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From: Bruce
e-mail: brclarke@islandnet.com
Category: 2600/5200/7800
Date: 05 Dec 2000
Time: 09:51:43
Remote Name: 142.22.16.53
Whoops - I hit ENTER too soon... I have an Atari 7800 with about 40 x 2600 and 15 x 7800 carts. All the 2600 carts work just fine.
Unfortunately, only about half the 7800 carts work: I can pop in say the 7800 versions of Asteroids or Galaga and they work just fine, but when I plug in some of my other 7800 carts (such as Dark Chambers or Kung-Fu Masters) the screen just stays black with no sound or graphics of any kind. I have tried cleaning the contacts for both the 7800 and the carts in question, but that doesn't fix it.
Has anyone else experienced this? The 7800 carts were mostly bought new at O'Sheas Ltd. Since the 7800 works fine with some 7800 carts and all 2600 carts, I think the machine must be okay but the carts have somehow gone bad with age.
I don't know anyone else in town with a 7800 so I have no way to test the 7800 carts on another machine. :-(
Maybe there is someone out there in Canada with a 7800 that I can mail one of my bad carts to test (I can include return postage). -- Bruce Clarke brclarke@islandnet.com Victoria, BC Canada