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Yup, I knew about the kicking. It has a rather short range, but it's effective with practice. I've seen people play Kickman in the arcades, but never tried it. Not sure how it compares other than the Pac-Man references like @carlsson mentioned.

The A8 certainly has some tricks up it's sleeve when it comes to cramming colours in. Check out the likes of Graph 2 font and also the Windows Rastaconverter too, which use a lots tricks and processing (especially Rastaconverter), to produce some astounding static images. With Graph 2 font, (more here), they are painstakingly created by hand and the images are smaller in file size and don't take up much CPU power. A few examples. G2F also can mix graphics modes (the skull is a difference graphics mode/resolution to the rest of the image): Rastaconveter (RC) uses modern computing power needed to computate the millions and often billions of variations needed to create images, where they then get outputted as an executable XEX 20-22k file to then load/run on any A8. Downside is it take up a lot of resources, (using a combo of the aforementioned DLIs, then Player missile graphics (PMGs), Vertical blank interupts/CPU processessing cycles, etc to get up to 9 colours per scanline - resulting in theroretically images with up to 128 colours. I've only managed 113 on screen. The downside is that the images are on average 22k each, and because they take up so much of the A8s resources, it means they aren't really able to easily be integrated into actual games... although... recently we've had International karate enhanced, with RCX versions of the game with new backgrops added, which are RC created and look utterly amazing: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/352421-international-karate-rc-and-rcx-cartridge-conversion-all-in-one/ I am a rastaconverter nut. The Windows software came out around 12 years ago, and thousands upon thousands of images have been created. And recently the original coder who made the software, Ilmenit, and some other dedicated geniuses, have improved the tool. Check out these amazing RC conversions, where these images will run off real A8 hardware(!): IMHO, the biggest scope for RC images is in graphic adventure games - and - if in the right coder's hands, there is potential for point and click game to utilize RC images as part of the games. In fact, years ago - the creator of RC (again the aforementioned Ilmenit), created a Windows tool to create point and click adventures, called Adventure studio. It still needs some coding knowledge, but it had so much potential. Check it out:

You're talking to someone who has done a conversion that ran for 6 months +. During that process, changes would often stop completely for days or even weeks, and then suddenly start back up again at a solid rate. I've also run conversions for 1 to 4 months, and used solution values of 25,000 to 50,000. So, when I say "you'd need to leave this one run for quite a while", I'm talking about something completely different than most people.

Atari heavy 6 Atari light 6 Atari 4-switch Vader Atari Jr. small rainbow Atari Jr. Long rainbow Atari Jr. with 64 games built in (from Argentina, I think) Atari 5200 VCS adapter Sears Telegames 6 Sears Video Arcade II Coleco Gemini Colecovision/Atari2600 adapter module Intellivision/Atari2600 adapter module ...and multiple copies of each. Just in case. -Ben

There's quite a few games that do it, the Master System has a very solid scanline interrupt system that can be configured to generate interrupts every N'th scanline which definitely helps. One unfortunate thing is that you can't change vertical scroll mid frame, so that definitely limits how many fancy scrolling effects you can pull off. One of my personal favourites though has to be the first 2 stages of Aladdin, with a mix of scanline interrupts and animated tiles they created a pretty impressive 3D effect.

Agreed, I have IP and know how it feels when someone rips off your hard work, but at the same time, I try to contextualize things rather than just looking at things from a black / white viewpoint. As mentioned in the video, entities such as Konami were even involved in the whole mess back in the day, likely for the sake of getting people familiar with their brand. I guess what all my entrepreneuring has taught me is that people who steal a product (i.e. software, digital music, etc) likely weren't going to be a paying customer anyway, so the damage and loss of sales is not necessarily what we may think it to be. Anyways, I'm with Tanooki on this one - if these were modern items my feelings would be quite different, but they are historical artifacts from a time long gone by. As mentioned in an earlier post in Taiwan no one buys bootleg stuff anymore, you don't even see it. Even at the culture markets and what not, everyone is selling official cartridges, and these are also being used at retrogaming conventions, etc., despite the majority of the locals not having access to such official cartridges as children or young adults due to financial reasons. Now everyone buys and uses official items though, as now people can afford them. If some regions decided against allowing the sale of bootleg games, yet the locals (aside from the rich) couldn't afford originals, I reckon such regions really wouldn't even be gaming regions at all in today's society. So in that way, we waded through some IP theft playing the long game, knowing that we could reach new customers and access a new market once the country develops and salaries increase.

Hi All, The IDE board in the MPEB format has been created, I am leaving some real-estate for possible 32k Sram, RS232 or MIDI, so any suggestions would be appreciated. I would like to think this board with the extra functions would a very usable TI system. Regards Arto.

You could do an alternative version. The game saves all its settings as a PlusROM. So if you change the color combination for a game, the next time you start the ROM, it will show this combination.

My installation (done by a friend) turned out great. I was worried that miniHDMI might not fit in the RF hole, but it did. 🙂 Some photos and screenshots below.

1. Yes, the AGSP boots normally, but is essentially still in factory default mode because the games.db database will not update. Also, please note that the "update_db" flag in games.ini is still set to "1", so it seems that the AGSP does not even recognize the file. 2. Yes, the games.ini will work after that point if modifications are made manually in a text editor, but it will not be recognized if any modifications are made using AGSP Enhance.

Thank you so much for the tips on extra moves in the game! Looking forward to playing it today. 🙂 - James

Has anyone tried modifying the default Lynx palette in Mednafen? In the documentation, it says: Global Filename: Description: lynx.pal Atari Lynx 12-bit BRG 4096 RGB triplets I'm not sure how to physically lay out a file like this in practice, since Mednafen doesn't provide lynx.pal as a reference. Has anyone messed with this before? I find that Mednafen colors seem "washed out" compared to Handy, which might be more accurate to the real Lynx unit but not as enjoyable to see on an emu.

The 9-track tapes I have were read with an M4 Data 9-track SCSI drive I have. Tapes were converted to digital files, then extracted using specialized programs. The main way I do it now is restore the data on my tape images to the virtual VAX (SIMH) then use FTP to transfer the files to my PC.

Atari Blast! shows some graphic modes.

HAVE YOU PLAYED ATARI 2600+ TODAY Today I’m gonna be playing some M.A.S.H. This game is my original cartridge from way back when! I logged many hours on this game, 1 or 2 players. Like any game playing against a human opponent adds more intense game play. But it’s fun either way! THE OBJECTIVE: You are Hawkeye Pierce, Chief Medical Surgeon of the 4077th MASH. Your responsibilities include rescuing injured men from the battlefield, performing surgery in the operating room, or, in an alternative game, picking up Colonel Potter's skydiving medics. You pilot your chopper low through the trees, avoiding shells fired at you from a North Korean tank. After picking up the medics or wounded and rushing them back to the hospital, the pressure really starts to get heavy. Time is running out for the injured men and you must operate. You have to work fast. You are competing with your fellow surgeons, either B.J. Hunnicut, Trapper John Mcintyre or Frank Burns.

I was trying to edit the firmware 1.30c using a disk sector editor (HEX editor?) searching for 'Paddle Games' to see if I could change the text to 'ColecoVision' or 'Coleco/Paddle' or 'Coleco/INTV' or 'CV/INT/Pad' - since I don't play paddle games, Coleco games would interest me more. Anyway, didn't find anything, maybe the firmware has to be unzipped or something??? I did find a 5200 menu (proto) ROM, but would need a game programmer know-how, it also does lock up at times.

The Tomy Tutor and Mattel Aquarius versions are up on his site now too.

I did try D1 with the first program (blue screen), the second one requires the file to be mounted to D4.

Thanks, I will add this info to my post once I get home. Sry, but I didn’t see the responses to my post.

No, I was just mounting the file to D1 on my SDrive Max and cold booting from there. I didn’t know the file had to be launched from DOS. Does it matter which DOS?

I never bashed the actual specs or power of the Jaguar. To be honest thinking about it the worst console of all time is probably the Philips CDI. Anyway, the specs of a console don't mean much if there aren't many good games for the system. Sure the Jaguar had a few great games as you and others have mentioned but nowhere near enough to persuade many people to choose it over a Nintendo, Sega or Sony console. Yeah it had Wolfenstein and a damn nice version of it at that but by that time many people had a PC and could play it on that. Sure it had Flashback but again that game was on the Megadrive, PC, Amiga and other platforms. I won't comment on NBA Jam because I don't like sports games nor will I comment much on games like Tempest 2K and Defender 2K though it does go back to what I said about rehashing old Atari arcade games and by that time almost all arcade genre games except for fighting games and racing games were no longer popular. Around the time the Jaguar was new and supported by Atari I had an Amiga 500 plus, a 486DX2/66, a SNES and not long after a Saturn (which I sold to buy a Playstation not long after) and had no interest at all in the Jaguar. Probably around 2005 I had bought a second hand boxed Jaguar with two games, Wolfenstein 3D and Cybermorph. Wolf 3d was great but Cybermorph was a joke. The console was a UK PAL-I but I live in a PAL-B/G region and so the sound didn't work and I only had an RF cable for it. Anyway, its not the only console I think was not good as I also feel the same about the 3DO and CDI and despite being an Amiga fanboy even the Amiga CD32 was in my opinion a stupid console and yes I do have one but never use it.

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heavysixer woody lightsixer woody 4-switch woody darth vader lightsixer sears 4-switch sears sears II junior short rb junior long tb junior black coleco gemini think i sort of only miss the heavysixer sears of official releases...