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I see it loading MDOS from the LOAD-SCS file, but after about 10 seconds the SCSI drive stops accessing and the geneve just freezes. This happens on both my new SCSI card and an original REV F with Michael Becker update.

It's legendary kusoge, among the worst games on the Super NES. As a result, it's frequently reviewed by YouTube content creators, particularly the yellers like AVGN. That notoriety probably explains its high market value. (Don't buy it, though! It's crap! It's like the Simpsons arcade game, if it had been made by the people who made Bart vs. The Space Mutants!)

This doesn't emulate the PIA enough to avoid compatibility problems. In particular, it will fail with any software that does 800/OS-B style initialization, such as this startup loop from Star Raiders: A162: A9 00 LDA #$00 A164: AA TAX A165: 9D 00 D0 STA $D000,X A168: 9D 00 D4 STA $D400,X A16B: E0 0F CPX #$0F A16D: B0 03 BCS $A172 A16F: 9D 00 D2 STA $D200,X A172: 9D 00 D3 STA $D300,X A175: 9D 67 00 STA $0067,X A178: E8 INX A179: D0 EA BNE $A165 With the PORTB snooping scheme you describe, this would capture $00 writes and assume that the extended memory window should be turned on since it sees bit 4 cleared. But that's not what happens on the PIA, because the PIA doesn't have four registers, it has six registers, and two of them are the data direction registers DDRA and DDRB, stacked on top of the same $D300 and $D301 addresses as output registers ORA and ORB, selected by bit 2 of PACTL ($D302) or PBCTL ($D303). When this code runs, the PIA hasn't been initialized yet -- Star Raiders is a diagnostic cart -- and so all of its registers are set to $00 from hardware reset. This causes $D301 to write to DDRB instead of ORB and change port B to input (a no-op) instead of changing port B outputs. To properly emulate PIA port B, it's necessary to shadow writes to both ORB and DDRB at PORTB ($D301), and bit 2 of PBCTL ($D303) to select between ORB and DDRB. Then, actual banking state can be computed as (ORB or not DDRB).

No, same game.

This may be a silly question, but do you have the right eprom in the Geneve to boot from a Scsi? Isn't that version 2.00?

I recently threw a bunch of SNES games together to sell as a lot and noticed that Bebe's Kids was far and away the most expensive of the bunch. What's the story behind this game? I know it's based on a TV show and the game itself is poorly rated. Is it going for a lot because of rarity? Or morbid curiosity driving up interest?

It is impossible on Evercade. Maybe on Evercade 2. Is there a commercially licensable replacement BIOS for both consoles, though?

Great job!! My oldest son just came back from bowling in Vegas a couple of weeks ago (I'm not sure what the tournament was but he was at Southpoint). He's way better at real bowling than Intellivision bowling. I'd guess most people are better at bowling on video games.

The Capcom one has a lot of great games. There is a Capcom Super Pocket, but it loses some of my favorites (Vulgus, Commando, Mega Man 2, Mega Man X, Legendary Wings) and one of the few good RPGs Evercade has, Breath of Fire. Also 1942 and 1943 are not very playable on Super Pocket. If you want the Capcom games, I would get it, but otherwise I don't like the EXP that much. The sound is really awful and the battery is iffy. I am hoping the sound improves on the EXP-R, even though the speakers are still downward firing instead of front firing. Also if you want the Lynx collections look sharp as their prices are rapidly shooting up.

Looks great! I'd play!

The picture I posted shows this as well for >1200. We agree! I don't have a Geneve configured with an EPROM at this time, so I can't test the loader on real hardware. What do you mean by the above statement? Does it get to the OS title/version text then lock? Or is it locking in LOAD-SCS? You can hold the "DEL" key after the OS starts to load to force autoexec to load from DSK1. This might get you to a prompt.

Both of my Scsi cards are set for that, the setting has worked fine in the past for my original, and from @humeur's pctures the one I bought from him was working fine with that setting. Now I have never tried booting from the Scsi, as I was not up to date on the process and file. Need to repair a peb box to try them again.

This OPEN+USR trick works with Atari DOS 2.5, as the OPEN sets some IOCB pointers and the USR disables the BASIC ROM, moves RAMTOP and other vectors, and then pass the control to the DOS's builtin binary loader. This year, the multi-platform games had a very big runtime embeded, so a 1050-enhanced density disk (130K) was not enough and I had to change to MyDOS and use a double density disk. The problem was that there were no equivalent routine in the DOS code, but a XIO command was available to load binary files in MyDOS. I needed to disable BASIC and move the vectors before the XIO, so I had to include it in assembly at the end of the USR routine. Can you see why? Then, it is not a bug, they are just different menu versions for different DOS-es. Anyway, did you try to play .XEX tenliners like "Chase Me!" from the menu in 2024's ATR? ++V

Could you make a simple (straight) cord replacement? I want to keep the original cord but lose short the coil. Does this product yet exist?

I get it to start booting with this setting, but then it freezes and never displays the dos prompt.

Another attempt (not more) at illustrating what it could look like in the middle of the action:

And you keep posting in such a way that shows you have the brain capacity of a gnat. You said "Absolutely nothing to do with Yars in any way" I responded- linking you to a recording of the devs responding to exactly that- and they said the game stays very faithful to the Yars story, and that fans of the old game will be pleasantly surprised and give it a chance. You obviously didn't take the time to listen... And I laugh every time someone mentions the stock and uses the current price as an insult...instead of the buying opportunity it is. Atari continues to grow....the price will follow.

@JJB Here is my first build. Just have to figure how to program it.

Try to set the CRU switch 1 off 2 off 3 on 4 on 5 off 6-7-8 on. I know on my WHTScsi that is 1200

Awesome it's in my keep folder.

That's what I get for typing after midnight when I should be in bed snoozing away. Btu Tahts okya.

My universe, my definitions. This isn't D&D. Goblins could technically be fairies based on folklore. It's a rabbit hole. The playable character is female.

Thanks for starting this club! One of my projects during "lockdown" back in 2020 was to build a DOS gaming machine. I grew up with DOS, and while DOSBOX and PCEM are fine solutions, they aren't 100% accurate, and I thought it would be a lot of fun to set up a machine in the corner of my office when I feel like playing some good old DOS games. It's a bit of a pain to get good parts here in Japan, but I lucked out when searching on Yahoo Auctions and got a great deal on a tested motherboard complete with CPU (P133), video card, and RAM, so from there it was pretty easy to get a working system up and running. I even managed to find a nice little 13" CRT monitor for next to nothing. I already had a Roland MT-32 and Sound Canvas (I was using them with DOSBOX/PCEM), so it was just a matter of finding a case, floppy drive, CDROM drive, and decent sound card. After doing some research, I went and got an ESS Audio Drive on Ebay, and it's an excellent little card... no MIDI port glitch, excellent sound quality, and nice FM music. The most difficult part of the project was finding space! I ended up setting it all up on my printer stand in the corner, and it all just barely fits: I store the clipboard I use as a mouse tray under the stand when not in use, so it's very compact! Anyway, one nice thing about this system is that I can disable the caches to throttle the speed down to roughly 386/40 and 486/33 or so. This lets me play speed-dependent games like Wing Commander without having to fool around with mo'slo or whatever. It was a lot of fun putting it together, and even a lot of fun getting used to the quirks of DOS gaming again... but the most fun of course is playing DOS games! DOOM, Duke 3D, and Blood just feel so right on an actual DOS machine. However, I mostly use this machine to play RPGs, my favorite genre. I completed Ultima III and Lands of Lore, both for the first time, on this machine and had a blast playing them. Of course, it's not all wonderful. This hardware is getting old and difficult to maintain. The first CRT monitor I was using died, taking the video card out with it (or maybe the other way around). Most recently, my CDROM drive stopped reading discs, and finding a working replacement was actually pretty difficult; the one I got reads discs fine, but the tray is flaky.

I regret getting involved in this, but yes, yes, yes.

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