As for the Orange Box, I have the documents for that machine....about two hundred 11 X 17 pages and 8 1/2 X 11, covering most of Atari's games up to around Tempest and MH that could be tested with this monster (it stands about four feet high!) weighs a ton... I got lots of duplicate plugs with it that I have cannibalized to make universal test plugs for Pacman and other common games. I don't know about copying the docs, it would be a rather large run about three inches of paper thick altogether...BIG favour needed. I also have some notes about the mods I did to make it work with both colour and b&w as well as the vector mods for b&w and colour XY games...
I also have the Atari Pinball simulator PBS-1, it is handy for the older pin games prior to Superman.
I should make a list of my test equipment I guess, someday...
John :-#)#
At 06:27 PM 11/29/1999 -0500, ayeckley wrote:
>I'm in the process of acquiring that orange Atari test fixture that was
>just on eBay, and I'm wondering who has any documentation on this? Or
>even the correct name? John Robertson - I know you have one of these,
>and I know it's strictly for raster games, but what else can I do with
>it? Am I correct in assuming it is basically a test rig? Here's a link
>to the auction:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=205478827
>>Yes that's a picture of a CTF 1 (Computer Test Fixture) or as we use to
>>call it 'a boat anchor'... It uses a program plugs like the ones on the
PAT.
>>The plugs are not compatible and if mistakenly plugged into the PAT could
>>do considerable damage to the PAT.
>>I own a PAT 9000, and all the game adapters only use one of those plugs
per
>>game. This unit uses 3 per game. I would suspect that the plug adapters
for
>>this unit would be nearly impossible to come by. I also did some research
on
>>the parts required to make one of the adapters for the PAT 9000. You can
>>order all the parts needed from ITT Cannon, but they will cost about $125
per
>>plug. Just multiply that by 3 for each plug you need for this unit.
To add to what Scott said:
I have a brochure for the CTF-1 (could scan if anyone wants), and according
to
it, the monitor is B&W. Perhaps the "Expansion Module" converts RGB to
Composite
Video?
I too have a PAT9000. I have found the plug housings for $49.29, and $0.26
*per
pin*. My solution was to adapt two of the Amp MR 36-pin connectors to the
Canon
connector - I don't use all 156 pins. Since the eBay pictures show lots of
the Canon
connectors included, you could probably cannabalize enough to work. That
brings
your per-harness cost down to about $10 per (not including the cost of your
time). It is several hours' work to build such an adapter - that's why I
consider the Pat9K a
mixed blessing.
On a similar topic, has anyone ever seen/have an Atari PBS-1 Simulator (for
testing
Atari Pinballs)?
Alex
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