What is a white Sears Tele-games system worth?

[What is a white Sears Tele-games system worth?]

This would be perfect to go with my Snow White cart!

 

Oh wait, I don't have one. Guess I won't bid.

[Parker Bros Protos]

I don't dispute that LOTR is less than thrilling, but it would still be a nice cart to have. The map is one of the best pieces of graphics in a Stella game. Besides:

 

There's really no strategy to it, it's just a race to Rivendale.

 

That's how it was in the book too. (And unlike the movie, Frodo didn't get any help from Arwen.)

[Parker Bros Protos]

But maybe, if there is enough demand, I'll do a few more.

 

I figured there would be tons of demand for LOTR. I'll definitely buy a cart when it becomes available, and I've been saving a label-less Frogger cart for just such an occasion.

[What I Want: Centipede/Milipede TB]

A little off-topic (or off-forum), but how well does the trackball work with the 7800 version of Centipede? Is there room for improvement?

[How to make Breakout 4K?]

Thanks Dennis! Your code did the trick. I'll do my homework to understand the BRK interrupt more, since it never came up in Combat.

 

By the way, I've been having fun with my recently acquired Climber 5.

[How to make Breakout 4K?]

When I was hacking Combat, I expanded it to 4K simply by adding the following lines at the end:

 

ORG $FFFC

.word $f000

.word $0000

 

Unfortunately, it isn't working for Breakout. I can produce a 4K file, but Z26 displays it as garbage. I also tried replacing $f000 and $0000 with the last four bytes of the original Breakout, without success.

 

Any idea what's going on?

[Jakks Atari Paddle Controller 13-in-1 Review]

Will the AtariAge store be selling the paddle?

[Who here has a VCS but doesn't own Combat?]

It's unfortunately true. I no longer have the time I once had for Atari programming. Life has changed quite a bit since I finished school.

 

At least we have a demo that shows that one player Combat is possible. The problem of getting the tank to navigate obstacles has been solved. Now it just needs some improvements to make the game challenging, and I have some ideas how that can be done.

 

I am open to the idea of someone else taking over Tank AI. If anyone is seriously interested in continuing the project, I'll explain how the demo works.

 

I'd say that "never" is too strong a word. Look at how many years passed between updates to INV.

[2600 Rainbow Invaders In Development]

What's up with Kickman? Hasn't that been on there for like ten years?

 

We ought to lobby Mike to release the Kickman binary. I've seen it, and while it's clearly not a finished game, it's fun to play.

[To the Canadian AA members, Tell us your sob stories for $39]

stayed with a female friend of mine who I met during my first week there. She was a distant cousin of my ex-finance and was quite attractive. Needless to say, my stay at her farmhouse was an excellent time. Both in the fact that I got to see alot more of Poland, I got away from my ex, and I got some good power-ups

 

This is a sob story?

[Help, are any of these rare ?]

My hypothesis: this story was concocted to make a point about being nice to newbies.

[NWCGE 2K4 may 8-9th]

Just wanted to say I had a good time. It was nice to meet Rick Weis, Lee Krueger, and Jarret (aka PackratVG). I picked up a bunch of not-so-rare carts along with Skeleton+ and NWCGE Invaders.

 

Sorry I missed you, angusjake, (and sorry I didn't meet the lady in your avatar.)

[NWCGE Meet - Joe Decuir to Bring Stella]

Nevermind. I found the schedule:

 

 

Saturday May 8th

 

6:00 am > Vendor Setup

 

9:00 am > Open

 

9:00 am - 4 pm > Contests TOO MANY TO LIST HERE!

 

2:00 pm > Fusion Frenzy Contest (XBOX)

 

4:00 pm > Contest Winners Announced and prizes awarded *

 

4:30 pm > Drawing for PS2 w/Games *

 

5:00 pm > Close

 

5:00 - 6:00 pm > Swap meet

 

 

 

* Contestants must be present to win

 

Random Prizes to be given out during the day

 

 

 

Sunday, May 9th

 

10:00 am > Open

 

12:00 pm > Joe Decuir Keynote on Atari 2600

 

1:00 - 4:00 pm > Atari 2600 Championship

 

5:00 > Close

 

Random Prizes to be given out during the day

[NWCGE Meet - Joe Decuir to Bring Stella]

Will Joe Decuir be there Saturday, Sunday, or both?

[What's this 20yrs-late Combat madness?]

It's one friggin GREAT hack!

 

I do look forward to the final version of Tank AI (Make it hard as hell!).

 

I really look forward to a one player version.

 

Thanks for the praise, guys. If you've been here at AtariAge for a while, you'll know that it often takes years between a project's announcement and it's release. Just a little patience...

[Huge Atari 2600 Hacks Update (Finally!)]

Looks great, Al. Definitely worth the wait.

[NWCGE 2K4 may 8-9th]

Looks like I missed my chance to pre-register, but don't worry Rick. I still intend to come.

 

Is anyone interested in sharing a ride from Vancouver, BC? I don't have a car, but I can buy you a tank of gas.

 

Zach

[2003 Stan's Atari Excellence Awards]

Which one is which, Manuel? You could very well own the world's most valuable copy of Pac-Man now. :wink:

[What's this 20yrs-late Combat madness?]

Speaking of Combat Hacks.. is the rom for the one-player version of Combat hack available? I didn't see it on a first run through the site....

I'm flattered that any discussion of Combat leads to a mention of Tank AI. For the rom image, check the In Development section. http://www.atariage.com/development_page.h...evelopmentID=62. And yes, it's a preliminary demo.

 

For more Combat goodness .. check out Combat Redux which has many new mazes and clouds. Some of the mazes allow for wraparound tank travel!

Thanks for the endorsement, Rob. Did you get it running on your Cuttle Cart 2?

[The Flicker Threshold]

I was so distraught by the use of flickering in the Holiday Greeting Cart that I threw out my copy. (see "Australian humor" under another recent thread)

 

Seriously, the Chronocolour Technology as well as Paul's RPG demo convinced me beyond any doubt that flickering brings worthwhile results.

[The BIGGEST Game Sprite?]

You don't have to be so modest, Gateway. Globetrotter is pretty big.

[TV Game Paddles]

Does anyone have a link to the IGN article?

 

By the way, I just noticed that Jakk's Pacific has added Midway and Capcom to their list of upcoming games: jakkstvgames.com

[Combat Redux Rom Released]

playfields are scrambled

 

Doh! My bad. I posted an old version of the binary. Don't worry. We caught the scrambled playfields bug while testing, and fixed it in time for the cartridge release. The correct binary is now in the hacks section.

[2003 Stan's Atari Excellence Awards]

Great job with the awards, Stan. By the way, what game do the trophy carts contain this year? Combat again?

 

Glad to see that Minature Golf + was mentioned. After all, it was part of the inspiration for Combat Redux.

 

@CyberGoth: Finally got my StarFire yesterday. Can hardly wait to play it after work.

[Speaking of cart buffets..]

Oh, didn't notice you had a trades page. Thanks anyway.