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  1. Over 1 billion people worldwide watching the cricket match between India and Pakistan at the Adelaide Oval.. not a bad effort.

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      MAC-42

      SoulBlazer - Depends on which form of the game you're playing. T20 cricket plays just a little longer than a baseball game. I prefer first-class and test cricket, which would probably see you calcify in your seat by about day 3 of a match. :D (I keed, I keed.)

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  2. so, my boss is refusing to pay me for time worked over the last 2 weeks. am I fired? do I quit?

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      MAC-42

      Some years back, my wife and a lot of her coworkers found their salaries quietly re-classified by their local office so that they weren't paid overtime. They called HR at corporate who cleaned that up fast. Non-payment probably isn't legal, y'see. Slightly different events, but do you have this option available?

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  3. My daughter is due tomorrow, may as well squeeze in a gaming session tonight before she gets here and then who knows how much gaming i'll be able to do?

  4. Looking forward to the World Cup cricket starting tomorrow...

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      MAC-42

      Gosh, I'd forgotten that was upon us. I've been following the Ranji Trophy to the exclusion of all else this winter. Well, here's to the Proteas!

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  5. I live in Canada, bought a game from S. Carolina. So why is my package currently in Miami?

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      MAC-42

      Clearly, you've displeased someone upstairs, AtariLeaf. I'll sacrifice two ZX-81s and an Odyssey2 as a propitiation on your behalf tonight.

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  6. Things social security #s are great for: Social Security. Things social security #s are also useful for: nothing

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      MAC-42

      Mine is 7. Let's hear yours now, Travis. :)

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  7. Any iTunes radio/Spotify playlist recommendations to play alongside my 2600? I listen to "Jazz Chill" right now on iTunes radio, but I'm looking to branch out.

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      MAC-42

      I just pack a smart playlist full of New Wave stuff. It's all period that way. :)

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  8. Anyone remember these?

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      MAC-42

      Yup. Had one when I was a kid, in fact. But only one. I liked these. These and StarCom. I only had one of those, too. :(

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  9. Just found Meteorites in a Thrift shop, along with Rescue on Fractulus and Spy Hunter for the 2600. All for $5 each. I love thirft stores!

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      MAC-42

      Where are all these magic thrift stores that people say contain all these wonderful things? Nowhere near me, sadly, it seems. :( Nice catches, though; you have my envy and my congratulations!

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  10. They arrived! My day is now planned. @AtariAge http://t.co/RPBwJYh0a7

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      MAC-42

      Pac-Man Collection and Scramble just arrived here. But I can't really justify playing them right now as my daughter and I just got back from an afternoon at the arcade. My wife might disapprove. :D

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  11. My favorite game for Colecovision thus far is Mr. Do! Whats yours?

  12. I have like 10 more 7800 games on their way. I can't stop! Don't make me!

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      MAC-42

      I wouldn't stop you if you begged me to! It's a good system, isn't it? :) Which games did you pick up?

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  13. Just bought the 7800 Pac-Man collection as an early birthday present for my middle daughter. ...And Scramble for me. :)

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      MAC-42

      Well thank you, Trebor!

      Yes, these should be fun indeed.

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  14. Every once in a while, it becomes public knowledge that an emulator has creeped into the Apple app store. If anybody knows of a GBC or SNES one that's currently available, will you PM me, please? I've heard about the one that can be side loaded by visiting that site but I don't trust it. I also don't want to jailbreak my phone yet.

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      MAC-42

      I'm afraid you just missed a NES/SNES emulator that was buried in a file manager about two weeks back. It was called Floppy Cloud. You have to be jump on those apps quickly once word spreads about them. Usually, once that happens, it's only a matter of hours before Apple squashes them.

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  15. Found on ebay, working Atari 7800 CIB with games,, good price. http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=351243224707&alt=web

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      MAC-42

      I agree with Travis, too. Further, the description says "What you see is what you get." Yet I see no 7800, just a box. I hate to be a pain and all, but....

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  16. I love buying factory sealed Atari 7800 games and ripping them open like it was Christmas day and playing them for hours and hours.

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      MAC-42

      Isn't it the greatest? The last 7800 game I got in the '80s was Mario Bros. Then, some months ago, my copy of Barnyard Blaster came. (Hey. Easy now. Heh.) It was like getting your long, lost first love back again. Well, no, not really, but you get the point.

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  17. My 7800 arrived today! But I can't open it yet because I have make an unboxing video.

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      MAC-42

      Open it up, play with it, then carefully repack it and pretend nothing happened. I didn't see nuthin'! :)

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  18. Do we have to take the years they send us? I wouldn't mind ordering another 1982.

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      MAC-42

      I'll take a dozen 1984s. Maybe a couple 1982s as well though. :)

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  19. Who keeps turning off North Korea's 56K modem?

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      MAC-42

      Don't they know they have to keep feeding the hamsters so they can keep cranking the wheel so the Internet will stay up? Good grief. I figured out that solution ages ago now. What a bunch of n00bs.

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  20. I'm loving Flappy Bird on the Atari 7800. Even if I suck at the game :-)

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      MAC-42

      A really nice version was done for the 7800 just recently, too. I mean, I hate Flappy Bird, but this 7800 version really does look nice.

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  21. Anyone ever have anything stolen from their collection? Or entire collection stolen?

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      MAC-42

      A friend of mine has his house broken into 10 or so years years back and lost his boyhood 3DO collection to the intruders. It was never recovered. He's still smarting over that.

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  22. Making really slow progress on my game, but slow progress is also progress!

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      MAC-42

      I'm right there along side you. A few bytes here and a few bytes there, and it suddenly actually feels like it's moving along.

  23. Technical problems have delayed the finishing of the SNES Podcast #1. It should be up by Tuesday night. Thanks for your patience!

    1. MAC-42

      MAC-42

      Thanks for your efforts! Looking forward to it!

  24. I've got large black ants in the house that don't seem very interested in Terro or peanut butter based bait. Any suggestions?

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      MAC-42

      I'm with NE146. We had a wave of ants invade in the latter part of the summer, and Advion was the perfect solution.

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  25. My Thanksgiving project this year (besides eating dinner): restoring a 7800! I had to replace the TIA, the 6532, and all the console switches, but it's working now! The last step is installing an A/V mod ...

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      MAC-42

      How much of a pain in the rear end is it to replace those console switches? My 7800's power switch is getting finicky.

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