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Cebus Capucinis

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  1. Posted · Edited by CebusCapucinis

    Speakers in the Atari would be cool. If I did that though, I would have a switch so I could switch back to the TV sound. sounds kinda redundant, but yeah.

     

    Gee, I wonder if anyone has made a mod like that? Maybe they'd post in an AtariAge thread about it! Nah...that's just a pipe dream. ;) :evil:

  3. Posted · Edited by CebusCapucinis

    The monkey weighs in at:

     

    229,700

     

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    My Tip:

     

    This may seem pretty obvious, but a lot of time in this game is wasted when you don't wrap your head around the control scheme. Quadrant off the joystick when you play and consider each quadrant of the joystick the respective quadrant in the screen, rather than directional concentration. Your ship will almost always move to the quadrant your joystick points at with very, very few exceptions.

     

    Also remember that each "wave" of baddies you kill gives you an additional 1,000 points. You should strive to kill as many complete waves as possible, as this is how the points rack up really quickly.

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    I have done a couple mods however that have utilized the speaker holes by making a small amp, throwing speakers in the case, using a ton of epoxy so they don't go anywhere, and a switch in the back to turn the sound on and off.

    You should write up what you did.

     

    Yes, and then you should send a bunch of memos to yourself in intricate detail about every single step you take including breathing and thinking so that years from now when someone asks about it for the billionth time you can show them "the complete story".

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    You have to remember, however, that the majority of the userbase for vintage and collector electronics like the VCS, ColecoVision, Intellivision, etc. is primarily interested in it for nostalgia purposes. Original homebrews do not reinforce that nostalgic feeling as much as popping in a homebrew of a remembered arcade game from the era, even if it were never on the system to begin with.

     

    I think it basically boils down to demand. People generally demand ports of arcade classics for the aforementioned reason and others. Homebrewers thus have more incentive to develop these titles rather than work on an original title.

     

    I agree with you on quite a bit of this. The original homebrews are just as cool if not better in some ways. I'm currently chomping away at Mean Santa and that game is both original and incredibly addicting.

     

    We need ports to help with that nostalgia and garner excitement, but we also need those originals to push the envelope and see what can be done.

     

    One really can't exist without the other, and a balance of both is optimal.

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  9. Posted · Edited by CebusCapucinis

    I'll have to check in my collection. I'm pretty sure I got a Sears Text Label Superman. Now you've just got me curious!

     

    I'm pretty sure Rick would post the picture label if nothing else. And yeah, his collection makes me vomit in ecstacy. I could never hope to come even close to that much cool stuff! :lust:

     

    EDIT: HOLY CRAP HOLY CRAP HOLY CRAP!

     

    I was looking in my collection as I haven't for a while for that Sears Text Superman, right? And I stumbled upon something....AMAZING! Foretold in my dream, apparently, the dream gods wanted me to know this!

     

    Feast your eyes upon the MY VERY OWN COPY OF PICTURE LABEL SEARS SUPERMAN:

     

    The label is peeling and isn't centered very well, and it looks like Sears used some really cheap kind of sticker for the label on the front. Sort of sad, really, but I guess when you gotta cut costs you gotta cut costs, right? The end label is in pretty good shape though, and it looks like they spent their whole budget on it. That would explain a lot.

     

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    Check that out! This is the SPECIAL EDITION VERSION that has Lois Lane herself on the label. Look at those bazooms! No wonder they didn't print too many of these, it's really racy! Not family-friendly label, that's for sure!

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    This is the ONLY KNOWN special edition copy to exist. I've decided that since I'm such a good samaritan and always like to help out the collecting community, I'm going to let it go into the hands of one of the bigger collectors. The bidding can start at, oh, let's say, $5,000?

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    I don't really have nostalgia for printers, I never had one of these, let alone an Atari computer growing up. I just want to tinker around with it and see what I'm missing out on, and learn as much about the system as possible! :D I was missing out on a lot on the 1200XL, apparently, but not missing out on the 1027! It's interesting to learn that these printers were real dogs. I'd still like to use it, but perhaps in another lifetime.

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    Okay, it's getting really sad! I had a dream last night that I found a Sears Picture Label Superman and posted it on AtariAge and people were offering me thousands upon thousands of dollars! The dream was bad because I was having this huge moral quandary as to whether I would keep it for my collection or sell it for the dough! BLARG!

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    Beautifully and amazingly cared for and well packed games! Shipped quickly and gave me a really awesome goodie in the box, a little battery operated robot bug! So awesome! Anytime you want to trade or sell to me is okay in my book! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

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    Yeah! Someone should do this for a holiday cart. The yule log simulator! There could even be stockings hung on the mantle on the screen. :D

     

    Someone should honestly make a screen saver multi-cart with all of these. A guy mowing lawns, paint drying or wallpaper being applied, a fireplace, and a GOLDFISH BOWL!

     

    Think of it! They could all be interactive. Pushing the fire button makes the guy mow the lawn. Pushing the fire button makes the painter apply a new coat. As said before, pushing the fire button could make the poker poke the log to make the flames get a little bigger, and with the goldfish bowl, pressing the fire button would make a hand drop a pellet of fish food for the fish!

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    Just traded games with acoustic. Very, very friendly and a great trade! Shipped as soon as he received my games and communicated wonderfully. He even gave back some of the couch hair that made it onto the shipping label :D

     

    :thumbsup: :thumbsup: for this guy!

     

    Second: Shipped Al my copy of Kingdom so he could try to make a copy. He gave me a copy of AtariWrite for my troubles. VERY NICE! :D :D

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    We need a full range of ports for all of our lawnmowing fantasies! I mean, come on, it's winter in the USA, and we can't mow our lawns right now due to the grass not growing! I'm honestly upset by this, for there are no lawn mowing simulations that can give me the pleasure of mowing a lawn!

     

    (I downloaded a C64 emulator and got the disk image for Hover Bovver, that game is frickin' hilarious, love it, now I have to get lawn simulator for the speccy, DAMN!)

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    I've always wanted a super-detailed realtime simulation of drying paint.

     

    Ooh yeah! Or a VCS screensaver that is grass growing, and occasionally a guy with a lawnmower comes out and cuts it. Actually that would be a really hilarious homebrew and I hope someone does it -- "Ever thought something was as fun as watching the grass grow? Well you ain't seen NOTHIN' yet!"

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