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All that game playing was hungry work...

Very true words from Lars. Sometimes it can be hard enough just getting a response from those who say they're interested!

Yes, but try doing that today, and the story is rather different!!! ApolloBoy definitely scored a bargain in my book, I'd be very happy to pick up a Jaguar these days for 25 GBP. (When have flea-shop/retro game stores reflected the bargain prices you might obtain if you're lucky?) Retro gaming (and even worse, pure collecting by people who don't play the games they hoard) have reached epidemic proportions, it seems to me! I was in Amsterdam yesterday, I visited a great little computer shop with a great retro-gaming section, and I think the Jaguar was going for around €100. Buying a unit from other European dealers, mail-order, new will be about the same. At Classic Gaming Expo in the UK just two weeks ago, 16/32 Systems was selling new boxed Jaguars with shrink wrapped Kasumi Ninja into the deal for £33. In all cases I'm talking about new, not used, but anyway, welcome to the Jaguar scene, ApolloBoy. I'm sure you'll have a lot of fun ahead.

MyAtari bought its Jaguar brand new from Telegames at a show for £15, and some time after that, it was possible to pick up the same package, again, new, across UK high streets for a paltry £9.99! See http://www.myatari.net/issues/feb2002/game.htm

This is mainly for those who attended the very successful JagFest UK 2004 and are looking for another fun day together, until the next event. Of course, others are welcome, too. If you want to join us for curry night and/or a day of London sightseeing, contact me now (otherwise I can't guarantee a seat at the restaurant). It's in just three weeks so hurry and register your interest now.

This is in fact based on a real Atari car window sticker issued many years ago.

That was Retrovision 4, the weekend after JagFest. I'm the lucky one who has to write both reports for MyAtari... Paolo, have you already forgotten last year's JagFest special issue?! http://www.myatari.net/issues/jul2003/rotary.htm

OK you asked for it...

It's very hard indeed, I've done it, and I don't mind if I never have to do it again. Nice job by the way, like the stripe! Is that a stick-on vinyl strip? Or is it masked and sprayed?

http://www.dentrassi.com/Jagfest.zip by Rob Perry of Gamebase ST DiVX format

Yep, you're impatient. We poor Falcon users have waited seven years since the last demo of New Beat's Willie's Adventures, a brilliant Rayman style platformer with great graphics and music.

Ah, well if you had been at the MyAtari stand...

Pizza was all gone by the time I wandered in to the right room. Here are some pics of original Atari UK print advertising material, consisting of films (both positive and negative monochrome, and CMYK on separate layers) for making plates, colour proofs on glossy thick paper/card and hand-drawn concepts (many of which didn't make it to press). We only had space to show these after team member Thomas Wellicome left on the Saturday, and even then we could have really used a whole extra table.

Drat, I forgot they come out in reverse order. Where's that edit button gone?

Will be more in the MyAtari report, but it went roughly like this:

I got chucked out about 2:30 in the morning, boo... Actually I didn't get kicked out because Richard Stevens was too polite but I finally clocked that he was waiting patiently with keys. MyAtari member Matt Preston was with me and wide awake after consuming much alcohol, otherwise we'd have burnt all the way (after my initial drowsiness following late dinner and drink...). Big apologies to Richard for having kept him from sleeping.

The subject of all-night gaming has come up before but I'm still no clearer. Last year the basement was closed during early hours as I remember, will it really be all-night this year?

This month's MyAtari is a CT60 special, if anyone wants to submit CT60 related articles or reviews, please get in touch with me as soon as possible. Time is tight as we're also preparing for JagFest UK this month!

So, are the French coming to JagFest UK again this year? Last time was a nice surprise.

I briefly considered housing a Jaguar and CD unit in a 19" 2U rack. Never got beyond that stage. After that, I contacted a manufacturing company with regard to having a replica Jaguar case made in carbon fibre, but without the original moulds it would involve an intermediary silicone jelly mould stage and started to look like getting seriously expensive.

The reason people are having doubts about the ribbon cable idea is that long wires act as RF antennae, or transmitters - if you have high speed electrical signals on them jumping up and down. For example, on the Atari Falcon, if you accelerate the system bus then use a cartridge port extender (the cartridge port is unbuffered and effectively a direct extension of the bus) you get a lot of system crashes as signals interfere with each other.

I was wondering what the smeg you were on about when you said you had number 7, I always thought the Extremist packs had only reached number 3 (as in third edition). Now the penny has dropped.

Curious, that would imply its more of a software bug than hardware, as the port would logically fall out of sync less often with the constant data flowing for a level full of monsters (geek type post, and Im too tired to explain it to non geeks, sorry). The answer is here, 7th paragraph: http://www.myatari.net/issues/jan2001/jaguar.htm

My university had a room full of them, for teaching 68000!

Let's hope we have the same fabulous weather again. Are you going to contact the local press this year? That might help boost attendance.