Artlover

That sounds good. Been wanting something like that myself for a while. While we're on the subject... Any chance we can get a new user ignore system too? I'm looking for a way to ignore all users except those on a do-not-ignore list.

I've got one of those.

BTW, forgot to mention... This is utter poppycock.

Yes & no. The basic editor will allow you to type any lenght variable name, but it only actually uses the first two. This can be a problem in itself tho as if you tried to use NAME & NATO, they would both reflect the same variable token. I love my CBM's, but their basic editor was annoyingly quirky at times.

I thought "The Getaway" did.... Not that it's a "racer", but, you know.... Don't think that's on Xbox tho.

Why is it none of these "real city" based racers never really get the street layouts correct. Some get closer to others, but all are still always wrong. At best, signifigant landmarks and a few major roads, but it quickly falls apart. Many games have a Miami, FL. Ok, I lived in Miami, FL for 31 years. I worked on South Beach at 12th & Collins for 4 years. I used to drive the same streets "represented" in all these games on a daily basis. The games are wrong. Wrong kinds of buildings, wrong streets....... And it just annoys the hell out of me! Why can't someone sit down and make a GOOD driving sim. Actually have a camera car drive up & down every street & alley running 4way video cameras & mapping software. then make the levels based on the real street map textured with the actual video. No plot, no game. Just drive in a real & correct representation. I'd buy it.

I've got about 3 tera of it across many hundreds of dvd's. If you got a dvd burner, a crap load of blanks and can put me up for a month or two, I can come by and we can copy it all.

At my GameStop and GameXchange, when I bring up a CD case, they carry it off to the back to get the cd, then come back still carring the case in their hands in plain sight, open the case in front of me to show me the condition of the CD, then put down on the counter and ask if I want a bag. If I do, they bag it right there at the counter in front of me. Don't exactly see how it could be possible to have them switch anything on me without seeing it.

Agreed!

It's simple really. Sega lost much credibility after the Sega Genesis. I supported them from a hardware standpoint throughout' date=' hoping they would change. But alas, many of us early adopters were left out in the cold whenever Sega realized that they had released yet another hardware failure only to prematurely abandon it. Sure, they were drowning in debt throughout, but the funny thing is, not only was the hardware poor, so were the games! Dreamcast fanatics today are often those who bought their systems on clearance for $50 along with their budget-priced used games. They weren't there from the beginning, nor did they have to endure nearly a decade of Sega's empty promises (and poor titles), so to them, Sega and the DC are OK in their eyes. Yes, me supporting Sega throughout was partly my fault, but I was damned if I'd go to the Sony side. It was not until I heard that MICROSOFT would be releasing the XBOX and finally bringing some levity to this market that I rejoiced! At last, years of Sega's mismanagement and blundering ways would be put to an end! And even today in their 3rd party software-only state, they still have yet to match the greatness they once exuded during the Tom Kalinske days (16-bit era for those who have no idea).[/quote'] Ok, so you're saying you don't like a good console because the company sucks and made mistakes? I've had a Sega Genesis since it first came out, I had the SegaCD since it first came out. I've bought an assortment of crappy carts & CD's. I've wasted money. I've gotten bent when they suddenly drop offical support for the sake of their next console. I've done the same with Atari, Sony, Microsoft, Coleco, Commodore, Nintendo, and many others. Sega doesn't have exclusive rights to crappy hardware & software or bad business techniques. Personal gripes towards the company on a whole aside, the DC is a fine machine technicaly that can still hold it's own against modern consoles. BTW, I bought my DC back when the price dropped to $149.

I gave a friend a modded xbox and we installed linux on it, and now have it running by itself in a corner hosting a paintball server. Bums me out tho that most pawn shops and places are still asking for $120 & up for a used xbox. Grrrrrr.

Digikey, Mouser, and many other electronics parts dealers all sell an assortment of 30pin pc mount cardedge connectors. All you really need to know is the pin-spacing for the coleco cart, which I haven't been able to quickly locate yet.

Sweet, thanks for the link. Free subscriptions to both are on their way!

Well, as neither a seller nor buyer.... It seems to be becoming a growing trend where buyers think they should be able to buy blindly without making any attempt at all to check what it is they are bidding on. Do all you people buy food, computers, clothes, cars, houses, furniture and junk without looking at the stuff first? Yeah, just walk into a car dealership and declare you want to buy a car, then just blindly sign the first set of paperwork presented to you? Then bitch after the fact because you wanted a red Mazda RX7 but bought a blue AMC Pacer. Hate to see how this would have turned out had this been an AtariSoft cart for the Intellivision. Oh, beware, I hear there is a music group called The Atari's, lest anyone confuse them with classic video game stuff.

Yes, you all are right. The seller is obviously a lying scumbag deliberatly trying to confuse people. I see it now. I kept on making the mistake of reading the complete auction title, looking at the picture, and reading the sellers description. Clever ploy of the seller to say "This auction is for: a 1981 Intellivision game cartridge manufactured by Mattel." when he was infact, selling an intellivision cartridge. {Note to self: Never sell anything to an AA member}

Just as clearly states Intellivison too.

Assembly can be fun. As was already said: Forget what you know about high-level languages. True, true. Once you do, and start thinking in Hex & Binary, it makes a lot of sense and is quite easy to work with. Heck, I've never even used a real assembler. I used my C-128's built-in ML monitor to do all my programming. And it was still fun & easy. Not to mention FAST. I needed to swap out a specific byte-pair in a graphic image. I wrote a program in Assembly & Basic 7 to do it. The basic program was 2k, took 23 minutes. The assembly program was like 300 something bytes and took 1.5 seconds.

http://64.53.95.207/schematics/page2.jpg Look at the very top of the picture. That whole little bit is the power supply section of the NES. As you can see, it shows the wallwart transformer which outputs 9VAC to the NES unit. And the very first thing inside the NES after the power jack a Bridge Rectifier. Followed by the rest of the typical power supply componetes (filtering caps, switch, voltage regulator) before being fed to the electronics.

Whoa... Ze_ro, that was pretty kool. About the only thing missing are minimum & maximum pot register values of each paddle type.

There is a resistance difference between CBM & Atari paddles too. Original CBM paddles are 500k/ohm, where as Atari paddles are 1M/ohm. This isn't so much an issue when using Atari paddles on a CBM computer, but how well does it work the otherway? Would the 500k/ohm range of a CBM paddle be enough to report the full 0-228 decimal range of the Atari?

Isn't that Istanbul or something? No, actually Thailand. It's mentioned from that website for the other long named town. You think I could spell that on my own?

Krungthepmahanakornamornratanakosinmahintarayutthayamahadilokphop nopparatrajathaniburiromudomrajaniwesmahasatharn amornphimarnavatarnsathitsakkattiyavisanukamprasit Doesn't THAT just roll off the tongue.

Nope.

I think you forgot an R, isn't it spelt: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

Well, it's not a "thrift" find, since it was at GameXchange, but anywho... I picked up 9 - 7800 carts and 1 -2600 cart (bastards shrunk-wrapped a end-lableless 2600 in a 7800 5-pack). $12.90. And I got.....(drum roll please) 7800: -Choplifter -Ace of Aces -Karateka (2 of them) -One-on-One Basketball -Xevious -Mission Impossible -Dark Chambers -Touchdown Football. 2600: -Joust I "think" it was probably a fair price, there is a rarity 4 cart in there.