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[yuppicide]

Who's going to make homebrews if Albert is busy with his new business?

Does anyone else burn ROM's and assemble the boards for me? Will I get the same parts?

As some of you know I have a special cartridge case being made out of wood.. they're being made to spec of what Albert sent me.. so, I'm in need of a test one to send my wood carver.. he already has a non-functioning (as far as I know) PCB with ROM from Albert.

I need to burn him a copy of my game, send him that along with my power supply, tv hookup, and joystick, so he can test my actual game, in the actual wood cartridge, in the actual Atari 2600.

After that he'll send me one that I'll take up to the Digital Press store and test fit in a few of Joe's different type of 2600's.

[CPUWIZ]

PM

[Cebus Capucinis]

CPUWIZ knows how to hook a brotha up.

[ntavio]

Cebus Capucinis, on Tue Feb 1, 2011 7:35 PM, said:

CPUWIZ knows how to hook a brotha up.

The obvious choice.

[DEBRO]

Hi there,

yuppicide, on Tue Feb 1, 2011 6:57 PM, said:

Who's going to make homebrews if Albert is busy with his new business?

I don't mean to hijack the thread. What new business? Did I miss something? I don't want to start rumors but...are there still plans to re-open the store?

[Albert]

DEBRO, on Wed Feb 2, 2011 12:03 PM, said:

I don't mean to hijack the thread. What new business? Did I miss something? I don't want to start rumors but...are there still plans to re-open the store?

The store is open..

..Al

[lucifershalo]

new games and new atarivox available soon?

[Devin]

To answer the title of the thread: "Who makes 2600 homebrews"...

Gnomes.

[Albert]

Devin, on Wed Feb 2, 2011 5:36 PM, said:

To answer the title of the thread: "Who makes 2600 homebrews"...

Gnomes.

And cats. Don't forget the cats!

..Al

[Devin]

Albert, on Wed Feb 2, 2011 5:37 PM, said:

Devin, on Wed Feb 2, 2011 5:36 PM, said:

To answer the title of the thread: "Who makes 2600 homebrews"...

Gnomes.

And cats. Don't forget the cats!

..Al

Perhaps gnomes riding cats into battle?

[theloon]

AtariAge is the most reliable out there. Google will lead you to people making reproductions and have custom cart services. What I've found is that you can expect greater limitations on cart size/specs and higher price. Some vendors have gotten a bad reputation because they deal with people who want counterfeit carts.

Response time for inquires and customer support can be an issue to. I've tried to pester CPUWIZ for a savekey and never got a response. Not because he's a slacker but because he's just one guy being sent tons of queries from random people.

In short, there doesn't seem to be a business/forum/Albert like AtariAge out there. Both a good thing and a bad thing!

..wait, Albert has a new business? Hopefully it involves a developers license for XBox 360 and a 2600 emulator so he can publish BatariBASIC games "Homebrew Forever" on 360 and PS3? It could happen!

Edited by theloon, Thu Feb 3, 2011 2:10 PM.

[Nathan Strum]

theloon, on Thu Feb 3, 2011 1:51 PM, said:

..wait, Albert has a new business? Hopefully it involves a developers license for XBox 360 and a 2600 emulator so he can publish BatariBASIC games "Homebrew Forever" on 360 and PS3? It could happen!

He's managing an arcade. Seems to me he was going to post pictures at some point...

[Cebus Capucinis]

He better be working his ass off fixing that Diner they have there!

[CPUWIZ]

theloon, on Thu Feb 3, 2011 1:51 PM, said:

AtariAge is the most reliable out there. Google will lead you to people making reproductions and have custom cart services. What I've found is that you can expect greater limitations on cart size/specs and higher price. Some vendors have gotten a bad reputation because they deal with people who want counterfeit carts.

Response time for inquires and customer support can be an issue to. I've tried to pester CPUWIZ for a savekey and never got a response. Not because he's a slacker but because he's just one guy being sent tons of queries from random people.

In short, there doesn't seem to be a business/forum/Albert like AtariAge out there. Both a good thing and a bad thing!

..wait, Albert has a new business? Hopefully it involves a developers license for XBox 360 and a 2600 emulator so he can publish BatariBASIC games "Homebrew Forever" on 360 and PS3? It could happen!

Or perhaps I did not read it, because I never saw it.

[Albert]

Nathan Strum, on Mon Feb 7, 2011 4:43 PM, said:

theloon, on Thu Feb 3, 2011 1:51 PM, said:

..wait, Albert has a new business? Hopefully it involves a developers license for XBox 360 and a 2600 emulator so he can publish BatariBASIC games "Homebrew Forever" on 360 and PS3? It could happen!

He's managing an arcade. Seems to me he was going to post pictures at some point...

Hmmmm...

..Al

[Albert]

I went to the arcade today to take a whole slew of photos (these are not all of them)..



I want to add a gallery to the Pinballz Arcade website, so I hope to get these online in a day or three.

..Al

[wood_jl]

yuppicide, on Tue Feb 1, 2011 6:57 PM, said:

Who's going to make homebrews if Albert is busy with his new business?

Who's gonna sell Stelladapters?

[Cebus Capucinis]

Is that Diner working yet?

[Albert]

Cebus Capucinis, on Tue Feb 8, 2011 11:58 PM, said:

Is that Diner working yet?

We need to shop the machine and then it'll be back online. This will probably happen tomorrow or Thursday.

..Al

[Cebus Capucinis]

Albert, on Tue Feb 8, 2011 11:59 PM, said:

Cebus Capucinis, on Tue Feb 8, 2011 11:58 PM, said:

Is that Diner working yet?

We need to shop the machine and then it'll be back online. This will probably happen tomorrow or Thursday.

..Al

Looks like I am flying back to Austin soon!

[yuppicide]

Yeah, I posted this awhile ago, but I could use someone to burn me 20 ROM's, assemble them on PCB, and if you have the cartridge shells to that would be nice.

CPU's very busy right now.

I could use them before May.. the Too Many Games show is coming up and I'd like to release something there.

[Albert]

I can help you, will send a PM.

..Al