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  1. Love that patched version. Moving the joystick to port 2 always made me feel like a stupid C64 user.....
  2. Can't log in. Did they change user passwords ?
  3. This is why I have a (switchable) NTSC ANTIC in my PAL 600XL. "Old" games run just that bit faster and colors are correct. I'd rank this as an "old" game since it sticks to "old" game design rules (5200=16k) I assume.
  4. Huh ? Albert isn't even suppose to run correctly on NTSC ? (lags greatly when I run the cartridge with NTSC ANTIC enabled, fine with PAL ANTIC)
  5. I hope the final version is easier than the earlier versions (I see an option for it, don't remember if it was there before) because IMHO it was too hard and I lost interest in it very quickly, while I rate the original Bruce Lee as one of the best games on the A8. Downloading the final versions as we speak.....
  6. Hmmmm....why would they need to drop a few transistors from TIA's design ? The only reason I can think of is that it is so crammed that else they couldn't make everything fit ? I mean, there is no cost advantage in leaving out a couple of transistors on a chip, right ? By the way, the original question should have been: how on earth did Jay Miner and his team manage to get 128 whopping colors out of a 1977 machine while absolutely nothing else could manage that at the time......? The second post nicely answers that question and I actually never realized this neat trick. Naturally the GTIA in the Atari 8 bit computers nicely topped this trick to 256 colors. I wonder how they did it in that chip because AFAIK both NTSC and PAL machines can both produce 256 colors. To me, this has always been an incredible advantage of the VCS and A8 machines over anything else at the time: games already looked much more different by the freedom of colors that the programmers could choose. Compare to f.i. the Odyssey2/Videopac with it's basic RGB colors and, of course, the C64 where all games use the same purple and brown all the time.... for me this was one of the reasons to stick to Atari when I went from game console to computer.
  7. Ah surprised ab out the TTL info.... LOL. Yeah well I have a Sunnyvale (NTSC of course) 4 switcher here (in PAL land) with a CD4050 mod and I hadn't used it for quite some time and hooked it up again recently and where it worked fine before, I do get a working picture except it doesn't sync. I may have tried it on another TV before though, so maybe one is less "picky" about the sync then the other.... will have to try that other TV....
  8. Has anyone ever explained why a CD4050 is used ? I've seen simple mods with just a single transistor, what's the difference between using a CMOS non-inverting Hex buffer and a simple transistor and why not use a TTL non inverting hex-buffer, CMOS are know to be relatively slow. Just wondering :)
  9. I never felt the need for wireless controller with my A8 because my setup is always close, TV, computer and joystick. I also wouldn’t want Bluetooth wireless because of this: Lag test
  10. Try and find a B&O MX8000. It blows the older MX4000 and MX7000 away (which are already great). I have MX4000,MX4200 (real flat, don't really like that), MX7000 and MX8000's. The MX8000 has the most vibrant colors I've seen on any of the MX series, plus that sound....that incredible sound.... Also: the menu system is SOOOOOO much better than the weird teletext style set-up menu of the older MX4000 and MX7000.
  11. Well you have a point. I actually meant that as a joke but I should have put a smiley at the end of the sentence to make that clear. I'm sorry. Plenty of great folks in the USA, I shouldn't have written that. Sometimes we do feel it's a bit scary though. I can give you the reasons, but we're too far off-topic again as it is....
  12. Thanks Stephen. Having two stepchildren with mild forms of autism I am absolutely appalled by this shit that Kyle22 wrote. You have no fucking clue about autism and the effects it has on peoples lives. My wife’s ex has it too, trust me life was hard for her with him, but he is totally not an asshole. Autism comes in all kinds of forms and ranges and the symptoms might seem someone to be an asshole, but in fact, sometimes they simply miss a part of the puzzle that makes social and human interaction the way most of us without autism think it “should be”. My mastery of English isn’t good enough to explain it fully, and this is also not the place….but my wife could write a book about it with an ex husband and two kids all having autism. You’ve been excusing yourself for what you wrote about your overcharged A8 but I demand an apology on behalf of all people with autism. ‘Cause if it sounds like there’s any assholes here, you’re the one.
  13. You should not HOLD start "right away", you simply PRESS start while the demo is running. Then wait a bit (you sound like the kind of person to think it's not working immediately) , as the text that swirls changes and presents you the "results" of the random selection of Music and Sound banks. Next, the game starts. If not, use a normel Sally as everyone else does.
  14. He didn't state which country. You Americans all think the world is not greater than your scary corner of the planet....
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