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At any rate,...It's HERE ...Growing up this was a Montgomery Wards about 4 blocks from my house.

I still have an older V2 PokeyMax (no 2b). This requires 10 uF electrolytic capacitors at the audio connections. Can I use tantalum capacitors instead of the electrolytic capacitors? These would be smaller.

Thanks. You're right. That one slipped through the cracks. I have a copy of it; but it hadn't been added to my main games collection yet. I'll see if I can edit my post to include it in the zip archive I posted.

Got in again - but I’m at a cursor again I can type in numbers but what commands should I be using?

No idea which one exactly, but he said it was boring, and the sound coming from the speakers was "muffled"...

I wish this would work with the Delta DS emulator somehow, now that Delta's available on iOS. Oh well, maybe we'll get something similar as a direct iOS emulator now that it's allowed.

Oh, trust me, I've already gone so much further than you can imagine 😆 I'm not super interested in console variations personally. I'd consider the ST only because of the insane library it has, and since it's an 80's computer, I have no problem just using a device to load ROMs onto, since its the only practical way to get games on old computers. Still can't believe the Atari ST has more games than the SNES!

Just downloaded it! Wow it works so good with the Classic Joystick and is so much fun, i honestly didn't want to stop playing. I'll hopefully get to play more of it over the weekend but first impressions are really positive. I hope it does well on the Atari VCS store for you, I'm sure it will as it plays to the strengths of the Atari VCS 800 and the Classic Joystick 😀. Keep the spinner releases coming!

One of the 'unofficial' contributors had a meltdown and deleted their repos from what I've heard. If you use update_all you'd be affected by it. PS1 core is a stunning effort by Robert, as is the N64 core which is mostly finished but will have no further work due to specific limitations. Saturn core has received a slew of updates and is very good, still in beta.

If it's the same Mario Cart arcade game that I've played, yeah I don't really see the point. I didn't find it that much different than playing on the Nintendo Switch.

Sheddy I been using RastaConverter Beta8R2 the last few days without issue that's a 32bit version. I also have a few images that are being converted with RCB9 and the gui you posted also with no errors. Thanks!

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The ceiling may be random stuff getting removed when doing an update_all. Been hearing people complain about cores and games just disappearing. Not feeling being paranoid and backing up 1tb+ TF cards just to see if something has been updated.

Challenge!!

Around here, it Does seem like arcades keep popping up. One in the mall, a new pool hall,...A Barcade downtown has good good games including old ones, but they raised prices through the roof and they don't maintain their games, at least they serve beer!...In Denver they have good ones, 3 right off the top of my head (Old games, Free Play, some with beer), but they're a couple of hours away...Recently, (here) I noticed an arcade above the casino (Illegal casino, oh wait those are "games of skill", and horse racing stuff that is legal; it's a "grey area" that continues to thrive, lots of places and slot machines (errr, "Games of skill" now in most bars))...Anyway, that arcade; It was a bright, fluorescent, lit up, horrible type place filled with Giant screens and redemption games...After going in and finding nothing of interest, I actually apologized to the 16 year old kid ignoring me from behind the counter; (OK, he seemed nice actually, haaa),...But I said I preferred "older" games and left. I got the story there as my friend also runs games/pinballs etc. He said he offered the "club" all the games they'd want and they said No, they would do their own. I've hypothesized, that maybe it is a place for parents to drop off their kids, while they gamble downstairs... At least my friend got to play the new Mario Kart game there. He said he'd considered getting one because his "Cruisin' Blast" is so popular. He said he really dodged a bullet there because while players love his Crusin' Blast machine and people get in there and have fun and yell, go nuts and just really dig it...The new Mario Kart he said was boring as hell and people would hate it...

Well atari 5200 cartrides are atleast 5200 times more robust then atari xegs cartrides so hahaaa🤣🤣

Yeah, I'm not sure how well I would do either. Funny, just this week I came across this place near me called "SimCenter" that has high-end simulators for things like Formula 1 race cars, fighter jets, 737 jets, etc. I actually wrote the guy and asked if you had to wear the VR goggles or if you could just use the LED screens. Thankfully just about all of the sim experiences can be done without headsets. The place looks really cool. I haven't been yet, but plan on going soon. https://www.simcentertampabay.com/

Hi ALL I have the means to do a run of replacement badges for silvery badged machines. I have requests for 1450XLD and 1400XL's. I have a few 1200XL badges listed on ebay I'll selling at my cost, plus real shipping. Take a look to see what they are like. https://www.ebay.com/itm/305517582224 Please reply with requests and if there are enough, I will get all requested badges done. (it's not whats on the badges, but the number of badges) For any requesting 1400XL badges, I will need proof you actually have one. I do not want any rebadged 1200's suddenly showing up for sale? (you all know the story of what Atari employees did with trashed 1400's?) I get can get other numbers on the badges so do not limit this to the above only. 1050, 1090, 600X, 800XL, etc They will all be in the font, and pitch, and physical size as the ebay listing for this possible run. Oh, the prices will probably be a little higher than when I had the ebay listed ones made year+ ago. I do not know exactly, but I'd guesstimate 8-10%, fyi. Thanks

It helps that I'm practically the only one out there talking about any new arcades Or at least ones that have no license/name attached to them. The germ thing doesn't bug me either, but wearing a headset that some other sweaty dude just wore does slightly...and those little pointless face masks (those will not prevent transmission of something like pink eye) ruin any immersion you might feel otherwise. The main problem for me is that I can't use most VR without experiencing a migraine for hours afterwards, even if it was just for a few minutes. I don't have migraines in normal life, so it's enough to make me only use this stuff on rare occasion at tradeshows.

I tried to play Bomb Squad lastnight using the original 2609 with those awful old controllers and I was miserable... I've been playing on my Inty II with Flashback controllers for 2 years now. I have basically ruined myself for the 2609. I find the controllers on the 2609 to be clunky and unresponsive. I went back to my bread and butter lastnight and played much better.... The flashback controllers are not only easier to use, but the longer cord gives you some leeway. You don't have to sit right on top of the console. 👍

Is that all you can come up with after two years? 🙂

I'm not particulary knowledgeable about Apple emulation, the filesystems, etc, but haven't run into unsolvable issues until now. I'd like to use the ingame save option in SSI's Superpower series of games. Emulator snapshots might be an option, but I'd like to use the actual game save options, so save games are transferable between emulators etc. I have done most testing with Germany 1985, the first in the series, and AppleWin as well as MAME(MESS) emulators. Once you start a game scenario, you can bring up the save screen with control +b. The game wants you to initialize a save disk, after which you can choose to save a game by name in a list. I've only managed to come that far with the .nib file from Asimov, haven't had any luck with the other versions. That HDV file looked promising, but it boots up a whole bunch of different SSI games. 🤨 Anyway, with the nib file, I can enter a save name, and return to the actual game, but the saves are not permanent, bringing up the save screen again, nothing is there. Now, I've searched a bit, and found this RDOS page, which suggests these games might indeed be troublesome. There's blank disk available in the RDOSstuff archive which was tested with North Atlantic '86. It does indeed work with that game. But makes not difference for Germany 1985 for me.

Yep, it's definitely possible it's been around for a while. I just happened to come across it recently (I don't even remember how) and I just found it so fascinating to flip through. For whatever reason, looking at the various advertisements is my favorite part. Seeing all the talk about CGA, VGA, Sound Blaster sound cards, the different game developers, etc., just brings me back.