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    Typo Attack's David Buehler Whereabouts

    in Atari 8-Bit Computers

    Posted · Edited by Mclaneinc

    I must admit I think that if the guy does want to be left alone as Psionic say's then we should do that. We have been very fortunate to have many of our heroes pop on here and say a big hello, some stayed such as Jetboot Jon Williams (glad you stayed), Adam Michael Billyard of Elektroglide and others fame, even one of the guys from Alternate Reality 9whose name escapes me, as does the many others who have said hello.) But in most cases these folks found us, a couple had invites from various folk, but they came because they wanted to. If you do feel the need to contact folk then respect their wishes if they either don't reply or decline the offer.

     

    The trade and big shows were the best places to make contact, but now as those have become few and far between and folk have got older I suspect many just want to live out what is left of their life in peace, Memories also tend to be fuzzy with some of the older devs, when Adam Michael Billyard was on here I asked him what happened to the snooker game he was making for the 8 bit, Adam used to pop in to Maplin and show me his WIP stuff, this he had forgotten (don't blame him, I don't want to remember me either :)  )  but he had a look at his old files that he still had and sure enough, there was his very very very early disk, and he popped back on to let us know that he had seen a disk with a file name, but it had not really gone anywhere. I think it was probably moved up to the ST and Amiga as Q-Ball (think that's its name, and certainly NOT do-able on the Atari 8 bit).

     

    But my notion is, if they come and say hello, great, if not, then I wish them well.

    Gemini Electronics Manchester UK mailshot February 1983

    in Atari 8-Bit Computers

    Posted · Edited by Mclaneinc

    I seem to have avoided that treasure trove of entertainment (I'm sure it is that for the right person, I'm just not that person)

     

    Me, I'm more a walk in the forest sort of person, things like mini golf, fun fairs etc just are too loud and congested for me. I did the whole Florida theme park thing though, well 3 times over the years, the 3rd time was for my daughter who was a little young for it all to be honest, by the 3rd time I found it a bit of a hard time as it was high summer and peak time. Liked Kennedy Space centre although the 100+ degree heat nearly killed me (made me quite sick and left me with a lobster tan)

    Typo Attack's David Buehler Whereabouts

    in Atari 8-Bit Computers

    Posted

    I had a friend who was so into his computers, especially the C64 and Amiga, he would have copy parties in his house, was linked to a cracking group called The Medway Boys, simply loved anything computer. I lost track of him for a couple of years, but then made a commitment to track him down. Took me 6 months, but called him, asked how it was all going and he said he had dumped the computer a year ago, no interest in them at all..I was shocked..

     

    I hope I don't get like that, I do have moments where my neck is really playing up as I try to play a game and think about just stopping, but the next day I turn the PC on and get right back to it..

    Gemini Electronics Manchester UK mailshot February 1983

    in Atari 8-Bit Computers

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    I love all that sort of thing, really brings back the feel of the times. I recently brought a Trilogic Expert cart for the C64, it was from a company in the UK (Bradford in fact) that I dealt with a lot, when the cart arrived from the Ebay seller I was pleased to see that the owner had kept all the POS blurb that Trilogic and many other companies sent or gave you with an item. Really lovely to see all their products that they did and a nice glossy leaflet. Some days I just unpack the leaflets just to reread them and simply look at them as they as sooo 1985, and it's a great memory reviver..

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    What was your first experience in computer programmimg?

    in Atari 8-Bit Computers

    Posted · Edited by Mclaneinc

     

    I've heard about that practice of only getting to actually run the code on the mainframe a few times from various people, I can understand the reasons, but it seemed a bit cruel. But what we see as a small box on the desk was the best part of a full wall of electronics, back then. I dread to think of the price. My wife worked for Barclays back then and it was terminals, punch cards etc, she hated it...

     

    I remember seeing the ICL logo, just looked on Wikipedia and saw they were taken over by Fujitsu in 2002, apparently Russia still uses the brand name of ICL.

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    What was your first experience in computer programmimg?

    in Atari 8-Bit Computers

    Posted · Edited by Mclaneinc

    I'd not class myself as a programmer, I'm more a tinkerer.

     

    Learnt some BASIC on my ZX80 & 81, carried this on with the VIC 20, did the usual type in listings and simple stuff, never really liked BASIC. When I got my Atari I plodded along with BASIC and tried Pilot but I started to learn 6502 assembly language, by then I was working as tech support on the Atari with Maplin, so it seemed a must have to be understanding machine code. Never really coded much, some work on a Multiboot type thing and disk copiers and a hack on a game to give it a whole set of new levels, but that was it, I more liked to hack / cheat stuff, some of my hacks went around (Rescue over Libya) and some pure cheated games, no fancy menus, but for me it was more about the fun. Learnt a little 65C816 when playing with Snes code, but after that I just stopped trying to code, too much work to do :)

     

    So nice to see others were much more hard core, good on you..

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    [AMR] Altirra Middle Runner

    in Atari 8-Bit Computers

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    1 hour ago, LessNick said:

    Well, I think it's useless to even argue. 

     

    We are all different, but often life's difficulties develop in such a way that, with all the desire, it is not possible to complete the projects that have been started.

    But in any case, thanks to people like you, there is an incentive and desire to move and develop further, thank you very much for your work.

     

    Ah, forget me, I do very little now due to illness, but we are lucky with the preservation team, Allan with documents, the many kind souls who dump stuff and all the many others who spend time and effort (obviously it includes you too) on this little thing we all love.

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    8-Bit Software: A Preservation Effort

    in Atari 8-Bit Computers

    Posted · Edited by Mclaneinc

     

    Excuse me, that's my account and my collection of roms, it's been up there for years.. The link remains valid!

     

    The original link was done by Sergey, since then I've added to it, there has been no content from that link you gave me used, in fact I deleted most of it as it was old stuff that had been preserved already.

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    8-Bit Software: A Preservation Effort

    in Atari 8-Bit Computers

    Posted · Edited by Mclaneinc

    This Ricochet is a strange  one, I could only get it to load on a machine with the CIO patched for speed and under an 800 OSB patched ver. Cload and then run..

     

    If ran at normal cassette speed then it would the nearest I could get it to work was on XL mode Basic B but when it got to the bit where you enter numbers it forced a crash. Also on normal speed it brought up different error messages, sometimes error 21 meaning it thought it was normal code and not basic, or error 143 and 19 iirc.

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