What's this? A new Atari portable!?

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Re: What's this? A new Atari portable!?

Post by Life of Brian » Sun Feb 07, 2010 11:40 pm

It's alive! Still no controls connected, but that will come soon.

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I kept the right/left image switch - no real point in taking it out. I suppose if you wanted to increase your difficulty you could play games this way. :P
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I still need to add a DPDT switch for toggling between the 40 built-in games and a cartridge, but that shouldn't take long. What do you guys think of the volume dial next to the screen? I'm still fiddling with it to get it to look just right.
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Re: What's this? A new Atari portable!?

Post by Kyo » Mon Feb 08, 2010 8:33 am

I think it should be sideways like on the old gameboys. Really like what you're doing with the case.

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Re: What's this? A new Atari portable!?

Post by Life of Brian » Mon Feb 08, 2010 8:15 pm

I added the toggle switch for going between the built-in games and playing with a cartridge. It worked on the first try, which always makes me happy :D

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Re: What's this? A new Atari portable!?

Post by retrodelee » Tue Feb 16, 2010 9:39 pm

Still looking great!

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Re: What's this? A new Atari portable!?

Post by banditpaw1 » Sat Feb 20, 2010 8:33 am

Nevermind im stupid. :lol:

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Re: What's this? A new Atari portable!?

Post by retrodelee » Tue Feb 23, 2010 9:19 pm

Where's a good place to get the cart connectors from?
Anyplace other then digikey?

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Re: What's this? A new Atari portable!?

Post by Rekarp » Tue Feb 23, 2010 10:17 pm

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Re: What's this? A new Atari portable!?

Post by thewise1 » Tue Feb 23, 2010 11:56 pm

Looks awesome!

Too bad I'm too young to appreciate the atari.
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Re: What's this? A new Atari portable!?

Post by Rekarp » Wed Feb 24, 2010 1:11 am

thewise1 wrote:Looks awesome!

Too bad I'm too young to appreciate the atari.
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Re: What's this? A new Atari portable!?

Post by retrodelee » Wed Feb 24, 2010 8:57 pm

I looked at mouser. Can you shoot me a link.
My dumb ass can't find it on there.
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Re: What's this? A new Atari portable!?

Post by Basement_Modder » Sat Feb 19, 2011 10:42 am

Bump for the same reason as the BoNES. C'mon Brian, don't hold out on us. :P
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Re: What's this? A new Atari portable!?

Post by Life of Brian » Sat Feb 19, 2011 6:54 pm

It just needs a new Flashback 2. I think my current one is fried. Wonky, at least.
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Re: What's this? A new Atari portable!?

Post by Basement_Modder » Sun Feb 20, 2011 9:30 pm

Just felt like bulking up your sig then, eh? :P

You are awesome anyway. I <3 LOB portables.
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Re: What's this? A new Atari portable!?

Post by Life of Brian » Tue Feb 22, 2011 8:03 am

Well, yeah - the boNES and the Atari portable would have been done if it hadn't been for stupid little things happening. I put in the time, they both worked briefly, so I'm just going to call it "good enough" and move on to more interesting stuff. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go back to drooling over techknott's PS2 portable...
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