KainXavier Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 (edited) 17 hours ago, Ben from Plaion said: I kind of dismiss this kind of suggestion because of the costs of all the parts, but I been thinking that I may have this all the wrong way around because you cant freely download the physical parts. I'm all for such a collection, but from what I recall, Airworld isn't actually a 2600 game. It's just designed to look and function like one. (See here.) That said, what about a board game? Edited December 20, 2023 by KainXavier Added source link. 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/357889-the-big-christmas-2600-giveaway-competition/page/20/#findComment-5370487 Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthew954 Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 On 12/18/2023 at 8:00 AM, Ben from Plaion said: Doug0909 has already got Mr Run and Jump so we drew another winner out of the mug! Homer just summed it up best lol. 6 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/357889-the-big-christmas-2600-giveaway-competition/page/20/#findComment-5370490 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Philsan Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 9 hours ago, Ben from Plaion said: And anyway whats wrong with the cover that you got in the box? The free cover is a very nice idea, I use it. The only problem is that with cables connected it doesn't cover the console perfectly. Cuts in the back would have needed. Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/357889-the-big-christmas-2600-giveaway-competition/page/20/#findComment-5370492 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KainXavier Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 55 minutes ago, Philsan said: The free cover is a very nice idea, I use it. The only problem is that with cables connected it doesn't cover the console perfectly. Cuts in the back would have needed. I'm confused. Are you both referring to the plastic packaging that sat on top of the 2600+ inside of the box? 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/357889-the-big-christmas-2600-giveaway-competition/page/20/#findComment-5370507 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcinJ Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 On 12/18/2023 at 10:05 PM, tradyblix said: Congratulations. Now sell it on eBay. do you see what they're going for ? lol What do you mean? Can you buy the prototype of Atari 2600+ on ebay? Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/357889-the-big-christmas-2600-giveaway-competition/page/20/#findComment-5370571 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tradyblix Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 (edited) 33 minutes ago, MarcinJ said: What do you mean? Can you buy the prototype of Atari 2600+ on ebay? I don't know if you can now. but it I saw one up there a couple weeks ago. It was the press kit. Edited December 20, 2023 by tradyblix Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/357889-the-big-christmas-2600-giveaway-competition/page/20/#findComment-5370579 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 27 minutes ago, tradyblix said: I don't know if you can now. but it I saw one up there a couple weeks ago. It was the press kit. Two went for ~$700 at eBay. 1 2 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/357889-the-big-christmas-2600-giveaway-competition/page/20/#findComment-5370597 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcinJ Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 4 hours ago, tradyblix said: I don't know if you can now. but it I saw one up there a couple weeks ago. It was the press kit. Well, I am a physicist I am curious what can I do with the prototype. @Ben from Plaion I assume that the board is still functioning, isn’t it? Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/357889-the-big-christmas-2600-giveaway-competition/page/20/#findComment-5370761 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tradyblix Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 (edited) 40 minutes ago, MarcinJ said: Well, I am a physicist I am curious what can I do with the prototype. @Ben from Plaion I assume that the board is still functioning, isn’t it? It's not a prototype, lol. It's just the press kits with copies that were sent to the press. Or rather unscrupulous "influencers" I assume Edited December 20, 2023 by tradyblix Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/357889-the-big-christmas-2600-giveaway-competition/page/20/#findComment-5370786 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben from Plaion Posted December 20, 2023 Author Share Posted December 20, 2023 1 hour ago, MarcinJ said: Well, I am a physicist I am curious what can I do with the prototype. @Ben from Plaion I assume that the board is still functioning, isn’t it? It's a set of prototype PCBs from inside of the machine. It's very rare version only a couple made for testing earlier in the year. It was the first board that I did extensive testing on Has a lots of small differences and markings compared to the retail release PCBs. I left a early version of the software on it. It does boot cartridges and IIRC had a different loading screen to to retail release. I'd frame it. 4 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/357889-the-big-christmas-2600-giveaway-competition/page/20/#findComment-5370804 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cheez26 Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 (edited) I'm sad that I didn't join this giveaway, I'm kinda stuck with a RetroN 77 that happens to have a firmware upgrade up to Stella 6.6.0. Congrats to those that made it and won though. Edited December 20, 2023 by r_chase Correcting some grammatical errors. 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/357889-the-big-christmas-2600-giveaway-competition/page/20/#findComment-5370932 Share on other sites More sharing options...
insertclevernamehere Posted December 24, 2023 Share Posted December 24, 2023 I know the competition is over but I just wanted to give my vote for what I thought was the best suggestion on here. I LOVE the idea of a 5200 cartridge adapter. Atari (or AtariAge) please, please, please make this happen. 3 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/357889-the-big-christmas-2600-giveaway-competition/page/20/#findComment-5373034 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warboss Gegguz Posted December 24, 2023 Share Posted December 24, 2023 1 hour ago, insertclevernamehere said: I know the competition is over but I just wanted to give my vote for what I thought was the best suggestion on here. I LOVE the idea of a 5200 cartridge adapter. Atari (or AtariAge) please, please, please make this happen. I'm gonna miss this thread, since it was fun to have a sort of huge collaborative discussion about rereleases and would-be conversions. 2 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/357889-the-big-christmas-2600-giveaway-competition/page/20/#findComment-5373057 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DhaemonX Posted December 24, 2023 Share Posted December 24, 2023 Anyone know if Ben will be proving tracking numbers for the prizes? Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/357889-the-big-christmas-2600-giveaway-competition/page/20/#findComment-5373081 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben from Plaion Posted December 24, 2023 Author Share Posted December 24, 2023 3 hours ago, DhaemonX said: Anyone know if Ben will be proving tracking numbers for the prizes? Yeah, I've got them all. I'll dig yours out. 2 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/357889-the-big-christmas-2600-giveaway-competition/page/20/#findComment-5373218 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DhaemonX Posted December 25, 2023 Share Posted December 25, 2023 18 hours ago, Ben from Plaion said: Yeah, I've got them all. I'll dig yours out. Awesome. I look forward on getting it. Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/357889-the-big-christmas-2600-giveaway-competition/page/20/#findComment-5373573 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magpieboy Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 On 12/25/2023 at 4:48 AM, Ben from Plaion said: Yeah, I've got them all. I'll dig yours out. I'm seriously looking forward to my tracking number. Can't wait to see the posters. Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/357889-the-big-christmas-2600-giveaway-competition/page/20/#findComment-5374038 Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricBall Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 On 12/9/2023 at 6:28 PM, Defender_2600 said: Here are some rules for drawing 7800 graphics: I'm a little late to the party, but I recently updated my Atari 7800 Programming website with a complete explanation of the 7800 graphics modes including P#C# to bitmapping (in the sub-pages) https://sites.google.com/site/atari7800wiki/graphics-modes/palette-sprite-bits 1 2 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/357889-the-big-christmas-2600-giveaway-competition/page/20/#findComment-5374189 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrThielegood Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 Berserk arrived today!!! What a nice post-Santa surprise. Had no idea that it would come so fast. Thanks again for running the contest. 4 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/357889-the-big-christmas-2600-giveaway-competition/page/20/#findComment-5374324 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magpieboy Posted December 27, 2023 Share Posted December 27, 2023 Something came in the mail today. These look awesome. Sorry I only got a photo of one poster. I didn't want play around with them too much and do any damage to them. I'm looking at getting them professionally framed. 13 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/357889-the-big-christmas-2600-giveaway-competition/page/20/#findComment-5374553 Share on other sites More sharing options...
beatles2001 Posted December 28, 2023 Share Posted December 28, 2023 On 12/19/2023 at 1:16 PM, karri said: The "digital board" was just an ordinary TV. The pegs were 3D printed with a small hearing aid battery and a chip that turned light intensity into frequency. As a peg transmitter I had an IR led. But at the day of the show one of my pegs burned so I had to improvise and soldered two wires instead of the IR to one peg. And also used just a single peg for all player movement instead of 4 pegs as I had planned. The TV emitted black squares to see if the peg moved. So when you lifted the peg the Pi Zero could sense it. Then it also knew how many steps you could move so it scanned to possible destinations until it found your peg again. I also had a DMX hat for controlling the ambient light to match was happened in the game. And background music to match the actions. Unfortunately I did not get a small room to set the mood so the ambient surrounding was not so great. By the way. The 32 inch TV also broke after the week-end. And my wife said that if I break our TV with my stupid hobbies we are not getting a new one. That's some spiffy tech wizardry for sure, If I burned out the tv my wife would say the same to me.😉 I would still like to see it in action sounds quite interesting to see in action. 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/357889-the-big-christmas-2600-giveaway-competition/page/20/#findComment-5375590 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tradyblix Posted December 30, 2023 Share Posted December 30, 2023 On 12/26/2023 at 11:32 PM, Magpieboy said: Something came in the mail today. These look awesome. Sorry I only got a photo of one poster. I didn't want play around with them too much and do any damage to them. I'm looking at getting them professionally framed. That looks super cool Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/357889-the-big-christmas-2600-giveaway-competition/page/20/#findComment-5376994 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gambler172 Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 I would like to see Moon Cresta, my all time favourite for the 7800 Greetings Walter Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/357889-the-big-christmas-2600-giveaway-competition/page/20/#findComment-5377514 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gambler172 Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 On 12/20/2023 at 8:14 PM, Ben from Plaion said: It's a set of prototype PCBs from inside of the machine. It's very rare version only a couple made for testing earlier in the year. It was the first board that I did extensive testing on Has a lots of small differences and markings compared to the retail release PCBs. I left a early version of the software on it. It does boot cartridges and IIRC had a different loading screen to to retail release. I'd frame it. no...I would use it 😁 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/357889-the-big-christmas-2600-giveaway-competition/page/20/#findComment-5377515 Share on other sites More sharing options...
protomank Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 On 12/8/2023 at 9:44 AM, gekko79 said: Better version of ET game There is a hack that fixes quite a lot of the issues on the game. It make it much better. Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/357889-the-big-christmas-2600-giveaway-competition/page/20/#findComment-5387424 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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