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Title: Kermit Woodall Fulfills Promise to go Atari!
Post by: kwoodall on September 12, 2003, 08:20:50 PM

Although this isn't the April Fools prank I pulled about porting ImageFX to a network of Atari 2600s - it's not far off. I built a PC into an old Atari 2600 for the heck of it. Cory Doctorow, SF writer and Wired columnist, liked it enough to put it in this Wired article!

Link to Wired Article (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.10/makeover_pr.html)

Title: Re: Kermit Woodall Fulfills Promise to go Atari!
Post by: bbrv on September 12, 2003, 08:26:58 PM

Hey Kermit, where is the VideoMicrowave!?

Next time clue Cory in to it!  :-)

The Atari looks good.  :-)

We may need that machine for a certain promotion in the not too distant future!

R&B  :-)

Title: Re: Kermit Woodall Fulfills Promise to go Atari!
Post by: jeffimix on September 12, 2003, 09:42:23 PM

I cry for the poor atari, hope it didn;t work :P. Atleast it's not an older 6 swtich one. IT only has 4 front swtiches so it was produced later...

Title: Re: Kermit Woodall Fulfills Promise to go Atari!
Post by: Kronos on September 12, 2003, 09:42:54 PM

/me scratches head


Wasn't there a company offering just that?
You know the one that also butchered the_holy_one (aka A1000)
for just the same thing??

Title: Re: Kermit Woodall Fulfills Promise to go Atari!
Post by: downix on September 12, 2003, 10:02:04 PM

@jeffmix

I have a 6-switch unit, still runs.

(I love Tempest for it!)

Title: Re: Kermit Woodall Fulfills Promise to go Atari!
Post by: downix on September 12, 2003, 10:02:36 PM

@Kronos

Yes, it's one and the same as the poster here.

Title: Re: Kermit Woodall Fulfills Promise to go Atari!
Post by: Kronos on September 12, 2003, 10:17:20 PM

@downix

And now,make sure to point that flame-thrower into
the right direction :evil:
:flame:  the ketzer  :madashell:

Only joking  ;-)  <- a lie  :-P

Title: Re: Kermit Woodall Fulfills Promise to go Atari!
Post by: Hooligan_DCS on September 12, 2003, 10:25:28 PM

Alien-case looks damn nice

Title: Re: Kermit Woodall Fulfills Promise to go Atari!
Post by: redrumloa on September 12, 2003, 10:46:39 PM

eh eBay and flee markets are littered with these old ataris. After a few weeks of them not selling people just throw them away. If you really want to save these classic old machines, buy as many as you can and store them away somewhere.

Nothing wrong with what Kermit is doing, he's saving at least one from a landfill.

Title: Re: Kermit Woodall Fulfills Promise to go Atari!
Post by: kwoodall on September 13, 2003, 12:43:24 AM

Well - I've still got the Atari - but it's semi-disassembled at this time. As for getting the video microwave any press, he wrote this story a hell of a long time ago - I hadn't even heard of Video Microwave at that time.

For the rest of ya - the Atari's were all dead, and the Amiga 1000 I converted was just an empty shell I bought. No working systems were sacrificed!

Kermit

Title: Re: Kermit Woodall Fulfills Promise to go Atari!
Post by: Onetrack on September 13, 2003, 06:28:44 AM

Nice job on the atari 2600 make over ;)

Heres something I did yesterday while bored.. I attacked an old floppybox with my dremel.

Specs are : epia M10000 / 256meg ddr / 2x 60 gig hds
running Knoppix Debian linux

makes a nice file server, kind of ironic it used to be a file server in its early days ;)

some pix at
http://www.capturethefrag.com/floppybox

Title: Re: Kermit Woodall Fulfills Promise to go Atari!
Post by: whabang on September 13, 2003, 10:42:19 AM

Heh! That's a cool floppybox. :-)

Title: Re: Kermit Woodall Fulfills Promise to go Atari!
Post by: takemehomegrandma on September 13, 2003, 11:26:29 AM

@ kwoodall

"No live animals were hurt during the recording of this movie" ...

 ;-) :-P

Title: Re: Kermit Woodall Fulfills Promise to go Atari!
Post by: Floid on September 13, 2003, 05:27:35 PM

I wonder if there's some deranged market for working 2600 guts in an ITX pizza-box or similar.  Rackmount with a pull-out LCD? (Scavenged from a PSOne unit or similar?)

With some carefully hidden storage for controllers behind/beneath the cartridge slot routed to a drive bay (Old Sega control pads, something like that...), I imagine one or two people would be nuts enough to sneak one into their server farm.  You might be able to work in some sort of storage drawer for a few carts. ;)  Especially if it has a product name that could be hidden on company requisition sheets... "Retrosystems AR-2600-03?"

Then again, I'm nuts.  Congratulations on the attention!