ZylonBane

Are you trying to say that DK doesn't need another revamp?

Correct. The NTSC tempo is as the composer intended.

Will this reissue fix the tempo of the title screen music? The Boulder Dash theme is supposed to sound like this, but apparently the 2600 port sounds like this.

Okay okay, most of the sounds are actually fine. It's just that there are a few effects that rely on the sound registers being updated much faster than once a frame for their unique sound, most notably the human pickup, bonus life, and wave end/begin sounds. So is it even possible with this kernel to update sounds more than once per frame? In an ideal world you'd be able to program the DPC+ to run this algorithm to reproduce the Robotron sounds precisely, but I assume it's already busy doing other things. EDIT: Getting back to the animations, I finally figured out what specifically is going on. In the arcade version, the animation cycles of the Hulks (and humans, and probably all the other bipedal enemies) are tied explicitly to their movement. That is, every time they move, they also advance to the next animation frame. The 2600 port instead appears to just cycle animations at a fixed rate no matter how they're moving, which makes them kind of look like they're skating around the screen.

Regarding the borrowed 7800 sounds, I kind of really hope you don't end up keeping them. I always thought the sound effects were the weakest aspect of the otherwise excellent 7800 port. They come across rather wimpy compared to the punchy arcade sounds. My only other complaint would be the motion of the Hulks. They move too smoothly compared to the arcade Hulks, that moved in chunky steps.

Thanks, this is the dumbest thing I've read today.

Please, this is Gunstar we're talking about here. He meant no such thing. Look at the full sentence: "But since PDF's aren't saved as any form of text, but are graphic visual representations of text and images...". He obviously thinks text in PDFs is converted to bitmaps or vector outlines or something, discarding the original textual content.

Completely wrong. PDFs store textual content as text, displayed using an embedded font. That's why you can copy-paste text out of a PDF, and edit them in Acrobat.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90432140/how-atari-took-on-apple-in-the-1980s-home-pc-wars Anyone know what game this was?

Whatever you do, make sure you don't tell us a single thing about what this is or why we should care!

It's "Pitfall!", not "Pit Fall".

Looks like it's missing the feature where the igloo door flashes when it's complete to signal to the player that's where they need to go. That's the power of the 2600 I suppose.

MAME is a thing, you know.

You know that regions is a DVD concept, right? CDs don't have regions. A region-free CD is like gluten-free water.

Unless yamo is an adjective, the title should be "Yamo's Revenge". Or are you going for the intentional Engrish thing?

Gesundheit.

Wait, so this is a game that's all about collecting keys, but you never actually use them to unlock anything?

Zaxxon itself isn't actually very fun to play due to the awkward perspective, and Desert Falcon is just a worse Zaxxon.

This question is hopelessly vague. It's like asking, "Does higher car speed affect gas mileage? How much?"

I'm just trying to wrap my head around the fact that someone actually attached a QuickTime file instead of posting a YouTube link. /checks calendar to see if it's 20 years ago

I would think that would be the perfect excuse to give it slack.

"Why" are you putting Atari Lynx and Mario Kart "in" scare quotes? Do you not consider those their real names?

Was the "sly" part implying that a millennial can be someone in their 40s?

I wonder if the Micro Arcade version of Space Invaders is identical to the pretty bad Tiny Arcade port, or if they improved it so the invaders at least explode when they're shot. Do you even know what "millennial" means? I ask because your post only makes sense if you don't.

This "new" game is a remake of the first System Shock. There's also a System Shock 3 in the works, but it's being worked on by Otherside, not Night Dive. Completely different teams.