TandyMan100
Veteran Member
Hello everyone!
Well, for christmas, my ever-observant grandmother picked me up an interesting bit of technology: an 'Atari Flashback 2'. It appears to be an incredibly small 2600 lookalike that plugs into a TV via RCA. After some googling, it appears that this is in the same vein as the C64 DTV, which is a C64-on-a-chip. It also appears that with some cheap parts and a steady hand (as well as some more flux), I can add a 2600 cartridge port to this. But why stop there?! I might get some NiCADs and make it battery powered, find an old dvd player, and hook up the screen for a portable Atari 2600!
</pipe dream (yeah, like I'll have money for that >
Anyways, has anyone here messed around with these before? The included games are pretty nice, and the inclusion of Pitfall! means I'll be spending a WHOLE lot of time with this thing and it's two (really well-built) clones of the original joysticks (!!!).
Well, for christmas, my ever-observant grandmother picked me up an interesting bit of technology: an 'Atari Flashback 2'. It appears to be an incredibly small 2600 lookalike that plugs into a TV via RCA. After some googling, it appears that this is in the same vein as the C64 DTV, which is a C64-on-a-chip. It also appears that with some cheap parts and a steady hand (as well as some more flux), I can add a 2600 cartridge port to this. But why stop there?! I might get some NiCADs and make it battery powered, find an old dvd player, and hook up the screen for a portable Atari 2600!
</pipe dream (yeah, like I'll have money for that >
Anyways, has anyone here messed around with these before? The included games are pretty nice, and the inclusion of Pitfall! means I'll be spending a WHOLE lot of time with this thing and it's two (really well-built) clones of the original joysticks (!!!).