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Rockin' Kat

Member Since 21 Jun 2001
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In Topic: WTB: NON-JITTERY paddles for atari 2600

Wed Apr 4, 2012 12:18 AM

View PostSlammedNiss, on Tue Apr 3, 2012 11:27 PM, said:

I just picked up a set off eBay for $10 shipped. It cost the seller $9.40 to ship them via Priority, so I don't know how he made any money.
I assure you, he didn't make money. He lost money when you add fees to that cost. What he did was learn that offering free shipping is pretty much never a good idea for items less than $18, because it's getting harder to ship much of anything for less than $10. He'd have been better off throwing them in the trash. (not that I'm saying that's a nice thing to do... but really, it would have cost him less)

In Topic: WTB: NON-JITTERY paddles for atari 2600

Tue Apr 3, 2012 12:59 PM

I think it'd be easier to just spend the ~$6 per pot and buy brand new pots from best electronics and replace the ones in your current paddles. They have like a $20 minimum, so you'd just need to buy four and then you'd have enough to get two paddle sets going with no doubts about it working. After that it'd just be a matter of finding three other people to play warlords with.

Yes, there would be soldering involved, but it's pretty low on difficulty level.

In Topic: Really? Atari 400 parts still available from Sears?

Sat Mar 31, 2012 2:17 AM

View Postorpheuswaking, on Wed Mar 14, 2012 11:17 PM, said:

1meg paddle pot? http://www.searspart...shdPart=C010464

Tried to order those.. my order got canceled a few days later due to being permanently out of stock. Good thing Best Electronics has some anyway... I'll probably order from them soon.

In Topic: Really? Atari 400 parts still available from Sears?

Tue Mar 13, 2012 6:18 PM

They have a page for Intellivision controller parts too. What do you suppose a "video swt" is?

In Topic: Strange Cables

Mon Mar 12, 2012 9:52 AM

I had a Sony KV25XBR that had a "Multi RGB" port with that 34 pin connector... I got rid of it after trying and failing miserably to get some kind of RGB picture on it. Shame you didn't come about these cables and post them a couple years ago. Who knows... I think that TV was seriously messed up though.

$5 sounds reasonable considering I'm not entirely sure what's going to happen when I plug it in. It just happens I've got my 286 with a 9-pin monitor socket sitting next to an old Hitatchi TV set which happens to have a socket for that other connector on it.

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