Atari 2600 Jr. Laptop (AKA Laptari) worklog

[Dodificationer]

Hi, my friend is doing a n64 portable as part of a school assignment-
http://forums.benheck.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=33169
-and i decided to try a portable of my own.

Looking for inspiration, I looked around and found my old 2600 jr. i got at a school fair for $5.
When i was looking around at other portable consoles, i saw a multitude of laptop gaming consoles, but none for the atari.

I suddenly remembered an old laptop that i saw lying in a cupboard that is around about the same size as the atari 2600 jr.
The laptop i'm guessing, is from around 1994 (judging by the warranty stickers), which is good because I was aiming for something retro looking.

Some ideas:
Replace the keyboard (conveniently hinged and clips into the base of the laptop case) with a custom built cover, and mount the controllers, switches etc. on there.
Try to keep a rechargeable battery in the case, with a lead to both run on wall power and charge the battery.
Have a cartridge slot built in, an for the cartridge to be flush with the case.

If any one can help me with this it would be much appreciated.

P.S - pictures to come...

[snowpenguin]

You will need to find a screen to use that is the right size.

[Dodificationer]

I have the entire laptop... i was kinda hoping i could somehow get that screen to work.

Is that a possibility?

[snowpenguin]

Not easily, no. The lcd uses an entirely different language from the console, you would need to build a costly converter that would be very time consuming and not for anyone who is a beginner.

[Dodificationer]

Ok, so after being too busy to do any work on the Laptari
I finally took apart the screen portion of the laptop.
I took out the screen and detached the mounting bracket.
So now i'm currently looking for a screen thats about 11 inches, but i need to make sure that its slim enough
and that it will fit securely into the bracket.

I also was looking at the different composite video mods that people had posted for the 2600 jr. but i have a PAL format one,
which looks different to all the ones that have been used for the mod. at this point i hadn't removed the RF shield.


My board (sorry about the flash)


This is the section on my board


And here's the one posted by hk47 in this tut

If anyone can help me with the location of parts i need to do the composite mod on, then that would be very much appreciated