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  4. Posted

    Personally, I think floppy drives are quite hard to come by. Your best bet will probably be to look on eBay.

     

    That said, though, there are plenty of cartridge-based games that would get you started. A few memorable ones include Dungeons of Daggorath (3-D 1st person dungeon crawler - think simplified Bard's Tale) and Mega Bug (think Pac-Man). Personally, I grew up with Popcorn (think Kaboom), and played alot of it. Note that even though the CoCo 1 and 2 are compatible, CoCo 3-specific cartridges (such as Thexder) and disk software won't run on your earlier version CoCo. CoCo 3 graphics on an RGB monitor were sweet for their time.

     

    Once you find your level of interest with a few cartridge games, you might then want to move on to disk-based games. I don't remember the tape-based games being that great, myself, a text adventure or various kids learning games come to mind.

     

    Yes, you can use the Tandy Deluxe Joystick with the CoCo. I never had the original black free-floating-only type, just the Deluxe ones.

     

    Yes, there is a special 5-pin DIN to triple headphone jack cable. There are a few online sellers of these. For reliability's sake, use a computer-quality tape deck. Occasionally a CCR-81 goes up for sale on eBay along with the cable.

     

    As far as disk-based games go, my favorite was Robot Odyssey from the Learning Company, but then again, I like dinking with digital logic. To be honest, I played more games on consoles and used my CoCo for programming, music, etc.

  6. Posted

    I have a quick reference for D.L. Logo scanned on my web site. A fair number of these commands will probably work with the cartridge version of Logo for the Color Computer:

     

    http://www.polylith.com/~brendan/ClassicCo...ogoManual1.html

     

    If all you have is a CoCo 3, then Audio Spectrum Analyzer won't work on it:

     

    http://nitros9.stg.net/audio_spectrum.html

     

    I couldn't dig up too much useful info on Rampage, however. :(

     

    Google is your friend.

  7. Posted

    A friend of mine and I used to live and breathe our CoCos in late elementary school and into middle school. Like yours, ours were 64k and had the Extended Color Basic expansion for playing music and drawing hi-res graphics without having to use assembly language. His was a CoCo 1 (silver/grey, quite deep case with chicklet keyboard), mine was a CoCo 2 (white, shallow case, similar to the CoCo 3 case). The 1 and 2 were very similar, whereas the CoCo 3 was mostly backwards compatible to the earlier models. Did you pick up a 1 or 2? (I assume yours is not a 3 since those came with 128k RAM stock, IIRC.)

     

    They were great little machines with Motorola 6809E (E for Externally clocked) processors in them. I still have my original CoCo2 as well as (recently) a CoCo3 on which I run NitrOS-9 from a SCSI hard drive (courtesy the wizards at Cloud 9).

     

    If you have some specific questions about the box, while I may not know the answer, I can probably find out for you or point you in the right direction.

     

    I'd be interested in Cassidy's CoCo cart list, but I'm guessing that since they're NIB, the prices will be out of my reach. ;)

  8. Posted

    My wife and I have been having a blast playing alot of Yoshi Touch & Go together in 2-player race mode on our DSes. Does anyone have any particular strategies they like? I have my own, but I'm just curious.

     

    We have Zoo Keeper, too, and have worn out the multi-player mode, at least in my opinion. Zoo Keeper still has lots of replay-ability thanks to the numerous single-player modes (one of which is insanely difficult).

     

    I got to play some 2-player Mr. Driller Drill Spirits with my brother recently and found that it still didn't have as much replay value as single player Mr. Driller DS or Yoshi, unfortunately.

     

    Not to hijack the thread, but I, too, am curious about Polarium and Pac-Pix in case anyone (davidbrit2) has reviews/descriptions of these.

  9. Posted

    I picked this game up (after trying out my brother's) for $48 with bongos from our local Costco. My wife and I really enjoy this game. It's reminiscent of classic games in which getting a high "beat"/banana count score is rewarding and really increases replay value of the levels. The first 8 levels have been pretty easy thus far, and out of them, I've been able to score 2 gold "medals"; getting silver and bronze is cake. We've worn our hands out banging and clapping (but it sure - I'm finally starting to go a little easier on the drums.

     

    Zoop, the only DKC remnants that are still around are the swimming levels (few and far between) and collecting up bananas (among the animal riding already mentioned). I recognize the visual similarity between Junglebeat and DKC, but they're definitely generations removed from each other. (Don't get me wrong, we also enjoy DKC quite a bit, and while this game looks alot like DKC it really doesn't play much the same.)

  10. Posted

    To answer the first question, yes, I do feel that puzzle games tend to hold their replay value much better than so many other games. Heck, my wife recently got a GBA SP, and just yesterday we got her the old original Tetris for GB so that we could play Tetris with each other.

  11. Posted

    Speaking of puzzle games with learning curves, my favorite puzzle game is Wario's Woods on the SNES (haven't tried the NES version - could be interesting with only 2 buttons). It's especially fun with another player, but has some other versions of the game that can easily keep one player amused. The combos in this game are awesome!

  12. Posted

    I was around 9 years old at the time we got E.T. for our 2600. I remember playing it quite a bit and liking it alot! I really don't understand why everyone dislikes it so much - I never got frustrated about falling into the holes.

     

    I've been enjoying your intervew excerpts on G4TechTV lately, HSW. Every time they say how awful E.T. was, I tell my wife that I liked it and played the game alot.

     

    Yar's Revenge has been and always will be one of my favorites. I remember as a young teenager often challenging my best friend to the most difficult game (the one in which you have travel back to the left-hand side of the screen in order to get the Zylon cannon ready). We would almost always try to hit the Quotile after turning into a swirl and while in motion for the most challenge and most points. ;) Needless to say, I'm stoked about the idea of Yar II!

  18. Posted

    I'd definitely cast a 3rd vote for Wario's Woods. This game has consumed almost as much time as Tetris (and I've played Tetris alot).

     

    Yes, there is an N64 version of Lode Runner. Unfortunately, it's 3D and starts out kindof simple - I typically don't have single long periods of time that I can sit in front of my consoles anymore, and this is one game that probably gets pretty good later, but I've not gotten there yet. I'm a big fan of the original (from my Apple ][+ days), but I think Lode Runner 64 is merely good, and a "should-have" for a puzzle person.

     

    I noticed some folks mentioned Wetrix+ for DC. I have the N64 version (Wetrix) and find the controls to be a little awkward. When I finally took 30-45 minutes to go through the tutorial and practice modes, I finally started to get the hang of the "acceleration" on the analog stick. I was wondering if Wetrix+ had better controls or was better in any way other than, say, graphics? (I guess that ideally, Wetrix would have the option of using a trackball... ;) )

  19. Posted

    As one who has worked for IBM and Motorola on the PowerPC several years ago, I understand why first Apple, then Nintendo, and now the other console makers are going IBM exclusively. IBM has always sunk alot of time and money into R&D of the manufacturing process and has always been progressive about technology changes. For instance, IBM and Moto stopped working together on the PowerPC because IBM saw 64-bit processors and multi-processor parallelism being the "next big thing" while Moto still wanted to make 32-bit processors to target embedded applications (cars, PDAs, routers, etc.). As for manufacturing capability, IBM wins, hands down. Their per-wafer yield was almost always higher than Motorola for the same design and also of higher quality (you could run at higher frequencies at lower voltages & currents).

     

    Except for the funky Intel-inheirited architecture, I would think AMD might be another main contender for consoles.

     

    Just my 2 cents...

  20. Posted

    I use Armor All, too, on my console and cartridge exteriors and have

    yet to have any problems at all.

     

    From what I remember from chemistry class, Armor All breaks down

    one or two molecule thick crystalline structures that slowly form on

    the surfaces of vinyl, plastic, or rubber. (Being in the sun accelerates

    this formation.) These small crystalline structures are oriented every-

    which-way and dull the "lustre" of fresh, new plastic. Removing one

    or two molecules worth of "bad" plastic isn't going to do any harm!

    How many thousands of years do you want your 2600 to last?

     

    I beg to differ with opinions here, but my NES and SNES and N64

    and Genesis look none the worse for wear...

  21. Posted

    I, like some others of you, "never got out" of my 2600. I still have the heavy sixer Dad bought in 1979 and all of the cartridges. I've almost always had it hooked up to the biggest TV in the house just for the quick round of Demon Attack. Over time, I've slowly picked up cartridges here and there, and within the last several years, the thing that really got me going to pick up more cartridges at pawn shops and Goodwills was inheiriting my uncle's collection (he was having problems with _his_ heavy sixer, which turned out to simply be an easily fixable broken solder joint on one of the momentary switches). As an aside, to keep my uncle from "getting out" of Atari, I set him up first with a PC emulator and then one for the Dreamcast. ;)

  23. Posted

    I'd be willing to help you out - I've done tons of soldering and successfully modded my Supercharger the way you want yours. I have a Weller temperature-controllable station. You'd be stuck paying for shipping both ways and I can't guarantee that it will work when you get it back, though. (Sorry - usual legaleese.) Hopefully you haven't heated up any of the chips pins too much...the 7432 is easily replacable if damaged, of course... ;)

  24. Posted

    Meaning you're used to off-white (yellowed) SNESes? Or just one of the more recent white versions?

     

    Maybe ApolloBoy dipped it in bleach?

     

    That is a dysfunctional family - I see the 2 Segas and 2 NESes, but was the Atari adopted?

    Don't tell it, or it'll become suicidal or something.

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