davidbrit2

I've always wanted a decent device for playing my choice of games on the Supercharger. Nobody's ported any of the WAV format ROM players to Windows CE, unfortunately. But if I had an iPod right now, I would be going absolutely nuts with the Supercharger. Can you imagine if someone ported WPlayBin to that thing? Drool...

I've never figured out the frame rate problems with the Game.com. Most games run at about 4 or 5 fps at most, but some, like Mortal Kombat, have no problem refreshing the screen at a reasonable speed. I guess Tiger threw together a sloppy, poorly optimized development kit that focused more on ease of use than quality of output. And only one PCM sound channel? I wonder if Tiger noticed that most modern video game systems are capable of playing background music and sound effects simultaneously. I'm surprised Tiger didn't get themselves screwed in class action lawsuits over the Game.com. There were TONS of promises that fell through after the release. The Internet kit was pathetic. It was basically a cartridge based terminal emulator that required using a shell account to browse the web. Assuming you could even find an ISP that will give you a shell account, I can't imagine anyone that would want to use Lynx on a tiny LCD screen using a control pad and buttons for text entry. Tiger was also notorious for faking screenshots and leveraging them for market hype. Preliminary screen shots from Sonic Jam distinctly showed pictures of Sonic 3D Blast. There were plenty of "screen shots" of games that were just flat out never released, too: Turok, Command and Conquer Red Alert, Castlevania Symphony of the Night... I highly doubt these games had even begun being developed. I know games get cancelled occasionally, but this almost seems more like it borders on consumer fraud.

Has anyone ever played Nightmare? It raises an interesting question. Just how tone deaf can one be without getting fired from a job that requires musical sequencing ability? That game lives up to its name - and on so many levels... Ahh, cobras! (Score 1,000 points if you know what that last sentence is from.)

So the complicated modification that took several hours to build didn't work (no surprise,) and the whole mess is sitting in the garbage can where it belongs. I suppose I'll go back to playing my Atari 7800, despite its horrible RF performance. By the way, are those video signals on the expansion port inputs or outputs?

Well, it's good to know I don't really need the IC since neither of the local Radio Shacks has them in stock, and ordering a 25¢ IC from Jameco seems a bit silly. So if I wire this up without the IC, then would the TIA outputs go to the resistors like this? TIA2 -> 750 TIA5 -> 9.1K TIA7 -> 4.7K TIA8 -> 18K That shouldn't be too hard...

Maybe I'll give it a shot if the chip is available at Radio Shack. I was hoping I wouldn't have to place an order with Jameco just for a single IC. Of course, I can usually find other things to add to an order from an electronics supplier. He he. Oh, since the video is separate Luma and Chroma, that would basically make it S-Video, right? That might be cool to try, since my TV supports it.

Hot damn, that's pretty tempting. I'll bet Klax plays pretty well on the 7800, too. Maybe I can convince someone to get me one of these for my birthday eventually. :-)

Don't forget Meltdown! That's a pretty decent light gun game. I just wish I could find an NTSC copy of Sentinel. Mmm...

Is it the modification with the enormous schematic listed below the other crappy modification? If that's the one, it might be a bit much for me to dive into, since I'm not really an electronics expert.

I've wired up my 2600 Jr. with the directions listed here: http://www.classicgaming.com/vcsp/Question3.htm The results were only mediocre. Connecting the Atari to my Toshiba TV through a VCR yields an acceptable picture, but connecting the Atari to my Phillips TV produces a monochrome scene that rolls and jumps all over the place. Any electronics engineers have some ideas? Is the signal too weak, too strong, or just screwed up? Also, has anyone actually gotten this method to work? http://www.atariage.com/howto/composite.html I tried it this way but it didn't do a damned thing. It's rather suspicious that the listed color codes by the chroma resistor are incorrect...

Funny you should ask, since I just finished a run of Barnstorming. Since it says to use the default settings, I assume you would just play the default course that is selected when the game is powered on. Usually this first course isn't terribly interesting, though.

Come on, get over there and start posting your scores! The chart just seems so bare right now. For those too impatient to click the High Scores link from their main page (http://www.digitpress.com) you can find the chart here: http://rucasriot.sytes.net/score.php Now go over to that site, and just try to beat my score on Montezuma's Revenge.

Turbo has got to be my all time favorite arcade racing game. Of course, you really have to play the cockpit cabinet version to get the full experience. If an Atari 2600 version ever surfaced in a playable form, I think I would go absolutely ape sh- Well, you get the idea. I need to rip apart a computer mouse and build a steering wheel controller to play it with MAME. That would be sweet.

According to Apple's Text to Speech: Qotile = KO-de-uhl That sounds reasonable, but eliding the second and third syllable would probably be better. Queue = KYOO Not the more amusing KWEE-WEE that it looks like. Oh, and Nukey Shay, what is this S.A.M. that you alluded to earlier? Is this some internet based speech synthesizer?

Entombed! That's a great, underrated little game. I'll bet it would play great with two players, since you can wall in your opponent and watch him scroll upwards to his death. Just give it a try; I think you'll like it.

Gameboy Gauntlet on a TRGPro? That's insane! The game is fairly slow paced to begin with. What kind of emulation speed were you getting on the TRGPro? I've never tried Gameboy games on mine, but I can imagine it would require a significant amount of overclocking.

I'll bet it could be done, but probably not the way one might suspect. The cartridge could be equipped with 6 KB RAM, and have several banks of ROM that would hold the various program sections from the tape. A small microcontroller could emulate the behavior of the Supercharger, so that the calls to load the next portion would cause the corresponding ROM bank to be dumped into RAM for execution. It would probably work, but it sounds like more trouble than it's worth for one game.

For me, the Super NES version of Smash TV is about as easy as Tic Tac Toe. I can play through the whole game, get enough keys to get into the Pleasure Dome, visit all of the secret rooms, and thus get all five of the hidden objects that enable turbo mode. Then I proceed to do exactly the same thing in turbo mode! I once played with someone rather inexperienced at the game, and he used up all of the credits somewhere during the first two levels. I still made it to the MC boss without needing to continue, though. I almost had that bastard. I'd love to find someone else that can play this game as skillfully as I can. Two expert players tearing through Smash TV would be worthy of video taping. I've also beaten the butt ugly NES version of the game, which is tricky since you get NO CONTINUES. At least they give you a fresh 5 lives at each level.

You know, Game Show Network shows Press Your Luck about four times daily, so if you've got a craving to watch a few, now's your chance.

I'll bet Entombed would be a fiercely competitive two player game. Play it enough and you'll see why pretty quickly.

I love that video. It's one of the many that I have stored on my hard drive. I need to find one big site with animations like that. They're so hard to come by.

Hm, the plot thickens. But now you've got me curious about this C64 version of Jinks, which I had never heard of. Time to dig around the C64 archive sites.

Here's how to find out the pronunciation: Run sndrec32 on your local Windows PC, hit record, and clearly speak "Epyx" into the microphone. Pull down the "Effects" menu, and select "Reverse." Hit play. Problem solved! He he.

These are all the reasons that I've never bothered selling anything via ebay. The chances of getting screwed (in more ways than one) by some brainless yokel bidding on an item are far too high. I will buy an item from time to time, but it's typically only from people with a high feedback rating, and who appear to have spent more than 30 seconds creating the listing. I haven't gotten ripped off yet, but then again I've only bought 4 things, with the 4th on its way here in just a few days. I'll cross my fingers.

I always wanted a pair of those mysterious controllers that showed up on Atari catalog posters. They would have come in handy, because my Pro Line joystics actually began wearing out from use. And you thought it could only happen to the 5200 joysticks! :-) I remember one joystick of mine was so loose from being used that I could just shake the base slighty and the character would move. I can't remember if it was the same joystick, but I had one with the plastic smashed out of the top of the handle. The little metal rod could poke through, and the handle would move freely up and down. Those were the good old days of excessive video game playing.