King Atari Posted May 10, 2004 Share Posted May 10, 2004 I know you can get old 2600 commercials off of The Old Computer.com, but those are all realplayer. Does anyone know where I can get some 2600 commercials that are supported by windows media player? Specifically, I'd like to get the Mario Bros. and E.T. Christmas spots. Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad2600 Posted May 10, 2004 Share Posted May 10, 2004 It might be possible for you to set the preferences of Windows Media to play ALL video files on your computer. But then again, that's not quite what you're looking for. It's what I do when I want to play things intended for RealAudio in WinAmp instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindfield Posted May 10, 2004 Share Posted May 10, 2004 Unfortunately I've only been able to find them in Quicktime format, but just in case, here they are anyway: E.T. Christmas (1.9mb) Mario Bros. (1mb) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATARIPITBULL Posted May 10, 2004 Share Posted May 10, 2004 Have you tried the commercials off of www.atarimuseum.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindfield Posted May 10, 2004 Share Posted May 10, 2004 I don't think Curt has had the time to get all of those up and running yet, has he? (For that matter I don't think he's had the chance to even go through the remastered ads I sent him) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari_wizard Posted May 10, 2004 Share Posted May 10, 2004 thanx for the links. i have a few commercials no to watch lol. thanx a bunch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap5750 Posted May 10, 2004 Share Posted May 10, 2004 I was gonna say that some guy named Mindfield flooded the newsgroups with a bunch of ads around a year ago or so. I believe I have them all still. I don't remember what format they were all in, but I believe the majority were divx or mpeg which would play in WMP just fine. Cap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Atari Posted May 10, 2004 Author Share Posted May 10, 2004 It might be possible for you to set the preferences of Windows Media to play ALL video files on your computer. But then again, that's not quite what you're looking for. It's what I do when I want to play things intended for RealAudio in WinAmp instead. Everytime I try that it says it's not supported. I'll check again, maybe some of the settings are off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Atari Posted May 10, 2004 Author Share Posted May 10, 2004 On the plus side, I'm getting a bunch of those avi's from the Atari Archive, thanks for the link. I just wish it would let me download the 5200 and 7800 commercials, I have no 5200 ads and only 2 7800 ads in realplayer format. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari_wizard Posted May 10, 2004 Share Posted May 10, 2004 could you give us a link for the two 7800 ads? thanx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Atari Posted May 11, 2004 Author Share Posted May 11, 2004 Here's where I got all of my realplayer-format ads, including the 7800 ones. http://www.theoldcomputer.com/Libarary's/t...rts_summary.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindfield Posted May 11, 2004 Share Posted May 11, 2004 I was gonna say that some guy named Mindfield flooded the newsgroups with a bunch of ads around a year ago or so. I believe I have them all still. I don't remember what format they were all in, but I believe the majority were divx or mpeg which would play in WMP just fine. Cap That would have been me. :-) I think I only ever did that the once, but I think I managed to post the entire gig-plus I had at the time (over a period of a few days I think due to my server's limitations.) Course I've since switched providers, and their Usenet support falls just short of "What do you mean binaries?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindfield Posted May 11, 2004 Share Posted May 11, 2004 7800 ads: More Games (1.4mb AVI) Laboratory (1.4mb AVI) These are two of the ones I remastered from Curt's sources to try and eliminate the background hiss and interference from the original rips. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dykesr Posted May 12, 2004 Share Posted May 12, 2004 I LOVE THE 80's These comercials are great!!! RD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mendon Posted May 12, 2004 Share Posted May 12, 2004 Love this line from the E.T. commercial: "... made especially for systems from Atari." LOL.. take that Colecovision and Intellivision adapters!!! Mendon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari_wizard Posted May 12, 2004 Share Posted May 12, 2004 thanx so much! how many atari 2600 commercials are there total? are we talking over fifty? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindfield Posted May 12, 2004 Share Posted May 12, 2004 thanx so much! how many atari 2600 commercials are there total? are we talking over fifty? My collection currently consists of 87 across 2600, 5200, 7800, Jaguar, Lynx, Atari 8-bit and Atari ST, plus 11 software company ads (Imagic, Parker Bros., etc.) and 9 Hasbro-Atari ads (for their PC Atari license revamps). There are some dupes in there between low and high quality versions, too (mostly 5200 and 2600 HQ/LQ versions). This also includes "The Cave" Jaguar infomercial and the 2-minute 2600 MTV spots. I know there are a lot more out there that I haven't been able to find yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Atari Posted May 12, 2004 Author Share Posted May 12, 2004 Dude, thanks for the 7800 commercials. I especially like the more games one, there are games that were never released advertised, like GATO. My old one was the revised version. Would you be able to perhaps put up those Mario & ET commercials, if you have them? And maybe some 5200 ones? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindfield Posted May 13, 2004 Share Posted May 13, 2004 Dude, thanks for the 7800 commercials. I especially like the more games one, there are games that were never released advertised, like GATO. My old one was the revised version. Would you be able to perhaps put up those Mario & ET commercials, if you have them? And maybe some 5200 ones? The Mario and E.T. Christmas ads are linked above, but here's an extra: E.T.: The Shed (3.9mb MPG) I had to remove the 7800 ads to get enough server space to post this. (I'm using my ISP webspace for this. One of these days I'll get around to setting my own server back up) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari_wizard Posted May 13, 2004 Share Posted May 13, 2004 awesome! Thanx For the et Shed Commercial! i have never seen that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindfield Posted May 13, 2004 Share Posted May 13, 2004 awesome! Thanx For the et Shed Commercial! i have never seen that one. It's never been posted for download anywhere that I know of. Brian Delhi (who runs tvspil.dk) sent it to me back when I offered to host his videos. He never did get back to me about that... pity, 'cos his website has some nice ads I don't have, but I can't download 'em 'cos they stream from a host that doesn't allow access directly to the WMV files from an outside domain. (I've tried everything to grab 'em) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari_wizard Posted May 13, 2004 Share Posted May 13, 2004 have you tried the wmr80? do you have any more ads? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindfield Posted May 13, 2004 Share Posted May 13, 2004 have you tried the wmr80? do you have any more ads? Cool... WMR worked great! Thanks! And yes ... I have a few more ads... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari_wizard Posted May 13, 2004 Share Posted May 13, 2004 Here's where I got all of my realplayer-format ads, including the 7800 ones. http://www.theoldcomputer.com/Libarary's/t...rts_summary.htm Thanx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATARIPITBULL Posted May 13, 2004 Share Posted May 13, 2004 There is a guy in Denmark that has a web site and he is selling a cd with 50 Atari commercials on it in Jpeg format, for about $10.00 U.S and I was thinking of buying one to see if its any good, I will let you know if it works out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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