At 05:42 PM 8/12/1999 -0700, you wrote:
>I will be acquiring an Atari 7800 and expect to be loving Food Fight.
>But a question occurs to me. Supposedly, Robot Tank, Decathalon, the
>Supercharger, and a couple of other games for the 2600 won't run on the
>7800. Did anybody determine what it was in the program design that
>made this happen? Have any homebrew games run into this problem?
Well, I have a 7800 with the classsic dent in the middle. This version
runs my Supercharger, Decathlon, and Robot Tank with no problems
whatsoever. However, my machine hates "Space War". I also have a 7800
with the expansion port in the side where the Supercharger will not run. I
haven't had any problems getting Pressure Gauge to run on either 7800 (or
for that matter, Edtris or Soundx)
>Also, the 7800 appears to use a two-button controller. Can anyone tell
>me if 2600 games can be made to utilize that extra button? Is this
>basically what the "Booster Grip" for Omega Race used?
I think It's different. I believe the Booster Grip just adds the use of
another pin in the 9-pin adaptor, while a 7800 controller requires some
resistors inside of the controller that are wired from both buttons to only
one pin (if memory serves at all).
Ciao!
-John K. Harvey
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