Wickeycolumbus Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 All of the prototypes being found lately got me thinking, there should be an easy and cheap way for the owners to dump the ROMs. I have tried to ship a dumping setup to proto owners in the past (with some success), but the setup was too complicated. It required an Atari, TV, and other parts. It was too clunky to ship around. This project is a dumper based on the Arduino Uno, an easy to use microcontroller development board that can be bought for as little as $5. The attached .zip file includes some instructions, and a program that will allow you to dump Atari 2600 cartridges to a PC with a USB port. A small circuit (called a 'shield') is connected to the Arduino board, and the 2600 cartridge plugs into that. A cartridge can be dumped in less than a minute without modifying anything or using specialized equipment. I have currently tested it with 2K, 4K, and 8K F8 cartridges. The code can be easily modified to support other bankswitching schemes, but I do not have cartridges handy to test others at the moment. Source code for the Arduino program is included in case someone wants to experiment with this. One design change I would like to do if I made more boards is to connect the cartridge A12 line to Arduino pin 13, so that bankswitching schemes that use hotspots outside of the cartridge address space can be supported. Atari 2600 Arduino Cartridge Interface.zip 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danjovic Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 Great, thanks for sharing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flickertail Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 Cool device! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flickertail Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 I'd be interested in buying one of these if have them for sale. Any chance you've added the A12 feature? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmakyTaky Posted November 14, 2022 Share Posted November 14, 2022 Could not find the board file in the shared archive... is that something you are willing to share? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmakyTaky Posted February 6, 2023 Share Posted February 6, 2023 Well if you decide to sell these, please let us know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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