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Ian Primus

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I recently won an eBay auction for a Coleco Gemini Atari 2600 clone. Included were 20 Atari carts. They are all really common,(Pac Man, Combat, Space Invaders) and most in bad shape (missing end labels, torn labels, etc.) In other words, nothing special. I then noticed what I thought was a Donkey Kong or something that lost its label. the front label is entirely gone, as if it was never there. The end label is an extremely worn piece of masking tape that said simply "TENNIS" (but barely legible). My first thought was that it could be just a homemade EPROM pirated cart, or even a relabeled Donkey Kong. I plugged it in, and lo and behold, Activision Tennis! I opened the cart, and inside was a normal, everyday PCB, with a soldered on ROM chip and a little metal shield over it. No EPROM. Any ideas?

 

Ian Primus

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Sounds interesting. I don't have any ideas of what its origin could be (besides thinking that someone slapped it together in a homespun attempt to reconstruct a broken Activision Tennis cart, or something along those lines), but it would probably help if you could post some pictures. It would give us a little more to go on, plus it's cool to actually see weird stuff like that.

 

Thanks!

 

~Scott

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I scanned the cart in an here are links to the pictures. Notice on the back of the cart, someone has made an "X" and written "SHORTENED SPRINGS" below it.

 

http://www.geocities.com/sark_the_pirate/front.jpg http://www.geocities.com/sark_the_pirate/end.jpg http://www.geocities.com/sark_the_pirate/back.jpg

 

Ian Primus

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Those links didn't work for some reason... I don't understand it. I have never used Geocities before, maybe they have some stupid thing about accessing your files without being subjected to ads or something. Anyway, try http://www.geocities.com/sark_the_pirate/C...ennis.html.html

 

(I know the two .html's are stupid, but that's what it did!)

 

Ian Primus

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quote:

Originally posted by Sark:

Those links didn't work for some reason... I don't understand it.

 

I think Geocities (among others) blocks external links to internal images to prevent taxing their servers. You can cut and paste the links and they work fine.

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