Atari2008 Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 Hey are there any links to Atari 5200 ads? I'm looking mostly for print ads since I've seen the commercials on YouTube (the one vs. the Colecovision is funny). Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slampam Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 (edited) You mean beyond Google? 1983 Sears Catalog Scans http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?s...p;#entry1326724 5200 Ad Search http://www.atarimania.com/lst_pub-MENU-5.html Catalog Search http://www.atarimania.com/lst_cat-MENU-5.html Video Search http://www.atarimania.com/lst_video-MENU-5.html Magazine Search http://www.atariage.com/magazines/index.html Comic Book Search http://www.atariage.com/comics/index.html Edited August 11, 2008 by slampam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slampam Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 (edited) Proto 5200 AD. Sort of. Edited July 14, 2008 by slampam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 Proto 5200 AD. Sort of. Hey, Pretty cool. But you forgot the steering wheel that Dan Kramer said he was working on. Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TunnelRunner Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 Proto 5200 AD. Sort of. Hey, Pretty cool. But you forgot the steering wheel that Dan Kramer said he was working on. Allan Alan, As many times as I've let Dan bend my ear (and I say that with love, Trak Ball Man! ) he's never mentioned a steering wheel. But that 5200 Trak Ball is maybe the best Atari hardware ever! Geo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
82-T/A Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 Proto 5200 AD. Sort of. Hey, that's cool... I've got that 5200 adaptor thing. I didn't know it played Atari 7800 games too? Mine has the same dimensions as that, but it doesn't have the big silver / metal sticker with the rainbow. Does mine maybe only play 2600 games? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemeni Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 Is there actually an adapter to play 7800 games on the 5200? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 Proto 5200 AD. Sort of. Hey, Pretty cool. But you forgot the steering wheel that Dan Kramer said he was working on. Allan Alan, As many times as I've let Dan bend my ear (and I say that with love, Trak Ball Man! ) he's never mentioned a steering wheel. But that 5200 Trak Ball is maybe the best Atari hardware ever! Geo He talked about it with Shane on Retro Gaming Radio. It's the only time I've ever heard him talk about it. Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slampam Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 (edited) Could this be for a 5200 steering wheel? or Track-ball? I know fellas making Turbo/Pole Position/Spyhunter MAME cabinets rig the steering wheel to ride over a ball mouse. I'm assuming this was how a 5200 steering wheel would work as well, though over a trackball. Digital-analog conversion for shaft encoders United States Patent 4,496,936 Inventors: Kramer; Dan H. (Sunnyvale, CA). Assignee: Atari, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA). Appl. No.: 385,134 Filed: Jun. 4, 1982 Abstract Apparatus for producing an analog signal--having a relative amplitude that is indicative of the direction and rate of rotation of a shaft--from a pair of pulse streams provided by a shaft encoder coupled to the shaft. The invention includes circuitry for comparing the phase relationship between the signals to determine direction, for generating a digital pulse of a fixed pulse-width for each pulse contained in one of the pulse streams, and integrating the time or inverted form of the digital pulse, depending upon the determined direction, to produce the analog signal. http://www.atarihq.com/othersec/patents.html 5200 Steering Wheel forum http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=72613 MAME Pole Position cab http://my.stratos.net/~hewston95/RTM40/RTM...l#Pole_Position 7800 adapter for 5200 http://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/cons...7800/7800-20th/ http://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/cons...EMO-adapter.jpg Edited August 11, 2008 by slampam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 If I remember right, Dan said that he wanted to use the 5200 Trackball controller body for the steering wheel. I guess I'm going to have to go find that episode of RGR that he was interviewed in. Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slampam Posted September 23, 2008 Share Posted September 23, 2008 It's an A8 Pole Position with a wheel & pedal! Not sure how it's all hooked up? http://atariwiki.strotmann.de/xwiki/bin/vi...heelPolePosPics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted September 23, 2008 Share Posted September 23, 2008 It's an A8 Pole Position with a wheel & pedal! Not sure how it's all hooked up? http://atariwiki.strotmann.de/xwiki/bin/vi...heelPolePosPics Their using the Atarimax USB cart available here: www.atarimax.com It's going to be one of my next purchases. (probably a christmas present). You can use keyboards and controllers with it now. Hopefully soon they will get some of the USB storage devices working with it. I'd love to use my USB 3 1/2 floppy drive and some pen drives with it. Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vic George 2K3 Posted September 23, 2008 Share Posted September 23, 2008 Is there actually an adapter to play 7800 games on the 5200? There was a proto version of that kind of adapter, as far as I know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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