Atari 2600 question

[level42]

BTW, I have quite some NTSC carts in my Atari collection and never had any problems running them on PAL consoles and different TVs, except that the colors are wrong. No rolling or shaking picture, nothing. And just recently we played some Kaboom! at my buddies place with an NTSC cart, PAL Atari, PAL TV. Wrong colors but game played perfectly.
 

Yeah, I think I remember that too....I guess it depends on your TV, the REALLY old one's can have problems.

However, those games are little fun in B/W....if they are already any fun at all

[level42]

Hey after the Atari 2600 SD cartridge, you can now also pre-ordre a similar product for the Colecovision:

http://www.atarimax.com/colecosd/documentation/

Nice !

Steven Tucker is known from his SIO2PC solution and other great Atari (8-bit) products....

[DarthNuno]

Hey after the Atari 2600 SD cartridge, you can now also pre-ordre a similar product for the Colecovision:

Coleco!  At least the device I was waiting for... for my all time favorite home console  Thanks for this link 

[level42]

Wow, their Atarimax Maxflash cartridge looks VERY interesting too ! Finally an "unlimited" multi cart for the Atari 8-bit series and they're on SALE now

http://www.atarimax.com/flashcart/documentation/index.html

[MacDLSA]

When I hear of Atari VCS I'm SO happy !

Well... NTSC carts could be played on PAL consoles !
The matter is the color palette, which is coded SO DIFFERENT between both systems...
So it happens you could see a purple sky instead of blue (!!!) or a cyan skin instead of pink ( ) !
Otherwise NTSCs plays very well, included the 60hz refresh rate (where you got no PAL 60 carts !)
You can see some pics HERE
http://picasaweb.google.com/macdlsa/MacSVCSCollection#
... and other pics of the VideoGamesHistory I had in Monza, Italy on the 2nd & 3rd of October with people of the staff of "our" BEST italian site & forum , where you could see Halo2600 PAL in its first exclusive in Italy and Europe, too !!! (PAL cart s.n.001 is courtesy of Albert Yarusso of AtariAge)
http://picasaweb.google.com/macdlsa/VGH2010#

[Belike]

Than mybe this TV is not compatible with NTSC carts(older pic with a Videopac):

It has not just different colors, but all of the NTSC cartridges vibrating like hell, others work excellent.

[level42]

I think the TV is a little bit too old to handle the 60 Hz of the NTSC signal.

Maybe there's a control for the vertical hold reachable from the backside ?

[level42]

Hey Béla, did you ever get this fixed ?

I have two NTSC "2600" machines now.... 

[Belike]

Totally forgot about this, I will check.
Thanks anyway.