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Violence, Exclusion, Degradation & Quinn Snyder's Hair

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A Little Something Something

A little over a year ago, I started frequenting the website instructables.com. Since that time, I've created a few "ibles" as they refer to them, and recently decided to add an Atari twist to my latest project. Two days after I began my latest and greatest instructable on "How to Make Your Own Atari Game" one of the other members there chronicled an Atari lamp which already introduced our two communities to one another. It was featured on instructables (meaning it spent a couple of days on their
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Custom Homebrew Controller

So my plans for evil Atari world domination have hit a small hitch.   I have several Atari controllers laying around and decided at some point to create a controller with six or more inputs that could be utilized for one player homebrew games. I think I remember seeing this mentioned in one or more places, but to the best of my knowledge, no one has actually tried it yet.   Then, I cleared a few of the cobwebs out of my head, and realized it would be much simpler to take advantage of an a
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Life Goals

After a few years of my mid 20's, I was really starting to get depressed. I wasn't doing the things after college that I thought I needed to be doing. I was in the 8 to 5 thing, and hated my job.   A couple of years ago, I decided it was my own fault things weren't going my way. I had done all the things I set out to do in high school, and decided I needed to make a new list of things I wanted to accomplish. Since that time, things have been much more fulfilling for me, and I've gotten a l
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Adventures at Work

I've gained a certain amount of notoriety in my new job from telling stories about the job I got laid off from. The least-believed (and also the most popular) is about the time the COO of the company was laughing about "losing" $15,000 the day after a huge layoff. The HR officer was in the hall outside his door and he seemed to have no sense of remorse when telling her about it, and refused her offer of help to find it. In fact, I blame him for putting the company in financial ruin because of
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RPG partial overworld mockup

I am still in search of someone to help me create a true 2600 RPG. In order to solicit help, here is a mockup of the overworld starting point I have in mind for the RPG game I have talked about.Here is a mockup of the basic screenshot (inside the grey area but without the black dots you see here ) and how/where the tiles derived from. This game is not a port of Dragon Warrior as I have talked about doing, but most of the terrain will be based on the same kinds of things (with a few added and
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Well, the good news is...

...I should have plenty of time for Atari coding. Unfortunetely, that is because I was part of a layoff my employer once again commenced this week. My emotions have went from relief to disappointment to apathy. I spent last night updating my resume and plan to look for jobs to send it to today. I had been looking around for a second job because finances were a little tight anyway, and already know before I begin that there isn't a lot of jobs that suit my qualifications. There are plenty of
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Back to the Drawing Board

I've been putting off this day for a while, but I think it's time for me to start over. I've been busy trying to re-work the demo kernel into what I need for my game, and there are some parts I simply do not understand. For this reason, and the fact that I think I need to write my own kernel for it to truly be "my game" I have decided to scrap my current progress and start fresh.My new approach will have only two players per team and use the missiles for balls. By not using the ball object, I
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my lack of programming skills finally revealed!

I've been telling people about my plan for a Dodgeball game since I joined the forum back in March. I think it's time that I finally showed people something, even if it is still pretty unfunctional.The two balls and missile are there, circled in red just behind the yellow players. Since this pic, I have made the missiles quadwith, but have been unable to figure out how to widen the ball. The orange sprite is also smaller now, and I think pretty close to what I will stick with in the final ver
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Threads all noobs should know/my current projects

First, I thought I would group together all the threads that I have dug up (or others have graciously bumped for me) that I wish I had found when I first got here.   Atari's Landfill Adventures The Knight Rider 2600 Project AtariAge Photo Thread (an introduction page) Tempest's Meltdown Prototype Saga TronMan Hack Krokodile Cartridge   I assume this is the one Thomas suggested: Turbo Prototype Found   That is by no means complete and I may add to it later. Feel free to make suggesti
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First, an introduction...

It would be easiest to start off by telling you who I am and what I do. Unfortunetely, due to circumstances (ie- female stalker) I am not able to readily divulge this information. What I can tell you is that my name is Jason (or JD) and that I live in Kansas City. I'm guessing you are here because either you are disgusted by my blog title and want to degrade me for it, or you understand the reference and are curious what I mean by it. Of course, you could just want to give a shout out to the
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