Paul Westphal

I find it fun and relaxing to work on them. These restored and repaired systems bring people joy, plus they don't end up in an Alamogordo type burial site. That's what matters. 🙂

Hat Trick was written in Fourth.. 🙂

I totally forgot about Mall 205 KayBee! I think the draw for The LLoyd Center was that it was an open air mall that you could walk your bike through. It would snow and rain in the center of the mall. Also you could catch a glimpse of Tonya Harding ice skating once in a while, but that was a little later.. More later in life, I spent my days off at Electronics Boutique, always searching for the greatest Sega CD game ever. Then the Jaguar hit shelves. I DID see a official Aircars being sold there. It was just the cart and manual, no box. THAT was telling. 🙂

RickR Yeah I remember GIJoes on 82nd ave having a HUGE 2600 display kiosk with multiple games you could try. There were two game stores down at LLoyd Center mall. When the great crash hit, they had games for $10 and under. I think I got Space Jockey for $5.

That's some random pic off the internet with my 53 year old Brothers' face badly photoshopped 🙂

Sears sold my parents a non-working unit and we had to wait for what seemed like an eterniity to get the replacement. After that rough start, there were many game trades with friends during my childhood that became kind of a social thing for us. I eventually ended up with a 800xl and 1050 disk drive. Now I repair and restore all Atari. Funny how that works out.

The other beneift to the UNO is that you don't have to hard reset the computer. There is a button on the UNO cart that you hit first, then RESET on the Atari for a nice warm restart. ( Menu pops back up ) This is less hard on the system over time.

Here is the Eiffel 3 from Belgium. You can connect a PS2 mouse, PS2 keyboard, USB mouse, and two joysticks. It was around $30 shipped.

Ok Guys, I posted two videos of games running in 16mhz. More to follow.

Nope, no RF out. I don't think any of them had RF out, but who knows. Have to use a monitor. Mine does have an additional 2 megs of ram for 4 total. If you happen to have a 1040 ST that does not have a RF modulator, I have the solution!

I just tried Encounter and No Second Prize in 16mhz mode. ENCOUNTER IS SWEET!! It plays fast and buttery smooth..

One of the few games that has some originality and shows what the 7800 is capable of. Good Video Dudes 🙂

Hey guys, I can't really find any info on the Expansion Bus on the Mega's. Was there ever anything desireable made for this port? ( Top of pic and Tan )

This 520 ST also has a jumper for 4 meg..

YES!! That's a rare monitor! Please post some pics Atarileaf!

Hi all! So a buddy and I picked up two Megs ST2's. They both came with a 16mhz accelerator + switch. No Keyboards. We both have an Eiffel 3 coming. So I did some testing with games that would auto boot, with the switch on for 16mhz, and off for 8mhz, respectivley. HOLY TOLEDO! Buggy Boy runs like its a Genesis game and the Time Bandit demo runs WAAAY to fast. 🙂 So at this point I'm thinking any game that is either 3D or that has many sprites on the screen will benefit. When the Eiffel3 comes in I will do some more comparisons and post them here. I think I'll start with painfully slow shooters.. maybe Star Wars and R*Type2.. Paul

Well I have had much experience I can share. I use a modern LCD HDTV that's multi-region and multi power ( 110, 220 ) that you can get from 220 Electronics. Its obviosly does 50/60hz and everything in between . PAL, SECAM, NTSC 4.3 and NTSC 3.58. It sees everything that I throw at it from composite from the ST. My TV also has a " autotune " feature that scans for the signal. You can get composite out of the ST's if they have the RF modulator, and it will upscale to HDMI. I use a converter made by Cable Matters. You can get Composite out of an ST WITHOUT a modulator by putting in a few components where the missing modulator is. Pic #1 unpopulated, Pic#2 populated. The Mod is by Paranoid Little Man. There are cheap monitor to composite cables on ebay, and Hercules Workshop may have some as well. My TV/Upscaler combination has worked for Amiga's as well. I hope this helps.

Thanks Lance! I picked up a Mega ST2 with 4 meg I can try it on.

The Uno Cart will work on Atari 400's that are upgraded to 48k. I tested this on 4 of these machines.