The Finished Product. The Atari 2600 VCSp. It all started one day while I was at work . . . I’m a graphic artist and I use computers everyday, and of course they sometimes (quite often) don’t work right so I end up on the phone with tech support. So there I was, listening to … Continue reading Original Atari 2600 VCSp
The Atari 800 XE Laptop: Round 2 “Making Of” Story For many years an Atari 800 laptop was my “dream portable”. Then after I built it I had no more worlds to conquer, so to speak. Well, I do, my custom pinball machine, but I digress. Anyway, earlier this year I had a request to … Continue reading Atari 800 Laptop 2
“Making Of” Story After building my very first portable,-the Atari 2600 VCSp, back in 2000 (ever notice how awkward of a year that is to say?) I had a couple of “dream projects” to follow it up with. One was a Nintendo portable, which strangely took 4 years to manifest itself. The other was something … Continue reading Atari 800 XE Laptop
I thought about doing one of these years ago, right after my first Atari 2600 portable actually, but after taking a look at the motherboard (which is a lot more complex than the Atari 2600’s) I got cold feet. My feet are much warmer now and thus here is an Atari 7800 portable I’ve done … Continue reading Atari 7800 Portable
Just to remind people that I still make them, here’s an Atari 2600 portable I just finished. Went back to basics with my color scheme, kind of reminds me of the old days. Ah yes, I remember when people cried a river of tears because the first 4 versions of my Atari portables didn’t have … Continue reading An Atari portable – remember those?
Well sort of. I was cleaning my basement and realized I had a few extra Atari 2600’s laying around. Imagine that. So I slapped a composite video and stereo audio mod onto one of them, using a Playstation-style cord. Now both channels of the Atari’s audio go to separate speakers – it’s just like a … Continue reading For sale: amazingly modded Atari 2600
Since it’s an odd numbered year I have an urge to build some Atari 2600 portables again. For some reason I always do fairly difficult projects on even years, so I guess this is my go-between. Paper mockup of the Rev 5.1, with size reference items around it. The idea I came up with … Continue reading New Atari 2600 concept