BeerGnome

Hey Al, Any luck...? I still have not had any emails from the site, PM notification or Post notification? -Tom 835908[/snapback] 'fraid to say I'm also suffering from No E-mail notification of any type, and have reconfirmed all the information.. everything is coposetic except that I'm not getting any notifications at all

I am with you, although, a "matrix" would suffice. Kind of like what Sony is going to do... http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/fun.games/04/...reut/index.html 834663[/snapback] AH-HAH! so the Soney R&D labs ARE filled with superscience experimented costumed super villians! Has the guild of clamitus intent been notified yet?

Not sure, but someone must own the rights to the Q*bert name (Atari or otherwise), and changing the name of the game is one way to help divert attention away from it. Some research needs to be done to see who presently owns the rights to the game. ..Al I looked this up a while ago, and according to www.uspto.com the trademark for Q*Bert on a video game cartridge belongs to Columbia Pictures. I have no idea why they have it, they must have a subsidiary in video games or something. I don't know about the copyright, but it would seem logical for the same company to also own the copyright. well of course a live action Q-bert movie! John goodman can be 'bert, Gary Busey, or Dennis Hopper as Coiley.. hmm..adam sandler and rob schiender as those two green guys...

That kit looks prety fun! It might be the perfect idea for that little bartop thing I wanna make.. just a little wooden box with a little gutted B/W tv.. I'm sure I could tap off the tv's PCB for the 4.5v now remapping them push button controls, and hooking up a coin box....

y'know.. I just havent had the time to complete the single player in HALO 2.. yes.. I know..many a person stayed up for 48 hours straight just to do that on launch date.. but. I kept getting distracted by shit like.. planning the wedding. I know.. prioities and shit.. I'm playing the game as if I'm playing out a scifi movie, and tot tell you the truth.. I allready pretty much know how this game ends, butin my minds eye, its just a connecting story... thin k in the long run what this series can do.. imagine if this shit was a movie in the seventies.. star wars would just be a blip in our collective imagination. of course.. now I need to bring the box over to the gentlemans crib whom I just set up his home theater at to finish the game.. looking like its going to be next monday and tuesday I take care of this.. nowhere near my bed.. but a block from the brewery but of course..my game fuel, is something loads of alcohol, not something with loads of caffine, yes... Im a drunk gamer, but it helps me on the camping sniper standpoint.. ahh...to set up camp, and to take out the opposing team witha head shot as they get to close to the base.... sure.. I know theres a rocket with my name on it but fuck it... I love the serinity of the nest. gimmie that5 sniper rifle.. and I can take out anyone any where on the field its... sick I can remeber this one time. when laying the girl in a death match I was able to hit her in ahead shot from accross the board a croc in the branches of a tree.. the only thing visable was the top of the helmet, but that's al it took and she went down after fighting to be out of range for fifteeen minutes. but I digress so much its sick what I like about Xbox is that it is simply the best console on the market for gaming at the time.. the current generation of pc games is pretty much what xbox was when it came out the first time, and at a budget PC price, PS2 only had tbackwards compitbility going for it.. but why should I get a PS2 just for faster load times, when Xbox was going to rape everyone else on performance? the GTA series is what finna;y broke that camels back and you compare the two side to side, and the visuals on x box rape the PS2 now, theres nothing left for GTA except tp radic;y update thier engine, but I still feel that any more alliterations of the series will stil be Xbox worthy at that point, and I'll still have to wait a year for the xbox 2 version so bring it on..I'm waiting

Xbox 2.. fall release date for hardware. big games for christmas maybe they hope for several huge christmas block busters that will put culmitave hardware sales to shame? so now you get people buying X2 for Xmas ( funny pun ) and the big tittles, and all the people who allready have bought the system buying the big games as well.

I must say.. I deffintly stand corrected// of course I never ment to offend. I just couldnt fanthom that size being practical..taht much glass is just going to have ass loads of imperfections as a read write device! I ned to do a better check on the link.. but whatt was the capicity on that drive? I was actually joking around tday with a co worker ( not deligitimaizing the drive. ) but I was saying how I knew of a guy who took a '70s era hard drive platter and turned into a coffee table, and the remebered how my first hard drive was a 2 meg deal.. and compreseed the hell out of the bitch and squeezed 6 megs off of it! the coffee table is Kick ass, and if I get a chance to relicate it.. ya darn toot'n I will I got the segment saved on my Tivo.. I am envius! congrats. and I need to buy that book PJ

I have no idea about all that.. I can only imagine.. in fact..I'm inclined to belive its bogus.. now somewhere around here I do have a early eighties floppy disk.. an 8.5 incher that looks just like the 5.25 floppies.. just...bigger.. I just say its may be bogus becouse I've never heard of a hard rive that big.. but then again.. most people dont realize that they actually made 8 inch floopy drives either. in the 70's the big thing was real to real, or punch card.. and yes .. I had to moretrofit some machines that were computer controled, and when asked to see the original code..they presented me witha filo box of punch cards... this was before I made beer for a living might I add.. I was a industrial control tech before this... my job was to rip out all the old shit, and replace it with new PLC shit. there ant nuthin like geek bliss till you see a big ass bank of relay logic and meet the crusty ass old electrical engineer who put it in. "yes sir.. I'm going to take these five cabinets of controll and reduce them down to ten lines of code, but it's okay..I'm gonna rape all this hardware and make a robot!" amazingly enough.. the line "raping your hardware" still illicited asmile of understanding from the 79 year old nerds ahhh.. geeks never die

I want a big ass hard drive platter coffee table too! :pout: unfortunatly I can't dump my Tivo to this here com-poter very easily so its going to be up to someone else to do the formalities.. excellent piece however..if not however feeling a bit rushed.

ahh man.. they must be playing in chicago next time.. I used new york for my skyline.. then again.. I need to load some good fonts into my computer here that and I chopped the hell out of the logo... congrats jeffy!

whoops..set the Tivo for tonight instead of tommorow can't wait!

Yes, with controllers the size of a Mini Cooper. Which would actually still make the controlers smaller than the original XBox controllers. -S 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.

Sorry 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

allright..heres my happy contribution.. I hope it falls within guidelines

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

$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?

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

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

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 it in 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.

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

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

wern't those labels text only?

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

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