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GlowingGhoul

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  1. The best remake, too bad you need an old Mac to play: https://www.lairware.com/ultima3/
  2. I have several PAL 1040STE's that work on 110V. They need a good cleaning, but I'd be willing to sell one for $175+shipping if you're interested. Color monitor SC1224 $50+shipping. I'm in the US.
  3. I have significant collections of both systems. I have everything iComp makes for the C64. Homebrew hardware is much more common in the Atari 8-bit scene than it is on the C64. Just in the last year or so we've had a plug in accelerator(!), an OPEN SOURCE replacement motherboard, a revival of the 1027 printer head, video upgrades, and more. There are no homebrew accelerators for the C64, even though commercial ones existed when the C64 was still available. The only video upgrade is the Chameleon's VGA out which is marginal(and expensive, and unavailable). SID and PLA replacements are acts of desperation for components that fail routinely on the C64, not upgrades. The perception that the C64 'must' have more homebrew hardware is just an assumption. The C64 had a far larger user base, but the A8 seems to have a much more active one all these decades later.
  4. No it doesn't, this is completely inaccurate. The range of homebrew creations for the C64, particularly hardware, pales in comparison to the Atari 8-bits. There's no comparison. And the gulf is getting wider every year as new hardware for the c64 is coming at a slower and slower pace. I am deeply involved with both scenes, and buy nearly everything that comes out for both.
  5. The C64 scene in the US is anemic compared to the Atari 8 bit, a reversal of the way things were in the old days, Lemon64 is the main C64 enthusiast site, and the forum is not nearly as lively and filled with projects as this one.
  6. You're right. I follow both scenes, and the Atari 8-bit developers, especially hardware, are far more active than the C64 developers are.
  7. My favorite genres, RPGs and strategy games often looked better than on my beloved A8, and in many cases weren't feasible on the A8 because of it's graphical limitations. My experience with Atari 8-bit (and later the ST), as new releases took longer and longer, often never arriving, was that regardless of the superiority of the platform, going with the market "winner" with the most support from publishers was the way to go. I now have and Apple II and C64 so I can enjoy the releases and sequels I never got to on the A8.
  8. OK, so obviously some of you have had success writing back images, one way or another. Which model floppy was used for writing? I don't want to experiment, please, just tell me which one worked for you.
  9. Thanks! Which drive are you using? And no problems running the resulting disk on a real 1050?
  10. Thanks for that. So it seems Kryoflux would be better, no problem. Model numbers of drives known to work (for reads at least). Obscure settings for "perfect" dumps provided. So the only remaining question is, how to write these images back to disk? Has anyone done this successfully, and with which drive model and what settings are used?
  11. I want to reliably be able to duplicate Atari 8-bit disks using a flux level copier, retaining all protection, but what specifically is needed to do so? In a world of Kroflux, Supercard Pro, a number of protection retaining formats, there's still no clear answer to this question. I have a Supercard Pro, am willing to buy a Kryoflux if needed instead. What drive model do I need to use to make my "dream" a reality? Even better than just being able to duplicate disks, which SHOULD be easily achievable with flux level copiers, I'd love to write back the preserved images. Any answers to these seemingly basic questions?
  12. Just in case it breaks, and in case that one breaks, and in case that one breaks, and in case that one breaks...
  13. No it's ok, it was only "damned near", nothing was actually shot.
  14. Haappyiestsellerever has lots of insanely priced, but NOS Atari gear.
  15. Nothing like spending sick days at home on the ST, very enjoyable despite the hacking and coughing up.
  16. Just throw it away and take a new one out of the box...no need to complicate things
  17. Just posted the last of my new transparent Kickstarter C64C cases on eBay. I hope this isn't considered spamming, I thought it was appropriate to bring to the thread's notice because it's the only source of I know for this particular style. https://www.ebay.com/itm/332462130716
  18. Very nice collection. I have a number of sealed copies of your open ones, Jumpman, Temple of Apshai, Gateway, Monster Maze, Alien Garden, Plattermania, as well as some variation packaging of titles you have and couple of oddball EPYX titles you're missing, like Fun with Art. I even have some commercially produced bootleg Epyx titles complete with misspellings on the box ("Gateway to Apsh"). I'm an SSI/Avalon Hill/Infocom/Origin/Epyx collector, with room for RPG's and strategy titles from any publisher.
  19. It's a 512k. The only other product I have any extra's of is the VGA adapter for the IIe.
  20. $200 if you buy from me here. Your choice of horizontal or vertical control panel. I bought several of these a few months ago to hold on for the long term but I've decided to unload the ones I won't be using. 550+ feedback on ebay with same name.
  21. Seems Jookie shut down the store because of some business fee issue. Does anyone know if when these will become available again? Maybe Lotharek can make them.
  22. I have a spare on ebay, but if you can get one from Plamen by all means do so.
  23. First of all, don't speak for us ALL. Secondly, please confirm you never pirated readily available to purchase software. I just want to make sure the person lobbing stones here is free from sin (or please explain why your pirate activities are wholesome, good forms of copyright theft).
  24. I'm really not surprised that you absolve your own violations of the law while demonizing another. The sale is for a unique piece of hardware, not the readily available games you've likely pirated multiple times yourself. As I said, he should sell the cart unloaded to silence the hypocrites. Of course you could claim you didn't pirate anything back in the day, when you really were hurting publishers, but that would be a lie, now wouldn't it?
  25. I really love people in the retro scene calling out other's technical violations of copyright on works that have been effectively abandoned. You do know casual copying, even without payment, is "technically" illegal as well under federal criminal law. Now tell me with a straight face that every piece of software you have is a legal copy. What needs to happen here is that the files should leak out, and the cartridge could be sold here in a programmable state.
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