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  5. Posted · Edited by Hornpipe2

    I fixed up the list a bit, to only include the 32-in-1 and AtariAge's own 2005 Minigame Multicart. The whole article is screwed and includes things like pirated NES releases, unsourced info, etc. Oh well.

     

    ETA: I left out the Australian Paks as they were released by H.E.S. which as I understand it actually pirated Activision's games to make their carts?

  6. Posted

    I was looking at "Multicart" on Wikipedia and found a supposed list of "official" 2600 multicarts here:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicart#Atari_2600

     

    There are five listed:

        * 32 in 1: Only released in Europe (PAL systems) contains Atari's early hits such as Blackjack, Boxing and Combat
   * Arcade Pinball 3-in-1
   * Boxing, Freeway, Sky, and Tenn Dactor 4-in-1
   * Combat 5-in-1
   * Super Action Pack: contains Pitfall!, Grand Prix, Laser Blast, and Barnstorming

     

    I've never heard of some of these (none have references either, feh). What can anyone tell me about these carts?

  8. Posted

    Pretty much anything that's a light or pastel color comes out very dim, no matter the game. And the problem persists whether the console is connected to an LCD or CRT TV.

    I made 2 changes to mine that may fix this problem.

     

    I just installed my first board tonight in a 4-switch & found things were too bright on s-video & composite. Color Bar Generator confirmed that the first 3 bars on the greyscale screen were the same intensity which kills off a lot of detail.

     

    The fixes for s-video were:

    Remove 75 ohm resistor that runs above the FMS6400

    Increase resistance on 75 ohm to the right of FMS6400 to about 150ohms

     

    I haven't messed with the composite side but I'll bet it's about the same.

     

    Anyway, after these two changes, the s-video appears spot-on.

     

    LHE were you able to test this out? What were your results?

  11. Posted

    Hey, that Pong Story link is pretty neat! I had owned a Sears PONG Sports IV off eBay a few years back and played it with college roommates, but eventually re-sold it. Never realized it was actually a re-branded Atari product or I might've kept it around!

     

    PS it was in color. Had a bug too, where sometimes a player with 8 points would have their score display as a 0 instead.

  12. Posted

    Wow, that's a really neat system!

     

    I had a Fidelity "The Classic" from 1979 which could still whip me pretty bad even with its lowly 256-bytes of RAM. I got it at a thrift store for something like $5 and resold it on eBay at a profit for $15 : ) It was a nice system, pressure-sensitive squares and wood pieces.

     

    That whole site is a good reference for those interested in collecting chess computers: http://www.ismenio.com/chess_computers.html

    There's also a message board: http://users.boardnation.com/~chesscomputers/index.php

     

    I wouldn't collect them, but if I did happen to run across another pressure-sensitive computer I'd probably pick it up as a nice addition to a game room. I still kind of feel that "man vs machine" magic when playing on a physical board that I don't get while playing on a computer screen.

  13. Posted

    Rom's Collection is a really amazing effort in compilation and Atari game history, and to that end it contains a lot of near-duplicate games released from different publishers for machines worldwide.

     

    If you're looking to cull the list down to a "play" set, then you should do two things:

    * remove any rom with (PAL) in the filename

    * keep only roms with a ~ in the filename

     

    That gives you a unique (no dupes) set playable on NTSC (United States) televisions.

  15. Posted

    The 2600 offer just struck me as funny because he didn't have the machine... it's at his sister's house (also in town), so he was pretty much trying to give me something that was hers without asking : )

     

    Yeah I'll be a new C64 user (outside of a little IK+ on VICE). I love the SID tunes - got the HSVC on random here at work most days - so I'm really excited about that... one of the machines actually has a pair of SIDs in it that was a work-in-progress Stereo mod, though some wires have been cut. That's pretty high priority to fix!

     

    Those red buttons are for reset (cold and warm, supposedly). I know I have a Fastload-type cartridge. The rest is beyond me.

     

    The guy has a couple of kids and an Atari VCS is the only game system in their house - I'm thinking of picking up some common carts as thanks... they have a Driving Controller so Indy 500 is pretty much topping the list : )

  16. Posted

    Hey guys, take a look at what I got from a (new) local friend!

     

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    Actually, only one C64 and one 1541 are currently working (that was the price - I take the working systems, I take the rest!). He also offered me a pair of Mac IIci's and his sister's Sears Tele-games, but I figured I was already stretching the Wife Approval Rating far enough. "Maybe next time" : )

  18. Posted · Edited by Hornpipe2

    If you end up giving original Diablo a shot again, and you're not planning on getting on BNet, I'd like to advertise for my personal mod "Diablo Fixed": http://diablofixed.wordpress.com/

     

    I didn't make a lot of progress on it, but it fixes a few of the most obvious bugs in the game (duping glitch, missing innate chance-to-block, monster to-hit, flash bug) and enables a handful of missing items and minor bosses. Note that 1) it's not compatible with any existing characters, and 2) I made a change to the blocking calculations (enabled blocking when spell resists > 0), which is a major annoyance to certain builds at higher levels.

     

    Still if you're feeling adventurous, try it out? Patch your game up to 1.09 (or 1.09b), then extract the contents of the ZIP into your Diablo/ directory and overwrite the existing contents. Or copy your Diablo/ directory and overwrite the contents of the new one, that way you can switch between Original and Patched.

  21. Posted

    This thread is making me sad that I sold my Dreamcast. : (

     

    Sega really was out there doing some very different things with this system. Just one example, I can't think of a puzzle game since Yoshi Cookie with as much advertising budget as Chu Chu Rocket.

     

    It's really too bad the system was killed off. It would have been nice if Sega had scaled back their ambitions a bit and carved out a niche market selling "weirdly fun" games to a fringe crowd. But then I'm sure they tried everything they could to stay profitable.

  22. Posted

    I used Basilisk II (PC emulator) to write Mac-readable floppy disks. It took a lot of care not to get my file formats crossed, but I was able to write bootable System 7 disks using the emulator on my PC, then boot them in a Mac.

     

    :thumbsup:

    :?:

     

    I didn't think the PC could write Mac floppies...

     

    hmm..

     

    You're talking high density? Not 800K disks...

     

    desiv

     

    They were 800k... I found a box in a supply drawer at work and "put them to use" : )

  24. Posted

    Hey guys. AtariAge and Atarimania pretty well saturate my need for Atari knowledge. I was wondering if there's any sort of "major home on the Web" for Commodore enthusiasts... preferably English-speaking. I'm picking up my first C64 and disk drive in a few days and would like to find a support group before I go breaking something : )

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