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It was more of a joke than anything. You make it look easy with the amount you've cranked out! That was why I was referring to it as a 'CyberCJ'.

I could have sworn I tested this at one point with three drives, but it only worked on two of them. Though I may be thinking of Ultima IV. I do remember quite excitedly that it was one of the few games that truly loved having the 128kb of ram in the 130XE, because disk swapping was MUCH less. Edit: A note on the copy protection.... True story; On a bad copy, you eventually start to encounter FBI agents who attack you with "The Long Arm of the Law" But... even with original copies of The City and The Dungeon, if you took a character from the City and transferred him to The Dungeon, you'd still be ambushed by FBI agents. If I recall that's what happened if you tried to modify your character with a hex editor as well. Though I think someone finally must have figured out the crazy editing since I think eventually there was a character editor... I remember we tried forever to figure it out.

Oh most definitely agreed, it was more of a joke to pull something from reddit. You'd have to change the display code within the program, and probably do the same for Micropainter to allow the bigger palette? Get an artist much much better than me to recolor everything, then release! Now to see if we can track down a few individuals who may have the skills!

I seem to recall the same trick worked on the ST Strip Poker 2 as well, but I'm not entirely sure. I wonder what would be easier, getting some random exhibitionist off of reddit to give us some pictures of various stages of undress to create a VBXE version, or to try to upscale the colors of the originals...

Yeah, I was kind of thinking a CyberCJ. Auto converting .ST images on the fly to Jaguar playing games. Then he could say, "there is a little bit of me in every SainTly Jag."

1000x yes! Especially since I have one on the way! 1) the original copy (is that a thing? guess so, since we then modified it) came this way! Someone had reversed the file names and spoiled the challenge. I figured out myself to 'fix' the game, that I had to reverse them. Then I gave a copy to a friend of mine, who apparently his mother had found out (we were 13-ish at the time) and she would only let him play to bra+undies. I quickly showed him this 'hack' and I'm pretty sure it was the first naked chick he'd seen! In all it's 8-bit pixelated glory! He made me change it back so as to not get into trouble...

Can we still order the other carts? Would love to get at least Joust and Gauntlet 2. I should just try to track down a Skunkboard... but then other Atari funds have been spent on other Atari bits)

So I completely ran into this by accident. When I original connected all of my things to my A/V receiver, I knew anything that was connected via composite (sadly most modern receivers have composite but not s-video input), that I also had to pass through the composite connection from my receiver to my TV. So any time I'd bring up either my Atari 130XE or Atari Jaguar, I had to also change the TV's input to Composite. This way the sound went through the 5.1 stereo, and the video came out on the screen. Last time I turned on my Jaguar though, it started doing a horizontal flip up and down. Scared the hell out of me because I thought something was fried! Turned out my newer receiver will actually attempt to convert the composite signal into a digital one. Once I switched the TV input to composite and powered off/on the Jag, it had the correct picture, but it seems to not look as good as I remembered out of my older receiver (which quite possibly tried to do some upscaling). Anyone else ran into something similar to this? Just for informational purposes; Old Receiver: Onkyo HT-S3300 New Receiver: Pioneer VSX-1130-K I'll probably email them about this, and who knows, maybe they'll release a firmware update (doubtful). Would be nice though if I didn't have to bother with the composite to TV connection to flip between the 8-bit and Jaguar.

Hmm, hardware pr0n. Ha, I initially thought you'd sacrificed a White Men Can't Jump cartridge, and thought that may not have been a terrible thing... Really looking forward to the release of this. This is probably too late in the game, but I know there have been a lot of ST ports recently, I wonder how hard it'd be to get an ST emulator layer in this so it could read .ST images off the SD card? I should probably just start buying some of the cartridges that have been ported!

I was thinking that or Itch.io. Gonna release it for Linux? I still never completed the Mayan Adventure...

Conspiracies are more fun! Not like we have anything else to talk about in the midst of Atari's current tease and then silence. It's like an attractive $whateveryoureinto calling you up and saying they're going to rock your world, then you don't hear from them for months.

I had Translator on floppy, you are correct about the animated screen. There were some games that wouldn't run at all without it on the 800xl, and some that word work oddly. Lucifer's Realm is one where it would work, but most of the images were gone, so it became a text adventure after the intro.

Raspberry Pi is not a zero effort console. 1) it comes out of the case (at least the one I ordered did), so you have to put in 4 screws and maybe put on a heatsink with thermal sticker. 2) While it came with a microSD card with RetroPi installed, it didn't come with any ROMs. For the same reason that DreamerCade (or whatever it was called) shouldn't have tried. They're kind of under the 'no one really says anything as long as you don't try to make a profit on it' things. Interface for it is excellent though, very straight forward to use. If indeed someone could license the ROMs for distribution and they created a Steam-like store, it wouldn't be half bad. Hell, that's all that the Sega Genesis and Atari Vault collections are. I remember someone even found headers from an emulator for the NES in one of their bundles of classic games. They are pretty much making money off of the emulator crowd anyhow.

You do a mob hit for that "donation"? Damn, congrats. I ever have owned a Mega ST. Came close once...

Ha, only SMT soldering I have now done was on a Hard drive controller board. Had to swap the BIOS chips in hope that I could resurrect the drive. After I finally got the balls to do it, it still did the same thing, figured what did I have to lose, opened up the drive and there were some huge scratches along the inner and outer edges. Nothing worse than waking up to hard drive heads crashing....

Would it be plausible / possible to upgrade the cartridge port just enough to allow a larger bandwidth for something like the NetUSBee? Which one would think might be the one cartridge that is still being made. That's what I'd like to see on this newer board. Ha, I have to chuckle a little bit about 100% compatibility though, Atari couldn't even get that right themselves! Then again, that's why you're doing a STfm board instead of STe.

For what it's worth, the Raspberry Pi 3 will play up to Playstation 1 games quite well. The kit I bought; https://www.amazon.com/LoveRPi-Raspberry-RetroPie-RetroArch-Emulation/dp/B019DJYJ1E/ref=sr_1_sc_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1501277922&sr=8-3-spell&keywords=loverpi Though it now sits in this case; https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01M4OOY4U/ref=sxr_pa_click_within_right_2?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=3008539542&pf_rd_r=KVGWH1KNYAW75V9N7N90&pd_rd_wg=Pndy6&pf_rd_s=desktop-rhs-carousels&pf_rd_t=301&pd_rd_w=4LB6Z&pf_rd_i=nes+rasberry+pie+3&pd_rd_r=8898XY06ZZX23JRDERA1&psc=1

So 1) saw that coming. 2) Atari behind getting it pulled?

Look at what Nintendo is doing. They still are the only ones who haven't gone the 'slightly tweaked computer hardware with dedicated / locked down operating system' route that is still a major player. The switch is just about sold out everywhere, even with their first release having some weird hardware issues. Their platform looked unique and bold enough that I considered buying one until I'd heard they were working on a revised one that wouldn't have the same issues. I think Atari would do well competing with something like that, if they manage to get a unique of a feel/look to their system/software.

Are these CD based games? I thought at least Alice's Mom's Rescue and Elasnar also came out for the Falcon, right? I've seen info for them floating around, and was interested.

Well, my piint was with both being x86, there would only need to be video / OS emulation, since the instructions are the same. It is the deeper nerd inside. A Cell processor based system is more interesting as an architecture than a generic x86 that is the same as all of our computers.

I feel the same way about stuffing x86 hardware into a console. It just seems like low level of effort on the part of the console maker. Makes it seem like a generic computer, sure it makes emulation easier later on though! Do any of us truly know how much money Atari has? I think we only know that they were bought out of bankruptcy in 2013, but we don't know by who, and we also know that the CEO didn't actually change. I don't think they're publicly traded, or someone would have posted their earnings.

So, I've got to ask how that's legal. They show a picture of a guy holding a phone to take a picture of E.T. I mean we all know how criminal that is alone! But to be able to take a picture of a cartridge and then have your machine download it? That means they have the roms somewhere for... well everything? And I'm sure the cost of trying to license that or even defend it in court as a company would be horrendous. We all enjoy our emulation and ROM collections, but we also know that trying to resell such things is kind of crossing a line, isn't it? Anyhow, I can do everything they show there (except take a picture of a cartridge and have it added to my library) with my RetroPie. I think it cost me 80bucks with everything (including SD card of games, two snes like controllers, etc).

Ha, I currently don't have as much room as I'd like, so to the left of me (from top to bottom) I have a 130XE, 1040STE and Falcon. Kind of funny that the 130XE is like the grand daddy, but it's about 2/3 the size. But oh god, the STE is heavy (still has all of it's shielding, plus Exxos' wonderful PSU).

Miner 2049er was pretty good for what it was, a modernized one would be great. Another thread I'm talking in about the ST and using a split medium/low resolution mentioned the Pawn, and it reminded me that The Quest and Lucifer's Realm on the 8bits could use a good modernization. Hell, graphical text adventures should make a comeback in general. The closest thing we have now are those terrible Japanese dating sims...