Greg Zumwalt

as some of you can't get the the link, here is a quick copy/paste of it... sadly, Atari stuff was not the only thing lost... as to medical and such, yes, the USA has some of the worst in the world. And in the US, it is all business, so if you can't afford it or end up with large bills, you're screwed. My health problems are long term, so the bills just kept getting worse... finally, it was lose stuff to collection agencies, or sell. But enough about that... As to why Wagner chose to destroy everything rather then let me retrieve it is quite the mystery. The local police can't do anything as the land is outside city jurisdiction (remote country area), and the state police have to enforce the new owners claim that I'm a tresspassor, so they said take it to court. I have been trying to get news sources involved, but most feel it is too one sided a story and since Wagner refuses to speak with anyone, they'd rather not get into it just yet. For those offering to help restart my collection... I am very touched. But at this time, I don't know I could ever look at a system again. You must understand, I had over 300 games, several rares, dosens of systems, including a 2800, and well, right now, I'm just a whirl wind. Let me think about it a while. Again, thanks. =============================================== At first glance this may seem a bit out of the ordinary of what you may have expected to find here. No doubt, many of you will have found your way here from emulation, Atari, collectable, antique and simular sites. I ask you, to read on, and all shall be explained. January 1, 2004 For many years I've been know world wide for several of my collections. They included: Live audio recording of 28 Rock Groups 600 music cassetts 150 VHS movies 2 dosen CDs Most of these can never be replaced. Some of the recording I did (with permission) while touring with many of the bands. The material value of replacing these is estimated to be around $8,000 Pre Basic D&D collection including the rare white box set and paperbacks. Basic D&D collection 1st Edition D&D collection 2nd Edition D&D collection At an auction at GenCon in 2002, a set like this auctioned for $27,000 and did NOT include the Modules or my decades of created works. It also did not include my official TSR membership awards, signed by Gary Gygax himself. Complete Chessex Dice collection: Menagerie™, Signature™, Borealis™, Vortex Dice, Speckled Dice, Translucent Dice, Opaque Dice, Frosted™, Nebula™. Complete Crystal Cast collection: Complete Koplow Dice collection: Glitters, Pearls, Solids, Transparents, all Polyhedral (34) sets, Mages, Glow and... Misc other dice including jumbo and mini sets, adventurers dice, rune dice and more. 1 of a kind glow in the dark 100 sided from the owner of Koplow given to me because of my vast collection. Most of these sets can no longer be obtained. Together, they had a material value of over $1,000 2 1830's Spanish swords valued at $60 each 1 1350 Catana, Hanwei valued at $300 1 1502 Thistle Claymore valued at $460 (Pewter) Complete Grenadier Fantasy Figurines Complete Ral-Partha Fantasy Figurines Complete RAFM Fantasy Figurines 28 original castings Once insured from 1990-1996 at a value of $22,000 Most, over 1000, of these miniature pewter sculptures (many, less then an inch in height) are non replacible. 50 Lbs of raw pewter ingots: 90% lead, 5% tin, 5% antimony Hand and Dremel carving tools Molds (Classic electronic gamming systems and accessories) Odyssey 2 + games Intellivision + games Nintendo + games 3DO + games Sega + games 2001 + games 32X + games abc80 + games Apple2 + games C64 + games COCO2 + games Coleco + games Genesis + games Megadrive + games N64 + games Playstation + games saturn + games TI99 + games (Atari 2600-5200 consisting of one of the worlds largest collections.) This Excel database contains a complete list. The value of these pieces of American Icon culture of nearly half a century are priceless. (Family heirlooms) Photo albums containing some photos over 100 years old. Considered priceless as they have a full history. Fortunately, most of them were made into a digital album. Still, it is not the same as the real thing. Hamilton Railmans watch from 1902 17 Ruby jewels This goes back four generations to the original owner. The Clinton Watch company has its full history. This watch was in perfect working order. I had a second watch made by Hamilton 1968. Grade 925 Size 18, 17 Ruby jewels. However, it was not an heriloom. The first watch was valued at over $1,000 and the later at $200 Bibles brought over to the US from Germany at risk of death. WURZBURG Silver plated Flute-German worth $150 And then their are the miscelanious oddities... art supplies 20 years of celebrety autographs Over a decade of personal sketch work. paintings war medals 3 cent Stamps wedding photos and other personal effects RaVe items WWI silver bracelet Silver Certificates worth $150 yearbooks skeleton Keys electronic parts 200x telescope Clothing Computer Desk Automotive tools, ramps, compressor 18 Glass fish Rolling toolbox containing various electron testing tools. 5 channel FM X-Ceivers So, what you may ask do all of these things have in common, aside from having been mine? Jason Wagner of Valders Wisconsin, destroyed them all!!! 3416 Thompkins Rd, cell # 1-920-323-1150 Why did he do it? It still remains something of a mystery, as he refuses to this day to speak to anyone, including the police. However, you can read this letter that was sent him which explains some of the circumstances. Notice As you surmise, he still refuses to acknowledge to this day. The forms were filed with the insurance company, but it could be months, even years before Wagner is brough to court. And then, the best I could hope would be a monitary compensation... and that will simply not do. Further, Wagner had to take out several loans just to get the house, so I KNOW he hasn't got any money to take. This man and his families crimes must be made know. In all, he has destroyed or stollen over $50,000 worth of art, antiques, collectables, books and more... over a century of my family history... and a half a century of American culture. The final insult and injury... Wagner has effectively destroyed my Last Will and Testament. An Executioner is a destroyer of Historical items; a devil is a liar and deciever; Wagner has disgraced his family name and is worse then both. From this day forth, let the name Wagner forever be like shit on the lips of those who speak it. As much of this may have simply been stollen and not destroyed as reported by neighbors, I ask that people keep a close look out for anything surfacing. What else can you do to help? Direct everyones attention possible to this page.

Actually, it does bother me a lot right now, so I'll give you the short of it... I had to sell my classic car collection and home to pay off my sermounting medical bills. Had two choices, sell to a constructor of ill repute but who could get the money in the time needed, or go with a reccomendation from the neighbors, whom I trust, to allow a supposidely and seeminly nice couple buy the house for a little less. I went with the couple. It was less money but seemed a better choice. To expediate the move, much of my stuff was moved to the barn (more of a nice shed) so that I'd be out and they could get in right away. Soon as they were in, I was thrown off the property and told never to return. Numerous legal attempts to get my property failed and finally the neighbors reported they saw all my stuff being hauled out and destroyed. The place is outside city jurisdiction, so little can be done. The end???

I'm sure some of you have been wondering why I have been scarce lately... well, my move did not go at all well. But rather then get into it here, you may follow this link which explains why I no longer have anything Atari... http://snailsoft.cjb.net:20080/Wagner/Wagner.htm

JB, please, dig them up and post them. Many of us greatly appreciate the work. Have you tried my VaderMatic or the latest Hock-O-Matic II?

I agree with the Troll... always welcome new work, even the hacks. It gives people ideas. PS Troll, I haven't checked my logs in a few days, but thought I'd take this time to let you know the server has been up and running stable now for several days.

Very nice! BTW, for those who don't want to wade threw shockwave files and pages of html code, this link is direct: http://www.videogamearchive.com/emu/a26_hack.htm

Ah ha! That makes sence. Thanks. Hmmm, perhaps some of the coding from Clone Spy should be implimented into z26??? If z26 can't find an exact match, try to run it in the mode of the roms closest relative, so to speak.

hmmm, thought maybe it was anti-virus related, but after a hex edit even, I see the same thing. Curious. z26 and HOM2 are fine. A quick bit of research "hints" that a man named TOM GRINER created a very small yet effective ROM protection scheme first used by Vic20 games and later copied into several Coleco and Atari games. Suposedly, Pinball is protected too. Anyone know more about this? Time to get the source code...

Here it is as a reduced colour JPG... only 59 Kb ;0

That point was debated for some time after I "leaked" the first release over a month ago. It was finaly concluded, that it falls into a new catagory of "modified". This means, not only was an original used, and altered, but that new code was added. Berzerk Voice Enhanced is another to fit this catagory. The new two joystick version of former single controller games would also meet this catagory.

I personaly reccomend: WacMan http://www.atariage.com/hack_page.html?Sys...ftwareHackID=92 and Jungle Jane http://www.atariage.com/hack_page.html?Sys...ftwareHackID=90 They were made for women

Prior to the generating of the list, several tools are used to test file names, zipped files named to bins, and crc comparisons, so that all true duplicates can be removed. For the purpose of testing how closely related bins may be, I highly reccomend CloneSpy. HA HA HA... preaching to the choir their now, eh

As for duplicates... not in the strict sence. Although to a large degree that is true. However, the point of the list, from my perspective, is that know where else that I know of, keeps track of all the variations. I'm not concerned so much about someones hack that they opted to scrap and no one ever sees. I am more so interested in those files that made it to the WWW and someone did download and now wants to know what they have. This could be very important to those who burn bins. One byte more or less could be all the differance in a working cart or a door stop, and the CRC can help. As stated in a prior post, this list is usually requested by developers, and not usually the general public. But lately, I've been receiving more and more requests to identify a bin found in the wild, that I though I'd make the process a little easier. e.g. Someone downloads a bin00xxx file off of the BigList. No clue to the name or the game. A proto. Maybe just a test file. But how can one be certain? Check the CRC and look at the list. Find the name next to the CRC and go, oh, that's what it is. Or, someone downloads hangman.bin ... well, thanks to the hangman editor, dozens of hangman variations were made. By examing the CRC and comparing it to my list, one can hopefully identify the exact version, maybe who made it even. And, if the CRC isn't in the list, it and relevent data can be submitted. For those who simply want a cut and dry, hard to the core only sort of tool that just identifies "authentic" 2600 bin dumps, use the 2600 Good Tools... all be it dated and flawed still. Shame really Of course, after enough requests, I took the time to make the crc tool I use available so that people can generate their own lists.

What scientific calculations? As a former Atari repair technician, I can tell you that no part of the Atari 2600 was designed to last over a decade. This means that the systems are already approaching their 3rd time over death expectancy No one can really know how long the carts will hold. Some failed almost out of the box I saw a Star Master dropped from the back of a train and ran over by a yard truck. The case was shattered, but the board and electronics survived such that I simply plugged it in and it worked As for the future... who know? That is after all, what emulation is REALLY about. The preservations of, not so that PC users can play. And as for the company itself... do some research. Atari has probably folded and rebounded more so then any other company in history. And with every renewal, it seems to take on a different persona. Personally, I think the Atari will outlast the US as a nation.

Well, I have been swamped with hords of CRC data; much to my suprise Over 500 new CRC's have been added! A couple of unknown protos have been named. A big thanks to A.W. for submitting several hundred himself. That puts the BIN count at 2958. I had someone inquire of me, how does a BIN get onto the CRC list? Simple, if it is an Atari 2600 BIN, made available to the public via what ever means and made available to me' or if the BIN exists in a private collection and someone else submits the appropriate data. I was also asked, why? Obvious reasons aside, I was often asked by others, or found myself, with a bin that had no real identfying name. It didn't look familiar. Often, it wouldn't work... but it was there. These were usually protos, demos, test files, etc. Yet, they were being gotten, and questioned. Further, nothing came close to identifying them, including Cowerings Tools. Thus, the list. That's the short of it. Enjoy. PS I have added a tool to produce the CRC lists and compare them yourself. Use : CRC.EXE directory*.bin > crc.txt crc.zip crctest.zip

Look about two posts up Otherwise, it is "currently" here: http://www.atariage.com/forums/download.php?id=12620

In light of a good bottle of whiskey and strawberry-banana V8, and some time to cool, I am retracting my former statement and reposting the list as suggested in compressed zip format. crc.zip

A CRC is in essence, fingerprinting for software. No matter what you call a file , the CRC value will still identify it. This is very useful in identifing exact same roms with different names or making certain that a rom with no decernable name isn't one already known. It can also make certain that two roms with the same name really are the same. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Had I been asked to resubmit the work as a zipped file and for the reasons mentioned, I wouldn't have minded, but to have it compared to spam is another matter entirely. Okay. I'm sure this is a case of he meant what he said, but he didn't say what he meant... I'll leave it at that. Meanwhile, the list still remains available to those with access to the archive.

AAACCCCKKKKK!!!! 2,135 minutes and counting... need fix soon uuughhhh. On a more serious note, yes, reinventing the wheel is not fun or needed in this case. Simply implimenting DiStella as a modular tool (simular to the emulator feature) and having the dumped output displayed side by side with the rest of the HOM2 display would be great. Or, perhaps a method by where the entire code is displayed, but upon clicking a graphic block or entering the BIN/HEX value box, the list would jump to the appropriate source point...

If you really wanted to get sick you might try to intigrate the code used by DiStella into the program... at the very least, make it a tool option for ROMs of appropriate size, that will dump the code, and display it along side the appropriate line. This would help in two areas... ruling out actual code from graphics data, and make clearer the code that controls colour. Just an idea. BTW Being new to the scene, if you don't know, DiStella is the program used to diassemble 2600 BINs, but it has a size limit upon hitting bank switching. While it can be used for larger roms, the process is not an easy one.

Warlords! Especially with a good friend, both of us battling the 2600, until it came down to just the two of us battling it out. Of course, a good long run at Asteroids and rolling it can be a blast too

I am sorry, but no, I will not repost it. In the past most people have appreciated the CRC updates. This time however, someone I rather reveere at this sire, has made it clear that not all appreciate the work, and some in fact, view it as the lowest form of digital internet scum iimaginable... SPAM. As such, I have pulled the list. I have no intention of aggravating people with unwanted work. Hence, if it is wanted, it must now be obtained. It will still be available, but only to those here who have access to the archive. That is primarily developers. If one of them desires to post the data somewhere, so be it. I have no problem with that.

hmmm, perhaps something as simple as adding quotes to the %path% data as well, as that minor changed resolved launching the emulator? Or, have you already done that...

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