Fantastic!  Nice find and well worth it.

For the harness, could you not just copy the Pacmania one?

I may have a Galaga '88 PCB for sale if you need one.

My boardset developed problems too, would crash every now and then and all inputs would just be frozen.  Luckily I had a spare boardset too.

I have sold the Starblade now though, it was in beautiful condition and I spent many days restoring it, gone to a good home where someone has space for it sniff!

Bruno thanks for the link, a shame you missed that one.  Im pretty sure that was the Blackpool one.

Happy Birthday my friend, ROGER OUT!

Dude

How could I forget Miner 2049er and Bounty Bob Strikes Back by Big Five Software?  They were favourites of mine too, I remember I paid £45 for a ROM cart for Miner 2049er back in the mid eighties, expensive but worth it.

When US GOLD released Bounty Bob here in the UK, it was a 64K only game on tape, so I upgraded from 800 to 800XL just to play it! Could not source the 48k cart back then.  Eventually upgraded to 130XE.  Bill Hogue was a genius, have you checked out the Big Five Software website?

The only thing I disliked about the Atari was the unreliability of the tape loading system and the slow baud rate it used.  You could always 'tell' when it was gonna crash out during a load and when it was gonna finish just by the sound of the tape loading.

Remember Canyon Climber? That rocked too.

I had Donkey Kong and JR on ROM, they were great conversions and got alot of play by me.

Alley Cat - It was such a humourous, original and addictive game! That damn broom always got me!

Masters of the Lamp - Great soundtrack!

Pitfall II - I think I played this for a week solid, I could not believe the massive bonus 2nd level when I completed it, took me completely by suprise and only the Atari version had this!

Bruce Lee - fab game, DataSoft owned! I still remember that I had to pull one of the 16k modules in my Atri 800 for this to work otherwise it would not run in 48k, 32k only.  Ran ok on 64k machines though.

Sadly, I sold my entire collection when the Atari ST launched so I could buy one.  What a big regret and mistake!  The Atari ST sucked compared to the Atari 8-bit.

Yes I had Behind Jaggi Lines two years before Rescue On Fractulas was released, the first time the alien popped up I truely jumped out of my socks, got me every time!

I also had BallBlaster, which of course became BallBlazer when released.  Did you ever check out the disc loading screen for this baby? Even better than Fractulas;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qri5xavBdh4

My benchmark to see if someone knew their Atari technically was Player/Missle Graphics, so clearly you knew your Atari very well.  I did dabble with Player/Missile Graphics, very simple to set up, but slow in Atari BASIC without using machine language routines.

Im sure I still have a load of ANTIC, ANALOG and PAGE6 mags somewhere though.

Holly cow, that game rocked on the Atari!  Just a shame it had to blank the screen due to vertical interupt during speech.  I loved my Atari 8-bit loooong time.

Wow a Galaxian3 still in operation, pictures please!

Hopefully Bruno will be able to help here.

Thanks DarthNuno.