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Sorry for replying to an old post, but how do you get into test mode? From the FAQ:Diagnostic/Test Mode - While holding the Reset and Select buttons down with the B/W & Color Switch in Color mode - Power on and you'll get a Joystick test mode Doing the same thing with the switch in B/W mode - Power on and you'll get a Paddle Controller test mode

That's odd because I have the original bin on a cart and it doesn't roll on any of the 2600's that I tested it on. I tested the bin and it ran a constant 262 scanlines. Also on the RevB units that I have, Return to Haunted House doesn't roll on my TV sets. I don't have a RevA unit to see if it rolls or not.

You cannot tell unless you test the unit on Quadrun or open it up. Quadrun voice plays on RevB's as well. (Someone correct me if I'm wrong - too lazy to fire it up right now.)

I recall Dennis Debro fixed the scanline issue but it never made it into the RevC version... and the FB2 Portable never happened... yet. (One can still hope!)

Wow, old thread... What was Yar's Return a hack of? It is a hack of Yars' Revenge.

Heh, that would be great to see some crazy kind of port to the 2600 - even a limited demo just for kicks...

Hmmm... have to give this a try now that my curiosity has risen...

Spoon! Oops, been reading the Tick... I think this is a great idea. However, if it got to the length of say, 52 colored pages it would actually increase the cost of games being bought if included, as color printing does not come cheap. Even if Al printed them bulk, they would be obsolete once a new batch of games came out. Then we'd have v.1, v.2, etc. etc...

yes i did. What exactly is square trio mentioned in the egg? I believe Cafeman, AlanD, and Raccoon (the trio) designed and programmed Adventure II for the Atari 5200 (IIRC) and it was ported over to the FB2.

Cool manual - thanks for sharing! Thanks! BTW, I love your Haunted Adventure games - very challenging! Thank you! I'm going to be playing EMR for the next little while; it's a really fun adventure-type game! Cheers, Tony

Cool manual - thanks for sharing!

The old 1973 Atari maze game Gotcha (their fourth arcade game) has been emulated in DICE, the Discrete Integrated Circuit Emulator. Apparently I missed the boat on this as the emulator was released over a year ago at http://sourceforge.net/projects/dice/ The game features a two player tag through a shifting maze pattern. I remember seeing this game at the downtown Woodward's in Vancouver when I was a kid, and for years I wondered what the heck it was called. What did we ever do without the Internet or google? Source http://www.old-computers.com/MUSEUM/softwa...tail.asp?id=645 dice.0.2.zip

I'm surprised this has never been done.

Fate of Atlantis - I loved the talkie version and the fact that there were three different paths. This would have made a much better movie than the UFO one.

Do you have them stashed in an underground cave? (reference to O'shea)

ATARI FlashBack II Compatibility List http://kennedy.greg.googlepages.com/fb2compat.html Thanks to brojamfootball for the link.

Tipped the balance to the originals - its very close... I like the originals slightly more.

Info sent! Cheers, Tony

Fair enough, though my opinion is that if you are really interested, you would ask.

See here.

There is no "the rom"; each cart has a different customized rom. If/when a rom is released here by me, it will be an AtariAge edition.

That would have solved countless problems a while back...

Best wishes, Curt! If it helps, I'm thinking of picking up a few joysticks when I have some extra cash. Cheers, Tony

Looks like Nukey, Earthquake et al. are having fun playing around with the Adventure II assembly. I'm actually jealous that I don't have the time right now to do any major coding...