Atari 2600 Mac Mod

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Posted by Hemos on Monday February 7, 2005 @05:00AM from the the-joy-of-hacking dept.

XxtraLarGe writes "MyMac.com has videos of a couple of guys modding an Atari 2600 case to a Mac OS X System. The cool thing is, it looks like the 2600 can still play cartridge games too!"

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I'm keeping my atari 2600 by The_Mr_Flibble · 2005-02-07 05:02 · Score: 4, Funny

I mean in a few yours it might be worth something.
It's still in it's box.
1. Re:I'm keeping my atari 2600 by AmberBlackCat · 2005-02-07 06:12 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Don't forget those Sony video cameras that can see through people's clothes. And old DVD burners will probably skyrocket in value as soon as copyright protection becomes standard in the new ones.
Nice. by PopeAlien · 2005-02-07 05:03 · Score: 5, Funny

Finally a Mac for gaming!

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1. Re:Nice. by b1t+r0t · 2005-02-07 05:40 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Wow, so now in addition to Breakout and Super Breakout, you can play Photoshop on your 2600 too!
  
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Well apple did the same!! by Saven+Marek · 2005-02-07 05:03 · Score: 5, Funny

That's nothing, Apple managed put a G4 mac into a Sonos case!!!
Yea by mao+che+minh · 2005-02-07 05:05 · Score: 3, Funny

And we just tried to jam 20,000 http requests into their Atari 2600 case. Didn't work.
Uhhh... by Gruneun · 2005-02-07 05:07 · Score: 4, Funny

So, after realizing the 2600 games are no longer being produced, they chose OSX for it's extensive list of titles?
1. Re:Uhhh... by bonch · 2005-02-07 05:09 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  As opposed to what? Putting Linux on it? :P
Obligatory comment by CTO1 · 2005-02-07 05:09 · Score: 5, Funny

They managed to triple the number of games that their new Mac can play!
1. Re:Obligatory comment by JohnHegarty · 2005-02-07 05:53 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  but half the number of games their 2600 can play...
  
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Poor Guys by Anonymous Coward · 2005-02-07 05:10 · Score: 1, Funny

I think sites should get a seal to display if they can stand up to a slashdoting. Might even be a selling point for hosting houses. ^_~
Sweet by Sheepdot · 2005-02-07 05:11 · Score: 3, Funny

... it looks like the 2600 can still play cartridge games too!

<Napolean>Sweet...</Napolean>

Can it play Duke Nukem Forever too?

Oh, wait...
1. Re:Sweet by breon.halling · 2005-02-07 06:22 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Can it play Duke Nukem Forever too?
  Yeah. It can.
  
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Just like the mini-atx guys by kiwidefunkt · 2005-02-07 05:12 · Score: 5, Funny

Proving once again that x86 nerds with too much time are not the only nerds with too much time. There's PPC guys, too.

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video?? by jxyama · 2005-02-07 05:12 · Score: 5, Funny

>MyMac.com has videos
i think the submitter should be requested to use past tense ("had") when linking to a video. ;)
Modified Atari "rap commercial" tom the 80's by chipster · 2005-02-07 05:12 · Score: 4, Funny

Today it's;
"The...twen-ty-six...hun-dred...please-slash-dot-m e!"
Mouse or Paddles? by RackinFrackin · 2005-02-07 05:13 · Score: 5, Funny

Does it have a mouse, or do you move the pointer using one paddle for x and the other for y? That might suck, but you'd have two mouse buttons!

Disclaimer: I didn't read the article.
1. Re:Mouse or Paddles? by DLWormwood · 2005-02-07 05:36 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Does it have a mouse, or do you move the pointer using one paddle for x and the other for y?
  Since the modded 2600 is using Mac hardware internally, the paddles probably ended up looking like this...
  
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Wow by BrK · 2005-02-07 05:15 · Score: 2, Funny

So, this story is all about how people took some hardware and stuck it in a case that wasn't originally intended to hold that hardware?

Oh, gee. What an original concept.

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depressing. by ScouseMouse · 2005-02-07 05:20 · Score: 4, Funny

This sort of thing depresses me.

The only thing that keeps me going is that some day one of these people is going to put a PC board into something like a Vax or a Sun 1/2, and then all the aincient bearded ones will descend on them and murder them all and use their entrails to grease an old Fujitsu Eagle (Look it up).

Then you could argue there lifes wont have gone to waste. :-)

(Note for those of you with no sense of humor, i am Joking but only mostly)
1. Re:depressing. by HarveyBirdman · 2005-02-07 06:00 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  I get depressed because it makes me wonder where my life went wrong so I don't have time to do dumb, pointless stuff like this.
  
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Great! by DorkFest · 2005-02-07 05:22 · Score: 2, Funny

Now my ActiVision titles can live again! Megamania River Raid Freeway Pitfall I'd play these games until I had blisters from the joystick!
The important question by Nine+Tenths+of+The+W · 2005-02-07 05:24 · Score: 2, Funny

Can it play ET? Mac fans need something to compensate for the fact that Daikatana was PC only.

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Re:Modified Atari "rap commercial" FROM the 80's by WhatAmIDoingHere · 2005-02-07 05:38 · Score: 2, Funny

What?

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Netbsd by espergreen · 2005-02-07 06:49 · Score: 2, Funny

OR they could have simply ran netbsd on the orginal hardware :D