BeerGnome
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...but how do I grab the ROM image and drop it onto floppy from My PC, and still have it readable on the vintage Mac. I don't have a new mac.. so at this point.. I don't care about thatSorry if I missed this in an earlier post I didn't bother to read, but how old is the Mac in question? Macs were able to read PC floppies for quite some time. I think pretty much any Mac that can run System 7 or later can read PC floppies. (Maybe even before that... it just needs a "SuperDrive"... from back when that term didn't refer to a DVD-R burner!)
well..the mac I would most like to play with would be the M001..ie..the 1984 model that tigger was asking about when he first strated this thread
the other one I have is the performa 630cd, and I think its old enough to be the first generation with CD-rom standard.. don't hold me to that, I'm not that familier at all with linieage and OS's for the mac.
however.. I'm allreasdy reserved to the fact that it might take using a new mac, to put stuff on the old mac
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allright..heres my happy contribution.. I hope it falls within guidelines
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yeah...thats all what I figured this old mac monitor is wider than a standard VGA, oh well..that monitor is for the performa.. I wont worry about that much.
but as for macs and floppy..my question had nothing to do with current generation its the older ones..like this M001, or the performa.. I know theres emulation code for the computer itself.. but how do I grab the ROM image and drop it onto floppy from My PC, and still have it readable on the vintage Mac. I don't have a new mac.. so at this point.. I don't care about that
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$499 for the mac mini is doable for me.. almost.. I can't put out any money untill after the wedding. but my question is this.. are mac monitors properitary? I meen I have a mac performa 630cd here and the monitor is pretty much..MAC only. well.. it doesn't say macintosh.. but the cord is defintly not VGA, so I can't use it for anything else.. of course..its only 17 inches.. and I'm useing 20 inch monitors everywhere else.. so I'm not heartbroken.
now.. I'm going to have to take a picture of my Mac model# M001 tomorow in the daylight.. my wecam is for shit with artificial light.
amazingly enough.. this M001 is fully functional except a eject problem with the internal floppy drive.. but I also have a second external. so thats okay.
I just wonder if I could hunt down vintage software for this guy on the net..and if I do.. how would I get it on there.. this thing reads floppys for external programs.. how do I write disks for it with my PC?
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Frogs 'n Flies is M-Network. Mythicon only did Sorcerer, Firefly and Starfox. And I would have left Combat, unless it was in a baggie with a less common game (which is pretty much any other game) :-)yeah..combat was with swordquest...
and .. yeah..messed up on frog and flies in my original post, ment to say M-network.. I really really did!
this thrift is usually pretty good hunting actually.. its independant and not as corrupt as the salvation army and whatnot
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I was out thrifting for some work pants and found some gems.. actually.. a pretty big haul, but I picked through and left some behind for my fellow richmond collectors.. who have been notified... amazingly enough.. they were all priced at $2.95 per little baggy, each containing 2 games...
except one game all by its lonesome. same price though...
it would appear that the manager knew what he was doing and placed some commons in with some potential rareties.. and the one cart by its lonesome looked so bizzare it was priced by it'self
that game was frog and flies, by mythicon and its only a 2 on the guide.
heh... go figure..
so lets see what I grabbed here huh?
telegames 27 target fun
combat.. of course
freeway red label
yars revenge ( I just needed that one )
swordquest fireworld silverlabel
Sorcerer by mythicon
and you allready know..frogs and flies...
not a bad little haul
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wow! another Richmond VA AAer! welcome!
come by legend brewing sometime, ask for PJ, and I'll get ya brewpop!
in any case.. about a year ago I hit a deal at Fan-tastic thrift on Main street.. 20 carts for ten bucks!, nothing really special though.
Don't forget.. right up the street there at sticky rice Jon has a 2600 set up on the bar for anyone to play, at least the last time i was up there, He sometimes has issues with the units, and people are constantly busting his sticks.
I still have it in mind to start up a Barleague Warlords tourney
, Jons all up for itin any case.. I haven't been by the super flea on Hull street in a while, but the last time I was up there there was a guy who was dealing specificly in vintage games and I picked up a joystick from him for $2.
also I hear theres a guy dealing in vints over at the flea on Jeffdavis at the old drive in theatre OH!
Macadoos over on Lakeside avenue usually has a small selection of games for various units over there.. last time I checked she had some CDi stuff and some genisis stuff.. but nothing really amazing.. there all over by the tapes.. butt he lady there knows me and knows what I'm looking for and is usually hunting herself for stuff becouse she knows I check in once a month.. so check it out.
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lets get one bit of nitpicking out of the way right now..
the thoery of six degrees of seperation is based on the calculations that can prove that givin the population of the earth that by mathmatics its able to be proven that everyone on the planet can make a connection to someone else on the planet in as little as six connections,
the game six degrees of kevin bacon came about becouse kevin baco is such a workaholic that its easy to make a connection between him and other hollywood actors, also take in acount of the limited number of actors available to the poll.
I have my own rules to the game, and I don't think set pieces should be included, unless particular set piece in movie A was used in movie B, that Keven bacon happen to be staring in, no gross examples...
there.. I got my geek on...
now lets continue..
its not the matter of the code thats at issue..its the matter of licensing and franchise., the code really doesn't matter a hill of beans to the look and feel of a game.
adventure is adventure no matter what you do to it, however.. a hack of adventure, a good one.. like the adventure two hack could be successfully marketed to the right hardcore gamer.as in it retains the same look and feel of the game, with enough improvements within the confines of the media to make it stand out..
the borg wars Hack, while interesting, could not be considered very marketable becouse its just graphical in its illiteration, yer also dealing with whomever is dealing with the franchise rights for star treck on that one. most importantly.. theres no real exploitaion of the code except to make the aseroids look like Borg ships, its still asteroids, and atari has that license for that game, so its a no no..
this is why homebrews are still an option, becouse Atari lost the court order back in the eighties about third party developers. they cannot controll what CAN run on the system, just what THEY CAN put onto the system.
unfortunatly this applies to lost games that they never released. even though the game wasn't released, they still own the license to make said gameso combatII is out, even though it was never finished, and was never formally released, atari owns the combat name, so it is there fore thier leagal right to with as they see fit.
same goes for... I belive A-team and sabatage? correct me if I'm wrong ( and i know you will ) these are two games are one and the same except the graphic diffrences, in essence... an enternal hack by our standerds, but marketing on thiers., its a no no, becouse they own the license for the code, and bought a license for the A-team franchise rights.
it sucks, but its buisness
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lets get one bit of nitpicking out of the way right now..
the thoery of six degrees of seperation is based on the calculations that can prove that givin the population of the earth that by mathmatics its able to be proven that everyone on the planet can make a connection to someone else on the planet in as little as six connections,
the game six degrees of kevin bacon came about becouse kevin baco is such a workaholic that its easy to make a connection between him and other hollywood actors, also take in acount of the limited number of actors available to the poll.
I have my own rules to the game, and I don't think set pieces should be included, unless particular set piece in movie A was used in movie B, that Keven bacon happen to be staring in, no gross examples...
there.. I got my geek on...
now lets continue..
its not the matter of the code thats at issue..its the matter of licensing and franchise., the code really doesn't matter a hill of beans to the look and feel of a game.
adventure is adventure no matter what you do to it, however.. a hack of adventure, a good one.. like the adventure two hack could be successfully marketed to the right hardcore gamer.as in it retains the same look and feel of the game, with enough improvements within the confines of the media to make it stand out..
the borg wars Hack, while interesting, could not be considered very marketable becouse its just graphical in its illiteration, yer also dealing with whomever is dealing with the franchise rights for star treck on that one. most importantly.. theres no real exploitaion of the code except to make the aseroids look like Borg ships, its still asteroids, and atari has that license for that game, so its a no no..
this is why homebrews are still an option, becouse Atari lost the court order back in the eighties about third party developers. they cannot controll what CAN run on the system, just what THEY CAN put onto the system.
unfortunatly this applies to lost games that they never released. even though the game wasn't released, they still own the license to make said gameso combatII is out, even though it was never finished, and was never formally released, atari owns the combat name, so it is there fore thier leagal right to with as they see fit.
same goes for... I belive A-team and sabatage? correct me if I'm wrong ( and i know you will ) these are two games are one and the same except the graphic diffrences, in essence... an enternal hack by our standerds, but marketing on thiers., its a no no, becouse they own the license for the code, and bought a license for the A-team franchise rights.
it sucks, but its buisness
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what was tht one thing called I think it's a fake but never the less it was a company that you would rent games from and they would have white labels.wern't those labels text only?
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I've been offline for a couple of months and am now just reading about this from a big story in Game informer...
and I so wanted some hard copies of some of these hacks.. particuarly Bezerk Voice inhanced
I certainly hope that an arrangemnt can be made..
that new atari flash back is just a bundle..
and unless infogrames reintroduces a console that can accept carts these games are liable to be buried in copyright laws.
however what I read in the article is that Infogram has no intention of qelching the homebrew market at all.. the third party lawsuit back in the eighties gives them no right to infringe on anyone making code for the consoles
however.. one disturbing thing I could possibly forsee happining is them claiming the modified versions of thier licensed product and selling it themselves, leaving all the folks who made those hacks out in the weeds. if this would be the case.. thier should be some type of compensation made to the programer who did the hacking... unfortunatly, in trade law.. I can only see the judge deciding that noone could use the exploited code after that, and infogrames only having right to the original code, and the hacked code being illeagal., wich is a shame becouse VE bezerk is basicly the closets thing that yer going to come to for a true to arcade port on the VCS.
thats just my two cents on the matter
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I've had the game since the day after it came out., Havent beat it yet mind ya, but its pretty much been marathon play for a night.. then three days off to recooperate.
I guess it doesn't help that my Gaming fuel is a 7.5%abv beer
in any case.. I've been loving on this game and have been treating it like playing a sci-fi movie, I'm really diggin on the story line and think that its very well written and put together.
Currently I'm at the part where the master chief and aribitor are put to the task of recovering the sacred Icon by the FLoods collective controller.
interesting things seem to be happening in the world of HALO in reguards to politics and religion to the ultimate end that the game is moe about the covenant than the Humans
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not sure about the games, but heres the Movie information from the internet movie database
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I was at Gamestop last night and reserved the special HALO2 Platinumn edition, apperntly it has extra behind the scene footage and what not included, and a fancy ass tin case, it was only $5 more than the standard edition.. so why the hell not?
I then went next door to the Staples and picked up a Next gear wifi router hub for the broad band conection....
next purchase is the Xbox wifi adapter and hook everything up on the network.
My gamestop is hosting a HALO tournement this sunday... unfortunatly.. they'll be playing when I'm working
in any case.. its a test tourny and if it proves succesful, they're gonna start having it on a regular basis, so I can modify my work schedule to accomodate
.looks they're doing CTF and slaughter with no "camping" so I can't do the sit and wait sniper shots that I'm well versed at.
in any case.. I just got the girl the sims "bustin out" so its looking like no home death match for me for at least 2 weeks.
actually..its kinda nice that she's stuck on the game.. I can sit back here in the Den of eniquity in peace with out feeling guilty about surfing for hours on end
@ tigger
year.. it is pretty cool.. playing death match is a nice little way of airing out grievences before they go to fisticufs. we even do co-op play
we're still stuck in the librabry however.. its not like were running headlong to complete the game.. but those flood bastards are quite trifling
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Hey.. remember when video game tie ins with a hollywood release was a novelty?
now its expected
I'm just waiting for some one to come out with a live action GTA movie, Hell, I'm surprised it hasn't been done allready.
in any case.. the video game industry has gone extremly main stream to the point where some video games production budgets are riveling Big budget movies, and being delivered with all the hype of a summer blockbuster release.
if there is money to be made, they'll try to make it
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SO, me and the little lady were playing some HALO Deathmatch in Blood gulch last night.
after she managed to take me down I respawned at the base all the way accross the board I grabbed the sniper rifle and scanned over at the base where she was holding out. She was standing on top of the base and I was able to take her out with a head shot from all the way accross the play field!
She's all hollering "WHAT THE HELL!? what happenned to me!?!"
well dear.. I blew your head off
she respawns in front of the same base she was and runs inside to collect some more weapons. in the meen time Im sprinting down field and run up the canyon wall to a little out crop about half way down and start to sight the base. as it just so happens I have a bead on one of the entrances to the base.. as she comes running out I let out a shot that just misses her
thru the split screen she can see that I have her right in my sights.
except that damn tree thats right in my line of fire, and she's hiding behind it.
she slips out really fast and lets out a shot with her sniper rifle that goes god knows where and backs up, at the same time I let out a shot that goes over her head.
I scan back at the tree..
and I see my shot.
right at the crook in the tree limbs, theres the top of her helmet.
just a little highlight might I add, but enough to light up my site, I pull the trigger and the top of her head goes flying off!
Instant kill!
needless to say we were both amazed at this shot.
Now, I have always loved to use sniper rifles in FPS's, but I really haven't done any team play with these games.
but I'm under the understanding that people hate snipers.
yes, I will fully admidt that My uniform is all black, I hide in the shadows, and snipe people from long distances.
Now.. I can see this as not being very fair in a slayer match, and I would be the asshole to kill.
but say a troupe game of capture the flag I would suppose that it would be an ivaluable role as a long distance base defender.
thats my take on it at least... I can't wait to hook up Xbox Live
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The Mother unit enjoyed the Family Circus cartoon... I ended up with the name P.J., used all my life.
the last name is "Seay" pronounced with a silant "y"
hence
PJC
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I'm still waiting for Project Ego/Fable to ship.
they've been pimping that high concept virtually since the begining
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I say since the price drop has happened again.. its a pretty good buy.. I love my Xbox, and have very little problems with it.
we all must remember that the Xbox is a far superior system.....
then again..... we said the same thing about the colecovision twenty years ago.......
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AHHHCK! all the vehicles! why did they have to tie stearing in with the damn camera!?
trying to get the damn thing moving forward and all of a sudden my view is going around in circles!
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Oh I've been enjoying the hell out of the game.. I got to the point I got stuck in a 18 hour game bender. Hopefully I'll be able to hit these hints come monday and do this for another 18 hours straight
for some reason.. I think I'm going to kill this game before I kill Vice city
my only complaint.. why the hell did they design the driving mechanics to make you feel like a dozen monkey's trying to skrew a football? I love the rhino but damn its a pain in the ass
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Ngage had a good concept..too bad nobody seems to have saw fit to test market the form factor.. I saw info on the next gen Ngage..with the ability to change games with out tearing the damn thing half apart, and use the phone function with out looking like your talking into a chrome taco.
problem is, this thing was pimped at the gamer community and.. lets face it..we tend to be a fickle lot.. and the fact that this thing launched SO poorly tells me its going to fail.. nobody is going to care about nex gen improvements...A national launch is no time to be doing Beta
theres a lot of buzz about PSP.. but.. I wanna see it before I belive it..
sony took Nin's thunder before.. and theres a rabid following out there for the name.. however Nintendo DOES have a stranglehold on the handheld market, they've taken a lot of people head on and killed the vastly superior compition down..
now another personal opinion on the matter.. I see no use for two screens on a game boy..I think they would do better to concentrate thier efforts on improving on what they allready have.. I just think that two screens might get a bit confusing if your displaying too much information at one time.. you know..the old K.I.S.S. phylosophy? Keep It Simple Stupid?
more bells and whistles does not always meen a better product
wait.. the question was will hand helds ever die?
No
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hmmmm.. don't remember any boxes in the center of the room...
i've been thinking its some kind of timeing puzzle..
yeah.. its the bridge thats shutting on and off.. and if you drop.. you gotta go backwards.. run up some burning debre to get back up to the top floor and re-hit the bridge.
great game.. I can't belive it took me so long to get it
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allright.. I'm trying to escape from the "flood" and I've managed to get to a malfunctioning light bridge thats heeding my forward progress
any ideas?
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now now..maybe the original controller..but the S-type is rather comfortable.. then.. I have HUGE hands.. PS controllers seem to get lost in them.. and My hands cramp up a lot with them.