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  2. Posted · Edited by Mr.Amiga500

    It seems my conclusion was inaccurate. (regardless of how hard I punched the couch)

     

    I just got 16710. I desperately wanted to beat Deteacher, but on the last screen I got killed so fast that I'm sure I got shot before the screen was drawn.

     

    See also my "hall of shame" screenshot of failed attempts.

     

    Edit: oops - I accidentally dragged a duplicate into the "hall of shame" image, so here's a replacement. You definitely don't get an extra life at 15,000. The last guy on the screen killed me, but got hit by my bullet - giving bonus points that pushed me over 15,000. I remained dead though.

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    After much effort, swearing, and repeated punching of the couch in anger... I've come to the conclusion that it is impossible for me to get higher than my current 14,510.

     

    I've gotten between 10,000 to 14,000 around 50 times. It doesn't matter how much tea I drink (or coke I snort), quick reaction doesn't help when my frigging guy doesn't move nearly as fast as the bullets.

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    Well, obviously we have about a quarter of the screen real estate to hand, although with 8+3 filenames this shouldn't be a problem.

     

    The gadget to go to parent folder takes up exactly 1 pixel. It's the entire left border of the left file list (entire right on right list). Not only does it not take up extra space, but it doesn't require accurate mouse movement - just quickly slam mouse to left (or right) and click.

     

     

    By the way: I checked out the photos of your "command centre", and it's quite amazing. I especially like that A500 with the internal HDD.

     

    I missed the subtle link until you mentioned it. That's quite an impressive collection. I just wish I had that much desk space :)

     

    Notice that the desk is a Commodore brand desk. (sadly, Atari didn't make office furniture)

  7. Posted · Edited by Mr.Amiga500

    If you're going to be taking ideas from Amiga filemanagers, you should check out ABCdir - not only the best Amiga filemanager I've ever used, but the best filemanager on any operating system I've ever used.

     

    1_2176.png

     

    What makes it so great is the efficient use of space and the lack of drag & drop.

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    This is nice... but it's a "memorial" round? What - am I supposed to die at the end of it or something?

     

    Oh man, I knew I shouldn't have put Centipede in there. If that wins, I'm going to get crushed like a bug. (and that won't be a pretty sight)

     

    I really want to play Ballblazer or Fractalus. On which one should I place my futile vote?

  9. Posted · Edited by Mr.Amiga500

    It's Mariah Carey singing All I Want For Christmas Is You.

    Since u can't see the video i'll post this instead. :)

    Merry Christmas! :)

     

    Thanks... and a Happy New Year to you!

     

    HappyNewYear.jpg

    (apparently, Otto got the blonde on the right. "Got the humanoid. Got the bimbo.")

     

    But got a screen shot finally.

    Attached my very low Berzerk score as well. :roll:

    post-16734-0-41968400-1301162438_thumb.jpg

     

    That red glowing dot gives it a weird "Tron-like" look. I like it.

     

    Has anybody ever gotten 5 lives in Berzerk (4 extra plus current life)? I was soooo close. I had three extra lives, 9850 points and only one robot left to kill. Bonus would have been 110 points, which, with the 50 for killing the robot would have put me over 10,000 for the bonus life. I moved over the top of the wall to kill the last guy, but stupidly went one pixel too high, allowing him to kill me. (yes, I swore very loudly when that happened)

     

     

    I finally managed to get 5 lives:

     

    post-9712-0-03187500-1301173785_thumb.png

     

    Didn't last too long, though. It gets too tough when you're getting shot at from all directions. I'm going to break 20K if it kills me.

     

    Very impressive. What joystick are you using? (...and are you sure that emulator is running at full speed? ;))

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    Thought I'd entered a parallel universe for a while there but it all makes sense now I've read the previous posts :D So Mr.A thinks it's Christmas every day... that explains everything... (I bet he wraps up presents for himself too) ;)

     

    How'd you guess? No, it's just the Christmas lights. I like the multi-coloured lighting. There's no tree, no presents and no carollers tied up in the basement, forced to sing endless Christmas songs.

     

     

    Maniac!

    1st therealbountybob 340 2pts

    2nd Deteacher 290 1pts

    3rd roadrunner 120 1pts

    4th Goochman 100 1pts

     

    You know, I think therealbountybob adds these lame side games just so that he can be the winner of the one nobody wants to play.

  12. Posted · Edited by Mr.Amiga500

    Has anybody ever gotten 5 lives in Berzerk (4 extra plus current life)? I was soooo close. I had three extra lives, 9850 points and only one robot left to kill. Bonus would have been 110 points, which, with the 50 for killing the robot would have put me over 10,000 for the bonus life. I moved over the top of the wall to kill the last guy, but stupidly went one pixel too high, allowing him to kill me. (yes, I swore very loudly when that happened)

     

    Here's some Christmas music to go along with your tree and lights. :)

     

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8oAU56MTS8

     

    Sadly (or perhaps, thankfully) I can't see what Christmas music you're posting. I use BeOS for browsing and it doesn't do embedded flash.

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    We've played 1 game for the season so far, apart from the last round when Pooyan was flawed - are you in for whatever game wins the regular vote then?!

     

    Sure - as long as whatever game wins is the game I want to win. Just give me time enough to hack into the AtariAge servers to modify the polls. ;)

  16. Posted · Edited by Mr.Amiga500

    13,380

     

    I knew I only needed a couple hundred to get the bonus point, but on the next screen I died a few microseconds after the screen appeared (bad luck to start the screen surrounded by robots). The worst thing was that after I died, there were three groups of robots ready to walk into each other - but not one of them died before the game was over.

     

    Edit: those coloured dots in the screenshot are a reflection of my Christmas lights. (I like to leave Christmas lights up year round)

  20. Posted · Edited by Mr.Amiga500

    any corrections please post :)

     

    Don't put that damn smiley in there! It reminds me too much of Otto. (painful memories indeed)

    Your old pal just wanted to say Hi:

     

    Why you....! (shakes fist in air)

     

    I knew there was a reason I hated smiley faces. So Briky is Otto's bastard inbred cousin. Otto bounces around in mazes and Briky makes walls. Oh how I hate them both.

     

    I don't know how in hell orpheuswaking and Deteacher got such high scores. Once I reach the impossibly fast white robots around 8-9000, I lose my extra lives. Then, if I have miraculous good luck, I can get the 10,000 bonus life - but then quickly die after that. How can anybody get double that?

     

    Now I wish orpheuswaking had stuck with The Lone Ranger.

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    4th?? I'm a lousy stinking 4th?? That's not right. I'm too good for that. It's not my destiny to be 4th! (...3rd maybe)

     

    any corrections please post :)

     

    Don't put that damn smiley in there! It reminds me too much of Otto. (painful memories indeed)

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