Found some Atari 2600 Rom Chips

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Found some Atari 2600 Rom Chips

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I got these today 11/07/12. Guy wanted a dollar each. but my mom purchased other things from the seller and we then decided that a $5 spot will do.

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They are some 2600 roms that look a little different. Or at least I think they are.

I've taken apart carts before and the only ones I've seen were glop tops. These guys have the whole chip on them. Only one of these pictured has a glop top. Its labeled Carnival. I do believe thats the coleco branded brownish cart for the 2600.

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But the rest of them have these hugish chips on them. I dont know if they are removable, nor do I want to try. I did not find any plastic cases near by. Looked on-line to see and Google brought up one of these:
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But mine are very different from that. It looks like the Rom's chips are that big. And like I said I dont think they're removable.

Heres the back of them:

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They are in the exact same position (but flipped) as the the pic above.

Eight of these guys say 'Activision' on the back of the silicon Chip, one says Atari and it says Pacman on a little sticker(bigger size too). Lastly theres the glop top that says Carnival on the sticker.

So my best guess is that these are activision roms.

But as I look at them, thats contradictory. All the silicon parts have an activision logo but out of the Chips themselves; Three say Coleco, three say ATARI, and two have an Intersil logo.

Just to piss you guys off/make you facepalm, I have one more piece of news. The seller had lots of random junk. Pots and pans, Clothes, toys, Random electronics. Where I picked up these roms which were dumped in front of a large box, There was a S*it load of large black Floppy Discs in them. Could they have been more games or progamming? I really dont know. They werent labeled. At All. I counted about 30+ of them. Most were in their sleeves. I dont even have the technology to even tell whats on the black floppies. There was even two big old atari computer boards. I thought they were 5200 roms, but they were a strange size not like 5200 games. I think they were computer IBM stuff. They had an Atari logo in the silicon.
I left them there.

Sadly the fate that awaits those is the trash bin. The seller is there every week and I do believe that what he doesn't sell, he throws away. I may have missed out on some stuff. But I only bought what I thought I could try out.

So Untill I pull out my atari from storage, its a mystery on whats on them. Maybe they're common games or maybe something rare.

I'll keep you posted.
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Re: Found some Atari 2600 Rom Chips

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Pretty sure those are just normal cart PCBs. I had 1 Activision cart before that the screws were exposed and it was a large chip like that on the board. That other one you showed was a proto test board where you could socket chips to test them.
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Re: Found some Atari 2600 Rom Chips

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flojocabron wrote:There was even two big old atari computer boards. I thought they were 5200 roms, but they were a strange size not like 5200 games. I think they were computer IBM stuff. They had an Atari logo in the silicon.
I left them there.
Sounds like they might have been RAM expansion boards for the Atari 800, I would've picked those up as they rarely show up by themselves.
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