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The new high-speed images are great! Thanks again kheffington. (I see your avatar also went high-speed. It's making me dizzy!)
The fourth disk image still has three directory entries that say "Game Directory" instead of just "DIRECTORY". Is there a reason for that?
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I really really miss the 80s, I was in good health, had a good job, good money and no responsibility. I know that I can never go back, but it is nice to remember and let some distractions like Atari, 80s music and my cal look beetle forget the now.
" Once we get out of the 80's the 90's are gonna make the 60's look like the 50's"
I've got a '58 Bug that makes the 50's look like the 40's.
(picture scanned using Amiga 500)
There's only two portuguese here and an english guy that seems to know spanish because of some obvious reasons
"Obvious reasons"? So he can understand Spanish porn, right?
That's another thing - porn was so much nicer in the 70's and 80's. (although a lot hairier)
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For years, I've been trying to pinpoint exactly when things started to suck. (culture, movies, TV, styles, computers, etc.)
I used to think it was definitely late 1985, but now I think it wasn't such a clear cutoff. I think the very beginning was 1983, but there was a delay between initial... uh... "crapitude"... and when the effects of it were felt universally. (in North America - I know it was different elsewhere)
So, that was the beginning but I think two things in the late 80's led to the 90's being utter crap:
1) The stock market crash in 1987 (effects felt 88-91). This caused companies to do deep cost-cutting - the beginning of products designed for extreme cheapness, not to last. This also led to budget cuts, increased taxes, the death of good public television.
2) The rise of Rap - "gangsta rappers" bragging about busting caps in cops' asses and the number of hos they have. You can see a clear correlation between Rap music and the degrading of society. (not to mention that damn thumping deep bass you can't escape these days)
There are many other things of course, like the rise of cable channels & deregulation of commercial television (allowing infomercials and drastically increased number of commercials), the rise of moronic "action-hero" movies and endless sequels.
So, I now think 1983 was the end - and it was really a continuation of the late 70's, in style and feel. You could say, the 80's only started in 1984. It's the 70's - and transition to the 80's - that was the last "good" time period.
Still, the difference between the 80's and 90's is nothing compared to the crap we have now. What a weird, freakish world we live in now - where you have to be seen naked at the airport and have someone touching your genitals just to get on a frigging plane! If somebody told me in 1987 that 2011 would be like that, I wouldn't believe them. The world is becoming even more evil and controlled than I ever imagined.
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I like Vangelis, Baroque, Pokey, SID and bees. Can't we all just get along?
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What can I say... Bach didn't know how to get POKEY in the right way!...
Well, that's for sure. Bach absolutely sucks at 8-bit music programming.
I know this for sure... because I invented a time machine a few years ago (patent pending) and I went back to 1723 to see Herr Bach. I had with me both my 800XL and C64 - and a 1084 monitor (quite a handful).
I had a real bitch of a time trying to convince Bach I wasn't Satan, but after I explained how electronics work (also had to explain electricity, plastics, cathode ray tubes, typing and the purpose of well-commented code), Bach agreed to give it a go. When he heard the result, he pounded his fist on the table and yelled something about it sounding like "broken violin up horse's ass" (or something to that effect - my German is not very good) and called the guards to burn me as a heretic. I ran out of there so fast, I didn't even have time to ask for his autograph.
It was too risky to go back to collect my stuff. I'm sure some archaeologist will get a big surprise someday when they find the buried 8-bits.
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"Maybe we aught to close this thread now."
"No.... that's just what they'll be expecting us to do."
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Yeah... silly thread.
Let's start an argument about which Baroque violin is best:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9-7h-TRJ2U#t=280s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i3pD2bXP9w#t=28s
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Remember folks were looking for games that are good for a team event
What is it with you and teams? Don't you get enough teamwork in your daily life? I've had enough teamwork to choke a horse. (a team of horses!)
I believe Mr. Burns said it best when he said:
"You see, teamwork will only take you so far. Then, the truly evolved person makes that extra grab for personal glory. Now, I must discard my teammates, much like the boxer must shed roll after roll of sweaty, useless, disgusting flab before he can win the title. Ta!"
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There are two springs under the white cap, not a switch.
Fascinating. Can you take a picture? I'd do it myself, but don't want to wreck my 800XL keyboard opening the switch. (fine if you wreck yours
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Also, Summer games has a lot of bugs that could cause invalid scores (I'm not swimming through concrete again)
I'm actually quite interested in this swimming through concrete thing...
Anyway, we're nearing the one year anniversary of my (failed) Ballblazer suggestion. I'll quote it to save re-typing:
Someday, can we have a Ballblazer competition? We can start playing against the computer at Droid 1 and if you win, you go to Droid 2 - and so on. Time should be set at 3:00.
You take a screenshot, showing the final score at the highest level you got to. If multiple people win on the final level, place will be determined by the time that you won. (higher time gets higher place)
Of course, it's possible for cheaters (I'm looking at you, bountybob! just kidding
) to set the time above 3:00, but we'll just have to rely on honesty. (yeah, right)What do you think?
Well? Eh?? (nudge, nudge.. kick, KICK!)
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The intention is just the opposite, really: to allow the cart (i.e. the GUI) on-board memory that nothing else will touch. Sure, an application could access the cart's RAM by manipulating the hardware registers, but 99.9 per cent of DOSes and applications will be using PORTB to seek out extra RAM for RAMdisks, etc. Keeping the GUI's extended RAM away from PORTB is a perfect way to ensure that legacy apps or DOS itself don't "interfere". The GUI could ignore PORTB RAM and DOS would be blissfully unaware of the GUI cart's RAM, and never the twain shall meet.
Using PORTB RAM for one's application is a real headache, since it's necessary to attempt to establish firstly which DOS we are running, and then attempt to intuit how said DOS is using or might potentially use extended RAM. I discovered all this when writing The Last Word, which - regardless of the DOS in use - first detects the amount of extended RAM present, then - according to the DOS "signature" - attempts to figure out which banks are used by RAMdisks. This is EASY when SpartaDOS X is detected, but "competing" DOSes (and their attendant RAMdisk drivcers) rarely saw fit to leave any kind of easily accessible information about extended memory and how it's being used. And it follows that since there was never any agreed standard on extended memory usage and RAM disk protocol, there's similarly no standard for applications themselves, which may or may not used fixed extended banks, wiping out RAMdisks and such like.
The challenge is to keep our GUI away from all this mess, and having on-board "secret" RAM that nothing else can see or access is really the ultimate solution.
That's an awesome idea. I'd definitely buy a GUI cart that uses its own onboard RAM.
But... now I'm starting to get crazy ideas of combining it with the Ethernet cart into a monster cart with a built in GUI browser and email and removable SD card and megabytes of RAM and... [help! somebody stop me!]
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...Definitely, no Beta will play your Japan-Victor-Company VHS-tapes (nor mine, anyway). As for VHS, I was debating between JVC's last cry-on-the-wild (their D-VHS deck, capable of recording digitally in high-def) vs. Sony's SLV-R1000 (Faroudja-equipped, mutiple I/O console, s-video, and a host of digital signal processing gizmos). I settled for the R1000, not just for looks, but because there are PLENTY of parts available, a pleasure to work-and-service, and it playbacks slightly over 430 lines of resolution when plugged to my Bravia KDL-52W3000 LCD setup (recorded from Avia's calibration DVD).
When people come to my house, and we play some stuff on it, they say "that DVD player looks great"... just to later discover that it is still a VHS deck(playing Fuji H471S tapes)... and I am not short of DVD players & recorders, HDMI/DSP equipped receivers, dual-PS3 BluRay system, etc. Just gotta love the feel of a SOLIDLY built, well-designed VCR, that even after 20-25 years, can put to shame a lot of stuff on the road, today, in terms of quality and durability.
I looked at the JVC D-VHS, but high definition requires expensive D-VHS tapes (I know... same with S-VHS). Anyway, I don't really record anything these days, just playback. TV sucks now (bad shows, endless commercials) so I have no desire to record anything. I actually can't record TV because don't even have a digital tuner and analogue broadcasts finally ended in Canada this month.
To me, VCRs - like Ataris - are a thing of the 80's. I did most of my VCR recordings back in the 80's. I wanted the best 80's VHS by the maker of VHS - to watch my 80's recordings and pretend the 90's never happened.
Would you look at that (!?) The Kaypro II running CPM 2.2, that is...
I wonder what good pieces of CPM SW would be worth digging for, since my 800XL + IndusGT can now run some of it...
I didn't know an 800XL could run CP/M. I thought you needed a Z80 processor for that. My C128 can theoretically run CP/M software, but everything I've tried has failed. It really doesn't matter. CP/M software is generally crap. CP/M word processors are unusable rubbish compared to The Last Word. (...that quote can be used for future LW advertising
) There's a little character-based game called "Ladder" that was mildly fun - but a joke compared to most Atari games.Edit: I just read that the Indus drive has a Z80 processor - and that the 800XL acts as a terminal. That's weird... very weird indeed.
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I actually think this monitor looks a better match for the 1200XL than the 1084S.
You're right. That's because the 1080/1084 was designed for ("infinite beige") Amigas:
Oh how I wish the Amiga 500 had the XL colour scheme.
Your 1200XL is very nice and "un-yellowed". My 1200XL looks like it came out of a smoker's lung. Thankfully, my two 800XLs look brand new.
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Let me correct myself: it is the ultimate 80's VHS VCR. I have no problem with Beta - except for the fact that a Beta machine won't play my VHS tapes.
This is one of the first S-VHS VCRs and has S-Video input/output. (JVC - inventor of VHS, S-VHS and S-Video)As for my 800XL setup - notice the SDrive NUXX under the joystick.
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Here is the switch in the 800XL "Type 4" keyboard:
Although I didn't remove the white cap, I suspect that under it is a similar switch to the DEC VT-100 (and Lear Siegler termnials) and one version of the TI-99/4a:
Keys from the "Type 4" are interchangeable with the VT-100 and TI-99/4a (that one version - there's also an ALPS TI-99/4a) - although they have height differences which make it not really work.
Compared to the "Type 1" ALPS keyboard, the "Type 4" has a stiffer feel with more friction.
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I took pictures of the "Type 1" and "Type 4" switches and I thought it would be a good idea to add them to this thread.
Here is the switch in the 800XL "Type 1" keyboard:
As you can see, it is the exact same ALPS switch used in the TRS-80 Model 100 portable:
The switch has a nice, light, linear feel. Even thought this is an early version of the ALPS key-switch, keycaps are interchangeable with later ALPS keyboards, like the Apple Extended:
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They made keyboards to last back in the 80s.
The crap you buy these days, lucky if it lasts 4 years (mechanically). My current MS keyboard, the characters started wearing off the keycaps at about 6 months, 2 or 3 keys now you can barely see the symbols.
Now it's all cheap rubber dome crap with pad-printed keycaps. Keys are now thin, cheap, flat chiclets.
I prefer the days of mechanical key switches and thick doubleshot keycaps.
It is impossible for a doubleshot keycap character to wear off. (...unless you drilled a big hole through the centre of the key)
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@Mr.Amiga500 , it definitely fits into your colour scheme!
Yeah, nobody seems to appreciate brown electronics these days, but the brown/beige XL colour scheme sure works with wood.
Some damned nice photography there, I must say.
Thanks. (wait... does that wink smiley indicate sarcasm?
) I used a cheapo $50 camera. That's where I sit and do my typing with The Last Word. (..though not when the picture was taken. I was watching Sherlock Holmes.)Here are some lovely early 80's keyboards in my "Command Centre":
(last two are in my AtariAge "gallery", but nobody looks at those so I thought I'd post here)
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I've got a "command centre" filled with vintage computers and keyboards, but only one computer is allowed in my living room - the Atari 800XL - and it fits the scheme nicely, as you can see:
Also pictured is the ultimate 80's VCR - the JVC HR-S8000U - in all its wood-panelled glory:
(... a VCR in 2011?? Yes! At least it doesn't skip, jerk and disintegrate into pixelated garbage - like those damn DVDs!)
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Really hope those aren't pirated
Did you get permission from the original authors before making those?What do you mean? These are originals.
that halo game i have played on the 2600, its pretty nice...
and no i didnt get permission to download and play it :'(
sloopy.
Yeah, Halo runs fine on the 2600, but in online multiplayer sometimes there's a lag. That's why I prefer the 8-bit version.
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No, I didn't spend months trying to kill myself. I only played a couple times since our Montezuma competition.
I've mostly been killing myself (and being killed) in Halo and Warblade lately.
cool... you have atr's of these to share? :')
sloopy.
Unfortunately, no... cartridge only.
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Yes, that's it. (damn.. I thought I was the only one)
The weird thing is that I've landed on the floor and conveyor belt many times without touching the slider and I didn't die. This was the first time I died.
so that's what you've been up to for the past few months
No, I didn't spend months trying to kill myself. I only played a couple times since our Montezuma competition.
I've mostly been killing myself (and being killed) in Halo and Warblade lately.
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I enjoy attempting to do insane things in games... and for years I've been trying to kill myself after the jewel jump / level change in Montezuma's Revenge. I've missed the sliders many times and landed on the conveyor belt, disappearing floor and even the floor below that... but today I... (it chokes me up to say it) gloriously landed on my head, dead on the conveyor belt. It was a beautiful sight. (...still brings tears to my eyes...)
But after the death, something funny happened: my new guy was dropped from the exact centre of the screen and landed on his head. This repeated until all 6 of my guys were dead.
Has anybody else ever done this?
If not, I DARE you to do it. ("double dog" dare... assuming two dogs will somehow make a difference)
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Airwolf does work at least for me on a 130XE computer. It looks like it doesn't work at first. The Title screen comes up and just sits on the screen. You need to hit the START button to continue loading the game, that apparently is the way the game was programmed.
No, that's not the problem. The game starts and I hear helicopter noises, but the helicopter is invisible and there is corruption in the corner. It doesn't really matter. I can probably just delete it myself. (and "Blue Thunder" seems to be the same game - and it works)
I only mentioned it because you were talking about only including usable games.
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Oh... allllllright. I'll play, but I'll be cursing bountybob repeatedly as I play. (damn him and his teams!)
You know what this means?? The next time I go for a job interview and get asked that moronic question, "Are you a team player?", I'll have to answer "Yes". (instead of my usual, "No, of course not, you vapid bimbo.")