Curt Vendel Posted January 15, 2004 Share Posted January 15, 2004 New update in the Archives section of the Atari Museum: The source code to enable 7800 games to use the High Score Cartridge. http://archives.atarimuseum.com/archives/a...chdocs-7800.htm Curt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted January 15, 2004 Share Posted January 15, 2004 New update in the Archives section of the Atari Museum: The source code to enable 7800 games to use the High Score Cartridge. http://archives.atarimuseum.com/archives/a...chdocs-7800.htm Curt Cool! Maybe one of the homebrew games that's in progress can take advantage of the code! Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 Some additional 7800 documentation has been posted also. Here is a complete list of what Curt has now updated (I am about to post this news to the front page): Curt Vendel has uploaded some new Atari 7800 technical documentation to the Atari Historical Society website. New additions to the 7800 Technical Docs section include: Source Code for the 7800 High Score Cart 7800 Computer Keyboard Schematics 7800 Trak-ball Schematics Atari 5200-7800 Adapter Schematics For all this and more, please visit the Atari Historical Society at AtariMuseum.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt Vendel Posted January 16, 2004 Author Share Posted January 16, 2004 Some additional 7800 documentation has been posted also. Here is a complete list of what Curt has now updated (I am about to post this news to the front page): Curt Vendel has uploaded some new Atari 7800 technical documentation to the Atari Historical Society website. New additions to the 7800 Technical Docs section include: Source Code for the 7800 High Score Cart 7800 Computer Keyboard Schematics 7800 Trak-ball Schematics Atari 5200-7800 Adapter Schematics For all this and more, please visit the Atari Historical Society at AtariMuseum.com. The 5200-7800 schematics are in horrible shape, whomever made the copy made is so out of focus is nearly impossible to read as-is, I am going to attempt to do a 1200dpi scan of it really close up and see if it can be sharpened and cleaned up, perhaps made into a more readable doc. I would be VERY interested in seeing some hardware hacker perform the CX-22 Patch and 7800-TLL design of the Atari 7800 Trakball proto. Curt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdie3 Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 What is the ponit of there being a 7800 trak ball? Wouldn't the other 2600 compatibile trak balls do the trick or what am I missing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eckhard Stolberg Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 I would be VERY interested in seeing some hardware hacker perform the CX-22 Patch and 7800-TLL design of the Atari 7800 Trakball proto. Without having a closer look at the Schematics: Aren't the CX-80 Trak-Balls like this? There are some CX-80s that are still compatible with the CX-22, some have some modification done to them that make them compatible with the ST mouse, and some are compatible with the ST mouse without any modification. So, could it be that the design for the 7800 Trak-Ball later was used for the ST mouse? That would explain why Atari build a second 2600-compatible Trak-Ball without having any games making use of either design. Ciao, Eckhard Stolberg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt Vendel Posted January 16, 2004 Author Share Posted January 16, 2004 Interesting points Eck... and your theories may very well be correct, I have some bare ST mouse boards, a closer examination is in order! :-) Curt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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