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The one thing I noticed between MS-DOS systems(er, this was before Windows) & other systems that used floppies, was that Macs, Amigas, etc could always read & write DOS formatted disks, but DOS could only read/write its own. It seems the architecture for MS-DOS floppies was among the least flexible.

The Atari 2600 games are tiny, and you could easily fit all of them on the most disregarded of thumbdrive sizes(128 megs, etc), so why not put 'em all on? Put all of what Atari has made, regardless of opinion of them, and then add on the homebrews. If we can have pirate Famicom systems cranked out from China that have 100+ games on them, I don't see why not for the 2600, with legit ones.

Back in the days, there were quite a few games being made with IBM's extended ASCII characters. I remember one where you did play as the smiley face in some Rogue-like game.

It seems every Apple //e user I knew back in the day had boxes of pirated games, but no store-bought ones of their own.

Right now, to me, The Retro League is the top retro podcast to listen to. Huge Johnson even sent me a few Atari carts in the mail.

Just bought the Atari sleep short for 3 bucks on clearance. Comes in a nice metal tin.

1 vs. 100 is the only reason to keep your account from expiring back into Silver. That is a fun casual game, not unlike Buzztime trivia.

Cassettes!

How the heck did they jam so much into an Intv game?

The problem here is not the console: it is doing what it is supposed to, which is an alternating-frame flicker effect. See, many games would, ever frame of image, alternate between one set of sprites, and another, to overcome limitations in the hardware. Well, it would seem your capture devices only record at 30 htz, instead of the normal 60, so the end result is it is only capturing every other frame. Try to track down something like the gamebridge... with enough bypasses, I can record direct feeds off the original hardware without issue, at the full 60 htz. Gotcha. I remember playing my FB2 on my non-HD CRT tv, and Yars Return was unplayable to do bizarre flicker & the picture going out of sync.

I wish it was a bit more compatible with TVs & TV cards. I did some recording of gameplay on my Hauppage card, and on some games, one part of the graphics are visible & the other is not. Reset the console, and the visible/invisible parts switch. Night Driver, for instance has the invisible player car.

For 10 bucks, I'm willing to forego the hoops to hook up a computer to a TV and dealing with the hassles trying to get MESS running. Plus, I get a controller. Emulation often isn't perfect. The pirate multi-carts are "good enough" and weigh less than a full stack of each individual game.

When money(or business venture) collides with a hobby, to me, things aren't fun anymore. Just my opinion.

It's too bad you can't reverse engineer the gameline unit, hook up the phone line to your computer's modem & have it run some sort of fake gameline service. It would be the ultimate obfuscated Cuttle cart.

Has there been any consensus as to what the majority here wants the platform of the F3 to be? Ie another 2600(eh, no), 5200, 7800, or Jag? The problem you get into with that is the later you go, the less first-party games become available. And not every company is Activision-friendly. Darn, now I want one of those Dingoos now.

Don't bother with the dreamgear games. They are horrible. I have YouTube vids to prove it. I made a thread a while back about the 101-in-1 game set. I have YouTube vids of it. It's a typical Famiclone, but for 10 bucks, you get plenty of bang for your buck. Here's one of the several vids for the Senario 101-in-1. I can't find the thread I made on here about it. Let's see if I can embed a video. <object width="384" height="313"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/rHR8RPYcSfg&hl=en_US&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/rHR8RPYcSfg&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="384" height="313" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object> Nope, dunno how to do it. Jeesh.

Aaand I forgot to attach the image.

So many moons ago I was in England, and picked up a shovelware comp called "arcade classics". One odd aspect about this CD-ROM comp is that it has games for the Amiga, as well as dos & Windows. On the back shows arcade game screenshots & a few computer games. I have yet to even find these, and they are probably not on here. You see a lot of folders that for instance say "ASTEROIDS", and in it contain subfolders of basically Asteroids clones. Some are Windows 3.1 games. Heck, one is even a Car Wars clone, and some are DOS games. This will be an interesting view into shovelware.

As far as I am concerned it is. That's a bit different than actually going through the work of trademarking. Listen, I think it's great you are releasing something you worked on into the public domain. But let me be give you some sage advice: Drop the whole over-reaching "terms & rules" stuff that you put in the post. AA members only? Anyone not logged in, I assume, could easily download & enjoy it. Don't put all sorts of weird Microsoft EULA around some code. In case you haven't noticed, others have released open source(whoa!) game demos on here for 2600 without the copyright-enforcement mumbo jumbo. You should try it. You would probably have less drama on here.

There's no point in adding compatability with the ADAM module. It would only be of use to about -3 people.

There's nothing to worry about. If there was, textfiles.com would have been shut down years ago. Man up!

Not one but two cassette drives! Hardcore!

They have for NES games, they just aren't "officially licensed".

Yay. ASCII maze. Reminds me of those Creative Computing book games(the yellow book & the sequel in the red book). Ah, good times.

Let's get that Brazilian Pronto! system mass-produced. That seems like it would be a better FB3, because it's like, there already.