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I love that our beloved machine medaled in each category and swept the 120 category. Doubly happy I could be a part of it, as I really enjoyed the challenge.

I'm mostly a lurker here these days but I have been listening to the show since Episode 1 (although much less often now that I don't have to commute from Kitchener to Mississauga anymore). Anyway, I'm jumping out of my shell just to say thank you for this. Whomever he is, Glenn was a big part of my childhood much like everybody else's. I'm really looking forward to that interview, so thank you for putting the time and effort into tracking him down and sitting down to talk with him, as well as the effort you put in each month to the show.

Well don't I feel stupid - yes it does for me too. I swear I tried that (and in Altirra) but obviously I must have been mistaken.

I'm 99.7% certain they are/were bootable, but seem to remember that there was something very specific about what you had to do to get them to boot, and I can't remember. Hoping somebody else does. BTW: You can see the files on the disk no problem if I look at the disk in DOS. Which reminds me, I should attach one! I'll edit the original post.

I've been going through my old Atari diskettes (which I had dumped to atr files a long time ago, but never really looked through) and I have come across half a dozen or so which are 'Noorda Disk' I think it's some sort of menu system, but I can't seem to get an emulator to load them properly. A quick Google search didn't reveal any information on what they are, so I thought I'd ask here. What are they and how do I get them to load? (FWIW, I'm pretty sure we were able to load these back when we just had the Atari 400. I did try a switch to OS-B and the 400/800 machine, but it still didn't load) EDIT: Duh, I've uploaded a diskette so you can take a look if you're interested. The first file on the disk is 'Noorda D.isk' according to MyDos (5 sectors in size). And yes, it uses mixed case and has a space in it. _M2.atr

That was awesome! That's really all I have to say.

Another go round: 38690. Got to Level 5. Wow was Level 5 tough - I had a huge stock pile of zeppelins left but burned through them pretty fast.

LOL - and here I've thought I had a buggy version all this time! It never occurred to me you'd start at level 7 and then work your way to level 1.

16650 here, after a couple of gos. I also used the vjetnam (non cheat) version. But (and his is what I remember), when I start a game it says 'entering level 7' - how did you get to level 6 McKong? So far I haven't encountered any bugs on my 1200 XL running XL/XE Rev B (I have a multi DOS mod courtesy of Stephen Tucker installed, so that I can easily switch OSs if I need the ole' OS-B for something ) I'm going to try one of the atarionline.pl ones next, just to see if I can start at level 1. That vjetnam one has the letter 'k' on screen when you're loading, which I think maens someone made the atr from an xex image. I'm hoping the atarionline.pl atr versions are a little different (though i do see they have a k version too)

Two scores for me: 7110 (level 2 again) for Normal. I threw my hat in on Expert as well - 1370. I was too stubborn to play Easy

New high score for me: 2730 Got all the targets for level 1 and then crashed.. 5060, level 2 The only thing I've noticed that looked odd to me was the flickering on that mission start screen (when it tells me I'm starting level 1 and counts up the targets). The text usually flickered there, around the 'v' in level. The game is hard but on each play through I get a little better. I think the hardest part is not knowing what you can and cannot come into contact with, and when. I think your biggest challenge in finding an audience is the learning curve - I can see lots of players not keeping with it because of how hard it is to play without consulting the manual a few times. Having said that, I personally love playing homebrews by people I know, and I'm sure lots of others do/will as well Overall I'm impressed with the effort it must have taken to make this - many, many kudos!!!

This will probably sound naive, but is there a properly fixed version of Zeppelin? The one I remember started at a later level (like 6 or 7 or something), and was prone to crashing. The game was so much fun to play though that I'd keep trying it regardless.

So far my best score is 700 - I have to totally admit I had no idea what I was doing (I got 0 in my first play through). I'll hit the manual and try again

Happy to see that the 'Ramp Rage' I picked is the game we'll be playing, since it has the most votes out of any ramp rage

OK. I've finally played them all. Don't know if I'll get a chance to play more before the deadline (long weekend here and it's my turn with my kids ) Here's what I've got: Pooyan: 70,550 Ballonacy: 3,694 Crazy Clown Jumper: 600 Clowns & Balloons (Beginner): 21,780 Clowns & Balloons (Advaned): 29,40 Clowns & Balloons (Expert): 25,930 Up Up and Away: 340 Ducks and Balloons: 95 271 Pinhead 14,420 I just realized what I was doing wrong in D&B, so I might give that a quick go again. That 95 was with pushing the button like once (not realizing I had to hold it in LOL). I did manage to get through a bunch of levels, but you lose points when you touch bad stuff and it's hard to avoid bad stuff when you can't fly properly Pinhead is a game I remember from the 80s but I really like C&B as a new game. Balloonacy was fun too. Pooyan I've never really enjoyed, although I get why it's popular. I swear I used to be better at it

I won't definitively say it's true, but this wouldn't surprise me. I do seem to recall having plots like, say, food on the plain for a long part of the game seeming to do better as the game went along, outperforming the expected output. But that could be faulty memory on my part for sure.

FWIW I use a Windows tablet with SIO2PC... But it's back from the days when PC tablets required a pen, is about an inch thick, and still runs Windows XP

Picnic Paranoia should be on the bugs playlist!

I feel like the prophet Zarquon showing up at the last minute, wondering if he's too late? 5580 Class 2 Squadron Leader I remember liking this when it first came out, but I haven't played it in *forever*. (Now I'll go back and read the rest of the thread - sorry, but things have been crazy the last two weeks and I just haven't had the time I wanted to have to dedicate to the old Atari. But I'll always put in a score, even if I only get to play one game)

No pictures this time out, since I couldn't tell which one was which anyway Round 1: 646 Round 2: 536 Round 3: 301 Total: 1483 I like the game but don't love it. I will say I'm impressed that it was done in 2010. (I'm starting to notice that the games I do *really* well on are the ones I played when they were new, which means that gaming muscle memory must truly exist )

Well I guess I'll eat my hat a little bit - I did manage to get a pretty decent score on Alley Cat after all - 191,292. (As an added bonus, I managed to make it a selfie of sorts LOL) I also tried out Tin Pan Alley Cats and kinda liked it. 2,650. Have to admit I had as much fun getting it running my real Atari as I did playing it. Sorry about the bad pic:

I actually disagree with this statement, even though I do like the game. It's easy to see why someone would get frustrated with it, and if I hadn't played it a lot back in the 80s I could definitely see myself not liking it. I've got a score but I'll wait until I can add a screenshot (which is another way of saying I can't remember the score until I see the picture ). I can't believe how big McKong's score is now, let alone the HSC high score. There's no *way* I get close to that - well done sir!

It's about time I chime in with my score, in case I don't get another chance to play before the deadline. 75,500 (the picture is blurry because, let's face it, the score doesn't last long on the screen ) Count me amongst those who did not vote for this one. I've never actually played it before this but I like it okay. When it comes to voting, though, I will vote for anything but the arcade conversations personally. Not that I don't like them (I certainly loved them at the time), but in this day and age where I have a MAME machine in the basement and can play a much closer approximation to the original than a port, I find the ports boring. I'd much rather play something that was specific to the Atari or at least only available on it and it's competition at the time

Well, I put off playing this until the last minute because, frankly, I never liked the game and I'm not very good at it. (The two are probably related ) I just seem to die constantly, and I have no interest in learning the patterns. Anyway, just to put me on the board I got 41400

Sounds like a great name for an indie game! (I'd go with "Butter me up, KONG" personally)