ZylonBane

It should, they were both written by Doug Neubauer.

The 5200 version was ported to the 800 and released by DataSoft, somehow.

No, your sealed copy of Spy vs Spy has never been converted to the 5200.

It's "NUSIZ", not "NUISZ". NU SIZ = "new size"... get it?

I know, right? I just couldn't get into Tempest 2000 due to the lack of plot.

So you prefer the "Star Raiders" that is generally considered to be inferior and forgettable, over the groundbreaking one that inspired the entire genre of space combat sims. To the point that when anyone talks about Star Raiders you actually think they're referring to a completely different game. This explains so much.

IF THEN THEN is nonsense syntax that wouldn't work in any BASiC dialect. Conditional code blocks are explained in the BB documentation. http://www.randomterrain.com/atari-2600-memories-batari-basic-commands.html#if

All ARM chips are RISC. That's like saying something is both sugary and sweet.

Since Brad can't be bothered to supply a picture of what he's talking about... http://www.tepg.se/airport-77-1977/ Probably a custom job. It's not like slapping a piece of wood on top of a monitor would take much effort.

You're doing that thing again where you say really obviously very wrong dumb things. Stop.

Psychonauts. Little Ollie.

Since the image attachments are gone from the original thread, here's the mockup I did years ago, and the Apple II reference screen.

It turned out that Battlesphere: The Anticipation Game was more fun than Battlesphere: The Actual Game.

5200 Galaxian. It's like the programmer was trying to screw up all the sound effects on purpose. "BONG" for the explosion sound? Seriously? "Per se", cripes.

I occasionally wonder which member of 4Play was most responsible for their eye-rollingly puerile naming schemes. 4Play... Scatbox... JUGS... Ocatanut, etc. Made them seem like a bunch of tittering pre-teens. And then they complained when other companies wouldn't take them seriously. Gee, I wonder why.

Sigh... http://atariage.com/forums/topic/23306-lode-runner/

Dude, give up on "snowflake". The Trumpsters have ruined that word for the next few years. "Prima donna" is a far better term in this case anyway.

Hey, I only ever complained about the spastic animation of KC when using the multicolor sprite set.

I got a copy of the original BattleSphere when it first came out, and I don't think I've even played it a dozen times. By that time I'd been playing Freespace 2 for years, and by comparison the gameplay was just so bland. And seriously what the hell, a space combat game that doesn't even give you range to target? Even the original dinky little 8K Star Raiders had that. And the obnoxious weirdness of friendlies being red and enemies being green on the radar. And the pointless demoscene visual effects littered throughout the UI where they made no sense at best and often actually made usability worse. Yeah, they got the Jaguar to reliably support huge multiplayer networks, which was a great technical achievement, but in the end that was the least-used feature. All that effort would have been better spent implementing a more interesting purely single-player game.

Elite is the Elite that the A8 never got.

...never existed. April Fools! But wait, some of you may remember seeing this old catalog scan. Yeah, about that. Back in September of 2003, for reasons I've now completely forgotten, I decided to start a hoax that Mattel had been working on a port of their Electronic Football handheld for the Atari 2600. Perhaps because it seemed like an idea that was goofy, yet somehow plausible. So I found a suitable old M Network catalog scan... Next I opened up Paint Shop Pro and eventually ended up with this, which I'm like 90% sure a 2600 could actually do without any flicker. I scaled that down, filtered it a bit, resaved it as a low-quality JPEG, and pasted it into the catalog scan. I casually referenced it in the forums here a few times, and that was that. End result, not as much mayhem as I'd hoped, but it did apparently inspire the creation of the Blip Football homebrew, and was briefly mentioned in the Letters section of 2600 Connection #87. So now you know... the rest of the story.

Dear Crazy Person, Even IF there are any notes in the Bosconian opening theme that POKEY can't get close enough, it's only a three-voice song. Just run POKEY in 16/8/8 mode and assign any problem notes to the 16-bit channel. But precise note matching is really less important than you desperately, obnoxiously cling to believing. As long as the notes used aren't horribly off-key, and everything else is right... the timing, volume, and envelopes... a song will be recognizable as itself. This principle is why, for example, even a TIA trying to do the Galaga theme can sound "good" to most ears.

And now hopefully Emkay understands why I specifically said an MSX, not a Konami Nemesis board. Just kidding, he'll never get it.

I can't believe I'm actually responding to Emkay drivel, but here goes... Arcade Gradius uses two AY-3-8910s, driven by a dedicated Z-80 CPU. MSX computers had a single AY-3-8910, controlled by the main CPU. Which is why the MSX version of Gradius sounded like this:

I was doing some reading on Bosconian's sound, and it should be possible to get very close with POKEY. It has what's called a three-channel WSG (waveform sound generator), the same sound hardware Pac-Man used. Here's a technical description: http://www.lomont.org/Software/Games/PacMan/PacmanEmulation.pdf