King Atari Posted February 28, 2002 Share Posted February 28, 2002 Heh heh heh, probably not possible, but wouldn't it be cool? Does anyone think it's vaguely possible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Night Phantom Posted February 28, 2002 Share Posted February 28, 2002 It's been done: the Personal Game Programmer. Answer made this device, which is pretty rare; I think it was sold new only through mail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari-Jess Posted February 28, 2002 Share Posted February 28, 2002 then why dont you go and make some more? id buy one, anything to get infinate lives on pacman! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Night Phantom Posted February 28, 2002 Share Posted February 28, 2002 quote: Originally posted by Atari-Jess: then why dont you go and make some more? I may be the answer man, but I'm not an Answer man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adriana Posted March 1, 2002 Share Posted March 1, 2002 I think Answer only made something like eight Personal Game Programmers. Correct me if I'm wrong (Russ, I'm sure you know) but it never got beyond prototypes and review copies made for videogame magazine reviewers. I remember reading about it way back when in one of the videogaming magazines, and I wanted it SOOOOOOO bad! The PGP-1 is still my Holy Grail. You could give yourself infinite lives, change the graphics a bit, do all sorts of stuff.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adriana Posted March 1, 2002 Share Posted March 1, 2002 Here are two links that explain it all: Digital Press review of the PGP-1 Atari HQ listing for the Personal Game Programmer-1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nateo Posted March 1, 2002 Share Posted March 1, 2002 Bob Colbert (Okie Dokie creator) made something called the Cheetah for the VCS. It utlizes the SuperCharger, and it helped me to finally beat game three on Adventure. I don't know the site off-hand, but you can find the link on AtariAge's links page (under 2600) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skatepunk60 Posted March 2, 2002 Share Posted March 2, 2002 If someone has it they should send it to randy at hozer so he could mass produce them and we all could have them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATARIPITBULL Posted March 3, 2002 Share Posted March 3, 2002 And if you do send him one, please also ask him to start using glossy labels for his carts, not that plain label paper. We will pay the extra cost for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jahfish Posted March 3, 2002 Share Posted March 3, 2002 i'll take no. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc4 Posted March 3, 2002 Share Posted March 3, 2002 heck yeah, I would gladly buy one of those. Count me in! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nateo Posted March 3, 2002 Share Posted March 3, 2002 It's not exactly a piece of hardware. You can use it right now if you wanted to. What the program does is it takes 2k or 4k games, and puts the cheetah on top of the bin file, making it a supercharger bin. Then, using makewave, you can transform the bin into a wav file, and you can play it through a supercharger. Codes are also on his site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slapdash Posted March 4, 2002 Share Posted March 4, 2002 Hmm, Al's review says 12 were made... I'd heard 3 before. Definitely one of my holy grails too... I had the Answer letter in hand, just couldn't afford it. That's a time machine moment for me -- I'd gladly send a c-note back to my younger self to have one now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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