[ebay: Atari 2600 Malagai | Goliath | Sancho | Suntek and more]

20 hours ago, Shawn said:

Even with the beat up label I thought you would get much more for that Malagai.

 

Yes, I was wondering too. Anyway, all double games have to go. That stuff's been around too long. At least the Ebay fees were very low this weekend.

[ebay: Atari 2600 Malagai | Goliath | Sancho | Suntek and more]

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[ebay: Atari 2600 Malagai | Goliath | Sancho | Suntek and more]

Hello,

 

i have some of my duplicate games on ebay.

 

It's worth a look.

 

ebay auctions: atari-trader

 

any questions? Let me know.

 

 

Thank you for your interest.

 

[Stella 6.4 released]

you can try names like these too

0123 - Palm Beach.bin or La Paloma.bin or (4k)_Palomino.bin

 

thanks for checking this

[Stella 6.4 released]

Thanks for the reply.

 

I stumbled upon it through various filenames.

In my case, for example 0123_Palxx.bin or 0123_xxxx(palxx).bin are well-fitting.

 

That doesn't look too isolated.

[Stella 6.4 released]

When i have an bin-file with the three letters "pal" in the filename, Stella starts the file in PAL Mode.

This is very  confusing.

 

Sure, i can press Control+F, but Is there a way to disable this "feature" by default? Maybe there is already a button for this?

 

Same situation with ntsc or secam in filenames, but i know no words with this beginning.

 

In any case, thank you for your permanently good project work

[Atlantis (Imagic, PAL) orange box]

not a big series, relatively easy to complete and nice to look at in the collection (all PAL)

 

AtariBoxed.com - Imagic White

[New Unimex Game found]

i have added it to the database right now

 

http://www.atariboxed.com Submarine/Umimex

[New Unimex Game found]

wow christian,

congrats to that great find.   I have to expand the database

This is the lowest actually known serial from a Unimex game. I am curious whether the SP-2810 will be found in the future

 

Now we also know how to name the unknown game from Datatech. Next time we see each other, I definitely have to take a closer look at this cart.

Please send me a scan of the cart when you have the time.

 

Greetings

Schitti

 

[Stella 6.2 released]

thanks to everyone to clarify the problem and work out a solution. Partly now implemented in version 6.2.1. Thank you in advance.
Actually i am only interested in the snapshot output free from post processing. If this future snapshot output now had the zoom 2x 3x ... ecetera, then that would be what I asked for initially.

But I think I can also work well with the 1x only if it is implemented as announced.

So far I had only used the Stella sporadically. That will be more for our project in the future.

thank you guys

[Stella 6.2 released]

@alex_79

i have seen your bug report (stella issue 643) with the enabled tv-effects in 1x mode for screenshots. this helps me a little with my problem.

the 1x screenshots i made were too blurry for my use and i was wondering why the 300% looks so much better (but still stretched). This is the reason why i have asked for the 300% perfect pixel ratio.

[Stella 6.2 released]

btw

video & audio button in the debugger mode isnt working too.

stella program quits without a message

[Stella 6.2 released]

start Stella
start a rom
hit the circumflex on the keyboard
choose "Options" in stella
choose "Emulation"
choose "Turbo mode"
then press "OK"

voila here is the problem

[Stella 6.2 released]

ALL settings are default

 

same situation with zoom 250%

[Stella 6.2 released]

29 minutes ago, Dionoid said:

Hi guys, thanks for the new Stella release!

 

The first thing I tried is the new Emulation menu, however when I change the emulation speed (or tick the Turbo checkbox) and then click "OK", Stella shrinks to a small window and freezes up (see screenshot below). It does this for every game, and even when I don't change any settings, but just click the "OK" button in the Emulation window.

Note that I'm using the Windows 64-bit version.

 

 

I can confirm that

 

 

if i hit enter, i get for a second this text on the close button position.

"...able to show the dialog box; FIX THE CO......"

maybe it helps you

[Stella 6.2 released]

This is for internal purposes in our project for possible later use. I can stretch the image when it is shown on the website so that it is displayed correctly as it looks on a CRT, but I want to keep the original aspect ratio of the images from the 1x zoom mode (plus 300%).

 

haha, that's taking on dimensions ...... thanks for your patience

[Stella 6.2 released]

31 minutes ago, alex_79 said:

If you disable interpolation and TV filters and use a reasonably high zoom factor (e.g 300% or more), you can obtain screenshots which are very close in look to the pixel-perfect ones (no blurred edges), but scaled up and with correct aspect ratio (so, same size for NTSC and PAL):

 

Thank you for your help. It's not exactly the result I'm aiming for, but it's another option.

I would prefer if the outer dimensions of the result were different, i.e. the original size exactly 300% larger.
Maybe I just use an older version of Stella.
I will check it.

[Stella 6.2 released]

sure,

if it were only one pic, or ten, or a hundred pictures, then yes. I just want to save myself the extra effort on my work if it is possible otherwise.
Actally i explore what options i have with Stella before i start making screenshots.

 

I am still in the decision phase

[Stella 6.2 released]

13 hours ago, Thomas Jentzsch said:

The latter.  

 

The 1x screenshot does no scaling whatsoever. So you get pixel perfect results. But they do not have the correct aspect ratio. 

The normal screenshots save whatever you see on your display. And there the images are scaled vertically for correct aspect ratio.

Ok, so then back to my first question. Is it possible to disable change this somewhere? i need a 300% zoomed perfect pixel result from the not scaled 1x mode pic and no vertically scaled pic.

[Stella 6.2 released]

1 hour ago, Thomas Jentzsch said:

The pics are not stretched. A CRT picture has always the same size no matter if it is PAL or NTSC. Previously Stella did that wrong.

Thanks for your reply. Yes you are right on the crt picture, but.....

 

... i try to put my question differently.

If i make with Stella 6.2 a snapshot with "ignore scaling (1x mode)"

from the Rom Pac-Man 1981 Atari NTSC the result is a screenshot with 320x228

from the Rom Pac-Man 1981 Atari PAL the result is a screenshot with 320x274

well so far.

but if i make a screenshot with default zoom mode = 300%

the screenshot from NTSC is 960x720 and

the screenshot from PAL is 960x720 too

 

where is the misthake in the zoom result, or in the 1x mode, or in my point of view?

 

[Stella 6.2 released]

Hi Stella Team,

i have a question about a function since (Stella release 6.1)

• Major improvements to display mode handling in NTSC vs. PAL. The window is now the same size for both modes, and scaling is applied to simulate the height of scanlines (in PAL mode, there are more scanlines and hence each is narrower). This more properly emulates how the display would look on a real TV.

 

Is it possible to disable this function somewhere? Or maybe I do not know where to switch.

If i make screenshots with option "Ignore scaling (1x mode)" i get image in original size. But when  i choose the default settings with Zoom 300% i get a image with 960x720 every time, regardless of whether it is PAL or NTSC. I want no stretched pic.

 

Anyway, you're doing a really great job.
Thanks for that.

[FS: Cannon Man Sears CiB + BMX Airmaster + Space Canyon Panda + Miner Vol.II .....]

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..... and a lot of other interesting boxed Atari 2600 games right now on ebay, ending in a few hours

https://www.ebay.de/sch/atari-trader/m.html

 

 

[My gatefold games]

38 minutes ago, high voltage said:

Never seen a Coleco gatefold

 

surely

i meant Berenstain Bears

[My gatefold games]

On 1/10/2020 at 8:08 AM, high voltage said:

there's also Sega, Gakken, Mystigue, Xonox gatefolds.

 

plus Konami, Video Gems, Playaround, Coleco

(without brazil companies)

 

does the german parker boxes count too ?

 

[Weird Pirate Multicart]

Hi Jason,

 

nice find. Thanks for showing the cart in action. This company is indeed not easy to find.

 

i have seen this somewhere before, but i can't remember, if my 2in1 carts from this company have these lights too. i will dig them out this week. These were from the first batch of scanned modules in 2014 that we had uploaded to the database.  At that time we had not yet scanned the top label.

 

lol, I have to dust off the box and have a look.