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Of course! Deal.

No question for me as I only own PAL 800s. Somebody want to swap a PAL 800 for a NTSC 800?

Thanks to Incognito Board the A 800 is hot to become my standard machine.

I hope we can figure this out on Saturday and then I'll do the documentation. See you in Elmshorn.

There is a small arrow on the casing where the red cable is. That has to be there, where a small "1" is printed on the board next to the socket. The cables delivered seem to be different than in the pictures here, I had the same trouble but it´s explained in the text too.

Too late. I just hate those small connectors, but install them anyway. But I really should buy some ready made cables to have more time for the really interesting thing. Thanks again.

Boom! Installed and it works from the beginning. The hardest part for me was to connect the cables to the plugs (P1 to P6), I hate those small guys... Thank you so much Sebastian, this is just awesome. I am too tired to make more pictures, but find some in my Retro-Computer album on Facebook (you don´t need FB account to see it, it´s public): Next step will be updating SDX and stuff I guess.

They´re here! Where´s the weekend?

Now I am sitting in my hotel and did not see the RCM. What a pity. Anyway. Tomorrow I go to Birmingham. There are also some people which will be happy with the games I brought.

I just got my tickets for the ferry. I´ll leave on Wednesday. I don´t know if any others join then. No need to have many systems up and running. I would be glad to see a BBC Micro and an Archmiedes working and getting an idea of how to use them. They are some of the computers still missing in my collection.

What a pity. Would it be possible for me to get at least at look at it on Monday or Tuesday? I also sorted out some boxed games (Amiga, ST, IBM PC) which I would like to donate.

I am going there by car, so I might be able to pick you up. I will send you an email later.

Ok, time is running out. I will enter the UK on Thursday, Nov 15th. Most probably by car via Dunkerque-Dover. So I can bring hardware (want to play MULE on the A800 with some fulldome friends). I still do not know where I will stay. Any hints on an affordable hotel? Or may I bring a sleeping bag and stay at the RCM? I will leave most probably on Tuesday Nov 20th. Or Wednesday. Not sure. So please tell me: How and when can I access the RCM? Where to stay? Can we meet? The conference ends Saturday night, so we could do some retromeeting stuff on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday? What do you Leicester people say?

You are the ninth winner. It is always hard for tools as the ABBUC members seem to prefer games the last years. So don´t compare your program with all the games.

You are absolutely right. I am working on this, but please give me some more time. It has to be implemented into the existing website and that currently is not too easy. I will try to make at create a simple overview in the next days, but please don´t push me. My schedule is quite full for the rest of this year.

I was sure from the beginning. First I thought it is too easy, but you have to keep concentration extremely high and that makes it somewhat difficult. I like Voyager very much too, but it is too easy. It only takes me 5 - 10 minutes to win. But a nice game and as it is BASIC, it might easily be modified. But KI is the hardest thing to code. btw: Frank, my email bounced, did you receive a notification email from me? Also thanks to Sikorsoft: As Games are preferred by most users, it is hard to get points for a tool. Especially if it is about a very specific topic. The Morons of H.A.R. already announced, that there will be a more finalised version of HARem with two levels, sound, better FX and all by the mid of November. Looking forward to that one too. Thank you all for participating!

I have several C64s, all of them working without any problems. But all my 1541s make trouble. To me they seem not to be as reliable as the Atari 1050.

Hello. It was in Herten (Recklinghausen). For the 27th time. Where are you located? Please just check the ABBUC Forum to find members near you. If you live in the north, you can join the bi-monthly regional meeting in Elmshorn, where you will meet hardware wizards like tfhh, BigBen, HardwareDoc and many others. I live in Wolfsburg and do some small meetings here too. There are active Atari 8 Bit users from ABBUC nearly everywhere in Germany.

Here are the official results of the ABBUC Software Contest 2012 as voted at the 27th yearly meeting on Oct 27: 1. Ridiculous Reality - 423 Punkte credits: programming - Martin 'MatoSimi' Šimeček graphics - Adam Wachowski, Adam 'Ooz' Powroźnik music - Michał 'stRing' Radecki 2. Callisto - 387 Punkte - Jason Kelk 3. Asteroids Emulator - 369 Punkte - Norbert Kehrer 4. MazezaM - 344 Punkte - xxl 5. HAR'em - 298 Punkte - Morons of H.A.R 6. Caterpillar - 218 Punkte - Holger Bommer 7. Keep on Koastin - 204 Punkte - Jason Kendall 8. Voyager - 190 Punkte - Frank Cernese 9. OTA Nokia Viewer - 185 Punkte - Sikorsoft All participants should have received a notification email. If not, please contact me. Thank you all for participation!

I´ve just found the time to read here again and I must say I am a little bit surprised. First of all: Not "an ABBUC member" released the disks, it was the Head of software ressort (me) who released the disk image. As head of Software Ressort I am arrogant enough to say that I think it was ok. In my reading the contest ends after all contributions arrived. That point is clearly defined by the Deadline. So I don´t feel wrong here. But I think, made some mistakes: - I should have had checked up with the president, to make sure he agrees with me. I was so sure not to make a mistake that I didn´t ask him. - Obviously the rules are not clear enough. As cas mentioned, that will be discussed. - I released the image after the disks arrived at German ABBUC members. That wasn´t clever, I should have wait until international members got their disks too. On the other hand, there was no talking with me before posting here. I don´t blame anyone too. I just say: There were SEVERAL requests by email to release the games as soon as possible. There was exactly ONE email that I know of where an ABBUC member told me, that he didn´t like it that the games of the software contest were released. If there are more, then I have to wonder why they were not sent to me. But that one email seems to be enough to start postings in several forums talking about a problem which actually is not a problem at all. What the heck? But ok, I am old enough, I can take it. See: I assisted the president with copying the real disks. I only made 275 disks, that are 550 copies on my 1050 with SuperSpeedy. Wolfgang Burger did all the rest. So the first persons to have a problem with disk images released should be Wolfgang and me, because we invest a lot of time in copying. I know that there are not many people left using the real hardware only. But testing that the disks run fine on unmodified hardware alone took us one full day with several people. Even if I knew that there is only one single person left using the real hardware only, I would do it that way. It´s not about being economical or so. Bullshit. This is why I call myself to be RETRO. Anyway. As mentioned above, there will be a discussion. Actually, there is a discussion every year. This is what the ABBUC is about. It´s living. And everybody can influence the actions of the club. So I ask you guys here on Atari Age, what do you should be changed at the software contest. If you have some input, please don´t forget to tell me if you are an ABBUC member or not.

The magazine is published and so the games are. So you are free to publish them on your websites of course. For the magazine I translated all english documentation to German. I will also translate the German documentations to English and publish them, but this won't happen before next week, as I am travelling a lot at the moment. Next stop: Belgium. Tasty Wafers and chocolate. Yum yum.

I'll check that. The used only AtariMac800X (as I only have a MBP at home) when we produced the Disks and it worked fine. The images I linked to are made from the original floppies by HIAS. What exactly doesn't work? Sometimes there was the problem that the GameDos didn't load. But you can still access the files using any other OS or DOS, for example QMEG OS or in AtariMac800X just load SpartaDOS as Cartridge.

The magazine was delivered to most Germans today, so I publish the ATR with the software contest contributions: http://skriegel.de/atari/SMAG.zip This is open for everybody, not only members. Feedback appreciated, I´ll publish a vote-sheet for non-members too, because I am interested in how those results might differ.

btw: Will I automatically play for "Team Deutschland" as I am living here, or what? I translated your post in the ABBUC forums, maybe we will get some more support.

Challenge accepted. Grabbed the first Joystick I could find, so the scores are not the best for T&F: Total Score: 118521 100m: 9.78s Long Jump: 8.24m Javelin: 90.90m Hurdles: 14.16s Hammer: 95.34m HighJump: 2.36m