Cuttle Cart

[nintendodork]

Anyone know how to get one of these now?  It seems impossible to find them, and from what I've read, they're out of production.
Any additional info is also gladly accepted

[Blue Protoman]

Rare, rare, rare.  Only 204 were produced.

[Rogles]

What's a cuttle cart?

[nurd]

For running Atari game roms through audio thing. it would be cool to have.

[Rogles]

Ah, just googled it. Looks cool.

[nintendodork]

And, there's also a Cuttle Cart 2 and 3...
2 is for the 7800; it plays all 2600 games and 7800 games..except for Pitfall 2 (of course)
3 is for the Intelevision; it plays all Intelevsion games, 2600 games, AND 7800 games....except for Pitfall 2..

I know CC2 was $200 originally, I don't know about the others though.

[shoggoth80]

"For running Atari game roms through audio thing. it would be cool to have"

Ummm.... NO.
That would be the Starpath/Arcadia Supercharger.... which is neat in its own right yes... you can get the whoe game collection for that thing on CD, which is very convenient. Saves the tapes.

The Cutle Cart, and CC2 are basically Atari Flashcarts...I believe one of them was for the 7800, but I could be wrong there. Tough to find... not many were made, and those that have them tend to not give them up easily. When they do pop up, they go high.... last one I saw I think broke the $200 mark on eBay. Very cool if you can find them... but definitely something you are going to have to throw down some serious bucks for.

[133MHz]

For those serious bucks you could also get all the necessary equipment to build your own Atari 2600/7800 multicarts.

[nintendodork]

I believe one of them was for the 7800, but I could be wrong there. Tough to find... not many were made, and those that have them tend to not give them up easily. When they do pop up, they go high.... last one I saw I think broke the $200 mark on eBay. Very cool if you can find them...

Yeah, the CC2 is for the 7800

build your own Atari 2600/7800 multicarts.

I've actually been thinking about that, but I have little soldering skills, and I don't know how to make one.

[manuel]

That's the problem. 133MHz thinks everybody is as good with tools as he is. 

[nurd]

Ummm.... NO.

'" It allows one to load ROM images (games) into an Atari 2600 using an audio interface such as a CD player""

From http://schells.com/cuttlecart.shtml

[manuel]

That's neat.
I wonder how many ROMs would fit on a CD...

[133MHz]

Atari 2600 ROMs are really small (like 2 or 4 KB average), with a good audio encoding my guess would be a lot.

[manuel]

But the CDs would have to be burned like audio CDs, right? So we're talking 80 minutes. How many minutes or seconds would a ROM of let's say 4kb take up?

[shoggoth80]

Really, will the CC allow you to do something from CD too? I wonder if it has some extra RAM built in there or something as well. I thought someone was confusing the Supercharger cassette programs/Stella CD, and the Supercharger unit with the Cuttle Cart. apparently, I mixed up some of the CC's cpapabilities.

I KNOW that the Supercharger loads games from program tapes, which I am guessing translates from audio waves. I have a supercharger, and a modest stack of tape games... so this device is no myth.
The disc I have of Supercharger games was professionally pressed... it's called "Stella Gets a New Brain" you can find it for about $5... can't remember the site of the guy who put it together...but you can google it. I am GUESSING that you could copy the disc, or find an image and burn it as well.