monitor cartridge

[high voltage]

Is the Video 61s' 7800/2600 Monitor Cartridge considered a homebrew? 

Ah ok just checked on AA, it's a homebrew:

Created by hobbyist Harry Dodgson, this cartridge allowed the programming of simple games for the 2600 and 7800.

Edited August 16, 2021 by high voltage

[Trebor]

18 minutes ago, high voltage said:

Is the Video 61s' 7800/2600 Monitor Cartridge considered a homebrew? 

Homebrew utility cart. 

 

First version was sold in 1993 by Harry Dodgson himself.  Cartridges created as follows:

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I bought a "Hat Trick" cartridge, removed the ROM, changed the onboard jumpers, installed a socket and plugged in an EPROM which was programmed with the previously mentioned AIM-65 using a board I bought that did 3 types of EPROMs (1K, 2K, and 4K).  A piece of blue self-adhesive shelf paper cut to size finished it off.

The software was created this way:

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The first version was written on my Rockwell AIM-65 computer.  I only had an old version of the Atari 7800 programming guidelines to go on, which were written before the system was released and had errors in them.  I looked at the AIM-65 routines and wanted something like them, only better.  The font is the same as the 8-bit computer, just reordered for the 7800 graphics chip.

The second version, sold by Lance at Video 61, came to be in 2000.

 

There's a great post and video about it on the 7800 forum here, from a few years ago.

[+Mitch]

It is one of those borderline cases since it did get authorized by Atari before they discontinued the 7800.

 

Mitch

[gambler172]

I own both versions ?