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  2. Sent you a PM in reply to your PM about the list scraping. As usual I'm apologizing about being out of the loop due to work. Actually had been making progress on that so everyone could do it, natively from the ST. Got sidetracked but I can return my focus to it. Basically calls out using STing (which should work if you got the wifi version of the BlueSCSI or have a NetUSBee or equivalent). In theory........ We were told to take tomorrow (Friday) off due to all the extra hours we put in, so after I get done with the mandatory 9:30 meeting (called by the same guy who told us to take the day off, which is why I said "in theory" 🤣 ) I'll post a new thread about that work and anyone who is interested can follow along (and test, implement, etc).
  3. Yeah, it really was. 😁 Plus, Atari hasn't sued anyone since lunch, so we got bored with nothing to talk about.
  4. I finally managed to catch up on the 20 or so pages of conversation I've missed! Regarding more games for the Driving controller, there's the Indy 500 XE hack you can purchase a cartridge of through AtariAge. I wouldn't say it's the definitive version of the game, but it has some excellent tracks that make good use of screen looping. That said, it's not really playable on the 2600+ currently. (You have to rotate the controller dial 180 degrees to turn ~15 degrees in-game.) As for game purchases, I've mainly been fleshing out my Evercade library, but I did pick up some 2600 and 7800 games last week: I wasn't jonesing for any of these games, but I was pleasantly surprised by Mouse Trap. It's kind of a variation on Lady Bug / Pac-Man. I also thought it'd be a good idea to own a Telesys cart and another Coleco cart for compatibility testing. As for Crack'ed, this was the umpteenth time I've stumbled across a copy, and it was only $8, so I took it as a sign that I should finally buy it. Not my best purchase but not my worst either. That said, I'm pretty excited about what's coming in the mail. I'll have my first PAL 2600 game arriving soon, Threshold, as well as a red-label variant of Infiltrate. I managed to purchase both for ~$30 including tax and shipping.
  5. Well this is exciting @ZeroPage Homebrew Enjoy the first viewing James!!
  6. That seems to be the best path to me. The Mini Memory requirement in my view is probably the most universal solution to store the DSR. I have some serious reading to do...
  7. Got to stage 2 - 628,000. I lost one life because Buster wanted attention and kept head-butting my hand while I was trying to dodge bullets!
  8. I need a command I can run as part of an automated backup batch file. Did someone write a recursive copy function for SpartaDOS 3.x? or am I gonna have to slam one together? -Thom
  9. There's a comment made by someone on the above Youtube video saying you can plug in almost any USB controller apart from the bundled controller to access the 2 hidden games, so that sounds promising. Hopefully, I'll just be able to use one of the controllers supplied with the A500 mini or the C64 maxi.
  10. I always think of an idea for an interesting article called: "Atari is trying to get you to buy Asteroids 5 times in your life." Whats going on at Atari is not unlike Bethesda trying to get you to purchase Skyrim 3 times.
  11. Excellent news! Just being able to boot the major language carts with DOS around means there's quite a lot of coding that can be done with The400 as-is. I was concerned about the OSS language carts because they use their own unique form of bank-switching, and it wasn't a certainty that The400's emulator would support it.
  12. I'll run a test and see what happens. If this is the solution, it will go on the 1.2 board revision as an option. 🙂
  13. Hi! It is needed if you want the cassette audio to go through the "DVI data islands" (HDMI) interface, that should be the main use case. Also, people would probably want to decode the two-tone data to SIO, so a little audio processing is necessary. Have Fun!
  14. There isn’t a way in the AtariOS to play your own ROMs. You’re pretty much going to be limited to the IP Atari currently has control over. If playing ROMs is what you’d like to do on your VCS, PC mode is the answer. Put an OS on a USB drive, install an emulator and there you go.
  15. I think some of the scoffing at the 2600+ and its price point is that you aren't playing the carts. It's a glorified AtGames product that plays roms, and a way to get people to buy reproduction carts that are getting dumped. They could just as easily remove that cart port, lower cost, and just sell roms at a discounted price to run on the device. However, doing that means you aren't buying Pong for the 100th time at a $40 price tag. I don't think FPGA is a fad. If my Atari 2600 and 7800 die I'm not getting a 2600+. I will just emulate at that point. I don't need the illusion or inconvenience of plugging in a cart to enjoy the game.
  16. Strange that it doesn't work for you, since it has the same technique as the Turbo 2000 which is to turn off RD5. 😉 Dmos.car Altirra does not have support for cartridges that must shut down RD5. 😉
  17. I found another nes advantage. Dont remember this movie however.
  18. I wish I could live until year 3043. That year there will be a solar eclipse on Dec 23, and from what I understand, Christmas Day and Eid al Fitr will coincide on the same day for the first time since 1413 AD.

  19. Hi! My question is: what are you trying to accomplish? Your program is still very hard to understand, you still have lines (like line 30 and line 70) that do not do anything, you are using variables instead of numbers in line 40 (I=R instead of I=0), the Q stores 6 different arrays of data, most of that not necessary, the color table is not appropriate for graphics 11, etc. ¿Do you want a faster mandelbrot program? There are faster languages for that. ¿Do you want to learn BASIC XE? Then, your code is not written using any BASIC XE special statements. Have Fun!
  20. Best if you run it with Altirra or if you have real hardware & BASIC XE.
  21. Whoever originally said that "Xbox is dead" rumor should probably doublecheck their sources instead of using it as rage bait.

    To put it simply, Xbox is very much alive and apparently there is talk of an upcoming Xbox handheld, which could mean more competition for the Switch and the Steam Deck. Finger crossed on this one.

    1. r_chase

      r_chase

      Here's a better idea since MS has been publishing their games on other platforms besides Windows and Xbox lately:

      🦀 EXCLUSIVITY IS FUCKING STUPID 🦀

      Stop being like a bunch of blind-faith Nintendo fanboys. Jesus.

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  23. Rasta converted images look amazing on a CRT I have a Dell LCD monitor here and RC images look horible yuk! Emulation seems to be the middle ground. I'm wondering how well RC images look on the Atari 400 mini with a good HDMI display? Somebody please inform me I bet a good old CRT TV or a CRT Monitor would be fine.
  24. Another pricy addition came in today. It slows you down a lot when most of what’s left to find are the rare ones. Wasn’t sure it worked on the plus (the official list still says no), but my copy started right up and played just fine. 👍🏼
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