| | Retro Challenge 2009: The Atari Consoles
For this year in the retrochallenge I have decided to wrap up a goal of mine of having a setup for all the Atari consoles and the ability to play any game. I have the 7800 which also plays 2600 games. I have a 5200, an 800, and Jaguar, and all of these have flash solutions. I have a flash solution for the Lynx on the way.
So today I was getting the stage set for the console placement. I have an entertainment center that originally was wide open, only shelves, but with the use of boards I found, and in some cases use of hard drive magnets, I have come up with a creative way to hide all the DVD cases, wires, and and games. Here we have the cabnet closed, and then the game part opened.. at least an early stage of the gaming section. What you see here are hours of work on the table saw:
 
Yeh it's currently a mess. This is what's known as my Retrochallenge work in progress.
Naturally no retrochallenge would be complete without the implementation of something modern into the retro world, like in this case an LCD screen. I have plans to show the Atari systems, at least the Jaguar, at anime conventions so people can see what the Atari systems were like since many are used to Nintendo, Sega, and beyond. Atari is as mythical as King Arthur to them. Did Atari really exist? Sure it did!!
So at the First Saturday Sidewalk sale there are these guys who buy storage lockers when people let them expire, and go to other auctions, and it was here that I found a LCD screen without the power suply. A Samsung SyncMaster 150mp. Since it was untested and lacked a power supply, I bought it for $20. I found that a GameCube power supply had the 12V DC that the LCD called for, plus more than enough amperage (LCD needed 3 amps, the GC power supply had 3.25 amps.) And I found that if you buy the type T adaptplug from Radio Shack, that sucker will plug right into the GC power supply and be ready to go for this monitor. Sweet eh? Just make sure that the tip is POSITIVE.
So this is the monitor, didn't get the snap shot of the Atari symbol when the 7800 powered up, but it works great! So hopefully in future installments we'll see how all the Atari systems share the same cozy space in the entertainment center. Later all!
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