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  1. Posted

    How in the world does someone spend over 10 grand on a video game?

     

    Apparently he would pay people to mine and level him up.... I don't get it myself, I find WoW boring. If I am going to play an RPG, I want something with depth in story, and one that doesn't force you to grind.

     

    But on the opposite side of that coin, having everything level with you makes it boring a lot of times. Especially when you start getting high level armor from bandits that should otherwise just run away from you... yup, talking about Oblivion and Skyrim here...

     

    Back on topic.. I loved Star Raoliders and really want a copy of battlesphere. Would be awesome if Saint could work out some deal so that the rom could be included with the Jaguar SD, but I am betting that would never happen.

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    You can use it without a mouse, I think ALT+ cursor keys simulates mouse movement, but it's annoying and you will probably want to find a mouse.

     

    Using the RF cable might be easiest- And for game use that isn't bad, I don't think it's easy to connect these to VGA monitors IIRC, but maybe people have solved that through custom cables?

    Was the Alt+Arrows support added in later TOS versions? If this is still a stock 520STm with external floppy, I'm thinking it has TOS 1.00/1.02?

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    An interesting / fun thing I did. Buy an DB9 extension cable (because reaching under the keyboard is annoying, and after so many years the ports get damaged), then get one of these; http://www.ebay.com/itm/Best-Amiga-Atari-ST-C64-C128-Commodore-Mouse-Gamepad-Joystick-USB-adapter-TOM-/232039311802?rmvSB=truethen you can use a USB mouse.

     

    For my Falcon, I bought this; https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Rechargeable-Touchpad-Multi-Touch-Navigation/dp/B0093H4WT6

     

    Also, I'd make sure it has at least 1mb of ram, and then order this;

     

    http://www.lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=94

     

    That should cover most of your bases.

     

    As far as monitors go, you need a VGA one that supports 15khz for it to work with the Best Electronics Cable. There is a list somewhere of compatible LCD ones (I ended up getting three, though I think my BenQ one looks the nicest. Was trying to find the wiki for you, but am getting ready for work.)

     

    Depending on the CGA monitor, if it supports RGB and you have the pinouts, might not be too bad to create a custom cable, or hell one of the Atari cables may just work out of the box with it.

  6. Posted

    I agree, find one of the hardware devs here, like Joska and see if he needs one to test things with. I have considered doing the same with mine... except it somehow seems more compatible than my 1040 STe.... still would love to get a VME graphics / NIC board for it.

     

    Also, any idea what is on the hard drive?

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    I'll take one for the team. Do I at least get to choose how I go out? ;-)

    Ha, was instantly thinking of The Meaning of Life. "This man is about to die...."

     

     

    When I worked for a pathology lab, writing software for one of the three big Pathology conglomerates... I was talking to one of the pathologists and he opened up a book that he had co-authored with another pathologist. He said... "Son, this is what happens when you park your car in the wrong garage." ... as he opened up a page that... well, I wasn't really sure what was going on, but it looked like a rotting bratwurst sitting next to two 3-week old au gratin potatoes. He then said... "Find a nice garage one day, maybe with a mountain view, keep it clean, and park your car in there all you want... you'll be a happy man."

     

     

    I had Chlamydia once, really have no idea how I got it. I was only dating one person at the time. Maybe she was dating more than one person... hahah. Edit: sorry, was drinking today.

    I think as a general rule you should no longer post to forums sober. This is gold!

     

    More on topic; I found out about the original run after it was sold out... and again found out about the Gold run after it too sold out, so I never got a copy for my Jaguar. But when people say paying 500-1000 for a game is too much... dude I worked with said he's poured a ton of money into WoW. I was trying to guess how much, and threw out $10k... he said more...

     

    Yet I can't even stand playing the game more than a few hours a year...

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    Big thumbs up tp MacRorie, my hardware is packed away and I'd need a team of people specialised in Origami or similar to get it out of that cupboard in one piece (great at packing stuff but awful at working out at how I managed to get it so tight in) but great to see a dev getting orders and the community getting a new product. Well done that man...

     

    Oh and even better to have a dev with a great sense of humour... :)

    Now if only we could get matching glow in the dark XEGS buttons, or even the full case printed out.. :P I always thought the buttons on those things should glow in the dark though.

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    I am so glad to have read this post! I was beginning to think I was the only person that felt this way! I mean I thought it was rough Every time they changed the controls on a Twisted Metal game and Totally agree they should have just stuck with the Twisted Metal 2 control scheme throughout, but minor differences were ok as long as the main controls for the car were on the D-Pad. I always thought the analog control was just for those few outsiders who preferred it, and though I never asked my friends the question; I thought almost all of them used the D-Pad. And unless they were solely using millennials as their beta testers, shouldn't someone play testing this game have raised this concern?

     

    For me this really was the final nail in the coffin for modern video games. With each new game coming out being an even more bland first person shooter or playing like a movie full of cut scenes nobody wants to watch or having an instruction manual that read like a list of chores; I mean here they had a perfect formula. All they had to do was give us new level designs, maybe some new characters, and ever so slightly improved graphics, and we all would have been so happy.

    Ha, the other day I was having a conversation with a coworker about how most old school games wnded up having a standard control scheme, but there was always that one weird asshole developer who decided to swap the attack/jump buttons and make their game nearly unplayable.

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  14. Posted

    I always thought the XEGS had the same as the 130XE, but that the XLs were a slightly older OS revision? Either way compatibility on all of them are pretty good. It's just a shame there weren't many if any at all games that'd fully utilize the 128k machines. Though I know of a few that took advantage of extra memory if you had them (AR was awesome, with far less disk swapping).

  16. Posted

    Please excuse my ignorance but is there any benefit to this over the SIO thing or vice versa?

     

    Thanks

    Part of me says "Who cares, it's more Atari hardware!" But I think the main difference (someone please correct me if I'm wrong) but there are certain file formats (whichever one the cart one is) doesn't work through SIO. At least as far as usability. I also tend to think the cartridge port is faster, since it is... well a cartridge vs in essence a fake floppy drive.

  18. Posted

    I am about to buy one but one question.... are you saying DO glow in the dark or actually meant NO glow in the dark?

     

    "Do Glow in the dark!!"

     

    I was actually going to ask for the glow in the dark <grin> but unsure what you post was trying to tell us. heh

     

    Let me know please.

     

    TJ

    Ha, I totally want a glow in the dark XEGS buttons. How snazzy would that look with a glow in the dark cartridge?

  20. Posted · Edited by leech

     

    Alright! Infocom Zork adventures here we come!! :P

    I'm thinking something like The Pawn. Though not sure how hard it'd be to replace some graphics in games like that to make them better.

     

    Reminds me of a thread in the 8-bit forums where it was brought up about the old strip poker game that you could just rename the images and start the game off with your opponent being naked. I'm betting the ST version is the same way, and so it'd be really easy in that case to rename some custom images that were 24bit, no?

     

    Granted, I guess if the 'engine' for displaying such images would have to be tweaked tot support such an image.

     

    Ha, Strip Poker on the Jaguar...

  21. Posted

    This is going to be awesome. Much like the Lynx SD cart, this will allow me to just leave the one cart inserted for whenever I want to play a plethora of games. Since these systems are old and I always feel like I am going to tear up the boxes when I try to pull a cart out, I don't play it all that often.

     

    So many Jag games to play and win.....

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  24. Posted · Edited by leech

    Bastards! Now I feel obliged to order something from them...

     

     

    Ok no worrys, so there legit then.. Living in the uk, it's really hard to find certain games so have to look to the US..

    I'd love to know where I could get a copy of rayman from which would break the back lol..that games like gold dust in England..

     

    I actually got my copy of Rayman for $1. They had an 'Incredible Universe' here that was one of the few stores that had all the consoles at the time (yes, even CDi), but they were going out of business so were selling all their stock for cheap. The Rayman copy was marked down to $10, but the guy typed it in wrong and gave it to me for a dollar.

  25. Posted

    so what are you up to these days, anything to do with gaming?

     

    I'm still at it (dunno if you have seen TxK for Vita, it's more or less an evolved T2K with a proper frame rate). Currently finishing off a VR shooter that's ridiculous.

     

    My coding chair is from 1196 Borregas so my arse is still daily connected to good old Atari :D

    Sweet! T2K for VR? Ha, that would be incredibly difficult, though I still want a VLM in VR...

     

    What are you working on for VR? I have an HTC Vive and love it.

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