My “RetroPie” days of emulating old games on the Raspberry Pi are over – from now on, I can play the real thing.
I was given a friend’s old family computer, an Atari 800XL in 2011. They still had all the parts, except the custom molded cable that connects the floppy drive to the unit.
Receiving an Atari 800XL in 2011
5 years to the month, I finally got around to ordering a cable from a company in California that still has pretty much everything Atari ever made in stock: http://www.best-electronics-ca.com/
I picked up a Donkey Kong cartridge (pictured) along with my cable order (the available, never released Bruce Lee prototype cartridges exceeded my budget).
As I don’t have a TV, I connected it to a PC with a Hauppage TV card. As I don’t have the correct cables, I only get a black and white picture (I don’t have a composite cable, and the brightness and colour signals are split). Also, Donkey Kong is unplayable with this setup, as the TV card adds a significant lag (eg: Mario jumps half a second after you jump).
