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Works great with Stella 3.4 on Mac OS 10.6.7. Apparently Stella 3.4 introduced some type of tracking bug related to using the paddles, but I haven't noticed it.
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Received mine today, and after wasting (or spending) two hours playing Kaboom!, I can say that the paddle support is excellent (Unfortunately my hand-eye coordination needs some work). I am not sure that I can tell the difference between playing on Stella/2600-daptor and playing on my Coleco Gemini; I can tell the difference between the 2600-daptor and the Stelladaptor, so great job. I'll have to pick up a couple of more for my brother and then I can challenge him to a grudge match, after 30 years, for Kaboom! dominance.
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Atari Flashback 2+ on eBay
junkmail replied to TrekkiELO's topic in AtGames Flashback and Portable Consoles
I'm confused, why was it selling for over twice what Atari is charging? It is easy to say with hindsight that I should not have bid on this FB2+ . . . or let my girlfriend know that I bid on it . . . However, this Ebay auction was posted after the Pre-order was closed and before the new sales page was posted, so at the time, no one had any idea when the FB2+ would be put out for general sale. Yes, we overpaid, but that's life. thevnaguy sent me a FB2+ unopened and in perfect condition, so I got exactly what I bid on - and I am happy with the purchase. -
Atari Flashback 2+ on eBay
junkmail replied to TrekkiELO's topic in AtGames Flashback and Portable Consoles
Sorry guys, no twin sister (or any other sisters). We decided not to get married while I am in graduate school. As soon as I finish my PhD, I am sure that she will put on the full-court press . . . after all, most of her girlfriends have already gotten married . . . thevnaguy was really good. He tossed in two Atari t-shirts, and at the bottom of the box, I found a modified Pac-Man cartridge. I was struggling to describe the cart . . . so, why don't I just post a picture . . . -
Atari Flashback 2+ on eBay
junkmail replied to TrekkiELO's topic in AtGames Flashback and Portable Consoles
I'll fess up to buying this . . . but you need to read the whole post . . . I was disappointed that I forgot to pre-order the FB2+, so I asked my girlfriend to check around Seattle to see if any were available. Of course she wasn't able to find any, so I resigned myself to buying a regular FB2. After I had ordered the FB2, I re-found AtariAge and bought a Harmony Cart to use for the now apparently common cartridge mod. Well . . . surprise, surprise, I find this forum and the listing on Ebay. I immediately bid $34.99 and (sorry thevnaguy) figured that the premium and $20+ shipping was my stupidity tax for missing the pre-order. Flash-forward to Saturday and my $24.99 bid was unexpectedly still holding top spot. In fact, it was the only bid??? I signed into Ebay and showed this to my girlfriend. I remarked that someone was going to swoop in at the last minute and buy it for $35.99. Well, apparently, while I was in the kitchen making dinner, she decided to take it upon herself to increase my max bid by just a little bit . . . try $200. Now, I should explain that while I am a starving college student (willing to skip a weekend at the bar if I could get a FB2+), my girlfriend is a successful young chemical engineer with decidedly less cash flow problems. So, thanks to thevnaguy for putting the FB2+ up for auction, and thanks to my girlfriend for paying me the difference from $34.99. Although now I have a feeling that I will be spending a lot more time in kitchen . . . -
Curious: I had a Coleco Gemini back when I was a kid. I never really had much trouble with compatibility, but I distinctly remember Activision's Spider fighter playing ok, but eh scoreboard being completely scrambled, yet the same cart worked fine on my friend's 4 switcher VCS. WOW! Tonight was the first time that I had played this game. Talk about a crazy combination of Space Invaders, Centipede, and reverse-Kaboom! It took three tries to break 20,000. I loaded up two different ROM images of Spider Fighter, each in single game mode on the Harmony, and I did not see any problem with the scoreboard when played on the Gemini
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Hello AntaBaka, I am not sure if the CBS Gemini is the same as the Coleco Gemini, but the Harmony Cart also works on this console. Do you have the dual joystick/paddle controler? Because I can only control the menu with standard Atari joysticks or paddles. Thanks
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Received mine yesterday. Great product. Thank you to the development team . . . now to convince my brother that he needs one of these and a stelladaptor . . .
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Received mine yesterday. It works great . . . However, when I broke out the Coleco Gemini , I found that the menu does not work with the original dual joystick/paddle (the menu will scroll with the paddle, but the button and old joystick top-right trick will not work for selecting). I plugged in the joystick from my Flashback 2 (where did I put that soldering iron . . . ) and the menu worked great. Thanks.