privateers69 Posted September 7, 2003 Share Posted September 7, 2003 http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973...3,854699,00.asp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.FoodMonster Posted September 7, 2003 Share Posted September 7, 2003 atari had games going thru radio waves?!?!? anyone know what games they were, and if they were excusive?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted September 7, 2003 Share Posted September 7, 2003 atari had games going thru radio waves?!?!? anyone know what games they were, and if they were excusive?? Wonderful search feature ... http://www.atariage.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=20155 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanman Posted September 7, 2003 Share Posted September 7, 2003 Answering Mr.FoodMonster's Question: Ya, you know how a cuttle cart works? you plug it into an earphone jack and then into the cartridge. So you play this really grating sound into a cartridge and then you got to play the game. What atari did, was they basically pluged the earphone into a radio tuned into a certian station and recieved the grating sound and the cartridge turned it into a game. But, the way they did this was more complicated. Imagine, listening to KABOOM 107.1? Or having to listen to the radio for five minutes to get PITFALL? Cool in concept, crappy in theroy. I think the game they tested was PITFALL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.FoodMonster Posted September 7, 2003 Share Posted September 7, 2003 thats a really cool idea, to bad it was to little to late. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeerGnome Posted September 7, 2003 Share Posted September 7, 2003 Answering Mr.FoodMonster's Question: Ya, you know how a cuttle cart works? you plug it into an earphone jack and then into the cartridge. So you play this really grating sound into a cartridge and then you got to play the game. What atari did, was they basically pluged the earphone into a radio tuned into a certian station and recieved the grating sound and the cartridge turned it into a game. But, the way they did this was more complicated. Imagine, listening to KABOOM 107.1? Or having to listen to the radio for five minutes to get PITFALL? Cool in concept, crappy in theroy. I think the game they tested was PITFALL. well.. you wouldnt actually have to listen to it persay.. you would have to have a pretty fancy radio to pick up that type of audio.. this is basicly short band radio and below the range of most radio's. far as i can tell these carts are basicly just radio recievers that pick up only a secific band of radio waves. see the concept in question here is not if it can be done or how... the question is.. how do we make money off of this? even with a cheap wide spectrum reciever from radio shack you can pick up basic muzak service for free.. Muzac makes its money by leasing hardware and service.. ala direct TV.. of course.. muzak has gone the direction of direct link satilite and subscription based services becouse its easier to monitor and exlude service to subscribers but how do you tell your atari cart that its only supposed to recieve this particular signal at this time and onl;y if you have paid to have it.. this is easily hacked Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cupcakus Posted September 7, 2003 Share Posted September 7, 2003 atari had games going thru radio waves?!?!? anyone know what games they were, and if they were excusive?? Wonderful search feature ... http://www.atariage.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=20155 This one too :-) http://www.atariage.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=20288 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
privateers69 Posted September 7, 2003 Author Share Posted September 7, 2003 Sorry about posting something that was already been posted. thought it was a cool article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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