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"Write the game snake in Python" 🤯

Yeah these days I wouldn't buy anything if I couldn't easily return it. I've actually had pretty good luck and off the top of my head, I don't think I've returned too much, but I always want the option.

I'd change out every IC, one at a time, excluding the meory IC's. You may find one is bad and have it narrowed to that one. Did you build these recently? I've built three, One over 20 years ago, 2 about 2 years ago.

Neat game from a neat genre of games. Was one of the first type-ins I ever did. 🍿

I bet he can't accept that they failed their testing. It has nothing to do with not submitting anything. He was impressed by how much they raised and got mad when anyone made fun as to how they couldn't do things like spell their company name correctly. He's mad because he thought Tommy was going to bring back his childhood while being buds with Swami and such and enjoyed people like me being attacked. I'm sure he's uber upset that everything he believed in was wrong. Brainwashed cultists take time to start seeing clearly. There can be a lot of guilt and denial. The sociology and psychology of it is quite interesting. In fact I bet he responds to this to say they said they passed preliminary tests which doesn't mean anything because it's an all or none passing your certs with FCC. So when that person said they passed preliminary tests, all they were really saying is that we sucked at our job and still couldn't pass FCC certs despite what we thought we were doing. Maybe instead of strapping controllers to the head of a horse, they should have prioritized not being a bunch of impotent scammers taking advantage of idiots and brainwashing them.

I thought of that last night after posting these pictures, but even after changing it, it is still not working. Will try restartingthe IDE later today and see if that makes a differeence.

Lucky for you yours will have a hokey in it…meanwhile my concerto I purchased 2 years ago sits empty without the ability to buy one…

I also noticed this yesterday in my ROMS, especially in folders several deep. The folder structure would show up, but the folders empty.

If you came up with a programming language like that, you would be a VERY wealthy man!

@TampaBay It's also certainly possible that the 8bitdo stick actually is an improvement, and like you mentioned, getting it from a place like Amazon that allow for easy returns is a good option.

THANK YOU for your responses! The game I am re-writing is a game called Goblin, which originally appeared in COMPUTE! magazine. Thankfully, I learned Pascal (Borland Turbo) in college, so that part is pretty straightforward. It's the TMS9900 assembly integration that I am looking forward to learning as that was WELL above my head when I was 12! :-) Again, THANK YOU!

Absolutely. 👍👍 You make an excellent point that I didn't take into account. I've never used the Dreamcast Arcade Stick so I have no frame of reference to compare it to one of the $50 - $100 sticks like the 8Bitdo. Good call on your part. I just assumed, without any basis for it, that it was kind of garbage and that just about anything would be an improvement. Yeah if the DC stick is halfway decent, then it might not be worth it at all to spend say $75 on something that might barely provide just marginal improvement. Like I mentioned, I wanted a 6 button stick to play fighting games as I wasn't doing too well using a standard controller and I'm used to the six button layout, and I didn't already have something. So yeah, that's the key. He may do better sticking with the DC, going higher-end, or trying the M30.

Almost every antivirus vendor has a method of reporting suspected false-positives, either via the program GUI or a website. I recommend people like us familiarize ourselves with the process as this is going to get worse before it gets better, especially for unsigned software.

It’s so easy…

Think I forgot to commit those lvds ip

@TampaBay I get what you're saying 100%! However, even though he's just casually playing arcade games, I think he's run into the limit of sub-$100 sticks. I was in the same exact boat, myself. It's certainly possible that the 8bitdo stick you use is better than his DC stick; I can't say for sure myself as I've only used the DC stick, and I have no reason to doubt your experience of course. He could also just try some sticks and return them to Amazon, but I just don't think he's going to get anything better than what he has without spending a decent chunk of change. It does feel "right" to play arcade games with a real joystick, of course... but I'd argue that, especially at the casual level, he's better off just going with a good gamepad. I think you'd have to spend a LOT to get a stick more accurate than, for example, the 8bitdo M30.

For fun, in similar positions I look sternly at the salesdroid, and with a face of stone I tell them that I am court-ordered not to possess anything which can access the Internet. Or, whatever bullshit they try to push on me. "By court order, I cannot have a keyboard with a numeric keypad," or some such nonsense. It shuts them up, either because now they know I am an annoying git or because they are just not sure about what is happening. Mentioning it flippantly when they start their spiel also works, like, "Oh, yeah, that's nice, but I'm on probation so I can't do that. *chuckle*" PS: I just remembered once when I was looking for a small tablet for a customer, like an eight-inch screen back when they were easier to find. They guy wanted to show me an 10-inch model which was like $120 more, and I told him that anything larger than around nine inches triggers my vertigo. I left with four $50 eight-inch tablets.

For some reason I can access roms past a certain point, just downloaded the new firmware it notified me of. I was looking for tutankham, I also looked at games by alphabet and it's cut off at like 5 company names.

I'm happy to hear this. I appreciate what Wade Rosen is doing. I do hope he has deep pockets, because he's rebuilding an empire, but I hope he's not doing it too quickly. But, it's not expensive to buy-back licensing and rights. Either way, glad to see it!

You can create your own (which I did) based on what event_diag.rom tells you the input is showing up as. For already made kbd files, do a search for "Mapping a Controller for Intellivision" and go to that link. Near the top they have the event_diag.rom file to download, and all the way at the bottom they have a link to "Pre-Built Customized Keyboard Hack and Configuration Files" for various Intellivision games. As I recall, most of these files were made for an XBox controller, but you should always double check the input you are getting in event_diag.rom is the same. Attached is an overall one I created for jzIntv for XBox controllers and keyboard for most games in Windows 10/11. Change the extension from .txt to .cfg before using. (The comments after ; in the file should explain everything.) BTW, I recommend downloading and using jzIntvImGui (which has jzIntv built-in) which is much easier than running jzIntv on it's own. I just tested Burgertime with the file and my XBox Series X/S controller and it seems to work fine. XBox_Win_SDL1_JS0.txt

I ended ordering this adapter PCB .. this will allow me to use a 2764 in place of the dead BIOS ROM: https://github.com/SukkoPera/Open2327RomAdapter?tab=readme-ov-file

No one can accuse them of not putting the effort in!

I finished all the 1994 issues of the magazines I'm reading. Instead of giving my thoughts on each mag, I'll list the winners and losers of '94 (all in my opinion of course): Winners: EGM 1994 was probably peak EGM. Massive issues, a wonderful layout, and combined with EGM2 you were sometimes getting nearly 800 pages a month of content (with a lot of ads, but still...). I still love flicking through this mag, even if there's actually not much worth reading besides the reviews, gossip, and the "good/bad/ugly" sidebars. GameFan This is the year the mag catapulted from what was basically a self-published fanzine of unbelievably high quality, to a legit competitor to EGM with national distribution. It's a great looking mag that looked better with each issue, and the passion for games was infectious. Their reviews, however, were pretty ridiculous, with some real garbage getting 80-90%+ reviews across the board. PC Gamer A new mag launched late in '94, this was actually my beloved PC Entertainment under a different name. It's still got the much of the same staff, the same focus on well-written previews and reviews, but a major upgrade in the layout! I recall this magazine getting very ridiculous later on (Coconut Monkey???), but in '94 it was a serious mag written for adults by editors who really knew their stuff. It blows the overrated Computer Gaming World out of the water. Losers: Electronic Games This was the follow-up to VideoGames & Computer Entertainment, and it suffers from the same faults as that mag. Most if not all of the editors are completely incapable of telling a good game apart from a bad one, regardless of having years of experience writing about games. Reviews of platformers, for example, seem to come down to how cute or funny they found the animations to be. A disaster like Ultima VIII (even in its original, frustrating incarnation) gets a sterling review. The wretched Way of the Warrior gets a higher review than the miracle port of Mortal Kombat II (SNES). It just goes on and on. The editors are also completely in love with "interactive" Hollywood games, and spend page after page going on and on about how cool it will be when all games become choose your own adventures movies. In fact, once the magazine folded in 1995, the follow-up was Fusion, a magazine devoted to this kind of garbage. Computer Gaming World This mag is highly praised, but I've been very disappointed with it. The reviews are 2-3 pages long, but only because 1/4th to 1/3rd of each review is just a plot summary... and then everything but that last paragraph is often a summary of the screen or the instruction manual. You get the actual review in the final paragraph. The exception is Charles Ardai, who instead spends all three pages complaining about how the plot and characters are not as good as in movies, or going into spoiler-level detail nitpicking puzzles. This guy completely savaged Under a Killing Moon (the PC Gamer critic loved it, for the record) because he seemed offended that that the story was not 100% serious, somewhat cruelly criticizing lead designer Chris Jones' portrayal as Tex Murphy (completely beloved by fans of the series and everyone other than Ardai). This guy doesn't review games as games, but as Hollywood scripts, so every single one of his reviews is completely worthless.

Interesting times here at Atari ... lots of fun announcements these days

It totally does ... sort of weird and wonderful, in a bizarre way