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    Pirated software in the late 80s

    in Atari 8-Bit Computers

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    16 hours ago, baktra said:

    It was early/mid 90s. JRC was selling cassettes with 8-bit Atari games, openly and in their store. Using their Turbo 2000 system, they stuffed around 40 games on one cassette and sold for 99 CSK/CZK, which would be today $7.99. No license for the games, of course.

     

    Was JRC behind the Turbo2000 mod? Did they develop it? Or did they simply use it, because most czech Atari users had it?

    Pirated software in the late 80s

    in Atari 8-Bit Computers

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Mclaneinc said:

     Atari found out about his advert and took him to court, the UKs first case re selling games, but as computer piracy wasn't a recognised thing the case was centred on him selling cartridge images on a medium they were not meant for, ie on disk. All this at the high court in central London.

     

    In the early 80s in West-Germany the big mail-order company "Quelle" was selling Taiwan knock-offs of Atari 2600 games under an new german name ("Angriff der Teufelvögel" etc) and they somehow got away with that...

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    Pirated software in the late 80s

    in Atari 8-Bit Computers

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    The only floppy disk I still own from my original Atari equipment from the 80s is the one containing a list of software that was unbelievable to me at that time. Practically every commercial and non-commercial program that was available for the 8bit Atari in 89 is searchable via a database, including how much space it would take up on a floppy disk. The purpose of this "Software List of Fine Productions" was of course to supply young people with pirated software. You could write your wishes to the operator of this service, enclose 3DM in stamps and receive the disk with the desired content about a week later. I was 14, had 3DM and few scruples and used the service actively. I found the good man at that time via a classified ad in the legendary german ASM magazine ("no lamerz!"). Last week I dug out the disc again and - voila - it still works! Unfortunately you won't be able to order there anymore ;-)

     

    What are your pirate experiences from "back in the day"?

     

    Here are some screenshots from this pirate directory

     

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    Concerto firmware thread

    in 7800 Concerto Multicart Support

    Posted

    17 hours ago, JihemB said:

    Hello.

    I'm in France with a (PAL) RGB Atari 7800. I received my Concerto this week and wanted to give it a try...

    I'm unfortunately not able to play any ROM I tried so far ?

    I tested with the following SD cards : 

      - EMTEC 2Gb

      - Transcend Micro SD 4Gb (class 10) + SD Adapter.

     

    My concert has firmware 0.95.

    This his some of the behaviours I get : 

    - The game starts to load but the console freezes between 10% to 80%. I have to power off/power on the console.

    - The game starts to load but the console freezes between 10% to 80% then the display becomes scrambled. I have to power off/power on the console.

    - The game starts to load after reaching 90%, if displays funny ">0%" or "=0%" until "A0%" until the console freezes. I have to power off/power on the console.

    - The game seems to load 100% but I get scramble display at the end.

     

    I tried with some .a78 attached to this thread (such as arkanoid_concerto.a78, millieandmolly_demo_concerto.a78) with no luck.

     

    For the record my console plays fine genuine "Pole Position II", "Hat Trick", and "Joust" cartridges as well as 2600 games from my Harmony cartridge.

     

    I'll can take pictures of the screen or perform any operation that you'll suggest but it may require 3 or 4 days between the request and the moment I access my hardware.

    That´s pretty much how Concerto works on my PAL (non-RGB) console, too. Seems like it´s NTSC only at the moment...

    c64: poor quality?

    in Commodore 8-bit Computers

    Posted

    2 hours ago, motrucker said:

    If you think the C-64 is such a bad computer, why in the world did you buy one? Since so many have lasted thirty five years, I wouldn't be to hard on them.

    To address the heat problem, just remove the cardboard "RF shield", and maybe add a couple of heat sinks (to the PLA and VIC chips). That will work wonders.

    The Epyx Fastload is good for speeding up disk access, but there are a lot of other options from Jiffy DOS to a Warp Speed cartridge. Jiffy DOS has the advantage of leaving the cartridge port empty for other use though.

     

    i haven‘t said it‘s a bad computer, i said its build quality is poor

    c64: poor quality?

    in Commodore 8-bit Computers

    Posted

    Never had a C64 back in the day and just recently bought one. While i´m of course impressed with the amount of software/ games available and especially with the quality of the homebrews i´m really a bit shocked by the piss-poor built quality of the Commodore itself:

    - cardboard shilding? really?

    - heat problems 

    - power brick is more of a fire hazard than anything else + it´s glued together (!)

    - and that disc drive is slower than a dead dog

     

    So: is there anything i can do about the heat problems and about the terrible power brick? Bought a Epyx Fastload Cart already to get that disc drive spinning...

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