This Atari video game system has to go. It's taking up space and I rarely use it. But what's inside and how does it work?
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By Julian
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I've got one of these! It's utter crap. LOL.
You can never have too many ferrites or too much shielding.
The best joystick ever.
I was an atari addict for many months, we had an atari room with an old used color tv and one of those butterfly chairs, I could spend hours playing adventure, and pacman, oh wow those were indeed the days; That joystick looks very much like the origional that came with the system. We usually wore them out in a matter of weeks, but there were some really nice ones out there after market tht worke quicker and much better then the factory models.
Julian, you young whipper snapper! All joysticks of that era were switches! Getting a joystick for my first PC XT freaked me out with its potentiometers 🙂
all these curvy pcb traces, just that the electrons dont fall of the edge 😀
Why didnt you try the potentiometer ?
four screws in the bottom?
Make a video about having a clear out! Its something we all struggle with, deciding what to keep and let go of.
Freecycle it!
27Mhz is very much the standard XTAL frequency in all set top boxes. Some come as oscillator modules which have an adjust input to alter the frequency slightly by a voltage, which is used to tweak the frequency to keep the STB in sync with the incoming digital data stream.
"it's a bit rubbish." What!
I've retyped this comment several times and each time it seemed just too acidic. Let me try again. I don't want to sound too critical but hey…
This is 1970's technology. Pong itself was out in the late sixties. I mean… that's nearly 50 years ago. The dawn of video games. What did you expect?
Granted, all those separate games have been crammed into a hand-held "not-a-real" joystick… all those games in the palm of your hand… If you'd have told someone back in the 60/70's that this would be available, they'd have asked to have some of what you were smoking <giggle>.
Yeah- let me end on a high note 😉
Sorry if it came across badly but… I still respect the technology from way back then.
Just to the left of R8 there are some pads that say N P. I'll be that's the NTSC / PAL selector.
you don't have too much stuff, you have too little space. You can work on that!
Good, now I never need to fiddle around with taking my one of these apart. Can't believe you didn't play Missile Command – it's the coolest game on there! I also have an original early 80's self contained mini arcade style game called Astro Wars.
It's basically a version of Space Invaders with a vacuum fluorescent screen. At some point in the dim past it's internal two way joystick crapped out so I wired in an old original Atari joystick as the controller. So two ancient retro things together. And some back-in-the-day electronix work I did when I still thought I knew everything. lol
Judging by the quality of the title screen's graphics, I'm betting that's one of the NES-on-a-chip implementations, that sorta kinda imitate the Atari 2600 in look & sound. Some of the Atari Flashback consoles actually re-implement the 2600's original hardware, and can even be hacked to play 2600 cart games.
I bet it was radiating emi. prevents the batteries from acting as antenna.
I guess you never had a Atari 2600. I like to have that one.