Atari 800XL with the BackBit Pro
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- We use the BackBit Pro to play Frogger, Q*Bert, and Dig Dug on the Atari 800XL.
#atari #retrocomputers #retrogaming
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Never understood why it was fatal for a frog to fall in water. You have the XL too! It must be an Aladdin's cave there.
It's is a magical place where amphibians can drown.
Glad to see you got it up and running. There are two ways to go about reset on the Atari 8-Bit. The most straightforward is to press the button on the cartridge, THEN press the reset button on your keyboard. Or, you can open up the machine and install the jumper wire and just use the button on the cartridge (or a BackButton). I've installed the wire on an Atari 400 and XEGS. If you sign up to the BackBit Forum, I can help you locate where to install it on the 600XL/800XL. Or just do the two button solution 🙂
Thanks for watching our video! We are huge fans of yours :)
I lol'd at your perfectly timed "Prepare to Qualify!" :)
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The "growling" is the memory test it does on startup. I will call it that from now on.
It sounds so sinister.
It is actually a signal that is sent to the I/O port; the computer is querying all the devices plugged into the SIO port (like looking for a disk drive to boot from). The SIO port is a granddaddy of the modern USB port (same engineer designed SIO and USB).
Just stumbled across your channel. Love the silly fun. You two are about the same age as my wife and I, and this is the same crap we do with our classic games and computers. 8*)
Love it!
After my Timex Sinclair 1000, I got an Atari 600XL. When they were liquidating the 800XL, I got one of them. All presents, of course. This was the 80s.
That's a pretty good little retro crew.
@@fractalMD Then I had to get a Macintosh SE/20 for college.
Looking forward to you covering how Evie’s board works with your other computers. We have covered the board a couple of times on CocoTalk (like when she added disk drive support), but other herself, I haven’t seen a hands on review of it on a Coco yet.
It's such a neat idea she had gifted the world. Stay tuned!
Loved my 800XL, but always preferred the slim design of the 600XL. Atari could have done the 800XL in 600XL case size, but no, they thought people wanted bigger, bigger bigger for higher spec.
Bigger is always better, right? 😅
Another great video :).
I finally managed to order one of the Tee-Shirts :0). I'm planning to wear it at a ZX Spectrum event in November called Crash live. I'm doing one of the panels at that with Paul Jenkinson, the creator of 'The Spectrum Show' youTube channel.
Dude, that's awesome!!!!!
@@fractalMD I think it will be recorded and posted online if it is I'll send you the link :)
@@geoffneil5073 nice!
As promised I wore my 'Taylor and Amy' t-shirt at the 'The Spectrum Show Live' event, if you want to see it search for 'The Spectrum Show' and watch the latest video. I also plugged your channel at the event so hopefully you'll get lots of additional subscribers.
PS I couldn't post the link as youTube won't allow it :(
You guys are so silly with your "growllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll it's ready!" LOL!!! Frogger is one of my favorite games. The Atari 8-bit computer port is pretty good too! Same goes for Q-Bert. Awesome choices for games to play!
Well you know, only "metal" games growl. LOL!
@@jeffreyphipps1507 \m/
**headbangs**
Hey Taylor......... Hey Amy...........It growls while it's trying to boot from a SIO drive. If reading from a floppy disk.... Beep..beep..beep..beep....... If writing to a floppy disk, click..click..click....... One beep or click per sector. The growl, Beeps, clicks enable you to know whats happening during boot and SIO operations. The sounds can be turned off with a POKE. You should acquire a SIO floppy emulator to see the world beyond ROM paks. The 13 pin connector is the SIO connector. It IS a daisy chain...
I'd never poke the growel away!
Time for a #FujiNet!
@@fractalMD Hey wait!......... I thought it was don't poke the Bear.
Hooray for Evie! Hooray for Atari! Hooray for 8-bit cussing!
I keep forgetting that Evie has made one so many different machines now. I own several of these, cause why not. The 600XL has a slightly different memory map because it has less RAM built in. Conversely, the BASIC 4002 cart won't work on the 800XL because it has both BASIC (new version) and 64K RAM. The problem is that 8-bit processors have to do some trickery to map in 64K or RAM. The Z-80 could do that with ports, but the 6502 didn't really have that option. The C-64 used a zero page specially designed port to make the 6510. Atari had other methods starting with the 800XL and going forward with the 65XE and the 130XE.
I keep sending mail. ;-) I ordered you V3 of the Famicom BASIC not tons of differences, but it does skip the opening screen and adds a few commands. Although the book is in Japanese, the BASIC programs are obvious (I think). I also have an English translation (somewhere on my server). I put lithium AA batteries in the cart, but clearly could operate with regular batteries (I just prefer lithium because they leak less). I sent another thing that arrived today (Centipede I think - it was cheap). Amy, you may want to wait until Saturday or Monday and check the box - another programming language called Programmed Inquiry, Learning or Teaching (PILOT) should be there Saturday (in theory).
I also ordered CDs of two magazines (the entire runs of two magazines), but they'll take awhile because they're coming from across the pond.
I'm still waiting to evaluate MS Atari BASIC II (which I had never heard of until I was looking for the regular 4002 Atari BASIC). That's all the news I have for now. Have fun!
Dang! I checked mail today cause sadly I'm about to do an 11 day run at work (of 12h days) and will be a hot minute before I can check again. But if having to go multiple times to check mail to get fun stuff is my biggest problem, I'm doing pretty great.
What a pleasure to watch each of your fun and interesting videos!
thanks!
Great choices of classic games. Looks like the Atari 8 bit had some very solid arcade ports. I would love to see a tour of your collection of machines at some point and your views on each.
Keep up the fun in the sun.
The Lab is epic and littered with retro!
@@fractalMD that was my dining room 2 years ago. Vectrexes, Atari 800's & STe's and my beloved 99/4A.
When I retired, my pension got screwed up for a year, but bills did not stop, so I evetually had to purge all my 80's tech goodness to keep a roof over my head. (sold everything in 2 days on AtariAge)
Except the TI...had to keep that! It was my first, and you know what they say about your first. (and it has a better version of Frogger & Qbert imho).
Anyway now I have money for food AND a place to eat it.
@@PeBoVision Food, shelter, retro! I'm glad that got sorted out.
@@fractalMD Well it's ass-backwards, but I have a growing waistline to support, and I can't tolerate living on the street during Canadian winters (although I WOULD have the TI internal power supply to keep me warm!)
@@PeBoVision It could heat a village!
The Backbit looks awsome, I may have to pick one up!
Can recommend!
Not really an Atari person, I'm a brit so BBC micro is where I'm usually at, but getting more impressed with Atari. Thanks for exposing me. To Atari. Although it looks a little stressful....
Stressful.... but rewarding!
"It's a good day to code" - for the win
ALWAYS!
You really need to make a thumbnail of the 'Grrr" face.... Fun video! Hope to see you while down at VCF.
I always wanted one of those!!!
It's fun!
Hi ! Hello from Brazil, have you heard about the MSX platform ? It´s something from the 80´s you would like to check , based on your videos ;)
Olá! We'll check it out!
I have a funny feeling that one or both of you, upon getting wind of "Crossy Road", remembered David Crane's "Freeway"
Looool
Feels like Im in middle school again!
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Oh, those colors on the 600xl. it's time to adjust the color pot. The access hole for color adjustment screw is on the bottom, but you probably knew that. I do kind of cringe when you slam the cartridges in like that, but it's probably okay. Those computers can take a lot of abuse.
It likes it!
😁 You may abuse it kindly.
Aye, the systems of that era were tanks. I had a VIC-20 survive short-circuits due to me trying to use the paddle ADC to digitize sound (I ended up using a joystick line as input, calling the result PCM)
Mark me down for your first novel Taylor...
I'll put your name down beside mine!
back in 2019 I bought a C64 and told my sister I got one. And she was freaking out about it. She's like you need to bring it next year. I'm like sure.....if I can fix it. Well I got it fixed (1 bad ram chip and the cartridge port was all corroded) and brought it. She was very happy to see it. And my niece as well. I have the U2+ (it was before Evie announced backbit). And one of the games we played was frogger. But I'm like.....why is the river black? I remember it being blue. Also shouldn't the turtles be diving? so I checked around and eventually found another version that looked exactly like I remember, but I couldn't figure out how to make the joysticks work for that one (they worked fine on the odd original one). It was odd, but that was labeled as by sega. Anyway my niece ended up getting pretty good with it. But.....I only brought it 1 year. It's kind of pain in the but bringing the computer, the retrotink 2x pro, the giant power supply I made (I need to 3d print something smaller), and all the cables and such. I'm tempted to get a U64 so it becomes fully self contained. Or maybe a The C64. But yeah The C64 has more than one frogger. Wierd.
Can't have too many froggers, I guess? Definitely weird.
@@fractalMD I guess one was official and one wasn't. off
@@awilliams1701 Almost certainly!
15:11 - "Don't do it!" - I'm like thinking, "Don't do it, Emmanuel! Don't do it!" (Emmanuel is this emu, and ... yeah whatever. Two weeks from now people will look at this comment and wonder what the heck he was talking about.)
That Emu is in the zeitgeist right now
Some of the carts were not bad as you know, but I think some of the best games were on disk.
Trooth
Yep, my Atari 800 growls at me, I think it's an Atari thing ;-))
Hello fellow sister! Love you, love your work, and I LOVE your gorgeous painted nails!
@@fractalMD Thanks so much sister! I've not long discovered 'The Taylor and Amy show' and already enjoying it after a couple of videos, you've both had me giggling a few times!
@@MsMadLemon That means the world to us!
This show has one of the highest view to comment ratios. "For the Al Gore Rhythm!" (every comment must help? Right)
Ha. That is kinda crazy. Like at 10% or so. Google tells me you are winning at 0.5%
I've had several conversations with my 800XL about growling, but it keeps doing it. Thinking about hiring a trainer.
Charm school!
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lol
Great channel, don't bow to the commodore simps
I literally laughed out loud. We simp to all equally, I promise!
Froggee (not Frogger) for the C64 is way better! 😛
I mean, we are a frog gaming channel.
Well, this is the arcade conversion. BTW, the disk version on the atari is way better, and has all the arcade music.
5:38 OUCH! Don't ever do that again! Turn off the Atari before inserting cartridges into it. For any retro system.
why???
Because.
And why not! :)