Game Gear Micro

[Game Gear Micro]

6 minutes ago, atari2600land said:

I changed my mind. I thought Sega would be sane and have it be like a SNES, NES, or PSX mini, but only 4 games? Why?

Business tactics.

 

You have four different gamegears with four games each.

 

Game Gear Minis are for collectors only. And Sega knows that.

 

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ for Sega.

[Potato chips]

Sour cream 'n onion. My favourite.

Yummy!

 

[Game Gear Micro]

4 hours ago, spacecadet said:

People are treating this as a serious release; it's just a little toy, like Sega and other Japanese makers do all the time. There are dozens of these types of things there from all the major manufacturers in Japan at any given moment.

 

I wouldn't get worked up about it. The weirdest part to me is all the coverage this is getting. The Game Gear wasn't even particularly popular here.

 

 

There were more stores selling game gears than Atari Lynxes.

 

And game gear has more games than Lynx too.

[Calling homebrew writers: read this.]

24 minutes ago, youki said:

What i would love to have on the coleco , is a way to use a Light Gun.   Even better if there are a solutions that work with old CRT Screen  and new flat screen.   My next game will use that for sure. 

a mouse, would be interesting too, but i have the same feeling than Serguei2  that is more for computer.

Atari 2600, 7800, NES, Master System, Genesis and others support a light gun.

 

So why not on Colecovision.

[Calling homebrew writers: read this.]

Another improvement I want to see on Colecovision.

 

Colecovision only has 16 colors to choose from.

 

How about using 16 colors from 64 colors or better. 

 

In IBM EGA, you can use 16 colors from 64 using Palette.

 

15 hours ago, MrPix said:

Adding controllers would be easier than adding a mouse. I just need to look at how the existing controllers are scanned or memory mapped...

I'm not a guy who wants to play on consoles using a mouse. 

 

Joysticks/gamepads/controllers are better suited for consoles.

 

For me, a mouse belongs to computers. But again, it's my opinion.

 

Hmm. I'm not sure if Adam supports a mouse.

[Calling homebrew writers: read this.]

1 hour ago, MrPix said:

I don't know how I might save the state of the console's internal RAM unless I shadow it and make the cart an expansion card. Open to it, though.

It would be quite easy to add mouse support with memory mapped IO, so the X, Y position and button presses would appear in three bytes. I'd be up for it. The hardware to do this would implement a UART for MIDI in the same controller. 

I've only played with AY type sound devices, but I'm open to expanding my range.

Thanks for the ideas and suggestions. Much appreciated.  

 

 

Speaking adding mouse, how about supporting two additional controllers.

 

It would be great to have games supporting 4 players.

[Calling homebrew writers: read this.]

34 minutes ago, MrPix said:

I'm aware of the megacart and the like. I'm talking about targeting something like that at a larger individual game - not just as a way of selecting multiple games or aggregate them on a single cart.

It's also significantly cheaper than the megacart, which is massively over-priced for what it is. A bit of competition never hurt anybody.

Does your card work differently than megacard?

 

Do we need different tools to use with your card?

[Pac-Man on Gameboy]

 

 

[Favourite system to play Pac-Man]

On 5/24/2020 at 8:53 PM, mbd30 said:

MAME on PC.

 

The NES port is okay. I find that it's necessary to hold the change in direction in advance because of unresponsive controls.

No wonder why I can't turn in the right time. I first thought my joystick or my keyboard was faulty.

 

Or maybe the emulators. Or video recorders on pc.

 

Never had problems with real NES.

 

On 5/24/2020 at 7:08 PM, John Stamos Mullet said:

FbNeo on Retropie, on my Pi-equipped Arcade1Up Pac-man cabinet, with a genuine Sanwa JLF. 
 

Zero Lag, Arcade quality control, proper vertical monitor, correct arcade aspect ratio, original arcade ROM, 100% accurate emulation, and the lovely glow of a backlit arcade marquee lighting the room. 

Yeah. I noted lags on NES (Emulators) and flashing sprites too.

 

I never noted these problems on real NES. But again ...

[Favourite system to play Pac-Man]

What's your favourite system to play Pac-Man?

 

Mine is NES.

 

 

[If IBM did not release PCjr in 1984 ...]

Tandy won't release Tandy 1000 with TGA mode and 3 voices.

 

Most early DOS games would be in CGA only with internal voice until EGA or better graphics and audio cards are released.

 

Thank you IBM.

[Old Space Quest II VGA demo]

 

[I can't move with two kitties on me.]

 

 

[Games bigger 32k]

I use sdldz80 included with makemegacart.exe. I put original sdldz80 in backup directory.

 

I get error when compiling and nothing happens when using makemegacart.exe

 

 

[Following Atari VCS on Twitter]

Maybe they're talking about tacos and hotels.

[Colecovision HSC Season 13 - Round 10 - H.E.R.O.]

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[2020 Harmony Games Announcemnt]

1 hour ago, Dan Iacovelli said:

its a public club any atari Age member can join and they just follow each round by clicking on the Follow square next to the topic

In open clubs, you just need to post something and you are joined.

 

In closed clubs, you need approbation to join.

[Is Colecovision Dig Dug all that bad?]

The sprites are flashing.

 

I played it on computer.

 

I don't own a real colecovision. So I don't know what it looks like on tv.

[Hospital not opened on wednesdays]

 

Closed on Wednesdays? What's kind of the world is that?

[Colecovision HSC Season 13 - Round 10 - H.E.R.O.]

48 minutes ago, zaphro72 said:

Screenshots are broken when I use Chrome and in Microsoft Edge

I use both on my computer too. 

 

I don't want to have different browsers on my computer.

 

Please, make Microsoft and Chrome to work.

[Colecovision HSC Season 13 - Round 10 - H.E.R.O.]

5 minutes ago, Northcoastgamer said:

^ By golly it is thanks!

 

Still no screenshots.

 

Anyway here my score:

19700

[Colecovision HSC Season 13 - Round 10 - H.E.R.O.]

Two screenshots are broken.

 

The name game is H.E.R.O.  Not frogger.

[Definitive list of CV homebrews]

2 hours ago, Spector said:

I didn't think there were many homebrew games released for free on the colecovision, at least not in the last ten years. 

Here they are.

 

Plants VS Zombies

 

 

Grail of the Gods

 

 

Coco and the evil robots

 

 

z80rogue

 

 

Space Venture

 

 

They are more. Just check on this forum.

[Colecovision HSC Season 13 - Round 9 - Frogger]

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