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ROTFL. Took me some time, but now I got it.

Honestly: The gameplay of Preppie II is so boring that the hardest part is to just stay awake. I was so unbelieveable happy when I finally died... One thing: My first scores were played on a NTSC XEGS, everything was fine. Now I played at home in Kiel on my PAL 800 XL, and half of the doors (Preppie II) just do not work. The files are the same, so is there a PAL bug or something like that? Anyway: Preppie: 16890 Preppie II: 27560 Total: 16890 + 27560 = 44450 Update: Preppie: 17290 Total: 17290 + 27560 = 44850

His car would look like that, I guess:

What is that CLOAK thing for? I also didn´t use it because I don´t know how and when and why.

I live directly opposite to the VW Headquarters and main factory in Wolfsburg, shall I jump over and put a complain in for you?

Small improvement at Preppie1: 15380

SIO Server works well with the SIO2PC, but doesnt´t recognize the SIO2USB. I use the Digitus USB to serial which is rather cheap and reliable: http://tiny.cc/zxab5

The author of SIO2OSX mentioned his desire to get his app working with the AtariMax SIO2PC USB version some while back, but IIRC he needed some info from Steve. I guess he doesn't have it yet. Which is a shame since I'd immediately buy the dual SIO2PC USB adapter the moment Mac support came along. I believe you can run APE in a Windows VM on OS X and get support for the USB version but that's not really the point ... I gave up working on that topic, for it will never be finished. To make SIO2OSX run with the SIO2USB, you need the MacOSX hardware drivers for the SIO2USB. Stephen can´t create them, because he doesn´t own a Mac and buying one just for that topic doesn´t make too much sense. The author of SIO2OSX can do whatever he wants: As long as there are no OS X drivers for the SIO2USB, he will not be able to use it, because it just won´t be recognized by the system. I am a Mac user and also have the SIO2USB. For me there are just two realistic opinions: Sell the SIO2USB and continue using the simple SIO2PC with an USB-serial converter (works perfectly fine), or buy APE and use the SIO2USB by running Windows in Parallels, which also works fine. For I have a nice working SIO2PC and paid the shareware fee for Atari800MacX and SIO2OSX I think I will sell the SIO2USB and spend the money for another shareware payment of Atari800MacX and SIO2OSX, to make sure updates keep coming. :-)

Actually what you see are screenshots from my NTSC XEGS, so I already play NTSC. I come to Phoenix, Arizona. Not around the corner I guess.

Thank you very much, these work fine. Never played Preppie much, because it is boring and too slow to play. And next week I´m going to the US, so I don´t know if I will have enough time to play it: Preppie 1: 12480 Preppie 2: 5540

You load it from the real hardware? With Atari800MacX it loads in 1 second. Just deactivate the Speed Limit. I do not have a tape here, so I was going for the ATRs, but I couldn´t find any Preppie1 ATR which works with the SIO2USB. So I took the XEX and use the SDrive, that works fine.

Not much time for gaming, and this one needs much to remember good solutions. So here are my final scores: My Highscore: 8880 Best score in Round 1: 1545 (On XEGS NTSC) Didn´t make it past round 9:

Am I interested? ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY YES! Damn, now you teasered me and I can´t wait...

That´s great stuff, exactly what I missed! Thanks a lot!

[pretender mode]And he had to share the third place of the highscore competition with me.[/pretender mode]

That´s a good hint. I´m on PAL too by default, but got some NTSC XEGS which I will try with that game later on. :-)

How could I miss this posting? As European of course I also want a 1200 XL badly, because they were never sold over here and I don´t have one. Also could use a fully working 810. We could make shipping cheaper: In the last full week of September I am at a conference in Phoenix, Arizona. I have somebody there, who could it for me. I also have a shipping address in Salt Lake City, they will come to Phoenix, too. :-)

Damn, found no time to increase my Frogger score, even I had a Retro-gaming weekend. But organizing such an event besides my normal work is a lot of work. Take a look at what machines we had: http://skriegel.de/muna2010 And if you speak German, listen to KielPod 791 at www.kielpod.de, there´s an uncut interview with me starting at about 3:20. snip Nibbly: Not more than 1515 in Level 1. How do you get such high scores there? Where are the hints? My best score until now: 7900

I wrote you a PM and didn´t get an answer. As I told you I have somebody in the UK receiving post for me.

Atari 800 MacX

I would take some more, because there are some German ABBUC members who are interested and to save money for packing and shipping I would collect the orders so that we have to fight with customs only once (or you be ready until the end of September when I´m in Phoenix and could hand carry them home ). So, what what would be the expected price for one item and how much could you put into a box for shipping?

Damn, yesterday I made some thirtythousand points, wanted more and failed. Then realized, that the highscore is not showed anymore!? And of course I didn´t make a screenshot. Not much of a problem, I am sure to reach even more than 40,000 points, but is there a way to make a highscore which was achieved earlier visible?

I´ll take two. I will ask some friends at ABBUC, maybe I order some for them too, to save shipping cost and all.