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Is that the new Whole Foods exclusive edition with the Biffy award winning Slifker Games exclusive pack-in "Count to Potato"?

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I just bought some XE stuff from him a couple of months ago. I knew he was sick, but I did not know how bad it was. He was trying to sell as much as could before he died for his wife. Not sure if it was more for the monetary aspect or so she would not have to deal with his collection. He was a really nice guy and went above and beyond in our transaction.

Remember in ye oldyn thymes when you had to use a box of crayons, a book, excel(!!) and a hex editor to add new levels? pfft! PWADS.

AtariAge Summer Sale through September 5th! We've launched a Summer Sale with 10% off all 2600, 5200, 7800 and Jaguar games (minus pre-order games) in the AtariAge Store! Now's a great time to pick up some of those homebrew games you've been eyeing but haven't yet pulled the trigger on! This sale is for two weeks only, and only applies to games, hardware is excluded. As a BONUS, any purchase of $200 or more will receive a free copy of Balloon Trip or Sheep It Up!, a $25 value! If your order exceeds $200 (after the 10% sale discount and minus shipping) and you'd like one of these two games, here's how you can get one of them free: Make sure your shopping cart is loaded up with at least $200 worth of fun homebrew games (after the 10% discount and shipping). Complete the checkout process in the store. Make a note in the "Notes" field at the end of the checkout process indicating which game you'd like (Balloon Trip or Sheep It Up!) If you don't enter anything here, we'll assume you're not interested in this bonus offer. We'll then add this free game to your order! Here are links to the Balloon Trip and Sheep It Off! so you can learn more about them: Balloon Trip Sheep It Up! Minimum purchase of $50 to quality for the 10% discount to your order. This sale cannot be combined with any other offers or coupons. Sale ends on Thursday, September 5th, 2019 at 11:59pm CST!

Cheers @NostAlgae37 And to redeem myself for my vegetable faux pas ... a present from me to you. ? I've pre-orded the latest special edition VCS as a peace offering. I hope you enjoy it! ....... if it turns up that is!!!

Yeah, looks like Atari's latest strategy is to try and supplant negative feedback and legitimate questions they can't or don't want to answer with propaganda posts from their staff. I'm really beginning to think there's about 6-10 sad impressionable souls who have backed this thing and really believe all is good at this point. There are a number of largely silent reasonable people who feel trapped and full of regret because they already paid their money, but they're hoping for a decent resolution. There's another group who committed their money and are getting increasingly impatient and angry. And then there's the third to half of their backers that are fake pre-orders from Atari themselves via staff, their marketing outfit, click farms, friends, family and other interested parties. Some of that group are doing their best to water down genuine feedback at this point to maintain appearances. What they can't do is fill the increasing void of nothingness they are continuing to create.

I liked that he visited this place one last time on his final day. Its like he still kept that passion going to the very end. RIP Drac.

A brand new street taco place opened right by work. And they are fantastic!

I'm not sure if the way I commented was taken the wrong way, I hope it wasn't; as I think we all use our computers for different things, and want different things from them including looks. My comment was only aimed at the Doc, as a suggestion following his own path. I've 6x 1050's two have been butchered as spares due to some 'other' in-experienced with a soldering iron, causing so many tracks to lift as not, also the mechanics are faulty, already used the stepper motor as a replacement in another Mech. One of these spare case's will be the home for my XLD. that's not to say that I may change the 2nd tier to something other than MIDI. purely as I built that inside my XEL (being the taller 80mm case.) however I like the idea of re-purposing something that will become redundant. I also like the idea of doing something similar but using the XEGS style case, will I? Who knows could I, maybe and likely using the same or at least very similar circuits to either the XEL or XLD (and yes I'm aware there much more going on in the later..) the XEGS 'cart por't also poses an issue with lay out, but nicely the back panel can be cut about and opened up to all manor of interfaces That maybe my choice for the future, my main interest is actually building these computers, repairing them, making addon's of my own etc. etc. thats almost more than playing games ( Although I do ) I'm grateful that the boards have been released, and hopefully be on there way latest Monday. Do I like everything the way Michael has done things? No not all , the PSU being a case in point for me. but hey it's been good enough for Atari over many years, and it is very much better than any of the original Atari designs. Remember Michael has his own vision and agenda which I'm sure he is most pleased with producing the XLD Hats off to him for seeing it through and allowing us all to be able to share in his personal vision.

Love how generic that ad copy is. It reads as if it were written before the game had even been designed. You could pretty much use it, Mad-Lib style, for any tie-in game... For example:

Just tragic. I effing hate cancer. RIP, buddy.

A Promotion! Very nice job with this and the email. The sale is very well explained, and it is a good incentive for someone to buy some homebrews if they've been sitting on the fence for a while.

So I've been quietly working on this and it's now complete. All that remains is someplay testing to iron out a few gameplay issues to smooth out the difficulty curve and a couple of tweaks to crush a bit of overcycle in a couple of places. I'll upload a test rom in a day or two for folks to try..

AtariAge Summer Sale through September 5th! We've launched a Summer Sale with 10% off all 2600, 5200, 7800 and Jaguar games (minus pre-order games) in the AtariAge Store! Now's a great time to pick up some of those homebrew games you've been eyeing but haven't yet pulled the trigger on! This sale is for two weeks only, and only applies to games, hardware is excluded. As a BONUS, any purchase of $200 or more will receive a free copy of Balloon Trip or Sheep It Up!, a $25 value! If your order exceeds $200 (after the 10% sale discount and minus shipping) and you'd like one of these two games, here's how you can get one of them free: Make sure your shopping cart is loaded up with at least $200 worth of fun homebrew games (after the 10% discount and shipping). Complete the checkout process in the store. Make a note in the "Notes" field at the end of the checkout process indicating which game you'd like (Balloon Trip or Sheep It Up!) If you don't enter anything here, we'll assume you're not interested in this bonus offer. We'll then add this free game to your order! Here are links to the Balloon Trip and Sheep It Off! so you can learn more about them: Balloon Trip Sheep It Up! Minimum purchase of $50 to quality for the 10% discount to your order. This sale cannot be combined with any other offers or coupons. Sale ends on Thursday, September 5th, 2019 at 11:59pm CST!

He did a lot of good for the 7800 homebrew scene, thus will be sorely missed.

Drinks on me. Got >10% raise this morning from my current employer after giving notice yesterday that I accepted another job. It's been a stressful process and looking forward to a few cold ones after work tonight.

My condolences to his family and friends. We lost quite a talent.

I definitely remember the username. Very sad. RIP.

You know what, let's stop this BS before yet another topic gets locked down. Yes everyone has their expert opinion and loves to get on the soap box and preach it to the world, but there is a point where it simply gets ridiculous and pointless. I think we are rapidly approaching that point, if not already passed it. So please before posting anymore in this thread, ask yourself how does what you are about to say really benefit anyone else.

New version. I've updated some of the sprite animation frames from @NostAlgae37. We're really quite fine-tuning now, but I do plan to have some more animations down the track. I've put in a "turn around" wait so that when the player turns around it looks better. I've also re-done the box because nobody had any love for the previous version. I need to decouple the game 'frame rate' from the movement/animation frame-rate. Almost time to think about getting that music updated and some sound effects in. sokoboo_20190823.bin

Those vegans are so blood thirsty.?

Well, well, well. I got this request to supply an EA5 file for playing the game on real iron. See post #1.

We went for an arcade style game since we find that one of the strengths of the Lynx are quick, mobile games without much overhead and something that you could pass around to friends&family to compete This is also why we added a rather relaxed difficulty mode (1) and a much faster mode (3) for shorter games. And what good would this be without a highscore chart? After GameOver a CODE is generated that you can send to us along with your score and difficulty level 1-3 to verify your claims http://enthusi.de/scores.html Below is a crop of a code display (so don't hand that one in

He has cameras, the police have the footage, it's part of the investigation at this point.

Hey DrV should I interject my Dewalt glue gun into the conversation;)

Riveting! #MikeDrop

This was brought to my attention by someone. I have a fan! I mean Karl can't tell the difference between Beef and Biff but I think he has a crush on me and wants to have all my #babybeefs. Funny thing is I don't ask where the games are but was telling others about the games they did have (I wasn't saying they had none either) Also at the beginning of the taco train I was trying to be nice towards hardcore believers (alexkeaton) I think. I think Karl is projecting. He wants them #babybeefs

Week 2 Solar Fox CLARIFICATION: No use of CHEATS, emulation advantages, bugs, cart frying or other variables that gives you an unfair advantage in this HSC. Please assume you have to follow the game difficulty and mode for the playing week/s. There cannot be any game enhancements or favorite settings to play in the 2600 HSC, unless you are given authorization to do so by your humble yet strict MODERATOR! Vocelli Solar Fox Released By: CBS Left Difficulty: B or A Right Difficulty: B or A Game Mode: Game 1 Post your scores right here in this thread, and we will add them to the list. Remember to play the game with the recommended game mode and difficulty settings as shown above so that your scores will be consistent with everyone else. The deadline for posting scores is Midnight (EST) the evening of Sept 1, 2019 Bonus: Rack Match When you post your score… please make sure you list what rack you finished on (or make sure your score has the rack number in the pic). If numbers in your final rack matches numbers in your score you get +1 Bonus points. (6 Max Bonus Points available) Example Rack 8 with a score of 088000 gets you +2 Bonus points Rack 10 with a score of 071000 gets you a +5 Bonus Points Solar Fox Scores There is NO ‘Rollage Score’ on this game… just keep playing! 5,611,100 (0) - AGB (+50) (+2) 2,677,800 (128) - Leto (+49) (+2) 1,766,300 (84) - ZilchSr (+48) 500800 (30) - OldManG (+47) (+4) 460600 (27) - Deteacher (+46) 454200 (28) - Tempest (+45) (+1) 450000 (21) - JacobZu7Zu7 (+44) 387000 (20) - McCallister (+43) (+3) 369400 (19) - Oyama (+42) (+1) 365400 (19) - RedMiller (+41) 314200 (18) - HatefulGravey (+40) (+1) 269600 (17) - Darthkur (+39) 228000 (16) - GBAG (+38) 211000 (15) - SpiceWare (+37) (+2) 209700 (15) - Atarin7 (+36) 194500 (15) - MisterVCS (+35) (+2) 175600 (14) - SneakyTurtleEgg (+34) (+1) 174100 (14) - CapitanClassic (+33) (+3) 169000 (14) - Jin (+32) (+1) 155200 (13) - Spriggy (+31) (+1) 154500 (13) - AtariWarlord (+30) (+1) 142900 (13) - DrMooCowz (+29) (+1) 142600 (13) - JeffRamsey (+28) (+1) 139200 (12) - JasonAtari (+27) (+2) 136900 (13) - KaeruY (+26) (+2) 129700 (12) - LaurenTyler (+25) (+2) 124000 (12) - Diamonds (+24) (+2) 123300 (12) - SBAZ (+23) (+2) 122500 (12) - PatLarocque (+22) (+3) 117900 (12) - RetroGoober (+21) (+2) 105100 (11) - Vocelli (+20) (+2) 091300 (11) - ToiletTunes (+19 (+1) 077800 (10) - Keilbaca (+18 (+3) 074200 (13) - TwentSixHundred (+17) 066600 (9) - Nads (+16) 060400 (9) - Eltigro (+15) 056600 (9) - Gtype (+14) 056000 (9) - LordInnit (+13) 052600 (8) - RogerPoco (+12) 044600 (8) - IsaiahAustin (+11) 042800 (8) - Scrabbler (+10) (+1) 040200 (7) - ClassicGamer (+9) 034600 (7) - ClassicGMR (+8) 034200 (7) - RGC (+7) 030400 (7) - HankR (+6) 029600 (7) - Atari_Warlord (+5) 028200 (7) - BugCatcher (+4) 027400 (?) - ManiaBoy (+3) 027400 (7) - NovaStar (+3) (+1) 026400 (7) - AbleMV (+1) 015700 (5) - RetroRob (+1) (+1) 015500 (5) - Root42 (+1) (+2) 015400 (5) - Troff (+1) (+1) 014200 (5) - Karok (+1) 009300 (3) - JBlenkle (+1) (+1) Overall Standings Remember the Top 32 Advance to the Medal Bracket Challenge at the end of the season! 100 ZilchSr 94 GBAG 70 PatLarocque 66 Tempest 58 DamonicFury 55 Leto 53 HatefulGravey 53 TwentySixHundred 51 OyamaFamily 51 SneakyTurtleEgg 47 Jin 46 JacobZu7Zu7 46 OldManG 44 Nads 44 Spiceware 43 Darthkur 43 Spriggy 40 Vocelli 39 Karok 38 MikeBloke 36 RogerPoco 33 HankR 32 Captain Classic 32 KaeruY 31 Deteacher 31 JasonAtari 28 Atarian7 28 JeffRamsey 27 AtariWarlord 27 Dr Moocowz 26 Diamonds 23 Lord Innit 23 Scrabbler 22 Root42 20 AGB 20 Toiletunes 19 ClassicGMR 17 Gtype 16 SBAZ 14 Atari_Warlord 13 NovaStar 13 Troff 12 Eltigro 12 LaurenTyler 11 RedMiller 8 RGC 7 BugCatcher 7 MangiaBoy 7 Roadrunner 6 AtariUCLA24 4 ClassicGamer 1 AbelMV 1 Jblenkle Season 9 will have: ~ In The Arcade CBS Style ~ Activision Weeks ~ Gold Medal winner pick from Old Man G ~ Silver Medal winner pick from Lauren Tyler ~ Bronze Medal winner pick from Karok ~ Paper Madal winner pick from JasonAtari ~ Several Request weeks or Special Weeks ~ Several Request weeks or Special Weeks ~ Several Request weeks or Special Weeks ~ Several Request weeks or Special Weeks ~ Several Request weeks or Special Weeks ~ HomeBrew Holiday Weeks ~ Winter Sports ~ Paddle Weeks ~ Beat the leader weeks This Season will last about 25 weeks. The TOP 32 will qualify for the Medal Bracket Challenge which will include a special Paper Medal Bracket Knockout Tourney. The TOP 32 will qualify for the Medal Bracket Challenge which will include a special Paper Medal Bracket Knockout Tourney. Plus, we have a random drawing to win prizes for the TOP 24 Gold Medal Bracket (Top 8 Players) Random Drawing for $100 Gift Certificate for the AtariAge store Silver Medal Bracket (Top 9-16 Players) Random Drawing for $50 Gift Certificate for the AtariAge store Bronze Medal Bracket (Top 17-24 Players) Random Drawing for $25 Gift Certificate for the AtariAge store Prizes donated by Spriggy.... Thanks Spriggy! PLUS PLUS! KaeruYojimbo will donate a copy of his NEW Homebrew Game 'Ms. Galactopus' in a Random Drawing for all participants during the Homebrew weeks. Just post a score during the homebrew weeks and you are entered to WIN! Thanks KaeruYojimbo!

I didn't know him personally outside of AtariAge, but I thought he was awesome and definitely agree 45 is way too young! I guess we never know when one of our posts could be our last post ever. R.I.P. You will Not be forgotten.

I had a pretty good game this morning, but still a little shy of the leaders. 101,650 Sent from my Pixel 2 using Tapatalk

Seeing this topic, here's a small color mixer with number of unique colors check, so you don't waste such precious resources to some 'bad' OR mixer.xex

Thank you for covering all the key points on this . When I first started development on the TK-II aspect, I was planning on using a PIC16F88 which I believe is programmable by the TL866II programmer, but as the code quickly grew I passed the available memory that chip had to offer and was forced to use its bigger cousin the PIC16F1847 instead. Part of the problem was my choice of code development suites. I used something called FlowCode which is a very high level code development tool that makes writing code extremely simple, but comes at the cost of efficiency (it writes very bloated code). As for the choice of the PIC12F1571 used for the VGATE chip, the application had a very high speed requirement that this particular chip just squeaked by to meet, and that was even factoring in that I wrote the code virtually at the machine level. Then along came MIDI, and it's brother the PIC12F1572 was chosen since it contained a UART which was needed, while still keeping the package size to a minimum. I have since gone to the 12F1572 for the VGATE chip in the 1088XLD as well, just to keep things simpler in the BOM, and it's actually sometimes cheaper than the 12F1571. The funny part is that all of the chips I selected have been in production for at least six or more years, and due to their popularity are produced in numbers that allow the chips to be bought for less than $2 a piece (often times closer to a buck and a half). The PICkit2 which is the older Microchip programmer (PICkit3 being the current one), didn't support the 12F1571 or 12F1572 out of the gate, although it did support the 16F1847. However unlike the popular TL866II programmer, 3rd parties stepped up and modified the original device file, adding in the 12F157x series, as well as quite a few other newer chips. I also have the newer TL866II Plus model of that programmer and was greatly disappointed to not only see that the parent company hasn't updated their PIC device files for like forever, but that no 3rd party has come along to do so either. So this brings us to why the JOY2PIC was developed. And to tell you the truth even though I have both a PICkit2 and a PICkit3 I prefer to use the JOY2PIC method of flashing the chips used in my products. It's just plain easier. This means I only use the PICkit programmers for firmware development.

It's a beautiful day. Only going up to 74 and rainy. I like it a lot more than 95 degrees with 80 percent humidity.

don't forget.. it's just cool to have one!

Those traces sometimes did break because of SIO connector movement, but just as often the problem was the one sided poor quality pcb used. That's not the issue with these boards.

Unveiling: The murdered out, ColecoVision Black Edition - Super Arcade Controller: So similar to my Donkey Kong - Super Arcade Controller. This one Features: * Seimitsu Joystick, (black ball-top and shaft) capable of being configured as an 8-way, 4-way, or 2-way horizontal or vertical joystick by adjusting the internal sub-gate. Currently it's set up as a 8-way like the ColecoVision hand controller, allowing for maximum game compatibility. * Sanwa OBSFS "Silent" pushbuttons, gray to match the gray buttons on the ColecoVision hand controllers. * Eladdin CV Easy I/O Board w/ Keypad. * Controller base left factory black to match the ColecoVision console/controllers. * Blacked out CPO. * Custom keypad overlay inspired by the ColecoVision hand controller's keypad. * The controller's original "Start" button dyed silver, and wired as a 2nd * key, to restart game after game ends. * Custom front label inspired by the ColecoVision console's front face label. I had a thought...if I could get the artwork/logo files from CollectorVision for the Phoenix, I could make a similar, Phoenix edition!

And this is a totally unnecessary post! Seriously though, no politics. Jokes or otherwise. No exceptions.

That makes sense, because they have more licensees than game developers nowadays. https://www.atari.com/atari-licensing/

Ever since I got my RetroPie a few weeks ago, my 17 year old son is playing video games with me again. Last night we completed Sunset Riders together. Good times.

It's totally unnecessary to use this topic to make a political statement. Can't we have even a single place in the world where politics isn't allowed to intrude? Let's keep politics out of this topic, and every other topic; any further political statements will be deleted.

He was a good hearted guy, and a long-time supporter of the 7800 scene. In fact, he confirmed that my first 7800basic test code worked on real hardware. I don't recall ever seeing a single negative post from him, about anything. Just a nice guy. I agree whole-heartedly with Stephen. In addition to remembering our fallen friend, we should take this as a reminder to embrace family members, appreciate each other, and complete any work we don't wish to leave behind. RIP Mark.

the more I see them post, the more I'm convinced that Jessie Scroggins and Brandon Harris are some kind of AI/Turing Test thing gone horribly wrong. lol

pbi is out of question right now - there are some antic specific signal needed for proper operation 800 installation is on my todo list for some time now - i'll get this done next month

The original plan was to use either SST or zinc plated steel 4-40 screws and nuts for the SIO, then no drilling required . I don't really like those nylon ones all that much, since they feel a bit flimsy especially when tightening the nut. Nice pics Stephen ? . Unit looks real nice, and I presume show ready at this point.

It's a ram disk battery backed so it's fast and persistent Sent from my LM-G820 using Tapatalk

Here's some details on how I got my board properly fitted in the 1050 case, as well as some fine details on issues I had with the CF card reader: I had to use a counter-sink bit to make this screw sit perfectly flat with the PCB, else the lower CF card would not insert. Check that clearance Clarence: Very important to screw the SIO plugs to the PCB. I unfortunately had to use a #39 drillbit in order to get 6-32 screws through the PCB. When it came time to put the 6-32 studs into the 1050 case, I decided to do it "proper" style (as a metal worker at heart). Using a #28 drill, I then ran a 6-32 tap in the case. I used a paper washer in between the case and nut which was adjusted for proper height. Some hand files enlarged the drive select square for the 13-pin DIN for video. Some final fitment details: As always, full build thread is at https://www.flickr.com/photos/75619516@N06/albums/72157705660251381. If you use any images, please credit me for the build.

I saw the announcement for this and was going to place my order immediately. Immediately took a while, but my order is placed. #676.

Yes, that's coming too, as well as a full copy of my 512K Ultimate ROM-flash (like Incognito's).

interested in 2 assembled 8 mb boards.