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By Gary from OPA · Posted
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I'm sure some people are frustrated, but it has taken this long to ship pre-order games before. I'm not saying that's a great thing, mind you, but while it sometimes takes a long time to get orders out, everyone has always gotten what they paid for. I just looked through my emails, and I haven't seen a single email from you since you placed your order. I also checked my PMs, and same thing there, I don't see any PMs from you regarding this. It's possible you sent me something and I didn't see it, perhaps using another email address or via some other way. I also searched for the order number and the only email I see referencing it is the original order email. If you think I am showing contempt for customers, you obviously do not know me very well. I spend an incredible amount of my time building games for orders. I'm currently doing virtually everything myself, which includes building games and shipping them out to customers. And even when I am buried in orders, I won't take shortcuts to sacrifice quality in production of the games, nor will I take shortcuts in taking care to package games to make sure they arrive safely. Yes, I can do better in sending out more updates, and I definitely need to send one out regarding pre-orders, and I will do that this week. And, yes, in the future I intend to hire someone to help with physical production and shipping (see below). That's unlikely to change, however, I am working on making the following improvements to the store, so this time next year I should be able to get 95% of orders out within a week. 1. Move to Flash-based boards for most 2600, 7800, and Jaguar games. The Lynx boards we have are already flash-based, so no need to do anything there. Basically, these flash boards will arrive completely assembled, and all I have to do to use them is plug them into a fixture and program the game onto them. Versus what I typically have to do now: Program EPROM Program PLD (for a large percentage of 2600 and 7800 games) Populate boards (with anywhere from 2-4 chips, one or more caps and resistors, and sometimes other parts) Solder boards (which sometimes takes multiple steps, as some boards have parts on BOTH sides, and you can only work on one side at a time) Assemble boards into shells The goal is to have these boards already assembled into blank cartridge shells, so the above tasks will be replaced by this simple step: Plug cartridge into fixture and program That's it! This alone will save an enormous amount of time. We are going to put our 2600 Aria board into mass production soon, which will suffice for most bankswitching schemes and cover 90% of the 2600 games sold in the store. Most of the remaining 2600 games use our more advanced Melody board, which we will also manufacture in larger quantities than we do now. We've developed several new 7800 flash boards that I'm actively testing, and I will soon have a Jaguar flash board to test. Longer term we'll do flash boards for the 5200 and Atari 8-bit computers as well. 2. I'm having boxes, manuals, and labels printed for slower selling games, so I don't have to spend time printing these materials myself. This is normally a time consuming step when working on large batches of orders. Two weeks ago I submitted a large manual order for 18 different games, which includes several manuals I've never had professionally printed before. These arrived on Friday. I will continue doing this over time. 3. We're currently working on moving the AtariAge Store to Shopify. Once this is complete, I will have access to MUCH better reporting options, which will, again, save me significant time when I'm working on orders. The current store is greatly lacking in this department. When I begin work on a new batch of orders, I have to manually go through all the pending orders and put the games I need to build into a spreadsheet (including important details such as whether a game is NTSC or PAL, if an optional box is included, etc.) With the new store, I'll be able to generate this detailed report trivially. Additionally, I'll also be able to more easily see when a customer has several outstanding orders, so I can be sure to ship them together, which also saves time (rather than shipping, say, three orders separately). 4. I will be moving soon, and one of the goals with this move will be to setup a more formal AtariAge production facility, either on-site or in commercial space nearby. Once this is in place, I will be able to hire someone to assist with production and shipping, which will be a big step in making sure the vast majority of orders go out within days, instead of weeks or months. 5. I'm going to find and buy bubble wrap bags that perfectly fit boxed games. Right now, I'm using 1' x 2' sections of bubble wrap that I then wrap around boxed games and assemble using scotch tape. This may seem like a trivial thing, but it's very time consuming when you're shipping hundreds of boxed games at a time, so this will be a big time saver when shipping. 6. We're also working on brand new 2600/7800 shells, and I received the first CAD drawings recently, we've made some changes, and I'll have prototypes soon. These shells will not have the problematic moving dust cover pieces or spring, and they will firmly hold the circuit boards in place so there's no play or wobble with them (which can cause issues where a game isn't always easy to insert into a system). Right now, the 7800 shells I'm using are not the greatest, so I'm very much looking forward to having our own shells that don't have the compromises I often see with third-party shells. The new shells will also not have those big holes in the corner that 7800 shells often have. These are the shells I will be able to use with the flash boards mentioned above so I can have hundreds (if not thousands) of carts ready at any given time that I can simply flash program, test, label, and ship games as orders arrive. 7. Finally, we're looking into making plastic inserts for boxes, rather than the cardboard ones I'm using now. These will better hold the game cartridge in place, and will also better protect the box from deformation. And, in terms of efficiency, these are much faster to use, as I won't have to fold eight flaps for every boxed game that I assemble. You've made two previous large orders and received those fine. I've shipped many thousands of orders over the years. Why would I start scamming people now? If that's what I wanted to do, I'm sure there's much easier ways to about it. What has greatly slowed me down with the pre-order games is that I am still working on getting Last Chance games built and shipped. I am making good progress on that front, but it's very time consuming as I sold more games in that sale in a month than I normally sell in a year. And I thought I would be done with those by the end of 2023, but obviously that didn't happen. I'm also working on shipping regular orders as well. Having said that, I will start shipping pre-order games in a week (not this upcoming week, but after that). So, your order (and others' orders) will ship soon. ..Al -
By horizon2374 · Posted
I had that beige monitor once, from an eBay auction many years ago. It was a bit bulky with low resolution for it being 13”. Did not like it. The TI monitor is far better, from picture quality to quality and design. Too bad the beige TI monitor never made it, although it started to be featured in some promo ads and was on the front cover of the entertainment value pack. -
I imagine these "AI" companies purposefully allow or deliberately prevent user-supplied information from being remembered indefinitely. I cannot see how people tolerate the over-the-top verbosity of these LLMs. They annoy the absolute frak out of me. Can I get somewhere between Marvin the Paranoid Android and Eddie the ship-board computer? Something along the lines of MOTHER from "Alien" might even be acceptable: I ask a question, it gives me an answer with no pomp and no circumstance, no lesson, no apologies for being incorrect, and, by the way, how about only answering interrogatories? -
By Gary from OPA · Posted
Must be a typo. As the original ros manual is a very bad scanner version. Here is the related source code section: ***************************** * ROS MUD Misc Unfixed Data * #7 ***************************** ERR4 EQU $ ERROR: Diskette full ST0 DATA >8000 Used to check BIT #0 ****************************** * Link to >10,11,12,13,14,15 * ****************************** TEST LWPI HIWS Load our workspace MOV @SRHADR,R1 Get pointer to CALL table MOV @6(R1),R11 Get address of CALL program MOVB @>834C,R2 Get drive # for this CALL CLR @VDPCPU Assume VDP transfers COC @ST0,R2 Check if MSBit is SET JNE WNUMB Nope, so use VDP transfer mode SETO @VDPCPU Yep, so switch to CPU transfers SZCB @ST0,R2 Clear flag to get correct drive # -
By Northcoastgamer · Posted
181,745 (Skill 1). I'm a member of the lockup club too. Played 1 game today, decent game nothing special and poof, lockup. -
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By matthew180 · Posted
Don't use assembly... ? Just kidding, you should absolutely learn assembly, it is worth the effort and can be very rewarding. However, assembly language is only a mnemonic representation of machine code to help the programmer not have to write programs in hex or binary, so there are not going to be many ways to keep you from treating the data in an expected way. My recommendation would be: 1. Use xdt99's ability to use longer names for labels to its full extent. Picking good names for routines and variables is hard, but it is very important to help remind you what the data is and how you are supposed to use it. 2. Adopt simple prefixes or suffixes to name what the data is (i.e. integers start with `s16_` or `u16_`, bytes with `s8_` or `u8_`, addresses with `adr_` (address), etc.). These days, with xdt99, I have no problem writing 9900 assembly that does not work with TI's assembler (it was good BITD, but we have better now). 3. Use equates to name "magic numbers" and memory addresses. 4. Use larger block comments before code to explain what it is doing, which gives context to the code that follows that you don't get by commenting each line of code (which I find less useful since it does not tell you "why" or "what" is going on, only "how"). The CPU's view of memory is simply an address that holds a value. The CPU does not know if the data is a signed number, unsigned, an address, part of a larger value, or anything else. It is up to the programmer to keep all that straight, know what any particular data value is supposed to be, and select the proper assembly instructions to work with the values as intended. This flexibility comes at a cost though, and assembly programmers need to be very meticulous and detail oriented. You have to build a mental model of your data as you design and write your code. With a small retro computer a human can keep all this detail in their head at once, and is one of the main aspects of retro computing that separates it from modern computing. This is also why higher level programs were one of the first programs written for computers, with their abstractions and simplifications to what you can do with data, etc.. Such abstractions are needed to help make writing much larger programs even possible, but to also make computers usable and approachable for people who do not need or want to know how the computer works, but rather use it as a tool for doing other things (which may not even be computer related, i.e. writing a book, plans for building something, etc.). -
By jedimatt42 · Posted
Opcodes are the 'read' 'write' 'load' etc, not the LVL 2 IO 'subprogram' names. So they are things like >02 and then with the 'second highest' bit set, it becomes >42.
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