Tempest Posted July 19, 2001 Share Posted July 19, 2001 Ken Uston died September 17, 1987 in France at age 52. He died of a heart attack and not from being crushed under a crate of unsold Colecovision carts as previously reported. Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEBRO Posted July 20, 2001 Share Posted July 20, 2001 quote: Originally posted by Nukey Shay: I doubt he said something like that...there's just no room left in 4k to implement it (unless you removed some other things, making it even less -cough- like the arcade game...if that's possible). I got a chance to watch the video again and he does state he was "pretty much" on probation, he worked on it for 6 months, he had the variable flicker kernel working. Now he could have had the kernel working in 8K he doesn't really say. A variable flicker kernel could work in 4K though because Ebivision did it in their version of Pacman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted July 21, 2001 Share Posted July 21, 2001 But is it only 4k? Now that it's Pesco, I suppose we'll never know. Forgive me for being skeptical, but I just don't understand how that board layout could be done in that amount of memory. Has anyone seen the chip number that the PacMan-lookalike is on? BTW Pesco only has three monsters (Alien, anyone?). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted July 21, 2001 Share Posted July 21, 2001 quoteI got a chance to watch the video again and he does state he was "pretty much" on probation, he worked on it for 6 months, he had the variable flicker kernel working. What exactly do you mean by "probation"? Does this mean he was put on probation for his job performance? Was he not cranking out games fast enough? ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted July 21, 2001 Share Posted July 21, 2001 So that's why PacMan took so long to get out of development...he was programming in a chain-gang until then. j/k (Which might have a bit of truth if Warner's Atari was run anything like Apple). [ 07-21-2001: Message edited by: Nukey Shay ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEBRO Posted July 22, 2001 Share Posted July 22, 2001 quote: Originally posted by Albert: What exactly do you mean by "probation"? Does this mean he was put on probation for his job performance? Was he not cranking out games fast enough? ..Al I don't know what he actually meant by being on probation that's just what he stated in the interview. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted July 22, 2001 Share Posted July 22, 2001 I heard he had a little problem with Cocaine (just a rumor I heard somewhere), could that be what he was talking about? Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted July 22, 2001 Share Posted July 22, 2001 The song or the drug? j/k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khryssun Posted July 22, 2001 Share Posted July 22, 2001 I bought Pac Man just when he was released (thanks grandmother for the money ) I played Pac Man for hours with a friend of mine.... it's a really good game Just get my eyes tired when playing too much due to the twinkle effect. anyway, great game Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skatepunk60 Posted July 22, 2001 Author Share Posted July 22, 2001 yeah i heard the original created of the pacman concpt was a crack-addict Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted July 23, 2001 Share Posted July 23, 2001 Nope, that would be pizza...though eating that in Japan might be a crime (since it doesn't have tenticles or eyes). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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