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  • Birthday 07/26/2003

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  1. Wow. Congrats, Al. If anyone deserves to be Atari's historian, it's you. Hopefully this acquisition turns out to be the best thing for everyone.
  2. By the way, for anyone trying it out in MAME: MameHaze says that saving hasn't been implemented yet, so the game settings and high scores reset to default when you exit.
  3. Mamehaze just uploaded this earlier today...
  4. I'm sure I've seen a pic somewhere of a Midway Pac-Land with a joystick. Like an actual factory-installed one. Could it be possible that either a few joystick ones were made, or that there was some kind of obscure retrofit that Midway did, like how Nintendo used to AV mod NES top-loaders for anyone who complained to them?
  5. Isn't is strange how video tapes are always specifically called 'VHS tapes' now? Considering that VHS is the only video tape system that most people know of these days, what does it need to be distinguished from? 

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    2. 7800Knight

      7800Knight

      There was also Betmax which competed against VHS in the format wars.  Before VHS, there was U-Matic cassettes; those were only used by TV stations but were planned for the consumer market.  You also had the short-lived Cartrivision system, Video 8 and Hi8, the latter two being more for home movies than consumer home video.

    3. Jumpman1981

      Jumpman1981

      @7800knight 

      I know about the other formats, and I have a Betamax deck and a few tapes. I was just pointing out how it's odd that VHS tapes are always specifically called 'VHS' when there's no real need to distinguish it anymore, as most people probably aren't aware that there were other formats. It's like if everyone started calling Coke 'Original Coke', even after New Coke has fallen into obscurity. 

    4. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      Maybe it's just for clarity...Some people I knew had Betamax,...But by and large conjuring  memories of the bygone days of VCRs and renting tapes at one of many, many locations...Being Kind and rewinding haha...It only takes the words "VHS Tapes"...Or maybe saying "On VHS"... Good Times though!

  6. Happy New Year. Here's hoping things change for the better. 

  7. I think the reason it got a listing is because it was going to open, but then they suddenly went quiet. Apart from them setting up a few of their games at a convention once, nothing seems to have happened. Finding out more is difficult, not only because of how long it's been, but also because there's a well-known place in Florida with the same name.
  8. I hate to be that guy, but Replay doesn't seem to exist (yet). They've been trying to get it off the ground since 2010, but, apart from Aurcade listings, there hasn't been anything about it in the past couple years. It's a shame, because the place sounds damn cool, and they've claimed to have the original film-based version of Wild Gunman.
  9. Here's hoping that 2022 doesn't become 2020 2

  10. https://github.com/historicalsource?tab=repositories Some big names in here: Asteroids, Missile Command, Star Wars, Lunar Lander, Centipede, Millipede, Battlezone, Gravitar, Black Widow, Tempest, Quantum, the list goes on... There's also some non-Atari code as well, like NBA Jam, Sinistar, and Frenzy. From what I can tell, .DOC files are project outlines and developer notes, while the rest are all code.
  11. I imagine if it's loose enough, it might do to indicate if the belt's a problem. Not something you'd fit permanently, but enough to see if there's any other potential issues.
  12. It's a band, but it's only a placeholder. When I initially started working on it, the original belt had stretched and was beginning to perish, so I found a band that was roughly the same diameter to see if the original being loose was the problem. I only left it in as a reference for how the real thing goes through the mechanism.
  13. Ah right... I thought it was the other way around. I still don't get how it's able to load fine if I use an adaptor and play the tapes through my Walkman.
  14. I did adjust the head azimuth, but I don't have any blanks to hand so I can't do the save-and-load test. I didn't know that the data speed depended on the computer, I thought it was like normal tape decks where the tapes themselves are universal and the mechanisms have slight differences in them to run at the same speed on both frequencies. Edit: here's a pic of the insides for reference:
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