Atari 2600 DELUXE AV Mod

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  • Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
  • We install the Deluxe composite video mod from TFW8B into an Atari 2600.
    #atari #2600 #atari2600 #retrogaming #retrocomputing
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    The Future Was 8 Bit Deluxe Atari Composite Mod
    www.thefuturew...
    Hyperkin Retro 77
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    Retro-bit
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Комментарии • 106

  • @thenoblerot
    @thenoblerot 2 года назад +4

    YT algorithm sent me here. Subscribed. Keep up the good work!

  • @davidrin3566
    @davidrin3566 11 месяцев назад +1

    Didn't know this mod existed. I definitely need to get this done. Thank you for creating this video. I just got done rebuilding my setup and I got an 8 port Composite Switcher. I I'm kinda done with RF at this point despite the fact that I am using a CRT. This is my first time watching your channel. Keep up the great work!

    • @fractalMD
      @fractalMD 11 месяцев назад

      That's awesome!

  • @DjayLSD
    @DjayLSD 2 года назад +6

    Go gurlz

    • @fractalMD
      @fractalMD 2 года назад

      That is awesome! We are clearly on the same wavelength.

  • @AlmavanHensen
    @AlmavanHensen 3 месяца назад +1

    This was so enjoyable to watch :-) I need to do this on my 2600.

  • @byWilliamJMeyer
    @byWilliamJMeyer 11 месяцев назад +1

    Enjoyed this look inside the Atari...!

  • @diedrichg
    @diedrichg 2 года назад +3

    Holy $h!# I'm so glad I found this video! I've been researching the best 2600 composite mod and they all required WAY too soldering. THANK you for putting out this video, this will be so easy!

  • @neohermitist
    @neohermitist 2 года назад +3

    Imagine playing 2600 Donkey Kong (same game) for 3 hours straight back in the day.

  • @OCROldComputerRebuilds
    @OCROldComputerRebuilds 2 года назад +4

    Your videos are so much fun to watch keep up the great work. Thank you both.

  • @TheREALJosephTurner
    @TheREALJosephTurner Год назад +2

    YT suggested this video while I was looking for Atari 2600 stuff. This gets a 11 out of 10 rating. 10 for the content and a bonus point for not saying "or you can run it through an old VCR." So, then I checked out your video list- tons of vintage I grew up with in the 80's! But then... the music videos... oh yeah, I'm subscribing!

    • @fractalMD
      @fractalMD Год назад +1

      VCR? NEVER! (Unless it's a NABU) 😄 Welcome!

  • @juanr9446
    @juanr9446 4 месяца назад +1

    I love the atari games sound effects

  • @RetroTechChris
    @RetroTechChris 2 года назад +4

    Haha, nice! That PacMan game? It was a prototype rushed to market. There are some homebrew versions of PacMan for the 2600 that are awesome!

    • @geekwithsocialskills
      @geekwithsocialskills 2 года назад +3

      Indeed, Pac-Man 4K is an amazing homebrew port of Pac-Man using the same 4K limitation they had back in the day. However as a kid, I still enjoyed the Pac-Man we got back then. For kicks I still fire up my original Pac-Man cartridge from time to time :-)

    • @rwxdesigns
      @rwxdesigns 2 года назад

      @@geekwithsocialskills 8k Pac-Man is even better!

  • @brettb.345
    @brettb.345 2 года назад +5

    Yars Revenge drove me nuts.

    • @fractalMD
      @fractalMD 2 года назад +1

      I always found it profoundly weird.

  • @atariandre5014
    @atariandre5014 2 года назад +3

    The aluminium foil on the switches is supposed to protect the machine from static electricity from hands touching the switches.

  • @rdwoodw
    @rdwoodw 6 месяцев назад +1

    The foil across the switches are ESD straps...not RF shielding...best to leave them in place to protect circuitry from static charge when you touch metal switch throw.

    • @fractalMD
      @fractalMD 5 месяцев назад

      We are living on the edge

  • @mpess8569
    @mpess8569 2 года назад +2

    Great tip!, thx! I will get one for my Atari 2600 too. I was a bit disappointed because I couldn't get the joystick only from the RetroN 77 gaming console. Price for everything is a bit for me now...

    • @fractalMD
      @fractalMD 2 года назад +1

      can totally recommend this mod, fo sho

    • @mpess8569
      @mpess8569 2 года назад

      @@fractalMD do you know where to buy the joystick separately?

    • @fractalMD
      @fractalMD 2 года назад

      @@mpess8569 I don't know, but I'll see if Taylor remembers where she got it

    • @TaylorAmyShow
      @TaylorAmyShow  2 года назад

      @@mpess8569 Amazon has them. Search for "Hyperkin Trooper"

  • @GilMarr
    @GilMarr 2 года назад +2

    So glad I'm not the only one who played Donkey Kong like that.

    • @fractalMD
      @fractalMD 2 года назад +1

      Flawlessly? 😂

  • @leosleo3601
    @leosleo3601 Год назад +1

    that's a really neat looking mod for an atari 2600 it seems to be way better than what they povided us with back then .... the picture looks to not be glitchy and sound sounded good ......

    • @fractalMD
      @fractalMD Год назад

      We are fans 👍🏻

  • @WhatHoSnorkers
    @WhatHoSnorkers 2 года назад +3

    That's like magic! :)
    Perhaps Yar's Revenge inspired Trisha Yar from Star Trek: The Next Generation....

    • @fractalMD
      @fractalMD 2 года назад +1

      When that tar pit killed Tasha Yar I was traumatized. She definitely deserves some revenge!

    • @turret72
      @turret72 Год назад +1

      @@fractalMDthe crew on Star Trek Lower Decks prank call Armus if that helps.

    • @fractalMD
      @fractalMD Год назад

      @@turret72 It does. It really does.

  • @douglasleany6091
    @douglasleany6091 2 года назад +5

    Our kids had a 2600 wood grain version -- pretty early version. They had lots of games, and when they heard PacMan was coming out for it, were really excited. We pre-ordered, waited with anticipation, and when it arrived, plugged it in and...suffered major disappointment. What the @#$@# was THAT? Fortunately, when the 5200 came out, we got that for them, and its PacMan was excellent. Ah, good times. :)

    • @alerey4363
      @alerey4363 2 года назад +4

      lol yes, you needed great imagination for those games and an even greater patience to not smash those poor quality cartridges like E.T.

    • @Inaflap
      @Inaflap 2 года назад +2

      @@alerey4363 I heard a lot of unsold Atari cartridges went to land-fill somewhere in the state of New Mexico.

    • @alerey4363
      @alerey4363 2 года назад +2

      @@Inaflap of course, it's the infamous story about the lame E.T. atari rushed to market before xmas and ended up destroying the arcade business back in early 80s, although there were other causes but certainly E.T. cart contributed a lot to it

    • @fractalMD
      @fractalMD 2 года назад +1

      @@alerey4363 there is a whole documentary on it I watched at some point on the ET landfill situation!

  • @root42
    @root42 Год назад +1

    I have Jr. with the deluxe mod, and it’s nice and sharp. However the color is a bit weak, i have to turn up the saturation quite some on my CM8833-II (I am in PAL land). And the audio interferes with the picture.
    I also have a Vader that I modded with a stripboard mod. That has good audio and color, but the video is fuzzy/soft. I wonder if I will ever get both good color and audio PLUS the sharpness…
    Fun video! Keep up the good work!

    • @fractalMD
      @fractalMD Год назад

      Ah, PAL land. Even tho not perfect, both those systems sound pretty damn cool.

    • @fractalMD
      @fractalMD Год назад

      Fun fact. My car is named Vader and I have a vanity plate about it. Ha!

    • @root42
      @root42 Год назад +1

      @@fractalMD fun fact: my father is Vader. And I am Luke.

    • @fractalMD
      @fractalMD Год назад

      @@root42 You are the chosen one!

  • @Saskue78
    @Saskue78 2 года назад +2

    Cool my atari 2600 has the wood front. Although not had it out in ages.

  • @8-bitten
    @8-bitten Год назад +1

    Cool!

  • @thefifthdoctor6780
    @thefifthdoctor6780 Год назад +2

    Just got this 😎now I need a harmony cartridge

  • @JetScreamer_YT
    @JetScreamer_YT 11 месяцев назад +1

    Medical officer doing engineering? You're the opposite of Jet Reno!

    • @fractalMD
      @fractalMD 11 месяцев назад

      Tig Notaro is just so awesome.

  • @juddery
    @juddery 2 года назад +2

    Wow, the frame rate really highlights the biggest complaint from that version of Pacman. Those ghosts are flickering so badly it looks at times like there's one ghost that's whizzing all over the screen, lol.

    • @fractalMD
      @fractalMD 2 года назад +1

      Legit ghosty ghost behavior.

    • @juddery
      @juddery 2 года назад +1

      @@fractalMD definitely. 😁

    • @The_Real_DCT
      @The_Real_DCT Год назад +1

      Because basically that was it was. Due to time constraints and limitations, plus only having a whole 4k space to work with, Howard Scott Warshaw basically had the four ghosts condensed into one sprite that is drawn every other frame. So ghost 1 gets drawn, then ghost 3, then 2 and then 4. Which was mostly hidden by a crt with how it would produce the image. AkA the old 2600 racing the beam trick. Where they would just code the sprites to be drawn line by line as the image is produced by the Electron gun in the TV(to put it in very basic terms)

    • @juddery
      @juddery Год назад

      @@The_Real_DCT it was actually quite impressive, what the developers of the various games games managed to do with so little, wasn't it. I've learned quite a lot since my initial comment above, so have much more appreciation of it. I do love that term too. Racing the beam. It sounds so cool to a nerd like me. :-)

  • @ferndog1461
    @ferndog1461 2 года назад +1

    I click for the Atari. I saw two ladies and questioned my click.
    I saw the STar Trek shirt.
    I'm in a good place.
    I Subscribed.

  • @wimwiddershins
    @wimwiddershins 2 года назад +2

    Fellow RF shield slinger here. Metal work be gone!

    • @fractalMD
      @fractalMD 2 года назад

      It's like, REMOVE THIS FROM MY SIGHT!

  • @8bitsinthebasement
    @8bitsinthebasement 2 года назад +3

    ET is a great game once you apply the "not falling in holes quite so easily" patch. Tell me what are the pcb like things just in front of the TV with the logic gate symbols printed on them? Good job on the AV mod BTW ;)

    • @TaylorAmyShow
      @TaylorAmyShow  2 года назад +2

      It's a little project I found on tindie!
      www.tindie.com/products/tsj_electronics/computer-science-logic-gates-desk-toy-v11/

    • @fractalMD
      @fractalMD 2 года назад

      8BITB, crazy observant!

  • @geekwithsocialskills
    @geekwithsocialskills 2 года назад +3

    There's a lot of hate for the original Pac-Man on the 2600, but I enjoyed it back in the day and still enjoy it in 2022. Hearing the "dun dun dun" sounds as Pac-Man eats the dots is so nostalgic for me. Development tools are way better today verses back in the late 1970s and early 1980s. You should check out Pac-Man 4K which is a way better version of Pac-Man.

    • @fractalMD
      @fractalMD 2 года назад +1

      Lol, true. As much as we throw shade I had many a blister from playing that version of pacman.

    • @Inaflap
      @Inaflap 2 года назад +1

      There's a Pac-man 8K out there too. That's really good, but I've only tried it using Stella.

    • @geekwithsocialskills
      @geekwithsocialskills 2 года назад +2

      @@Inaflap Pac-Man 8K is indeed good, however the charm of Pac-Man 4K is showing what could have been done back in the day with the same 4K limitations if the developer had more time to work on the game.

    • @Inaflap
      @Inaflap 2 года назад

      @@geekwithsocialskills Fair enough. No doubt there was a lot of pressure to release for the Christmas sales. Are you aware of the Pac-man game developed by Atarisoft for the Colecovision. It is excellent.

  • @davidkudrav7018
    @davidkudrav7018 2 года назад +1

    “Safety third” - ha, love it.

  • @squelchtone
    @squelchtone Год назад +1

    Safety Third! hah! That's my line!

  • @DanPursel
    @DanPursel 8 месяцев назад +1

    i still have my atari from 47 years ago and use a antique TV to operate will you do this mod to mine if i sent it to you the Atari still looks as good as it was made and its like the one you are holding

    • @fractalMD
      @fractalMD 6 месяцев назад

      I'm afraid we can't, but you should try it yourself!

  • @David_Ladd
    @David_Ladd 2 года назад +2

    Great video as always :)
    At least you are not a red shirt :D lol

    • @fractalMD
      @fractalMD 2 года назад +1

      Every read that Scalzi book based on the concept? I remember liking it.
      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshirts_(novel)

    • @David_Ladd
      @David_Ladd 2 года назад

      @@fractalMD ,
      Sadly no I haven't. I don't read to much.
      I tinker with Raspberry Pi's, Arduino's, and play a lot of PC games or retro stuff on the CoCo :)

    • @fractalMD
      @fractalMD 2 года назад +1

      @@David_Ladd I'll bet you are reading plenty of manuals!

    • @David_Ladd
      @David_Ladd 2 года назад

      @@fractalMD ,
      Ok you got me there. :D
      Yes I have.
      Have you seen the manual for OS-9 L2? :D lol
      Especially the technical manual :) lol

    • @fractalMD
      @fractalMD 2 года назад +2

      @@David_Ladd I'll prolly just wait for the movie....

  • @rwxdesigns
    @rwxdesigns 2 года назад +4

    So in Yars Revenge, you were wondering what the vertical strip was going down the screen. That's your safe-zone, the small stalker missile which is moving towards you can't damage you when you're in the safe-zone. Your aim is to destroy the orange shield around the gun turret just enough so you can destroy it. Nice mod - is it PAL compatible?

    • @TaylorAmyShow
      @TaylorAmyShow  2 года назад +2

      Thank you! That explains a lot. The Future Was 8 Bit does have this mod for PAL computers.

  • @corialgechrist9229
    @corialgechrist9229 Год назад +1

    That's my kind of girls

  • @ronnyverminck2741
    @ronnyverminck2741 2 года назад +1

    Dunno, but i think there is something not right with this Pac-Man game. The ghosts seems to bee jumping around while they should start with 1 and split to more ghosts. Here they jumping around. (Or, it is a screen glitch)

    • @Inaflap
      @Inaflap 2 года назад +1

      The VCS / 2600 had hardware for 3 sprites... two bats and a ball, as it was based on Pong hardware. To display ghosts and a pac-man it is necessary to multiplex, spending some time displaying one ghost, and then another. There is a 4K and 8K version of Pac-man made about a decade ago, I think, and that does a much better job, but there is still a little flicker, especially when sprites are on the same scan-line. It's all an issue of timing.

  • @souocesar
    @souocesar Год назад +1

    Did you do all that in your kitchen?

    • @fractalMD
      @fractalMD Год назад

      This is The Lab [TM].

  • @basketballsteve54
    @basketballsteve54 Год назад +1

    C'mon Amy & Taylor why are you using that joystick on Pacman (death wish) don't tell me you guys don't have a Hyperkin ranger or a Sega controller..... You're give me pacman frustration nightmares!

    • @fractalMD
      @fractalMD Год назад

      We love a challenge! 😂😂😂

    • @basketballsteve54
      @basketballsteve54 Год назад +1

      @@fractalMD Well you got me there, that's surely true.

    • @fractalMD
      @fractalMD Год назад

      @basketballsteve54 If it makes you feel better, we do have a couple hyperkin rangers that make appearances here and there. 👍🏻

  • @DarthVader1977
    @DarthVader1977 2 года назад +2

    20220329 9:33am Subscriber #323.

    • @fractalMD
      @fractalMD 2 года назад +1

      Nice to have you, Lord Vader.