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Depends on which part of Houston you're in as 34's one of the low power stations. They're owned Mako Communications, a company in Corpus Christi that my sister works for.

I'm in Fresno, about 4 miles SE of the broadcast towers in Missouri City - I can see them from my backyard. Reception for 34 was marginal when I was first testing out my setup. After I moved the antenna into the attic it came in just fine. A couple months later I switched to a rooftop antenna as I was having problems with Fox 26 breaking up all the time. Neither antenna is powered.

TVfool has some online tools that might help. I also follow this Houston DTV Blog, though they've not posted anything since May.

I don't have a TV with the proper inputs anymore.

Old T.V. would be optimal, but there are folks out there doing a/v conversions of 2600s/selling A/V converted 2600s. Check the hardware part of the AtariAge forum or post there and ask about it. Just from a quick search found this post that might help also. And there is the Flashback 2 (if you can find any on eBay, etc.). If you want to use Stella though, buy a few classic USB joystick controllers from legacyengineering. It took a while for Curt to get the first batch made, but they've continued making them (in different colors also). Classic gaming rocks.

it is not "code speak for pirates". Here's 61 homebrewed games in cartridge form for play on your Atari VCS/2600. My game Medieval Mayhem, an updated take on Warlords, is one of them. My other homebrew, Stay Frosty, was part of the 2007 Holiday Cart, Stella's Stocking.

it is not "code speak for pirates". Here's 61 homebrewed games in cartridge form for play on your Atari VCS/2600. My game Medieval Mayhem, an updated take on Warlords, is one of them. My other homebrew, Stay Frosty, was part of the 2007 Holiday Cart, Stella's Stocking.

I've modified my Atari with S-Video and Stereo and it generates a crystal clear picture on my old C= 1084S. The other key thing is Medieval Mayhem is a paddle game and paddle emulation leaves much to be desired. Something like the Stelladaptor helps, but I only have one of those which limits me to 2 players and Medieval Mayhem really shines when played with 4 players.

You might like Medieval Mayhem, my homebrew version of Warlords for the Atari. You can even play online, though note that the mouse makes a poor substitute for a paddle.

You might like Medieval Mayhem, my homebrew version of Warlords for the Atari. You can even play online, though note that the mouse makes a poor substitute for a paddle.

DASM and batariBasic are freely available for coding Atari 2600/VCS games.

The freely available emulator Stella has a really nice integrated debugger that really helps figuring out issues.

And you can even get your 2600/VCS game published! AtariAge has a 58 homebrew games, including my homebrew Medieval Mayhem, an updated version of Warlords.

Coding for the Atari is a challenge - 4K of ROM(though bank switching can be used to exceed that), 128 bytes of RAM(not K, not M, just bytes), no video memory - your program has to generate the screen on the fly, even controlling the TV sync signals. Andrew Davie has a nice series of articles, 2600 Programming For Newbies that can get you started.

I'll stick with my arrangment of the Mobile Houston Real-Time Traffic Map that I made for my RAZR because the original layout requires you to scroll up/down to view the map on the RAZR's small display.

For some reason my RAZR needed a WML page loaded before the HTML page. I also made arrangements for the close-ups of the different areas. All of which can be found
here

I'll stick with my arrangment of the Mobile Houston Real-Time Traffic Map that I made for my RAZR because the original layout requires you to scroll up/down to view the map on the RAZR's small display.

For some reason my RAZR needed a WML page loaded before the HTML page. I also made arrangements for the close-ups of the different areas. All of which can be found
here