In 1979 I was a test and acceptance engineer on the new telephone digital central offices, for a telephone company. I had an Apple II and lots of games. After work the digital office manufacture installers would stop my room and we would play games on the Apple II. I won lots of beer.
I've got an Apple IIe waiting to get some restoration treatment. Bought it back in late 90s for $40 at a thrift store. Came with two disk drives and monitor. Played around with it for a while back then, but it hasn't gotten any use for over 20 years now. Unfortunately I no longer have the green phosphor monitor that I bought it with, but I recently found and bought one off eBay.
@@ThatElectronicsFool I was using my Apple II for test and acceptance of the digital central offices. I was writing programs to dial up these offices and download all the office files. I also wrote programs to test all this data. I also wrote programs to find the password of these offices to prove to my boss that getting into these offices would not be much more than an High School Club Project.
Another fun break down! I appreciate that led lol it's goofy but I guess it works. Wonder if that board is used for other remakes? I saw that spot for the SD card you could load with games and connect a USB controller likely. The other boards appear to just be for the controls? Keep up the good work!
Yeah, the large green board is just for interfacing the controller ports, option switches and cartridge slot to the SOC board. I didn't think of plugging in the micro USB on the SOC board to a PC to see what popped up, but I have a feeling that maybe it's just for loading firmware or something.
8:53 i remeber sega megadrive / genesis did something similar with their led but they stuck it through the connector and bent the pins so it wouldn't fall off
Thank you, and interesting question, so I weighed them. The original CX40 joystick weighs 5.2oz/150g, and the new CX40+ weighs 5.0oz/140g, according to my scale.
Thanks for the teardown! I bought a 2600+ and was thinking of tinkering with it myself. Question...do you think using an OTA adapter with that internal micro-USB port can be a connection to add/play ROMs off of a USB flash drive?
Honestly, no idea. Without some menu system to be able to access things of an SD card, don't know how else you'd load games. I'm sure, given some time, someone is bound to create a replacement OS that can do more than what it can do now. I'm not capable enough to do such thing.
Sorry :( I think if it were to be too close to the logo, it would create a bright spot in the middle of the logo and look bad. It does look pretty good in an area that's not as bright as my garage though. I have a lot of lighting in there that drowns out pretty much everything.
The two things that keep me from buying this are the smaller size (it just looks wrong) and the loading time. I mean it's a frikkin' Atari - never had load times before.
So I found out, just this morning, that you don't need to shut down the console to switch games. You just pull out the current playing cartridge and insert the one you want. It definitely feels like an odd action compared to the original console, but it shortens the load time.
The USB-C and HDMI connectors are the two main things I'm kinda concerned with. I think it may be easy to accidentally break them. As far as the electronics, I haven't tried checking to see how much power the console uses, but it seems to be a very low power system. I'd be concerned with the BGA devices (SOC and RAM) failing in some manner due to heat cycling, but I doubt they get very warm since it's not doing anything graphically intensive and the OS seems to be really light.
@@ThatElectronicsFool every flashback I’ve bought has stopped working. Hopefully it’s going to be a little more durable than the flashbacks and last longer than a couple years.
FYI crossbow for the 7800 is not playable on the 2600+ Atari claims it works they are wrong several attempts with different cartridges all the same outcome
Holy crap! The BEST tear down yet! I’ve subscribed, my friend.
Thank you!
In 1979 I was a test and acceptance engineer on the new telephone digital central offices, for a telephone company. I had an Apple II and lots of games. After work the digital office manufacture installers would stop my room and we would play games on the Apple II. I won lots of beer.
I've got an Apple IIe waiting to get some restoration treatment. Bought it back in late 90s for $40 at a thrift store. Came with two disk drives and monitor. Played around with it for a while back then, but it hasn't gotten any use for over 20 years now. Unfortunately I no longer have the green phosphor monitor that I bought it with, but I recently found and bought one off eBay.
@@ThatElectronicsFool I was using my Apple II for test and acceptance of the digital central offices. I was writing programs to dial up these offices and download all the office files. I also wrote programs to test all this data. I also wrote programs to find the password of these offices to prove to my boss that getting into these offices would not be much more than an High School Club Project.
@@AllAmericanFiveRadio Crazy think that these old PCs that we just use for playing around with now days were once used for actual serious work.
This is the best Atari 2600+ teardown video I have seen, and I have watched a lot of them.
Thank you!
I think it’s great that you gave Atari video proof of warranty violation.
They didn't try very hard to stop me. Not even a single "warranty void if broken" sticker, which I would've ignored either way. Lol
Thanks for the tear down and seeya on the next videoooooo!!!
Finally , a proper teardown :) thanks !
There's much more stuff in this thing than I expected considering it's emulating a crippled 6502 and some simple support chips.
I would've thought it would include a GUI of some sort with the amount of processing power it has, but I guess they kept it bare minimum.
Wow I've never heard of this thing. Interesting break down.
Awesome video dude! Thanks!
Another fun break down!
I appreciate that led lol it's goofy but I guess it works.
Wonder if that board is used for other remakes? I saw that spot for the SD card you could load with games and connect a USB controller likely.
The other boards appear to just be for the controls?
Keep up the good work!
Yeah, the large green board is just for interfacing the controller ports, option switches and cartridge slot to the SOC board. I didn't think of plugging in the micro USB on the SOC board to a PC to see what popped up, but I have a feeling that maybe it's just for loading firmware or something.
The fact that you couldn't identify the first game as Adventure hurts my GenX heart.
But I did say it was Adventure. :(
I just said I hadn't played it before and I didn't know what to do.
8:53 i remeber sega megadrive / genesis did something similar with their led but they stuck it through the connector and bent the pins so it wouldn't fall off
I'm guessing on early versions of it? I only have experience with Model 2's and those had it soldered on the board.
@@ThatElectronicsFool Yeah it's on the model 1 ah okay never messed with the model 2's
Very nice tear down. Do the joysticks weigh the same? The flashback controllers are light and the Hyperkin Trooper is heavy and has 2 buttons.
Thank you, and interesting question, so I weighed them.
The original CX40 joystick weighs 5.2oz/150g, and the new CX40+ weighs 5.0oz/140g, according to my scale.
Thanks for the teardown! I bought a 2600+ and was thinking of tinkering with it myself.
Question...do you think using an OTA adapter with that internal micro-USB port can be a connection to add/play ROMs off of a USB flash drive?
Honestly, no idea. Without some menu system to be able to access things of an SD card, don't know how else you'd load games. I'm sure, given some time, someone is bound to create a replacement OS that can do more than what it can do now. I'm not capable enough to do such thing.
Can this play original Atari 2600 games?
Edit: This can play original 2600 and 7800 games!
(Me screaming at my phone the whole video) Push the LED closer!
Sorry :(
I think if it were to be too close to the logo, it would create a bright spot in the middle of the logo and look bad.
It does look pretty good in an area that's not as bright as my garage though. I have a lot of lighting in there that drowns out pretty much everything.
The two things that keep me from buying this are the smaller size (it just looks wrong) and the loading time. I mean it's a frikkin' Atari - never had load times before.
So I found out, just this morning, that you don't need to shut down the console to switch games. You just pull out the current playing cartridge and insert the one you want. It definitely feels like an odd action compared to the original console, but it shortens the load time.
Think we’ll get the same reliability as the old 2600?
The USB-C and HDMI connectors are the two main things I'm kinda concerned with. I think it may be easy to accidentally break them. As far as the electronics, I haven't tried checking to see how much power the console uses, but it seems to be a very low power system. I'd be concerned with the BGA devices (SOC and RAM) failing in some manner due to heat cycling, but I doubt they get very warm since it's not doing anything graphically intensive and the OS seems to be really light.
@@ThatElectronicsFool every flashback I’ve bought has stopped working. Hopefully it’s going to be a little more durable than the flashbacks and last longer than a couple years.
Great teardown. That "SOC" board is very compact. I wonder if you can power it up without the switches and io boards.
FYI crossbow for the 7800 is not playable on the 2600+ Atari claims it works they are wrong several attempts with different cartridges all the same outcome