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Glad you enjoyed it pal

There's a version with a faster routine, get no slow down after explosions.

May the side 3 be used while the fujinet it's plugged?

How do you not know how to play Mario Bros

I have the 7800 GameDrive and it is truly cause for you to sell your Conserto. The cartridge itself has a Megadrive 2 AV input, which supports not only Composite but RGB SCART, 240p. It does this by generating its own video signal and bypasses the 7800's internal. From your accent I take it you live in the UK, so go to retrogamingcablesuk and get yourself a high quality Megadrive 2 SCART cable and a 7800 GameDrive and never worry about low quality video signal ever again on the 7800.

As someone who played this in the arcades, this was a bit painful to watch. You hit them from underneath and then run up and kick them on their backs.

Can you run homebrew on that cartridge?

I've got my Christmas '89 7800 Sittin Next to Me. I want the 7800+ just for the Athstetic, I'll wait until after Christmas for a 50% Off "ReNewed" one on Amazon like I did with my GameStation Pro...that was right after Black Friday lol

I notice you insert the floppy when the 1050 is off and then you power it on. NEVER do this! Always power on the drive first, then insert the floppy, close the door and then power up the computer to boot. The way you do it might cause a power up surge in the read/write head, possibly damaging the data on the floppy because o a electro magnetic pulse.

I have installed an Incognito and it works great. Much later I installed the VBXE carrier board (from PCCBWAY) and VBXE into the 800. I had to change the connectors on the carrier board to match the VBXE. (ie the carrier came with male pins and needed a female connector). With PCBWAY assembly, you need to get a minimum run of 5 boards. So if you only want one assembled then you still purchase and get the assembled board plus 4 more blank boards. The only issue with the PCBWAY method is that every level of firmware needed for operation will be up to the user to install. I have done the JED flash on my incognito to 2.0. It's not hard to do... It's hard to get all the information, software, flasher and cables made to be ready to do the JED flash. I was only able to do this by stumbling onto a FJC video with most of the steps and filling in the blanks with days of research on the Atariage forums. What should have been a day took me over a month from beginning to end. I see Incognito-Lite on Candles PCBWAY page and I have some 400s ready for this. All I need are the installation and flashing steps. Unfortunately I'm just a builder, not a microcoder.

That Atari drama is a real shame, the three involved have put out some awesome and really interesting hardware for the Atari 8 bit machines. I too ordered an Incognito for an 800 I just put a mechanical keyboard on. Upgrade devices seem hard to get and go out of stock fast, a Sophia would be the only other device I'd need to make this ultimate except for a SIDE cart which looks like will never be available again. BIG LOSS for the Atari 8 bit community.

Msg mr petari on AtariAge he is still active and a verogood content creator

Reskin of crumbles crisis

The best version :)

Nice to see the ST is getting some good hardware add ons

You do need more ram to play HD-adapted game, not because of the STCart or GEM drive itself, but because you have GEM loaded. A lot of floppy disk loaded games do not load the Atari opening system to save memory when loading the game. With this configuration, you need to have enough RAM for the operating system in addition to the game itself. In short, it makes things easier to have 2 megs on your Atari

Thanks, this scratched an itch for old hardware 😊

few suggestions, use ST High setting or even VDI mode in Hatari for more real estate, also maybe it would help to use some disc copy utility like Kobold or M>Desk, makes life more easy, also do not forget to assign 4MB RAM to your "virtual" ST.

Great video. How much ram does your ST have to run games from the hard drive?

Very interresting video. How about you share the contents of your SideCart hd folder with the rest of us SideCart users? Maybe on the Internet Archive?

The power board has 3 holes for screws to secure it to the large RF shield. Plus a centering pin. If you do not put them in (at least 2) the plugging, unplugging of cables will cause broken solder joints in the long pin connector between the power board and the main board. With all the work done. you may want to re-flow those joints. Plus you probably did not need to re-cap the computer. They are all very high quality, and I have never had any go bad in the 100+ 800's I have fixed. But no harm done in doing it. There are upgrades you can do that will eliminate the jail bars shown on the blue screens. Good videos !

Thanks for this, been looking for ST solutions

Be careful screwing those fasteners in. You really should do that by hand and reverse screw until you match the threads, then screw it in gently. Those screw bosses will turn to glass in a minute! (don't ask me how I know...)

That's the spacer that keeps the expansion cards separated.

Thanks for giving the Atari some love.

good video, thanks. i've had one of these for a couple months. i like it but need to figure it out more. you got the hard drive option going easily. i turn the feature on but can't seem to copy files to and from it. i'm new to atari system and don't know much yet. tips..??

I was looking at the SDrive Max, but was put off by the gimmicky touchscreen. So went for for its stablemate, the much cheaper SDrive Mini instead. Its simplicity being its biggest strength. No bigger than a SIO plug, no gimmicks, full ATR & XEX compatibility which pretty much covers almost everything I had. Recommended.

They are both GTIA. The CTIA is only on early NTSC computers and is C012295.

This is a proof that even Lucasfilm can make a terrible game :)

"Speed" Ace should be reported for false advertising..

I just realised the chapters were messed up past the 1 hour mark in this video. Now fixed, so you can easily skip to the last 7 games

"Why.. won't.. you.. die!" Truly, the lost Bethesda classic.

Bravo for tackling this with an original ST mouse! You are a brave man! :D The face you make when the ball randomly bounces off an enemy sums up perfectly how I feel about this game. This game requires a patience and precision that just don't exist within me any more. Great conversion though!

dealing with ribbon cables are a pain. A fiberglass pen might have helped you. I used one to expose the traces on a severed PS1 laser ribbon cable. Then I soldered trace wires to re-connect the two severed pieced only to discover the ribbon snapping in half at another part because it was just too brittle. Good luck.

We had The Eidolon on the Spectrum as a kid... and we never got the bloody thing to load, not even once. I used to read the manual a lot though, wonderful world-building, and the little diagrams of the monsters... awesome artwork. Edit: And looking up a PDF of it just now, how did I never pick up on the barely-hidden double meaning of "Dr. Agon".?

I'd love to see The Eidolon with a modern remake. Such an amazing, immersive experience on my C64 back in the day.

I had it on the C64 and was amazed at the 3D... The Atari version had what seemed like a bit more colors on that Lucasfilm logo...

From what I remember of The Eidolon, you had to select the same colour fireballs as the dragon from your machine to fire at them otherwise they wouldn't die. It's been a few years since I played it though, 1987 to be exact.

I I had this on the c64, I definitely remember the music and gameplay. I seem to remember the backstory having something to do with your old uncle or grandfather inventing some kind of dimensional transport. I assume it's the same team that made Rescue on Fractalus.

I loved Lucasfilm games back in the '80s, so I bought The Eidolon sight-unseen. Unfortunately I only had a 48k 800 and The Eidolon required 64k. I ended up trading it with a friend who had a 64k Atari, but I don't remember what I got out of the deal.

nice keyboard, but that cable is rubbish. got mine modded by @flashjazzcat, well worth it, what are you using the usb for?

I would never have remembered the name! Great game....Great competition!

Thanks to Wrathchild on Atariage for spotting I am incorrectly referring to the SIO2PC USB as SIO2USB. I have corrected video contents for that section and noted this in the description, though unfortunately cannot edit the video now. The reseller links are correct, so hopefully this will be realised and not cause anyone too much confusion.

Just wanted to mention here, I added a poll on www.youtube.com/@TJGames-Atari/community . You can let me know what kind of content you'd like me to produce next. Thanks, really appreciate the discussion / engagement on my channel. :)

Great video, will go for a Side3 next month (will be paid with the Mini400 Amazon refund ;)

It's been around a few years now. AtariMaxx cartridges. You might have missed them.

Thanks so much for the positive appraisal of the SIDE3 user interface - I really appreciate it. It's exactly as you say: if the user spends as little time as possible in the loader and more time simply running software, that's the primary objective accomplished. :)

Game got very dull having the same boss fight (just a swarm really) at the end of each level. More variety there would have been such a massive improvement, along with cool power ups. There actually IS a power up available. The absolute bollox is that it's not obvious looking at all and destructable - in a game that pretty much requires you to have joystick autofire on.. At 5:41 you hit an enemy that resembled an inverted Space Invaders shield turning it into some purple ladder looking thing. Yes, that's the powerup. Blink and you miss it. If memory serves it grants you higher speed and autofire for a while? Ah, I forget. Young me probably loaded up the tape more for the opening screen and music than the game :) Playing with the function keys to change the starfield L/R direction.

Always found the flattest of the 'control envelopes' (what the instructions called them) worked best for me. Playing it so much back then I found myself memorising quite a lot of where the static cubes would appear - which was a huge help. The bouncing balls though were a complete pita.. There was one of the courses I never did complete - the US track maybe? Hella frustrating game but looked great and I loved the music.

on the sdmax press the drive twice , it will turn blue