Marius

NO THIS ONE DOES NOT COUNT (!!) But I was so proud of this score, I had to share it. Last month I played Millipede and I had quite an amazing score and shared it on WhatsApp with my Friend @Thelen. I also pointed him in the direction of this HSC. I hope he will join. But I will have to do some practice to get over this personal record. Since I did not play this one in this HSC round, it should NOT be counted.

Enjoy your weekend!

Wow amazing score! Very nice! I will still have a hard time winning this game... but I am motivated and if I don't win, it doesn't matter, since it still will mean I played millipede!

And please let me say THANK YOU SO MUCH! all for voting for this game. I have been 'begging' a lot for this one, so I am extremely thankful and pleased with it. Let us have some fun!

This game is actually the only game I consider my self a "master" in (and Ms. Pac-Man and Pac-Man Arcade as good second and third). I love Millipede though. It is all these years my absolute number #1. If there were no other games left, but millipede, I still would keep my Atari. It is amazing how much fun this game is.

The most important thing with Sio2IDE (well, the version I use -> 3.3) is that you need to defragment the CF card. If you format it and you copy all the files in one move, if everything works right the cart does not need to be defragmented. You do not need any files, but there needs to be a ini file (not sure though from memory whether it is called SIO2IDE.INI) ... in every directory there needs to be such a file. I will have to look for the exact filename. The Config program is called FDISK. I wrote years ago (2009 or so) a tool called S2ITOOL. It is only tested with the Sio2IDE 3.3 ... it makes it much more convenient to mount atr's and browse through folders. There is also the jukebox program. Sio2IDE is pretty obsolete these days, but it is still a cool little device. The successor with the USB port was not my favorite version. It had not a nice D1: D2: swap, which I loved on the 3.3 version.

Ok the best game ever!! 348042 and this is just a warming up

Hey @therealbountybob is there a chance you missed my 1st city lost score here?

Hopefully my last word on this matter (Lol, I also say this to myself...) If someone bought a cart from @video61atarisales, and he or she is not satisfied with the purchase, or experiences other issues. Please contact Lance from Video61 first, and he will work it out with you. There has been said enough about this matter. Atari 8bit is a lot of fun, and it is a loss to let negativity throw a shadow on the fabulous computer hobby. Happy Atari 8bit wishes to all of you! Marius

I noticed a while back someone posting a picture of a 'fake' device. Can't remember whether it was SIDE2 or U1MB, but it was an clone indeed. I responded to that post that it felt wrong that someone did this. I got a pretty annoyed and abusive answer. Pity that people do not simply buy the hardware. It is not that you or Lotharek make a fortune out of it. Good that you write about these things on the forum. I wished it wasn't necessary.

Grmbl when I typed my enthusiastic please-let-it-be-Millipede post, it was the only one with 6 votes (IIRC though)....

Oh.... let us hope Millipede will stay on #1 position!!!!!!!!!!!!

You seriously should make a new thread. You'll get way more responses then, and indeed this derails the side3 thread completely.

No I meant the endless discussion about Downloadable versions of the games. I still think it is a good idea, and I am very glad to read KJMANN's post about the subject, but I really brought *that* subject up too many times in the past. The reason I think it is a good idea, is indeed because of the nature of software. Software almost ever needs fixes, so then RAM is a better choice than ROM .... but well... I'll leave it now.

"Are you a God?"

Wow Sal, this was a post I did not see coming. Nice to have you back here. And people always can change their minds. I also wrote earlier today that I admit that I shouldn't have brought up this subject over and over again. When I could do thing from the past over, I would also make different choices. I know you and I had some pretty big arguments about this as well in the past, but I left this behind us already years ago. I love your musical arrangements (I still think the Space Harrier music is one of the greatest tunes on pokey ever created!) and the fact you are back is nice too! I wish you all the best with your health, and let us all enjoy Atari 8bit and pokey chiptunes!

@peteym5 and @video61atarisales Since you seem to be completely aware of anything that happens here in this thread, just for your info: I have an e-mail here in my mailbox written by Lance R. (sent from an address V****61@t**.net) from date May 18th, 2017. In which Lance (yes already in 2017!) writes to me that: 1. I (Marius) found a bug 2. Peter says he found the errors Ok... let me summarize this. In 2017 the bug was mentioned, and confirmed by Lance (Video61). Also confirmed was in 2017 that Peter found the errors. Then read this BS Peteym5 write now in his FB group: So what is interesting here. 1. He blames Sal (Kjmann) 2. He states that due to Sal he was not aware of any bugs. 3. He states that it took several years before the bug was noticed by anyone... Well even if these three statements are true, it still does not explain why they already in 2017 knew about the bugs, and that in 2020 still carts were/are sold with the same bug. So who is telling lies now?

Never am I talking about dumping and distribution. I am talking about the fact that people should not lie. Not big companies, not small companies. That's all. Of course people decide by themselves what they buy or not, but in a scene like this one, when people think they are talking to someone else just like a regular user, and it turns out that it was a fake person, ... then I can understand people feel robbed. That is the behavior I am talking about all the time. I do not want anything to be dumped or spread. I want bad habits to stop.

It seems you make some kind of a sport trying to justify wrong behavior. That other companies do bad things, does not mean that I should act differently (because I could know the information I read is false). That means that the world is sick, and I will stand up against that till I die. You simply can not compare 'big business' in a small scene like this... well you can compare, but the comparison doesn't make any sense. If person #1 reports: hey there is a bug with this program. and then fake person #2 reports: oh I bought the cart and here everything works fine. There is really NOTHING that justifies that behavior of person #2. It is wrong, and it should be judged that way. Also by you XXL.

Well that is not completely true. Lance will do refunds. I think he is not a bad guy, but he should communicate about this. He could make sure that what he sells has a certain (good!) quality. In my opinion he lacks that attitude too much. I am sure Lance accepts returns of the cart, and he will do a complete refund. So that is a good thing. But I also know people won't return, or perhaps they think they can't return. He simply should stop selling crap. Let someone please help these guys in improving their stuff. From a positive point of view: the titles have most certainly some potential, and with a little bit of help here and there, they could become real classics. Lance will probably sell way more titles, if all this trouble is left behind. But well... as @flashjazzcat already mentioned. I should stop supporting these people, and I also should stop dreaming about a perfect world.

Yeah, of course me too. You don't seem to understand what I am saying. The point is: they advertised their games using fake accounts. An atari 8bit scene is today something different than the big companies you mention. Selling bugs for being good is in my eyes the same as robbery. You and I can disagree about that, but that is my opinion. I would nobody encourage to share (buggy) code. Never. But I also would be able to warn people for lost money, in buying untested and proven buggy stuff.

XXL, seriously. No one here wants to rob anyone. I pay for everything I use on a8. Even the things that are free, and I keep using, can count on a donation from my side. The question is more: how ethical is it, that people sell software (for big money) while they KNOW the software does not work properly.

The most ironic part is, that atari 8bit users, (future) customers of V61 were called pirates, because games would be spread. I won't do such a thing, and that is the reason I bought a second Tempest Xtreem cart, since I gave the first one away. Yes, I kept a dump for myself when I gave it away, but then I decided I still liked the game, so I bought a 2nd new one. I found it unfair to keep a dump, without anymore owning the physical cart. I do want to pay for good software. I am not interested in free copies. What I like most is being involved. So if something needs to be tested, let me test it. If something needs to be fixed, and I can do it... let me do it. That is one of most awesome parts of this hobby. Create stuff, fix stuff, preserve it. I told @Albert I feel responsible for the 'drama' that happens now. I could have chosen to keep my mouth shut. Perhaps I should have done that. But the fact that V61 continues selling stuff that is known defective, is simply something I can not be silent about. We, the atari 8bit community, need some protection for that kind of bad practice. Video61 could have responded to my post, they could have told their part of the story... they could have said to me that my posts stinks to high heaven and asked me to remove it. None of that happened. Peteym5 chose to post a hideous post on his FB group, using my profile picture, and using my full name. So no, nobody has to dump this software for me. I am no longer interested in a fix either. Due to all this, I am no longer interested in playing these games either, although they are still pretty decent titles. The only two thing I would like is that V61 stops selling buggy stuff, and that Peteym5 uses his coding talent on a8 productions (including a good test phase) in stead of abusing his talent by bamboozling his audience with all this untrue posts.

Stock atari 8bit computers.

Thanks! But on FaceBook his hideous post is still there, and people might need the whole story to make up their decisions about who is the bad guy here. I wouldn't say about myself I am the good guy. I have been -indeed- very critical on V61 and the whole story. And indeed I was a pain in the ass when it comes to the 'cart only' discussion. All true. But I have always honest intentions. And everything I wrote about the story with Peteym5 and V61 is true. One can not say I spread lies. It is just telling how things happened. And yes, that is an ugly story. I did not create that 'truth'.