23 GALACTIC S.W.
CART 24 PRO FOOTBALL
CART 25 CASINO POKER
CART 26 ALIEN INVASION
CART 27 DEMOCART
CART 28 DEMOCART 2
CART 29 CHESS
CART 30 GERMAN CART 1
CART 31 GERMAN CART 3
CART 32 GERMAN CART 16
CART 33 ALT. MAZE
CART 34 ALT. PINBALL
CART 35 ALT. SLOT
GAME LIGHTS OUT
GAME TETRIS
GAME PAC-MAN
SOFTWARE COLORTEST
SOFTWARE ALT. BIOS
SOFTWARE BIOS
GAME SWE HANGMAN
SOFTWARE RAMTEST
SOFTWARE RG08 PAC-MAN
SOFTWARE IK
SOFTWARE TEST CONTROLS
SOFTWARE F8 OF NATIONS
SOFTWARE SCROLLING MT:S
PROTOTYPE DRAW POKER
PROTOTYPE COLOR ORGAN
PROTOTYPE FOOTBALL
PROTOTYPE GALACTIC S.W.
PROTOTYPE SPITFIRE

This post has been edited by e5frog: Fri Nov 20, 2009 1:04 PM

[e5frog]

New YouTube-movie of the new menu:
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=8WaRTkNbMO8

[darthkur]

Any of these completed and on the way yet?

[e5frog]

darthkur, on Wed Oct 21, 2009 5:56 PM, said:

Any of these completed and on the way yet?

Yes, a few, still waiting for the big batch of PCB:s and circuits.

[darthkur]

Anyone get theirs yet? If so how is it and what's your favorite games on there? I'm still eagerly anticipating my copy.

[Bill_Loguidice]

Not yet. Definitely will be cool, though.