philipj

May 2, 2009

I was #157 and did NOT expect to get one, so I was very pleased that I got an email and gladly sent my payment. After buying 3 developer jags with Alpine boards and not ONE of them working properly, I am truly grateful for the work Tursi and Kskunk have done.

I dunno...for some reason I felt compelled to write that.

Good work.

And to think I was actually going to dish out about $300 or $400 for one of those just so I could dev for the Jag. I'm glad I didn't.

April 30, 2009

Same here. At first I didn't get a reservation e-mail. I was worried, so I asked and recieved the confirmation e-mail.

While I can't speak for Tursi, and I don't know the whole situation, I do know what it means to release a product.

I do believe Tursi and KSkunk set up the preorder page and the ordering system for a good reason.

I think it is amazing how many orders they can process in such a short time.

Keep in mind that they do it all as their HOBBY. Not as a fulltime job and not for a living.

Reading that there are preorder numbers of over 160... Some maybe even with mutiple boards...

It must be a LOAD of work to manage that in such a short time.

I just recently sent my payment and can't wait to get my hands on the board to finally get some code done again.

I had to switch to Project Tempest for a while, but it just doesn't replace a real Jag.

It leaves a lot of work, due to the differences to the real hardware.

So, can't wait

Keep up the good work, folks.

It's whorth the wait... I just sent my payment in yesterday, but I also have the first Skunkboard he released. It's a solid product so the second boards should be even better then the first.

March 20, 2009

I'd love something that worked on 7800 and emulated all of the 2600 cartridges as well ( like the Chimera cart ) - I bought a skunkboard for the jag - and something like that would be perfect

Absolutely... When the CC2 was released both times, I didn't have the money to get it then, but now I got the money to get and their not making any more of them. That's messed up.

March 20, 2009

Interesting. This is what is on Wikipedia:

I found the PDF from http://nesdev.parodius.com/ this website that's been around for some time now so I assumed they're knowledgable about the NES. The site claims that the PDF was composited by some individual(s) who created NES emulators. I haven't read the PDF all the way through, but I found out what I needed to know concerning the PPU in comparison to the 7800. The Maria moves roughly at about 7+megahertz which is slightly faster then the NES, which means the 7800 could've easily smoked the NES graphic wise under better circumstances if the hardware was designed a little better.

I haven't played the CV much so I don't know a lot about it like I should. I just thought it to be interesting to know

So there is only one 'thinker' in the 7800 where as opposed to a Genny that uses a 68k and a z-80, where
the 68k is the CPU and the Z-80( which by its own right is a CPU) is but a mere sound support processor

for genny games. I believe it also uses the z80 for backward compatibility with SMS games when using

the power base converter? Someone?...At any rate......the z-80 may have also been used for other tasks

but I cant say for sure.

I think if the Genesis processors were to switch roles from a graphical stand-point, where the Z80 were to do the graphics and the 68K was to be free to be programmed to do other things, the speed of the Motorola leaves a little leverage for some extra processing activities beyond mediocore 2D graphics thus I wish it were possible for the 7800 where the Maria can function like a CPU and the Sally a graphics processor. Considering what the Z80 did for the Sinclair, in which I never really owned but have seen lots of graphic demos on youtube, the payoff would be in focusing the slowest processor to do the graphics and AI while the fastest processor be used to back-up the slow processors graphical capabilities with extra processing activities. Now that's what I call "Blast Processing." :grin:

March 20, 2009

Nintendo graphics chip the "PPU or Picture Processing Unit" had 16kb of RAM to do all sorts of graphical stuff.

You sure the NES has that much memory? I thought it was more like 2K ram + 2K video ram.

I found this PDF the other day at a website address I can't recall at the moment, but according to what I remember reading is that the PPU use 16KB of memory exclusivly for video RAM divided in half, which implies that more seperate RAM is used for other purposes... 8KB for sprites and the other 8KB for background. If the 7800 had this feature available on the system with having the added to a cartridge, programmers would've had more flexibility becuase the temptation to pinch a penny/save a dollar is always there when it comes to making 7800 cartridges on a budget. Had the extra RAM, and Pokey, been there in the first place, then adding even more RAM to a cartridge would've been a bonus option for the 7800 programmers of that time then there would've been nothing to keep the 7800 from flurishing depending on the game maker.

The 7800's TIA is a peripheral chip, not a processor.

Man that's too bad... The Maria would've made an excellent processor as fast as it is. I see I still have a great deal of reading to do for the 7800.

NESDoc.pdf

March 17, 2009

I think if Atari had gone back to the drawing boards with the 7800, especially with the Maria, the 7800 may have had a fighting chance. Nintendo graphics chip the "PPU or Picture Processing Unit" had 16kb of RAM to do all sorts of graphical stuff... That was the advantage the NES had over the 7800, however the Maria was/is much faster then the Nintendo PPU. Another thing was the difference between the 6502 chips for both systems; the NES CPU was the full 6502 processor in comparison to the 7800 TIA. I just found it pretty facinating to know that the 7800 was that close to being that much more graphically powerful over the NES. Don't mean to go off topic here... Just thought I'd throw it out there.

March 17, 2009

Just think what the 7800 could do then, it wouldn't have to generate any backgrounds and only take care of the sprites and game logic. Think Space Invaders with a scrolling moon backdrop or Xevious with a real looking ground scrolling by or Joust with real looking lava pits...

Think how exactly those sort of games crashed and burned in the marketplace.

I remember Don Bluth once describing Dragon's Lair as a "Paticapatory Interactive Game" being that Dirk the daring couldn't be controled the way Pac Man could be in a video game. I think that had a little something to do with the market, plus the fact that the video game industry at that time suffered financial losses with the over satuation of Arcade games.

I think Atari should've redesigned the 7800 after the release of the NES before they actual released the 7800. It would've cool to see a lazer disc player for the system.

March 2, 2009

I wouldn't call it a problem, but when I saw this topic I certainly can relate to enthusiasm... The desire to want to see the 7800 continue beyond its retro status. It's a cool system with a Maria processor that probably didn't see its fullest potential realized in its short life span so I can certainly relate to wanting to see more from the 7800. That's just my personal opinion on the matter, but I do think it would be cool to see a CD ROM drive for the 7800.

March 2, 2009

I personally never owned a Flashback or the Flashback 2, but on of them was suppose to have a couple of 7800 games on it. However the actual Flashback hardware wasn't really like the 7800 if I recall. Now I could be wrong about the Flashback; the point I'm trying to make is that I'd like to see a new 7800 with a CD unit. One with a cartridge slot and perhaps an extra Pokey or Speakjet.

March 1, 2009

Not to get off topic here, but the Flashback 2 really didn't do the 7800 any justice... In my opinion if your going to make a CD ROM unit for the 7800 it's probably best to do what wasn't done for the Flashback 2 by including a cartridge conector and a CD ROM drive. And while you're at it include a USB port for homebrewing.

April 11, 2007

I'd really like to see another cartridge game built for the Jag. CD are great, but the cartridge really is more universal then the CD unit... Any one who owns a Jag will have a cartridge connector to it. :cool:

March 5, 2007

I guest there's no way around Asm when it comes to the Jag. That's a reality I've finally come to except.

September 5, 2006

I know it's been a year since anyone has responded to this topic... Has anyone had any success making music using the "Atarivox"???

July 31, 2006

Finally... No more DOS.

June 20, 2006

It feels like I'm playing with a Sidewinder when I play the XBox controller.

June 13, 2006

I have to agree... And I'm quite sure that the charity would agree as well. He could've just kept the money for himself but he didn't. He may have his ways, but his actions speak louder then words. Critisms come and go, but the measure of a person is defined by his or her deeds and not always a persons personalty. Just the fact that the auction ended the way it did implied to me that the game obviously had value to it if someone was willing to pay that kind of price for it. If anything it should excite people enough to want to make new and better games for the Jag... Doesn't the Atari community deserve it?

May 15, 2006

It would be neat to see another CF based cartridge game for the Jag.

April 29, 2006

I guess when they said they were'nt able to fit a Pokey chip on that thing, they weren't kidding.

March 2, 2006

Basically yes,

Although I am not to familiar with the original dev.kit this is probably similar in basic functionality.

/PacMan

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Here is my page about the original 7800 dev kit.

Mitch

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Has anyone ever successfully assembled a RAM card...? and if so, what was the results of it? :?:

February 3, 2006

I'd at least think about it if I knew it worked... I'd love to dev for the Lynx.

February 1, 2006

Hello,
Thanks everyone for your support...thanks Albert for the plug and I hope you all enjoy it for many years to come.
As I wrote in the "apologies" thread... in case you didn't see my reply there.
My wife told me that my Gorf arrived on Saturday, #30 of #50 thanks, I just

wish that I could play it, but work keeps me away from wife and kids, and

Gorf too!I really look forward to playing, and I'll for sure take a cartridge as

well. It's just great to see the release, and all the fans you've made so happy.

Ignore the people who only crawled out of the woodwork to nitpick or to start

flames, clearly if they can't be bothered to be an active part of the community

normally by posting (in general) then they have negative reasons for doing so

now. I know lots of Jag fans who don't post on forums but are very happy to

see your excellent release, and everybody should be impressed by your very

positive response to finding a bug. You could so easily just have said that you

would fix the bug and put that CD in with Gorf Pluz perhaps, making people

buy another version to get the fix. I applaud you, you've done us all proud.

Cheers,

JustClaws.

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I agree... And I think quite profound to know there are other fans out there outside Jag forums getting a real kick out of the release of "Gorf". I don't think I've been this excited since the release of the "Krocodile Cart"... Congradulations.

January 23, 2006

I liked 720 even when I wasn't that good at it... Here's some soundwaves I put together from a PC version of Midway Classic. It's "Paperboy" having a coversation with the merchant from "720. :lust:

720_Paperboy__Stereo_High_Quality_.mp3

January 12, 2006

I'll have to lookup up the term "Baud" to understand how it works... I also need to get my hands on "Alpine" . Let's say you wanted to the Lynx to upload a file that's maybe "1MB" in size without considering the Lynx RAM; would it be possible for that file size to be up loaded in real-time.

January 11, 2006

That's definetly one system I'd like to create a better music software for. I forget the location of the link where you can download "PDF" on subjects about the Lynx, but it's here somewhere. I think Carl Forhan had something to do with posting it, but it's definetly whorth reading... You'll find a lot good stuff the Lynx sound system in the PDF's... It's a big file size though.

January 11, 2006

I don't have any games that uses the "Comlynx" and I know very little about it... Does anybody know exactly how much data can be transferred via "Comlynx" and how fast in can be transferred? I'm simply curious.

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