8 replies to this topic

[ahuffman]

I am looking at getting a 5200 pretty soon, and am wondering if anyone here does video mods for it? I am horrible at soldering, so doing it myself would not be a good option.

[AtariGuru]

ahuffman, on Thu Sep 29, 2011 5:09 PM, said:

I am looking at getting a 5200 pretty soon, and am wondering if anyone here does video mods for it? I am horrible at soldering, so doing it myself would not be a good option.

kjman does them but you have to email him and ask

[Rex Dart]

Another option is to improve your soldering skills. ☺

[vectormatt]

Has anyone done some sort of cad drawing (ExpressPCB for example) for the Atari 5200 Mod that they'd be willing to share? I wouldn't mind making a small run of PCB's to have something clean and professional.

[venom4728a]

Longhorn Engineering's website has been posting that he is working on a new 5200 video upgrade for some time now, I have been waiting quite awhile for that mod to come available, but If someone here can make one now I would be on board to purchase one or two.

Robert.

[vectormatt]

Well, I'm not really an expert at this, but I quickly created an ExpressPCB drawingof this mod. I need to review it. The cost of producing 20 of these would be $300 or $15 per board and would go down if there was more interest. Rather than be hasty, I can do a test proto board first while waiting to see if other members suddenly pop-up over the next week or so saying "Oh so-n-so is already doing that." My goal is to have a couple of my 5200's modernized before Christmas. Especially since I just ordered the new Atari Max SD cart.

[venom4728a]

I am onboard for at least 2, will they have component and composite? stereo rca?

Robert

[twoquickcapri]

I'm interested, but Im really wanting s-video

[Rex Dart]

Can't you just take chroma & luma right off the motherboard for s-video? I know you have to amplify one of those signals, but I don't see why/how an entire mod PCB would be necessary.