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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.

It's live on Atari VCS Store everyone! Happy launch day!

Somebody should homebrew Outlaw and re-release it, either for the 2600 or 7800. Improved graphics, more 1 player variations and maybe add a 2600 version of 'Ecstacy of Gold' as a background tune... I know Atari are releasing a Limited edition of the game with a cool new label. Think the game is the original thou, not enhanced in any way. Also only shipping to the US https://atari.com/products/outlaw-2600-silver-box-limited-edition

Doesn't appeal to me either, not even the name but then again <heresy>I was never a big fan of the original Yar's Revenge anyway</heresy>

Very interesting, I may just do that then

Sad to see the end of the Z80 Zilog era my first love is the TMS9900 but I also have a lot of respect for the MSX community and their amazing passion to keep making new games & hardware. I hope soon to again own some Z80 systems as many used the TMS9918 & V9938 video chips.

Space Cavern. That's one that I'm after. Nice Artwork. 👍

If you need help for next season I'll help you with the INTV Classic's HSC Club. I should be pretty much squared away as far as medical appointments and reduced to the usual 6-month follow-ups across the board. It's been pretty hectic for me the last 2 months. I've barely played my deck the last 2 months period. 🤬 But after next week things are finally (KOW) going to calm down on my end. One thing I haven't learned how to do yet, is kill those little turd balls on Super Cobra in a consistent manner LOL But I will say one thing I think maybe one time a year would be a good thing just add more games for a fall session. Because obviously when it's close to summer time there's more stuff going on simply because of the weather's better. But if it's November in Pittsburgh and I have a storm going and I can't go anywhere? I'm firing up the deck. LOL

Great shooter. I enjoy this one. 👍

Yes, did not enter the compo for a while so I was extra motivated and focused during the convention. Hope to see you soon at an AC or eJagfest.

Aha, so there is a difference between MyDOS and DOS 2.5 regarding binary load from Basic (therefore a different machinecode required). Since I am no programmer, I did not know this. Evil me, I wanted to have all Tenliner games on a 130k disk. So I simply packed the two longest programs (Acme Inc and Fall Ball, both ug-Basic programs) and then they did all fit on a 130k disk. But with DOS 2.5 and your menu on this 130k diskette all XEX files did not run anymore. With MyDOS and your menu on this 130k disk I also had some problems (think the XEX files still did not load, but maybe it was something else that did not work). So I loaded your menu from the Tenliners 2023 (130k DOS 2.5 disk image) and listed lines 65 and 66 to diskette and then entered it to the menu of the Tenliners 2024 on my 130k DOS 2.5 disk - and that worked. The packed programs show some garbage when depacking, but otherwise they work fine (and all XEX files load fine from DOS 2.5 now).

I haven't played Hera Primera but I tried to run it. Result is that Hera Primara runs on buzz-Vectrex consoles but does not run on non-buzz Vectrex consoles (Serial numbers 31xxxxx and 4xxxxxx). Poly.play is currently ellaborating this and is looking for a solution.

Makes you feel like you’re in the game! “I wanna be a COWBOY”