Who has a 7800 dev card?

[+Mitch]

So who has an official Atari dev card? The DP guide says that on 20-30 7800 dev cards were built. I wonder how many are now in collector's hands.

 

Post a pic if you can and what rev you have.

 

Here's a pic of my Rev1 7800 Dev card.

 

Mitch

[CPUWIZ]

I have both and two 7800 proto dev-boards.

[+Mitch]

I have both and two 7800 proto dev-boards.

 

Rev 0 boards?

 

Mitch

[Tempest]

I had one...

 

 

Tempest

[Nukey Shay]

I wonder how many are being used?

[CPUWIZ]

I have both and two 7800 proto dev-boards.

 

Rev 0 boards?

 

Mitch

 

They have all kinds of crazy 30 gauge hand wiring on the back, not sure where they are at the moment, otherwise I would post a pic. I've posted pics of the other two in the past.

[+Mitch]

Kind of like this Rev 0 card?

 

Mitch

[Mayhem]

This is mine... bought from someone (I forget who) who posted on AA a while back selling it...

[PacManPlus]

There's no option for 'who doesn't have one, but wants a Dev card'

Edited March 31, 2009 by PacManPlus

[mimo]

There's no option for 'who doesn't have one, but wants a Dev card'

or who does not have one, but should really have one for all the great games they have written/hacked

[+Allan]

There's no option for 'who doesn't have one, but wants a Dev card'

You're the only one that should have one.

 

Allan

[xZanU]

Will work for food Dev Card.

[PacManPlus]

Thanks for the kind words, guys

[gambler172]

There's no option for 'who doesn't have one, but wants a Dev card'

Hi Bob

If you want one,ask Brad at Best Electronics.Maybe he has one for sale.

greetings Walter

[HammR25]

Bob, I've heard that Brad at Best Electronics might have one for sale.

[PacManPlus]

Really?

 

Ok, I'll check with him

 

Thanks!

[+selgus]

Are people still using Atari ST's to connect up with these dev cards to do development?

--Selgus

[+Mitch]

Are people still using Atari ST's to connect up with these dev cards to do development?

--Selgus

 

Well, since no one has written a PC app the ST is your only choice. That is for using the offical Dev Card. If you are using emus/CC2 for dev then probably PC or maybe Linux/Mac.

 

Mitch

[Wickeycolumbus]

Don't have one, but I would love to own a 2600 one

Edited April 1, 2009 by Wickeycolumbus

[+selgus]

Well Best Electronics has one for $325 for sale. Brad said it comes with the ST software and the stack of documentation.

--Selgus

[Crazyace]

I used to have one - and it was stolen ( along with the 7800 ) - as that was the only 'boxed' console in the house when the breakin occurred - must have been a surprise when opened..

I guess I was lucky though , as my TV & Atari ST were left untouched ( surrounded by a maze of midi and serial cables )

[krewat]

Here's pics of my own home-made one. The switch is for "write enable"

 

I never had one from Atari, at the time I believe they didn't even have them available. As a matter of fact, we never even got their "official" development environment for the ST, I built my own on an IBM-XT using the parallel port to the joysticks. Later, we got the ST environment, but never used it as my IBM-XT/AT version worked very well.

 

My supervisor/co-worker built a setup that would do it serially through one joystick line, I think he did it from a C64. No idea what he used for a Dev card, but I do believe I was the one who made one for him.

 

I wish I could find my EPROM images for the bios, as well as the stuff I had for the IBM side. Can't find the software anywhere in my disks.

Edited April 8, 2009 by krewat

[Wickeycolumbus]

Here's pics of my own home-made one. The switch is for "write enable"

 

I never had one from Atari, at the time I believe they didn't even have them available. As a matter of fact, we never even got their "official" development environment for the ST, I built my own on an IBM-XT using the parallel port to the joysticks. Later, we got the ST environment, but never used it as my IBM-XT/AT version worked very well.

 

My supervisor/co-worker built a setup that would do it serially through one joystick line, I think he did it from a C64. No idea what he used for a Dev card, but I do believe I was the one who made one for him.

 

I wish I could find my EPROM images for the bios, as well as the stuff I had for the IBM side. Can't find the software anywhere in my disks.

 

That one is way cooler than the official one

[gdement]

Here's pics of my own home-made one. The switch is for "write enable"

 

I never had one from Atari, at the time I believe they didn't even have them available. As a matter of fact, we never even got their "official" development environment for the ST, I built my own on an IBM-XT using the parallel port to the joysticks. Later, we got the ST environment, but never used it as my IBM-XT/AT version worked very well.

 

My supervisor/co-worker built a setup that would do it serially through one joystick line, I think he did it from a C64. No idea what he used for a Dev card, but I do believe I was the one who made one for him.

 

I wish I could find my EPROM images for the bios, as well as the stuff I had for the IBM side. Can't find the software anywhere in my disks.

 

I'm amazed that Atari would launch a new console but didn't even bother to give you guys devcarts for it. Programmers actually had to waste their time building this stuff for themselves?

It's like they thought new software would just fall from the sky.

I don't mean to be overly critical of something I have no first-hand knowledge of, but it appears they completely ignored the needs of their programmers.

[krewat]

I'm amazed that Atari would launch a new console but didn't even bother to give you guys devcarts for it. Programmers actually had to waste their time building this stuff for themselves?

It's like they thought new software would just fall from the sky.

I don't mean to be overly critical of something I have no first-hand knowledge of, but it appears they completely ignored the needs of their programmers.

 

I'm not entirely sure of what the business arrangement was between Atari and Computer Magic Ltd. (the company I contracted for).

 

I started working for them circa September 1985, and first worked on something Atari related in (I think, going back into my sources for 7800 stuff I did) around July 1986.

 

The 7800 was released in June 1986.

 

It's possible that either Atari didn't have a whole lot of cards initially, OR Atari wanted too much money for the cards and development environment.