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BOTH the C64 and Atari 8-bits have seperate chroma/lumina AND composite lines as well as the mono audio channel. The last line is either ground or...? I have NO idea what the other pins on the C64's monitor port/cable are for, they aren't needed as far as I can tell, and may just be dead pins. The B&C 5-pin DIN cable they sell for about $15, works perfectly fine with the C64, Atari 8-bits with a monitor port, and the Genesis 1. One end is the DIN and the other has four RCA jacks; two for chroma/lumina if you hook it up to a Commodore monitor, or use an adapter that is female RCA (plugged onto the end of the B&C cable-RCA end) to s-video to use on an S-video capable TV and the other Two RCA plugs are composite (yellow video) and mono audio to just hook up to a compostie monitor or a TV with the composite (standard video) jack on most TV's made in the past 10+ years.

Thanks! Do you recall a similar article for Jor Blade That's another one of my TTD. If you buy a replacement PAL Antic chip for your NTSC 8-bit from B&C and replace the NTSC version with it, Joe Blade and 99% of the other PAL games that had problems to start with on NTSC Atari's, will work fine. Hopefully you have an 800XL or 1200XL since the chips are socketed and it's easy to replace. An XE will PROBABLY require desoldering and soldering skills, which is why I decided to modify my 1200XL instead, even though I have the skills, it can be a pain in the butt; especially the desoldering part, but it's still worth it! Regardless of what the PAL-NTSC upgrade instructions say, you really don't need to do the OS (PAL)chip mod along with it, only about 1% of the PAL games check for which OS (PAL or NTSC) you have installed. I recently changed out the Antic chip in my 1200XL, and all the PAL games that I ever had trouble with work fine now! I have yet to come across a PAL game that does not work fine with just the ANTIC chip replacement only (and I have a ton).

There is no "extra" memory...the Jaguar has 2 megabytes of internal ram just like the Playstation, and I believe, the Saturn. The games that run on BJL, or JUGS, are 2 megabytes or LESS and run from an address register of memory in the internal ram of the Jaguar. Cartridge roms run from the extended cartridge ROM (read only memory) and load into ram as needed, but the address that start the game is located in cartridge memory, hence, why they WILL work with an ALPINE or FLASHROM, because those ARE cartridge memory, but will not run if you load them into ram (even if it's only a two megabyte cartridge rom image), becuase the start address is in the cartridge, which is not present. The "extra" memory in Protector: SE or even Battlesphere Gold, is EEPROM memory meant ONLY for saving unencrypted cd games IF those games are written to use the eeprom memory.

The ST case, like, pretty much, all cases for electronic components, is made of ABS plastic and the best choices are either super glue or model cement like Testors. Personally, from experience, I have found model glue to last a lot longer and do an all around better job than super glue, but it can be much messier and you have to be careful not to apply to much, or you can make the problem worse by over "melting" the plastic. model glue melts plastic together with a chemical reaction, therefore, the end result, when done correctly is much better as it can be compared to metal and welding. Super Glue will work for the short term, and will be strong, in the short term, but it does not truly bond the material back together like model glue, and I have found it wears out over time and the part you glued, will break again, in exactly the same place (assuming it's something that gets handled and used, if it is a china doll or something that justs sits on the shelf, then it will be fine). if you use the model glue sparingly, and hold the boken parts together firmly for about 60 seconds, then leave it alone to "cure" for about a day, it will work great and you won't leave any residue (extra glue) behind that can make it look like crap. Now there are even better solutions, that work by similiar principals, like PVC plastic piping "solder", but it's expensive, not as widely available, and can cause you even more trouble than model cement if you don't use it properly. so I say go with the model glue, or, if you're afraid of using to much with the sloppy tubes and don't want a big glue mark on your ST, use the superglue, you can always re-glue it later (after cleaning off the old glue).

That's not what I said at all. Re-read my post. CAREFULLY, STOP, THINK, COMPREHEND WHAT I AM SAYING THERE...

I have two of these switch boxes, one is a Radio Shack one and the other is like Performance or something (picked it up at EB). Anyhow, they both have S-video and Composite connections on them, and I use combinations of S-video and Composite signals through them both with no problems and no degradation on the video from either, even with one plugged into the second, and then that routed to the TV. I have the S-video and Composite cables both running into my TV, one to Video 1 on the TV and the other to Video 2 (front and back of TV; The back composite and S-video are on the Video 1 line, so maybe that's your problem? Do you have a front video jack too?). All I do is select one of three buttons on the second box to choose one of three consoles/DVD or I select the 4th, marked "other" which enables the first switchbox with another 4 lines. So this way I have 7 devices hooked up, in any combination of composite or S-video, and just select either Video 1 or 2 on the TV remote. I even have the composite and audio RCA cables going through the VCR, then Amplifier and THEN in to the TV with no picture or sound degradation. 8 devices hooked up to one TV through video/s-video, ready at the touch of a button. PLUS, I then have the coaxil hooked up for my older systems (another several with a switchbox there)... this coaxil goes into the VCR, and no coaxil to the TV, the VCR sends the coaxil signal through the composite video output to the Amp and then TV, so I have no Coaxil hooked up to the TV at all (although I do have to switch to channel 3 on the VCR)

If this 256k expansion has the same memory map of the first 64k as the 600XL&1064, and I don't see why it wouldn't be (also the same as the 800XL, after all a 64k 600xl and a 64k 800xl are virtually the same, right?), I then make a logical guess that it would basically ignore the internal 64k ram of an 800XL, in favor of the module memory, and the 800XL would work fine, kinda like a 600XL with the 1064, only 256k instead of 64k; same with the 600XL and this module. Maybe the internal and external memory would conflict and you'd have to disable at least 48k of the internal memory? So it would work like a 600XL and memory module? Or does the 1064 disable the internal 16k of the 600XL in favor of a full 64k mocule? Or is the 1064 really only 48k+16k of the 600XL to make a total of 64k? These would be the questions that need answering to have a good understanding of how these memory modules would respond depending on whether they are installed in a 600 or 800XL. Another question is whether this memory module is Rambo/Axlon compatible or XE compatible?

Hold on... I want to make sure I have this right. Are you calling me a liar? I have no idea what your refering too, but yes.

I'll be (hopefully) attending the Midwest Classic of which the Jagffest tour is going to be a part of, but I doubt very much that I'll make it all the way to VEGAS. Yep, just got through to the Top 50 to check my scores, still number 1 on Germany and several others as well. I've slipped a notch or two on a couple (my lowest when posted was 3rd) and a couple of tracks have been added since I posted, so I'll have to get my scores up for those too.

By the way, all my scores at the top 50 are done with a stock bike and no cheats. The bike I always used is the one in between the 'Super Rabbit' and 'Sliding Thunder' (forget the name off hand...Reflex Z?). The Sliding Thunder slides to much too acheive the overall best times, and the Super Rabbit is too slow on top end. I actually don't like to use the 'Punisher' except in two player with two Punishers. It's too advanced over the others,, the game should have allowed the others to upgrade either by cheat code or in game, but oh well.

I'm in that top 50 (link suspended now), last time I checked, I was number one in that catagory, and assuming no one has already crushed my time, I DARE anyone to beat it! That score is from months on end of playing Super Burnout. I tried to perfect my time on every track, God, I love that game, so did everyone I ever showed it too and play it with. Germany was also my favorite track, I love the high-speed sections on it. I haven't played in a while, when I played about 6 months ago, I was still good, but far out of practice to come close to my Germany score at the Top 50. You get to a point in this game were new best times are made only by fractions of a second.

Now that's funny. Just one hint on your english grammer Dragonforce (knowing it's not your native born tongue), change all the "an" to "a." "an" is only used if there is a vowl at the beginning of the word it preceeds; AEIOU~Y

The Atari disks have 40 tracks a disk, regardless of being single or double density (that's how many sectors you have per track), the disk drive is showing a 39 because it's showing that it detects a disk with 40 tracks on it, 0-39. It reads the disk as an atari disk format. Sounds like the drive is fine, and if some disks will load and some weren't, it must have been bad copies (bad disks) that weren't reliable enough to hold the games. I tested them all with the 130XE I sent you and an unmodified 1050 drive, and all the games loaded fine, and played, otherwise I re-copied the game onto another disk, but that disk may have not been too good. I'll send new copies when I get some new disks from B&C. Although those still may work on a 1050 and the Rana is incompitable with some .atr images converted back to atari disk.

Pretty much any of the XEGS cartridges are good, even if they are remakes/re-releases of disk games. They were good games to start with...

Yes, congrats on 'Escape from Hell', I loved it! Are 'Atari Interface' magazines online yet? I have an article in one of the last, maybe THE last issue of that magazine. It was a newsprint, comic book style mag by then, but still as thick with good information as always... The title was 'Why you should keep your 8-bit', or something like that, I have a copy upstairs. Basically just an apolegetic reasoning for people not to leave the 8-bit behind when finally upgrading to a larger Atari, or Apple or PC. This was before the Pentium. I also did a regular column, for about 3 or 4 months anyway, in the AAAUG (?) user' group newsletter on graphic art on the 8-bit. (Austin Area Atari User's Group? Have to find my old copies of that to remember for sure. It had a disk sent in each month with graphic picture files of art I had done. I no longer have any of my artwork, so it would be nice to see if I could track it down in some PD FTP site somewhere...the group had a library archive of some sort and they sent out monthly, or so, disks to the user group members, so my stuff may be out there...

It could be done, converting it to work like an Atari numeric keypad, that is, but Atari keypads are dirt cheap anyway (I got mine off of E-bay for less than five dollars), just buy one of them I say. They match the 800 more closely, but it's a neutral enough color to get along with the other 8-bits, and you know for sure that it's compatible with all the spreadsheets and database and similiar apps.

Has it occurred to anyone that this private buyer may be someone who is in the process of obtaining the rights from the developer/publisher (whom ever owns them) to sell this legally? That they made a secret offer in light of this situation, so the Jaguar community isn't floaded with a bunch of cheap copies instead of a professional quality release? I'm not saying I know for sure that this is what did happen, but no one has even considered the possibility here yet. The seller of the Soul Star cd, etc. may not even know.

I just found 10 boxed carts, complete for 15 dollars at a thrift store, they were asking for $3.00 a piece, but I talked them into half that. Complete: UFO Bowling! Basketball! Casino slot machine! Computer Golf! Hockey! Soccer! Pocket Billards! Showdown in 2100 A.D. Speedway! Spinout! CriptoLogic! Volley Ball! KC munchkin (box only&manual) KC crazy chase (cart only) Blockout! Breakdown! (cart only) Sub Chase! Armored Encounter! (I love how almost all of them end in an exclamation point. I also ordered a complete, minus one game token set of Quest for the Rings game!

I have an article clipping were they discuss it in short as well as mention some other games, all Virtuality VR games on dedicated PC's to begin with, but they do speak of how the Jaguar is perfect for the garuad shading and lighting effects they wanted to use. It woudn't suprise me either way if it was only announced or if an alfa, beta or some kind of source showed up at some point. I think there are quite a few titles still out there for the Jaguar that were worked on to some degree, but never released. I'm sure there are more that could at least be in a state to be considered a playable demo like PhaswZero or BlackIce/White noise or better. There were some that seemed to be very near completion which still haven't turned up (publically anyway).

The way I look at it is that Atari is now a COMPANY again and not just a software "division" (if it could have been called that even) or just a name and logo slapped onto some games anymore. This HAS to be a better thing in my book. I don't think the new logo looks bad either, not as good as the original, but better than Hasbro's is my opinion. At least there is hope once again. At least the 'Blade Runner' future doesn't look as bad again with the Atari name all over the place when the company didn't really exist! I can now watch one of my favorite movies again and not cringe at a future that can't possibly ever be true, because of "mistakes" like Atari logos all over the place! I can't say I'm "loyal" to the new "Atari" yet, and appreciate them out of the blue, it's not the Atari I grew up with after all, but they do have a lot of good games with the Atari name now, unlike Hasbro, and I have hope again for Atari's future and may have reason to become a fan of the new Atari in the future, I have been a fan of Infogrames games in the past, so that's a start. But it all really depends on if they get into the hardware business again. I fell in love with Atari for their hardware, good software from them was just a bonus. The same is true for me as far as Sega is concerned...I always liked them for their hardware, not software, and I could care less about them on a whole as a "software" company. I like some of their games still, but I don't like them any more or less than other good software companies. It's just not the same. I can't be "loyal" and "love" a software company like I can with a hardware company. Software is software, Hardware is tangable, you can HUG it!

Yes, Lemmi, that's what I'm looking for, but apparently I can get what I'm looking for at 2600.com! thanks for the mod Jsoper! Just what I'm looking for...sorry guys if I "offend" by prefering video output, but I've gotten used to it and I have video swithch boxes and remotes to control all my other systems and having to use a coax again just isn't the way I want to go. Video mods are generally VERY easy, and doesn't "ruin" the system in anyway, but improve it, except to the purist, which I am not (necessarily), I generally get two of everything eventually, one to leave stock, and one to mod and improve. I have video output on my (one of) 2600, 5200, 7800 and C-380 video pinball and they all look and work great and I intend to do it to my O2! I think I'm going to really enjoy this old machine! my next purchase is Quest for the Rings on my O2! Kepone,glad to hear your (my ex) INTV is still working great after shipping! I'm looking for another now! I'm loving the 1200XL and it works great (after the first minor bump), I'm getting ready to do a memory upgrade (to 1 megabyte) and a video IMPROVEMENT mod to it, since the current video isn't as crisp and clean as my 130XE's. I already did a PAL-NTSC Antic chip mod to it, so it works perfectly low with 100% of NTSC software and 99% of the PAL software! Loving those Euro games right now!

Ok, the RF picture on my Odyssey2 sucks. Are there video upgrade/mod plans somewhere on the net like those for the Atari consoles? I can make my own, but just following schematics is always easier than working out the mod/circuit yourself. I'd like to do both composite video and s-video, but just composite would be good enough. Help please! Also, anyone have a copy of 'Quest of the Rings' for sale? I'll pay good money for a copy or offer a good trade. Better deal if it's complete with the board and keyboard overlay too!

I have one. I also plan on buying one or two more when I find a decent deal, for backup and for any future cd games that network.

Just to let you know, there are some of us, including me who think HoverStrike:UL is great, unlike stone...it's definately worth looking into since it is common and can usually be picked up for $5 or $10 dollars...one of my favorite Jag games! Some people think the frame rate is too slow, it's not the smoothest, but I don't think it's that bad and the graphics otherwise are the best you'll see on the Jag as far as wicked texture mapping and light-sourcing, etc. You really can't go wrong for $5 if you do find out it's not for you...worth a look.

Who's to say this thing really IS a prototype? Isn't it just a CDR of the game? If copies are owned by a few people, then isn't it likely that this is just a copy of a copy...etc.? I mean, they don't even show a picture of it! Stone has a copy on cdr someone gave him, and so do others apparently, so it makes me question that this is a "prototype", in fact, the auction doesn't even claim it's a prototype, they just say it's a copy! You guys are bidding $100+ dollars on a cdr copy of a game?