Agent57
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Does anyone have a copy of "Masquerade" on disk? I loved playing it when it first appeared on the TI-99 4/a, but have never found it for the 8-bit Atari.Never heard of this,on the TI-99 or the Atari 8-bits. Anyone else?
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Im feeling extremly generos tonight so attached is the program
Ok, I dug it out of my archives since I was curious also
Enjoy and let me know your results!
Great, now I'm fighting the urge to pull those drives out and start messing around again. Haven't seen that program in AGES...
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This is a prog called makedisk that will allow an IBM drive to write SS/DD disks for the Atari - it is difficult to use but I got it to work on a few things before I got my SIO2PC cable.When you did this bacn then, what type of 5 1/4" drive did you use? I could not get this program to work at all back then on a variety of drives (360k, 720k, 1.2MB) and just gave up...
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What IF I USE THE SAME TYPE OF DOS? Eh Nukey Shay??
Not to sound discouraging, but I spent a lot of time (TOO MUCH time!) a few years ago trying to make this happen. I had a 360K 5 1/4" drive and simply could NOT make the thing write sectors which were even remotely recognizeable to an Atari drive. As someone said above, the firmware of the drive is limited to writing IBM-type sectors and there is no way you can write a program to change that - you can change the sectors per track, bytes per sector, and even mess with the sector offset (I did all of this) but you can't change the way the drive creates disk sectors. Well, at least not without disassembling the firmware and hacking it to make Atari compatiable disks...and that's well beyond my abilities. Using one of the suggestions pointed out above will prove to be a lot more productive in the end!
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Rarity guide...http://my.execpc.com/~krieg/links/8bit.cartsJeez, I just looked at that list. I had a TON of the ER's on there, actually gave most of them away back in the day...yikes
*smacks self in forehead*
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Racquetball (unplayable)
Star Ship (God-awful)
I want my mommy (I want my money back)
Skeet Shoot (oh, thrill)
Basic Programming (yikes)
Home Run (laughable)
Human Cannonball (held my interest for about 8 seconds back in the day)
and my all-time most-hated 2600 cart:
3D Tic-Tac-Toe (received this as a gift back then, I'm STILL holding a grudge against that person
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Something I'm curious about: Since the 5200 ver. is basically the same as the 8k 400/800 cart, did they add the intermissions specifically for the 5200 cart version? Or, was there already a 16K version "in the labs" with intermissions which were stripped out for the 400/800 version to fit the cart in 8K when it was originally released? Anybody have any insight here?
Too much time on my hands, I know...
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One of my faves for the 8-bits. Once you get past the fact that it doesn't quite look like the arcade game, you'll be in for many hours of fun. Playability is excellent and I would agree that it is a "must-have". Still can't believe this was never released for the 8-bits...yikes.
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In no particular order...
Solar Fox (I can play this for hours on end)
Circus Atari
Tunnel Runner
Super Breakout (Progressive)
H.E.R.O. (this game still kicks my ass)
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I am curious about his version of how Tod Frye managed to get his 10 cents per cart royalties for doing PacMan. Did Atari offer this to him as an incentive or did Tod realize he had them over a barrel and demand the royalties? Hmm...I know what I would have done if I was in his shoes!
About Chris' missive, what did he expect to see in those videos? I personally wanted to hear about 2600 programmers and how fun it was to work at Atari and that's exactly what HSW gave us. I, for one, didn't want to hear about the inter-departmental BS that went on at Atari, as EVERY office has the same politics.
As Scott S. has said, it was the 2600 programmers who made Atari what it was and Howard's videos are a fitting tribute to them.
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Well, I found that article quite amusing, even though it's total tripe. Quite simply, my generation is lazier than my parent's - no secret there. I'm 33 now, and the next generation seems to be even worse (is that even possible?!?) Blaming Atari for this is like blaming the bulldog on the Mack truck that ran you over. I do admit that I would have been outdoors much more often in the later 70's / early 80's if it wasn't for Atari, and I remember that my school was pratically begging people to go out for sports back when home videogames hit. The main problem today with the young folk seems to be information overload - between the Internet, home videogames, and TV, it's no wonder a 14 year old today has about a half-second attention span. People can blame this on whatever they want, but leave Atari out of it, dammit! Actually, after re-reading the article, I realized that it's just a (badly mis-guided) attempt at levity anyway...
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Yes, it's an awesome game, but I STILL can't make it past level 2 after all these years and I'm no slouch at action games. I thought this game was a real BITCH once you get into it a bit...