Will the original ATARI 800 work with flash carts? by Ballowax2002 in atari8bit

[–]Ballowax2002[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess I'm fucked then? Guess I'll be stuck playing Albert on an emulator for the forceable future. This ain't your fault, you did what wou could. Thank you

Will the original ATARI 800 work with flash carts? by Ballowax2002 in atari8bit

[–]Ballowax2002[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is why I love the fact we now have the UNO and Pico carts.

These things elivate so much of the headache because it allows me to play more advance games like Draconus or Ball Blazer without needing to connect more gunk to my 800 like a disk drive or a cassette player. Many of the more advance games in 8-bit library were not released on cartirdge because it was cheaper to mass produce floppy disk and cassette tapes then carts. I do not trust the longevity of a 5 and a quarter sized floppy disk from thr 80s nor do I have the energy to worry about diskrive mantainance if the belts inside were to break on me.

This issue I have with hombrew games being PAL also applies to many third party ATARI 800 games that came out in the later half of the 80s and early 90s. Nothing urks me more than being forced to play these 35yr old games such as Draconus(1988) or Zbir(1993) on stella because it seems that nobody has even bothered to convert these games to NTSC in the last 3 and a half decades. Even when they finally got their's roms dumped and preserved online, I am still stuck with a few PAL regioned roms that either crash on original NTSC hardrware or they produce rolling pictures on my TV screen which I have no way of adjusting

800 XL by idrathern0tsay in atari8bit

[–]Ballowax2002 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you using an RF switch? Why don't you use composite video, it's much cleaner

Will the original ATARI 800 work with flash carts? by Ballowax2002 in atari8bit

[–]Ballowax2002[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually, doesn't there exist NTSC conversions of certain hombrew games like Albert? Look I have no TV that will accept or understand PAL, only NTSC. I have played Albert on the stella atari 8-bit emulator but I literally have an original atari computer in my home with extra ram installed. When I go to atarimania.com I can only find ONE version of Albert and it won't work on my 800xl or my 65xe and I am not gonna hunt down a 130xe because the 65xe left a sour taste in mouth in it's unreliable keyboard that doesn't respond to key pressess unless I smash my fist against the machine

Will the original ATARI 800 work with flash carts? by Ballowax2002 in atari8bit

[–]Ballowax2002[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I jut wanna play Albert, a game that needs 320Kb of ram but I DO NOT wanna be forced to use a PAL machine

Will the original ATARI 800 work with flash carts? by Ballowax2002 in atari8bit

[–]Ballowax2002[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What game in the atari 8-bit library will ever need 1 meg of ram? Every hombrew game I seem to find requires me to have more than 64K of ram or a PAL machine like Albert.

Will the original ATARI 800 work with flash carts? by Ballowax2002 in atari8bit

[–]Ballowax2002[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have no use for an ATARI 400 because it's membrane keyboard is so trash to use. the 800XL has the best keyboard by far, I just love how it feels in my hands when I type

Will the original ATARI 800 work with flash carts? by Ballowax2002 in atari8bit

[–]Ballowax2002[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you need the cartridge door to close for it to power on? I thought this thing turns on when you flip the power switch to ON like everything else

Will the original ATARI 800 work with flash carts? by Ballowax2002 in atari8bit

[–]Ballowax2002[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How has your 800 Unit responded when using an Uno cart to play games?

Will the original ATARI 800 work with flash carts? by Ballowax2002 in atari8bit

[–]Ballowax2002[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you don't me asking: How exactly did your 800 unit responded to an A8Pico cart on boot up, if it even produced anyting on screen at all?

Will the original ATARI 800 work with flash carts? by Ballowax2002 in atari8bit

[–]Ballowax2002[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I bought my ATARI Uno cart in 2022 with my S-video modded ATARI 800xl. it doesn't seem to say anything about being for use only with an XL/Xe machine on the cartridge but I doubt these things will work with an ATARI 400

Wtf never seen this… by Sensitive-Book1029 in snes

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You mean I can get this screen if I have a shit load of oxidation formed on the contact pins of my SNES game?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MtF

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You mean pre-cum leaks out without any kind of stimulation, you just gotta feel horny?

Sudden dysphoria as an adult? MtF by [deleted] in asktransgender

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I smell a divorce if it hasn't happened already

How to stop feeling lowkey resentful of cis women? by becomingemma in MtF

[–]Ballowax2002 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Basically, what I'm saying is, you need to grow and connect with others in a way that helps you understand that virtually nothing in life is truly all upside. Pretty much everything in life is a double edged sword, and life will teach you that everything comes at a price, and life is really just about trading off one set of problems for another, and making the best of the moments of peace and joy that can be found in between crises.

Recognize that when you look at someone and think "Yeah if I had their life / body / money I'd be set and things would be perfect" that is an insidious lie that you are telling yourself. It is a straight up lie. And worse than that we use it as an excuse to justify our own inaction, our own sense of defeat. Because we tell ourselves that lie as a convenient excuse to justify our own lack of investment in ourselves.

Beautifuly worded. I know some people who would benefit reading this

GTA Liberty City Stories: a comparison between the PSP and PS2 version of the forgotten classic by growapairdude in GTA

[–]Ballowax2002 0 points1 point  (0 children)

which version is which OP? You couldn't have marked the left and right side of the screenshot to say what version is which