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Mclaneinc last won the day on November 23 2016

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  • Birthday 06/28/1961

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    Calling it a day, need the rest...
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    Northolt, UK
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    Retro computers and consoles, films, gaming in general...
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    A mix of PS4, Atari and C64..
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  1. Thanks Djaybee, helpful as always.. I'll await whatever comes out, whenever that is..Can't rush perfection Paul..
  2. Hi folks, a rare dabble on to here. When was the last torrent or site post of the effort so far? I still like to keep up to date.. Hope people are safe away from the flu's cold and mad weather, keep safe people.. Paul..
  3. I don't come on here much these days but wanted to give a small update with the Gamepack. Mine and Starwindz contributions stopped a long while back, but there is a good friend working on the gamepack and has made good progress on the content. Now this may or may not come to fruition as he has a very busy time himself. If it does happen it will be a content only increase, the front end will remain as it is. So it's not totally dead in the water, there are some paddles still slowly turning, but it's NOT a definite update, hence I'm not saying who it is, but I will say he has a great track record... Paul.. Long live Altirra and all the Atarians on here..
  4. Yup, I'm no sloth when it comes to Altirra but it was well hidden Thanks Baktra...
  5. How can I see the global hotkey checker in action..I'm probably looking in the wrong place or misconstrued what it is / does..
  6. As you have found out Justin, cheating isn't as easy as it seems. You can sort of blame me for the cheat system in Altirra, I bugged Avery a lot to add a simple cheat system and he kindly did. The problem with cheating is that sometimes the programmers of the game don't want you to do it. Initial games didn't have cheat protection and to be fair, overall very few games did, but over the years across the Atari and C64 I've found little nasties to stop you doing it. Remember that the cheat on Altirra isn't a full blown thing like Cheat Engine on the PC. SO some types of cheat will require a lot of trying and trying again. Cheating stuff / tampering with code has always been my thing and whatever system I'm using, so I've seen some stuff they try. I've seen checks to see if a line of code has been altered, if it has it does some dire stuff like fill memory ((Savage Pond does a similar thing as one of its copy protection checks). Some coders use screen codes rather than the actual number of lives etc. Some use an alternative counting technique and so on and so forth. Stuff that has no visible values are tough but usually the changed or not changed get those in the end. 2 tips, get a knowledge of Hexadecimal counting as well as normal maths, secondly, a wannabe coder mentality always helps, having some coding knowledge is really useful as is reading raw code and knowing what the mnemonics mean is a godsend (but you don't need this for the Altirra cheater, it just helps in a machine code monitor like Omnimon etc). Have fun with this, it's fun and frustrating at the same time..Paul..
  7. It won't let me add a like, so many thanks Avery, seasons greetings to you and all...
  8. To those having a hard time I can only send my heart felt best wishes, as many know I have had those sort of times and really hope things get better for you, I really do. Thank you for the kind remarks, I'm still around but had a huge lump of time just not feeling like playing stuff, thanks to my lovely wife and daughter I'm feeling a lot more into stuff. My wife treated me to one of those GMKTec mini PC's, super small but a beast when it comes to power. It made me delve back into emulators to test how it could run them, and boy does it run them. My daughter got me and her a PS5 for Xmas. I'd not been playing because my neck is super painful due to spine issues, but I have to say I've (we have) enjoyed the PS5, the free game that comes with it, Astro's Playroom is a blast, it's a massive tech demo but there is an actual very good game in there as well. We spent hours on that. I eventually put on Ratchet and Clank : Rift Apart which is stunning to play. Came on today because of the new Altirra but was made to smile by all the replies to the Happy Xmas thread, thank you and may the new year be amazing for you all. Take care my friends...Hope Atari Santa brought you something... Paul..
  9. I know I don't come on here very much these days (mostly to update a certain emulator) but I still count this place and people as very good friends, so with that in mind, let me wish you ALL season's greetings and a stonking new year. Take care.. Paul..
  10. Almost Altirra's 15th birthday..Amazing commitment Avery..Thank you..You creation speaks for itself (especially if you are running S.A.M.)
  11. You carry on, it's still cheaper than collecting women and less damage to the ears
  12. Sounds like a challenge to me (Obviously I jest, I'd not wish that on anyone)
  13. No issues with Altirra in the last two updates, Windows Defender has not kicked in once, like Wrathchild, on Win10 Home.. Never used read ahead on Denise or other emulators, but it's sounds like a nice feature. If Avery adds it in the distant future then great, if not then there's probably good reason why not.
  14. Thank you, but it really should be Starwindz who gets the mention, it was his project, I just tweaked some stuff, a mention should go to Phaeron who very kindly added a set of command line options for me that made it more friendly to the gamepack. Credit, where credits due.. Paul..
  15. Just a little thing, latest RSS feed for 21 takes you to release 20, rather than 21. Thanks for the release Avery...
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