Deco Casette

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Figured I'd ask first - are these things worth anything or worth keeping? I have a few boards from this system apparently, and most if not all of them are practically trash. A couple look ok but who knows - they were tossed around and some of them have aftermarket mods that are literally dangling off. All I have are a couple boards, no main board, no casette player, only one ribbon cable, etc etc.
 
I don't know anything about the value, but I was always kind of intrigued by the oddball stuff like Deco and Max-A-Flex setup with the Atari home computer in it.

Shows how crazy companies were to get stuff released to cash in.
 
Well if anyone wants it this is the place to ask. I would say that just like any other 70's and 80's magnetic media that it's deterioration over time limits it's collectability. You see that with records vs casettes in old music stores. This hampers the usefullness if your boards, but of course there has to be somebody that is just despirate for some of these.

If nobody wants it here I would take one throw out on eBay. I would not throw them away though. Somebody wants them somewhere.
 
audio cassettes are kind of flawed to begin with. what they had in ease and durability they lost in fidelity. before cassette and 8 track there was consumer reel to reels, with open reel 1/4" tape that ran at 7 1/2 ips (inches per second). cassette tapes were 1/8" tape and ran at 3 3/4 ips. the difference in sound quality is notable, and thats why reel to reel tapes are often worth more than albums or cassettes. crisper highs and lower lows. for vinyl, i think the ideal format is 12" 45 speed. the reason that never caught on is you can fit 25 minutes on a 33 speed LP but only 10 minutes at 45. the more time you try to cram on there, the lower the quality of the music.
 
If you decide you don't want them anymore put them in

a small box and I'll pay for shipping them to me.

Thanks.
 
Someone made a mutli-game adaptor for them that replaced the flakey cassette deck and supported like 15 games, I don't know off hand whom made them and if they're still available, but they went for like $125 and in my opinion were probably worth it.
 
widel made a cool multi for it.

http://www.widel.com/stuff/decoss.htm

id be interested in the cassettes/kits also.

jon

I'd probably want one of those multis eventually too, but don't have the cash right now so I haven't asked the guy if they are still available, are they? I've also heard a rumor that an Angler Dangler cassette has turned up and been dumped, so hopefully that'll be supported some day.
 
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He only made around 5 kits.. i bought 2 of them.
i think its great and the games are awesome. totally unknown and under-rated multi.

jon
 
He only made around 5 kits.. i bought 2 of them.
i think its great and the games are awesome. totally unknown and under-rated multi.

jon

Heh.
I think I got 2 kits also. That only leaves 1 more...
I think he made more than 5 though. :)
 
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someone told me (i think it was widel) than only a handful were made. I probably still have his email :)

found his email:

"I think I did 5 or so Decos." dated Sep 1, 2009 at 12:08 PM

Jon
 
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Just picked up a Deco last night. Do either of you want to sell one of your kits or can you send me his email so I can try to get one from him. I still have to fix the monitor on mine but I would love to have one of these kits.

Mine came with a game called Ocean to Ocean which I haven't been able to find any info on. Any ideas about this game?
 
I'll probably see Dave in the next couple of weeks, and I'll see what if we can hatch a plan, or at least what his schedule is towards making more.
 
That would be awesome.

PS- What part of Kansas are you in? I was born and raised in Lansing, KS.
 
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