RickR
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RickR got a reaction from Rowsdower70 in Atari I/O Retro Junk Box 8: The Fellowship of the Junk Box
Wicked awesome stuff you took. No problem here on the bulky stuff removal. Although that ball shootin' game looks cool. Save it for the next box!
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RickR got a reaction from Lost Dragon in Hello from Memphis, TN
Fantastic to have a repair expert here. I know I could always use help and advice. Welcome!
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RickR reacted to mojoatomic in Hello from Memphis, TN
Hi all, found this forum, read a few posts and had to join. This is only the second Atari forum I've participated in last ones were BBS's, so it's been awhile
I started out in the early days as an Atari authorized service center tech and repaired/refurbished more consoles than you could shake a stick at. Looks like Atari never left and I've still played it all of these years.
I'm an IT admin now, but I started out as a lowly bench tech. If you were good, they called you a "gunslinger" back then - which seems kind of silly, but it was considered high praise at the time. It was a name reserved for the high end guys who took care of the issues no body else had any luck with, or the ones that were considered to difficult for field personal. Not necessarily related to Atari, just in general.
We took contracts with any manufacturer who needed depot style repair where we could get decent money and secure a steady parts chain and factory level service material. I've professionally repaired everything from Bang & Olufsen, Macintosh (not the computer), Apple (the computer), Commodore, Nakamichi, Data South, Unisys, Daisy Tech, Atari (many models), Marantz and more. Nothing was thrown away back then - if it was of quality & had value, it was all repaired. The Atari was no exception - the 2600's were extremely well made units, and made to be repaired. Actually... they were made to be repaired by folks who knew how to use o-scopes and logic probes. The manuals are geared to flow chart troubleshooting , but the real repair happened at the end of a scope probe. The flow charts were for the new guys and ones destined for field repair.
Anyway, a friend asked me to do a repair on a 2600, so I got into the loft looking for a few parts and would up finding all of my service gear, parts and manuals that I had packed away for who knows why (but I'm glad I did) - and it turns out... I can still repair them like nobody's business.
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RickR got a reaction from jmjustin6 in Atari I/O Retro Junk Box 8: The Fellowship of the Junk Box
Wicked awesome stuff you took. No problem here on the bulky stuff removal. Although that ball shootin' game looks cool. Save it for the next box!
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RickR got a reaction from Atari 5200 Guy in Squad Challenge - Centipede (Atari 2600)
NERD CRED! I love it!
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RickR got a reaction from Atari Creep in Atari I/O Retro Junk Box 8: The Fellowship of the Junk Box
Wicked awesome stuff you took. No problem here on the bulky stuff removal. Although that ball shootin' game looks cool. Save it for the next box!
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RickR reacted to Atari Creep in Atari I/O Retro Junk Box 8: The Fellowship of the Junk Box
Strong Language!!!!
HUGE thanks to NSG for hosting and for the gifts!!!!!!!!
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RickR reacted to dauber in FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Street Racer bare board
Just what it sez...
The story: I have a Mateos rewritable multicart for the Atari 7800. The multicart is just the board. I took my Street Racer cart from 1982, took it apart, and Dremeled out some of the pieces so I could use the cart shell as a shell for the multicart.
Which left me with just the actual PCB from Street Racer.
It works, it just doesn't have a cartridge shell.
It's NTSC.
Again, free....although if you wish to pay shipping, I won't protest. Just let me know if you want it.
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RickR reacted to Atari Creep in Atari I/O Retro Junk Box 8: The Fellowship of the Junk Box
AtariBrian
Message me your info and the box will he out today or tomorrow.
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RickR got a reaction from Lost Dragon in The Walking Dead
What's a pirate's favorite Atari game Coral?
Yaaaarrrr's Revenge, Coral.
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RickR got a reaction from Retro Play in Atari 5200 Top 10 Game Battle -Tier 1
Why is Realsports Baseball not on this list? I'd play that over any of these.
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RickR reacted to Atari Adventure Square in Original Price Tags on Old Gaming Stuff
Found these gems around the castle.
Original prices indeed.
Played these titles every single day.
30 for the Activision star ride, 16 for a doghouse sky ride.
Worth every penny of my folks' money!
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RickR got a reaction from Atari 5200 Guy in Atari 5200 Top 10 Game Battle -Tier 1
Why is Realsports Baseball not on this list? I'd play that over any of these.
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RickR reacted to - Ω - in Fest West 2017
** EDIT **
The videos on my YouTube site were deleted YEARS AGO, so I removed the links
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RickR reacted to jmjustin6 in Thrift Store Finds
Great find today at goodwill. Ive seen these tetris lights before and thought they looked cool, but i wasnt gonna pay $25-$30 for them. Saw these for $1.91 at goodwill with box and all the blocks and am very pleased with them.
The blue one is the base with a plug and the others only light up when they are touching
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RickR reacted to Atari Creep in Atari I/O Retro Junk Box 8: The Fellowship of the Junk Box
It has begun!
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RickR got a reaction from Justin in The Walking Dead
What's a pirate's favorite Atari game Coral?
Yaaaarrrr's Revenge, Coral.
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RickR got a reaction from Rowsdower70 in Bruce Lee II released for C64!
Info here: http://kollektivet.nu/brucelee2/
It's the spiritual successor to the classic game "Bruce Lee" for C64 (and Atari 8-bit). A new version was created in 2013 and ported to the C64! I went ahead and put the image on my SD2IEC device and played it on real hardware....and it is FANTASTIC. Flashier graphics, but the gameplay is very similar to the original.
Has anyone else given this a try? It's easy to try on an emulator. I could also create a floppy for anyone if they don't have an SD2IEC.
