+MrFish Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 (edited) Humm... did ours engineers when left Atari also went with the 8bit and put it together with POKEY in a small size inside the Amiga? I'm not sure about that, but I notice there's a suspicious looking chip on this Amiga 500 board: Edited October 17, 2015 by MrFish 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matej Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 (edited) Yes, Commodore 64 games do work with an Atari ST! There is a miniature Commodore 64 built into every Atari ST. This is the technology that Jack Tramiel brought with him from Commodore. You can clearly see the custom C64 chip on this 520ST motherboard at location U20: 520ST - C64 Chip.jpg Here we also have a prototype version of the chip (notice the keyboard is not quite complete at this point), as well as the later added 1541 chip (needed to simulate the slow disk loading speeds). Tiny C64.jpg Chi chi chi chi chichi chichi chichi chichi chichi chichi chichi chichi chichi chi... Aaaaahhahaha ahaha aha ha aha. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. I love you guys! I was sad this day now I was smiling like for 15 minutes on the floor. Lets be real. You can play Frodo emulator on Atari Falcon ct63/3 or not? So yes you can play C64 games on Atari... But I found this video> There is C64 on STE. ATARI ST C64 EMULATOR V3.0 In this video ST emulator on PC and C64 emulator in that ST emulator as you see. Edited October 17, 2015 by Matej 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 Ironic, because I was working on a blackjack game for the Ataris myself today. I'm wondering if this is just a slow BASIC program, or whether the emulator is just dog slow on the ST, because, man, those cards are drawing really slow. I'd like to see what Turrican or something similar looks like with that emulator... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle22 Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 (edited) ...Atari ST/C64 dual format disks are physically impossible since C64 uses 5 1/4" disks and the Atari ST uses 3.5" disks. Yes, you could use 5 1/4" disk drive on the Atari ST and Commodore even released a 3.5" drive for the C64 but publishers never supported those drives. Robert It took a long time for someone to finally understand this fundamental truth. Edit: I have been waiting a whole week to see who could figure it out. BTW, the c64 emulator thing is just a stupid joke. Edited October 18, 2015 by Kyle22 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 It took a long time for someone to finally understand this fundamental truth. Edit: I have been waiting a whole week to see who could figure it out. A week? That was posted on the second day, and nobody posting before that gave any weight to the possibility (after that, I don't know what may have been postulated, as I don't have time to read through ridiculous threads like this). BTW, the c64 emulator thing is just a stupid joke. The whole thread's a joke, so no surprise there... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle22 Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 yea, i didn't know it was a joke... I'm Asperger's, so I think in real terms. sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 yea, i didn't know it was a joke... I'm Asperger's, so I think in real terms. sorry. I understand... it's hard to detect sarcasm when you have a problem like that. We'll all try to cut you some slack. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwilove Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 I do forget exactly what the game was - but there was one game, in which it was the C-64 version on one side, and on the other the A8 version thereof. A floppy disk. Was it a Synapse game? Harvey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Loguidice Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 I do forget exactly what the game was - but there was one game, in which it was the C-64 version on one side, and on the other the A8 version thereof. A floppy disk. Was it a Synapse game? Harvey There were many games on 5.25" disk like that, especially here in the US. Same thing with Apple II/Atari flippies, Apple II/IBM flippies, Apple II/C-64 flippies, etc. Most were some combination of C-64, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, and IBM. Top of my head, I don't recall any other systems in the mix. Naturally, cassette-based games could have many more systems on one tape. As was mentioned, Avalon Hill often did a half dozen or more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Usotsuki Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 I have the opposite problem: sometimes instead of missing sarcasm, I detect sarcasm that isn't there. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 I have a hard time detecting patronizing insincerity... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 (edited) Then of course there's this problem, which is usually pretty easy to detect: AssBurgers:1. Unlike its distantly related cousin and professionally recognized medical disease, Asperger's Syndrome, "AssBurgers" is when someone claims mental defect (that they probably don't even have) as an excuse for socially inept or unacceptable behavior. The term AssBurgers: is commonly entered as a mocking rebuttal on Internet forums whenever someones tries to evade (using mental defect as an excuse) being called on for poor behavior. Edited October 19, 2015 by MrFish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Usotsuki Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Or as I say, "you have asshole disorder, not Asperger's disorder" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynxpro Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 (edited) I'm not sure about that, but I notice there's a suspicious looking chip on this Amiga 500 board: amiga - gumby.jpg Wow, that really cuts us 7800 fans. The two sound chips we were totally screwed out of!* [not even bringing up the AMY]. *Okay, so we did get POKEY for 2 commercially released titles but damn it, that chip should've been on the 7800's mobo from the start! Edited November 28, 2015 by Lynxpro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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