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Note to self: I'm way too stupid for a Room34 contest. I was pretty sure that since all the carts were Silvers, that would imply that it would take me 25 years to solve that puzzle.

Thomas, if it makes you feel better, i live here and i'm still stuck on #2. I could not find an atari game called "get away with murder". so, try my method: start with the a's: a-team, asteroids, asterix, etc. jeez, i suck.

hmmm ... a little red x? tic-tac-toe?

here my entry:

is there a pal console and a ntsc console? in other words, if i put in a pal cart to my american 2600 console with a pal monitor, will that work? is it possilbe to get a cheap pal monitor with a us power plug?

i had a similar problem. i thought i had some bad carts but a friend gave me their old original 2600 (the one with the wood grain) and those carts worked fine. some fit better in the black console and some in the original. you could try to pick up a cheap original heavy sixer on e-bay or yahoo auctions. or just go emulation.

i love homerun. the best part is the pitching. nasty curve balls and cartoon like change ups.

true. my computer at home is a mere 266 PII. not sure why i thought everyone must have a better computer than me given that this is a retro gaming board. here is another link i like about A2600. probably mirrored somewhere: http://alienbill.com/vgames/guide/

I'll give a plug for jEdit Editor jEdit http://www.jedit.org/ i used textPad but like the pluggin capability of jEdit. Also, jEdit is freeware.

Yup. This program is quite simple if you store the three channel graphics in the RAW format. is said program available? is a sample assembly file available?

this maybe obvious for the wizards but i'll ask anyway ... in between steps 4 and 5, someone has written a program to convert the image into assembly for DASM?

ok, you can get an image, aa will put it on a cart. now, whose the label wiz? how much do you charge? or do i just need some special avery labels? can paul slocum add a sound track? when my pic comes up, i want "he's a bad, mama, jama" to start playing. will my unique cart be included on the rarity guide?

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james bond 007 and a score of 913 btw, what happens if the cart don't work?

wow. amazing. if you can do that with the 2600, i bet you sythesize an entire orchestra with a 7800.

This is probably the best route for possible 3D games on the 2600. Someone needs to figure out how to connect the Sega 3D goggles or the Haitex 3D goggles for Amiga to the 2600. Possibly through the second Joystick port since the Joystick ports can be programmed as outputs as well as inputs. Man, this sounds fun. I need to locate a pair of 3D glasses. the problem with the lcd shutters is that you'll either need to double your refresh or half it. i think ntsc is 60Hz, so your talking 120Hz or 30Hz. and you also reduce vertical resolution by half. and since ntsc already sucks, half of suck is really suck. all of the lcd shutter stuff i've seen with ntsc look really bad.

the concept is simple. your eyes see the same image at different viewpoints and your brain creates a single image with depth. so, if red is on the left eye, draw the left eye image in blue. now draw the red image for right eye. you don't see red with a red filter and blue with blue filter. your brain fuses the image and there you go. i image you can use any 2 colors you want as long as you can see the other color through the one filter and not the same color through the same color filter. that made sense when i wrote it. so, yes, you could do a 3d 2600 game by drawing red/blue images. there are displays out now where you don't need and glasses at all to see a 3d image. they are called autoscopic displays and dti (http://www.dti3d.com) makes them (we have one a work). the coolest is the volumetric 3d display (like the princess leia scene with R2D2) by acuality systems( http://www.actuality-systems.com/).

the finds in the wild are gone here (virginia). i remember just a few years ago the joy of going to the flea mall and seeing 2600's all over the place. those were the days ...

i'm using stellax v1.1.3a on a pentium ii, 266Mhz. works great for me.

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i put pocketVcs on my Ipaq. it works great. so, go get you an Ipaq or whatever on ebay, download PocketVCS and BAM! portable atari 2600.

lots and lots of research. i do research in future cockpit displays for airplanes. we develop displays that are easy to understand and fly. this could easily apply to video games because our simulators are video games. there are alot of issues here. first, there is training. practice makes perfect is true. when we do experiments, the first few data runs are high workload experiences for the pilots because it is a new concept, new environment and they are trying to take everything in. after awhile, they know what to expect and how things react. there is situational awareness. fancy word for how you perceive the situation. in aviation, we ask questions like: how confident did you feel flying this concept? did you have a good navigational sense? etc. remember the game defender. there was a study done where players eye movements were tracked (ie, the experiments could determine where players were looking when playing the game). they found that the really good players used the radar display alot. the strategic view of the radar helped better access the entire situation of the game, so they could better anticipate outcomes. then there is complacency. if we make flying too easy, pilots get bored and are less attentive. i could go on and on (as if i haven't already) but lunch is over.

excellent. anyone here try pocketvcs? it looks great.

why couldn't a 2600 emulator work on a gameboy? i know nothing of modern game systems, so i don't know the underlying arch. if a cart was made that had the emu on it, and you put several .bin's on it, why not? how about using an Ipaq or any PocketPC? when i first got my Ipaq, there was a version of mame for it. i was running the actual ms. pac man rom on the Ipaq. can mame emu the 2600? is there a stella Ipaq port? if so, there is a cheap portable, right there.