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by Kiwilove » Sun Sep 25, 2005 9:17 am
Something to keep in mind, that if you have a Atari 400 with no cart present, it should display the MEMO PAD blue screen, once you
tuned your TV in, properly.
But I'll guess that past a certain time limit, the blue screen would
cycle to various colours? ie. the background colour blue will?
I'm only guessing from my recall of how an old Atari computer will
act? I use emulators on a PC these days, and sold my Atari computer
so many years ago.
There is nothing wrong with getting your Atari 400 going - but
they only had 16K of memory, and you will probably want to chase up
games only on cartridges, which I'll guess should work OK? Then you need some Atari joysticks. It's much less hassle to run emulators - and these
work on the older PCs alright too - on PCs that are around 400-600MHz
speed, which is pretty slow these days.
If your Atari 400 isn't working, it'll probably be difficult finding someone who could fix it up for almost nothing...
If you can get it going, then you just need to be aware of, and lucky
enough to get the better cartridges for it. Star Raiders for one, Pac Man,
Pole Position ... ... etc. You'll have quite a scavenger hunt to do...
Harvey
I wanted to play on it, emulators just aren't the same as the real thing.