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Yes, if you were traveling on 52, you definitely drove past my street. It sounds like a good time. I'll have to make sure to get there.

🔥🔥Need a favor!! 🔥🔥 Does anyone happen to have an english version Super Block Buster? Looking for a good scan of the instruction booklet. Or allow me to borrow it so i can scan it. I'll provide a shipping label. Thanks

Thanks everyone.. I got it all working, the Geneve boots from both the original WHTECH SCSI and my version as well. And boots from both the SCSI2SD adapter and a ZuluSCSI unit. So, I am good now..

Are you looking to have your new LCD installed on your broken MV? I offered a service for $35. https://voiceofthemummy.com/microvision-backlit-lcd-install/

Oh you should definitley play PS1 on the MiSTer. Not sure why you haven't yet I put all my psx faves on it like Einhander, etc.

According to this write-up, the embedded cores and Z180 will still be available. https://www.hackster.io/news/zilog-calls-time-on-the-venerable-z80-discontinues-the-standalone-z84c00-cpu-family-723594464754

yeah, sadly the aliexpress and ebay resellers will be buying up stock and then charging more money soon as the news spreads. fpga cores are nice, but still having original parts are still best for building things, there always tiny little glitches or timing changes in the fpga cores, and then you have the issue fpga's themselves stop production more often then the original parts, and you have to port over the code to a new part, and overall some fpga's are more costly as well, and then there is programming side, and 3.3volt or 1.5volt level conversion as well, plus i still personally like having DIP only pcboards that can be easy assembled without all that smt stuff.

I'd forgotten until this recent posting, but I had a 2600 cartridge that was labeled as belonging to a doctor's office. I'm not even sure if I still have that one. Now I'm going to have to hunt for my old post about it...

I think it's a fine idea, by the way. That wasn't meant as criticism. If I were sitting on a hoard of dead Microvisions, I'd be tempted at least. My piddly collection of 3 units including the deconstructed one (that I use for testing and development - never finished) just won't yield much profit. Back when I was spending time looking at every LCD toy in every thrift store for a usable replacement screen, Microvisions were cheap. I found a receipt from 2010 the other day for a dead unit with several games for $15. I expected the introduction of new screens to bump up the value of existing screen rot victims. Maybe that hasn't happened. I see a "parts only" unit on eBay with 4 games with starting bid of $10 so there might still be some margin to be had even if one hadn't cornered the market on dead units a few years ago.

Since I was just playing Superman, my six year old asked if she could play it. Even though she is grounded from electronics right now, I said yes. And she beat Superman without any help from me for the very first time. The last time she played, she needed help getting Clark Kent back to the Daily Planet, but not this time. Her score was 1246.

https://www.mouser.com/PCN/Littelfuse_PCN_Z84C00.pdf A bit of a bummer. The cynic in me knows some people will buy up as much of the last batches as possible just to bring up the prices. It seems to me that with Z80 cores available for SoC, FPGAs, and such, having the original CPU for maintenance purposes and to build proper TTL computers is a great thing. I dunno. I feel like I need to snap up a few to have on-hand for the potential of CPU death in my Z80-powered devices. PS: It just struck me that this CPU and I were conceived in the same year. I, however, beat it to the market.

I used the trick to finish in a couple of seconds and it worked! You do have to inch yourself across the screen as described.

Too bad Gunfight is no longer available from AA: https://atariage.com/software_page.php?SoftwareLabelID=1627

GenXGrown-Up did a couple of videos of Superman recently. Jon likes to show some tricks and stuff in his videos, and I was thinking of one he didn't mention. Then I tried it, and it does not work. For some reason, I had it in my head that Superman only had to catch Lex Luthor and repair the bridge to turn back into Clark Kent to finish the game. I tried it, and it does not work. My question is where did I get that from? At one time, was there a rumor that you did not have to capture the five henchmen? I cannot imagine I completely made that up out of whole cloth, but maybe I did. I am glad I did not make a comment about that on the video. He also did a video about finishing the game with 0 seconds off the clock. I did not know about this trick.

For everyone's benefit including mine:

Anyone with eyeballs knew better. However, we were also aware our Game Gear and Lynx batteries weren't going to last all the way through school field trips. Game Boys did.

So close to 100k.... nooo! Got this last night, and a couple more games this morning like 80.6k 92k but generally bad luck on the asteroids. 99,450

I really don't see the point of this. The visuals are also lackluster and the gameplay looks stiff and not fun.

Just put together six five more kits. They come with a new glossy box and a custom Jaguar shipping box: https://www.ebay.com/itm/326095273689?itmmeta=01HVVK7W078929GFMX9QPPR5RK&hash=item4beccafed9:g:oBEAAOSwzaZlxwJC&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA8JIB6Df29GvK%2BBOKWR6munJoPR9RJbZfEmbTP6pjMcF0jNqYym2XM8V2GagpgS2HCF3ILCFD92ktZmJ5CSXjOyBw%2FMIC0oTQRl8NW%2BoPZ%2BdXgPBiX6u9rWB5WRlrQHCBAe091aE0AH5TaUodHQdMh2nm1jKyRjx%2F1RV%2Br9r4RXHHgmdgx2WV7swYBoQ1JmTtN0SJOSOUpAkq4SJZUSTqDLts%2FWPXx1C8TGBZGLqyIDwH1Jc21YHK2na3VUmdHFPJlB0FtI5kNmuKKL9pZFQqUsOA6NH4TGmcKlm3CnoIrYHh23w2wq2DTeWaF7iXEYCVsA%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR6rAn_PeYw

BITD many of us were bidding because we wanted it for a couple of reasons: 1) Buyer: Functionality purposes (i.e. we really didn't want something that was lesser functionality - we wanted something that worked, or offered something "value added" - like a new peripheral, a new game to play, an add-in card, better graphics, etc.) We usually didn't bid on lesser functionality (i.e. the older game, the older graphics card, etc.) 2) Buyer: We didn't have it and wanted to play or experience it for fun, or help someone fix it. 3) Seller: I want someone who will honestly give this a good home and will respect and love it.* 4) Preservationist/Repair: I want to preserve/dump/document/repair/understand it to make sure that other people can understand it and/or fix theirs should they need. Now, it seems to be more of: 1) Buyer: Pokemon - gotta have it all, no matter what it is. I don't care if it works or not or how crappy it is. The older model? Yep, gotta have it, I don't care that it doesn't support bitmap mode. I'm never gonna play it, but I've got this one of a kind prototype! 2) Buyer: Bragging rights, collections, stuff that will never again see the lights of day. People that want unopened copies of every piece of software/hardware ever to sit in a basement and never be used and/or played with. Accumulator. 3) Seller motivated: Make $$$ by offering it for a huge price, including rusted out pieces of crap that I see quite frequently (like that Triton system)* 4) Preservationist/Repair: I want to preserve/dump/document/repair/understand it to make sure that other people can understand it and/or fix theirs should they need. Granted, this is a generalization, and not applicable to all. There are all sorts of buyers and sellers out there; and I'm sure there are many buyers who are still looking for functionality purposes and want to fix stuff, or want to find homes for stuff, but it has very much drifted toward what I wrote at the bottom. The preservationist/repair category has persisted throughout, though. (I've been one of those for a long time, call me an odd duck....) I'll document, fix, and preserve whatever we need to as I get time. (that's the limiting factor)

I give up.. I can't beat my own highscore or cross that bridge.. Pac-land is the Dark Souls of platformers

I had this game for the ST. It is a fun game imo, colorful and nice music.

Picked up this exact drive recently on Ebay... quite a mess on the motherboard from leaky caps (something not often seen on any of these drives for me)... Numerous broken tracks on the 5v supply rails, broken track on the drive motor -ve rail side. Electrolytics changed, tracks repaired and the only thing that didn't need any work was the IS Plate which seems fully functional! IMG_5566.mov

Seems like these days AAA games are falling flat and smaller games are doing well. This could be just the right time for Atari to launch a game like this. We'll see.