Shawn Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 Hey, Excuse my ignorance but wouldn't it be possible to make a8 to 5200 adaptor so you could play a8 carts on a 5200? Like have the cart reduo any instructions it needs too before feeding the info into the console? Kinda like the SMS to Genny adaptor? Shawn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Psionic Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?s...st&p=973300 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted February 12, 2008 Author Share Posted February 12, 2008 http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?s...st&p=973300 Thanks, I figured it would be alot of work. Looks like best cause that is possible, yet not very plausable is to have a 400 adaptor and even that seems to be too much of a stretch. Oh well, back to normally scheduled gaming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Psionic Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 Thanks, I figured it would be alot of work. Looks like best cause that is possible, yet not very plausable is to have a 400 adaptor and even that seems to be too much of a stretch. It'd be a cool idea, but I think if it were feasible someone would have done it by now. Oh well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slampam Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 Instead of a passive adapter, why not a program that rewrites A8 games to the 5200 format? Rewriting sections of code for the joystick, trigger, key handling are all logically based as are rewriting interrupts and redefining addresses. Of course the adapter would have to be its own mini computer to do this. But I see nothing stopping someone from say writing such a program for the mac or pc and burning the conversion result to a 5200 based EPROM. This seems more logical than rewriting every A8 game to the 5200 by hand. But I could be completely off my rocker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmel_andrews Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 Any A8 to 5200 adapter would only realy work on games that do not do xl/xe bankswitching and anything that is sub 48k...what would be a better idea is a 5200 emu/adapter for the A8 (due to the fact that the A8 has a keyboard and could easily run most if not all 5200 games...thanks to glenn the 5200 man) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 (edited) Any A8 to 5200 adapter would only realy work on games that do not do xl/xe bankswitching and anything that is sub 48k...what would be a better idea is a 5200 emu/adapter for the A8 (due to the fact that the A8 has a keyboard and could easily run most if not all 5200 games...thanks to glenn the 5200 man) Why bother. I believe almost all of the 5200 games have been converted to the 8-bit computers. http://www.atarimania.com/lst_soft-MENU-8-...CENCE_ID-1.html Allan Edited February 14, 2008 by Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slampam Posted September 25, 2008 Share Posted September 25, 2008 I think I ran out of room. And I think I left a screw loose somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted September 25, 2008 Author Share Posted September 25, 2008 I think I ran out of room. And I think I left a screw loose somewhere. Wowsers! Is it fully functional? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slampam Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 I think I ran out of room. And I think I left a screw loose somewhere. Wowsers! Is it fully functional? In my head. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 I think I ran out of room. And I think I left a screw loose somewhere. Wowsers! Is it fully functional? That's Photoshop'ed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artlover Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 That's Photoshop'ed. Ya think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 I went with a similar approach building mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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