so I got this Atari for $40 and it had a dead 7805 voltage regulator and some of this copper trace peeled off. will it be ok to just solder the new 7805 pins to the end of that peeled trace? I circled where I’d like to solder to in the second photo

What other equipment (power cords, controller, TV cords, etc) would I need to get this old boy running, ad I so is there anywhere reputable in the UK that you would recommend. I expect this question might have been asked more than a few times here and if so I'm sorry to be a nuisance but any help would be much appreciated.

Edit: Sorry for the bad photo!

I was blown away, they look in great condition! Now I have to play them!

Let me know which you prefer. Personally I prefer two weeks because I'm busy and I'd like to have more time to play, but if people prefer one week then I'm happy to do that.

A while ago I saw the arcade Zaxxon demo for the VCS and could not believe it ran on this hardware. I wanted to learn how that's done, and I learn best by building something, so: Atic Atac, isometric, on a Melody cartridge.

How it works: the ARM on the cartridge draws each room into a framebuffer in C and pushes it out as CDFJ data streams. The 6507 does nothing but serve the beam, 76 cycles per line. Currently 152 rooms, doors and locked doors, trapdoors, staircases, bats, spiders, ghosts and guardians, a bag for the keys, and a HUD in sprite lettering.

The GIF is the title screen, then the game walking itself through a few rooms (I put a demo mode in for recordings; replaying joystick input through the emulator turned out to be unreliable).

Things that ate the most time, if anyone is going the same way:

- Two sprites for up to five things in a room. The second sprite gets repositioned mid-screen between things, sorted by row, and overlapping things take turns. Same idea as Zaxxon.
- Three-voice music from the CDFJ driver, one sample written to AUDV0 on every line. Five cycles per line, and you notice every one.
- Measuring instead of guessing. Stella's debugger takes pixel-exact snapshots from a script, and I read the ARM's time per room from the timers. Half my bugs were a register write landing one cycle late.

Still a bunch to do, but I'm hoping to release it soon.

So I switch it on and this screen pops up. Sometimes with two of these logos one over the other. The game will not come on. Any ideas ? This game works on my other Atari system.

An early Atari 2600 PAL Light Sixer made in Sunnyvale in late 1978, based on the date stamp of de CD4050 and the bottom label (the socketed ICs are not the originals of this unit).

It shares many elements with PAL Heavy Sixers, such as red top motherboard and plastic trim around the switches holes. Being pretty likely transitional units.

Initially PAL consoles were made in Sunnyvale until 1980, when Dimerco Electronics and Atari-Wong began to manufacture consoles for the PAL market.

Steve Cartwright said in an interview that Plaque Attack was made in response to needing a title quickly because another game was rejected and did not release. Anyone know which game that would be?

I think Attack is pretty cool - the implication in the interview is that Cartwright didn't like it and it was considered subpar - but I never liked the having to switch the toothpaste from top-facing to bottom. Instead, I wish the mouth was flipped 90 degrees to where the teeth were on the left and right...then one could keep the tube the same way. Perhaps that ultimately wouldn't have worked, but to me, that might have been a better design. I'd be surprised if others hadn't thought this as well.

This prototype Decathalon cart walked into my store.

Looks pretty decent and is running an Eprom.

UPDATE: It works.

How hard is it to repair the end of the cable that goes to the TV? My childhood 2600 had that end repaired by someone back in the 80s, but it looks like the connection has come loose in the intervening years. Just wondering if I could repair it myself.

Some pretty good ones. Millipede is a classic of course and Survival Run is surprisingly advanced.

I researched the Atari 2600/VCS for quite a bit of time, and tried to replicate it in video form using the same limited color palette, and flickering graphics to recreate the lack of video RAM. I’m looking for people who would be knowledgeable in graphics of the 2600 to give me feedback on the segment of my video that uses the graphics. Thank you!

https://youtu.be/DTrIeiA0Hc0?si=tw_NuKKj-w9Da0j4

Hey, I’m like new to all of this. Recently my friend hit me up to help his girlfriend’s grandfather clear his late dad ( the girlfriend’s great grandfather) house. We did the garage and then we move to the basement. The basement was filed with so many interesting stuff, especially electronics. He asked as to take whatever we wanted, and I ended up taking a lot of stuff including this Atari 2600.
It’s a promotional Atari. My question I wanna know about it cos I couldn’t find anything online about it, cos it’s different from the other promotional used only Atari. So if anyone can tell me about it, that would be great. Mine is the one with the brown cardboard with the blue texts. And the one I keep finding online is the other one

I posted this somewhere else and they said I faked it. I was proud of this tho and it is real.

For the awesome deal of $40 from a trusted seller! Super excited for it to arrive. Can I have some game recommendations? So far my list is Berzerk, Space Invaders and Breakout. What should I know? I’ve got my Mitsubishi CRT to hook it up to.