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Title: Time to get hacking!
Post by: Havok on August 04, 2005, 01:24:27 pm
I am sooo doing this, there's an article out on how to hack the new Atari Flashback 2.0 to use regular 2600 cartridges:

http://www.atarimuseum.com/fb2hacks/page1.htm
Title: Re: Time to get hacking!
Post by: Stingray on August 04, 2005, 01:26:59 pm
We'v been talking about this for quite some time at the atariage boards. Those things will make a great basis for a VCSp.

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Title: Re: Time to get hacking!
Post by: ChadTower on August 04, 2005, 01:29:30 pm

VCSp?
Title: Re: Time to get hacking!
Post by: Stingray on August 04, 2005, 01:38:16 pm
Portable.

http://www.benheck.com

-S
Title: Re: Time to get hacking!
Post by: missioncontrol on August 04, 2005, 01:42:28 pm
hurry up and get them on the shelves allready  :-\
Title: Re: Time to get hacking!
Post by: Havok on August 04, 2005, 01:52:50 pm
We'v been talking about this for quite some time at the atariage boards. Those things will make a great basis for a VCSp.

-S

Should be able to makea VCSp even smaller and easier - you shouldn't have to cut the pcb. I'm buying two - one to break and one to play!

 ;D
Title: Re: Time to get hacking!
Post by: Stingray on August 04, 2005, 03:27:37 pm
We'v been talking about this for quite some time at the atariage boards. Those things will make a great basis for a VCSp.

-S

Should be able to makea VCSp even smaller and easier - you shouldn't have to cut the pcb. I'm buying two - one to break and one to play!

 ;D

I expect I'll get two also. One to hack and one to stick on the shelf with the rest of my Atari stuff. I still have the heavy sixer that I got for xmas back in the good old days. That's what I use to play VCS games.

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Title: Re: Time to get hacking!
Post by: Havok on August 04, 2005, 04:42:21 pm
We'v been talking about this for quite some time at the atariage boards. Those things will make a great basis for a VCSp.

-S

Should be able to makea VCSp even smaller and easier - you shouldn't have to cut the pcb. I'm buying two - one to break and one to play!

 ;D

I expect I'll get two also. One to hack and one to stick on the shelf with the rest of my Atari stuff. I still have the heavy sixer that I got for xmas back in the good old days. That's what I use to play VCS games.

-S

I threw out my heavy sixer before I went to college. If only I had known!
Title: Re: Time to get hacking!
Post by: ultramagnus on August 04, 2005, 05:00:23 pm
anyone know if somthing like this would work with those "console in a joypad" things that sega have released?
Title: Re: Time to get hacking!
Post by: Stingray on August 05, 2005, 09:05:10 am
anyone know if somthing like this would work with those "console in a joypad" things that sega have released?

Not without some major hacking and reverse engineering. Even then probably not, as the chips on those things are probably under a blob of epoxy to prevent people from doing this. On the FB2, Atari actually took into consideration that folks will want to do this and they very courteously probided a nice little footprint on the board for attaching a cart slot. It should be a very easy job hacking these things.

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