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3 hours ago, DEANJIMMY said:
It happened to me too, 30 years ago when Commodore closed their doors, Billy the Gates approached me and said:
"I've been waiting for you, Amigafreak. We meet again at last. The circle is now complete. When I left you, you had a lovely Workbench desktop running, now you need to run my Windows 3.11"
I was 100% Amiga from '87 to '96, and it was a very sad day indeed when I was finally forced to make that switch.
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1 hour ago, John Stamos Mullet said:
We were the feral, latch-key kid, self reliant generation
For me this is what truly defines Gen X; more than fashion, music or fads.
Pre-Gen X you grew up with more of an emphasis on family life, Mom is at home taking care of things and keeping tabs on the kids.Post Gen-X you grow up with fulltime daycare, helicopter parenting, soccer moms, playdates, and generally being chaperoned everywhere.
But in between, growing up Gen X was a whole different ballgame.
- A huge number of moms entering the workforce before large scale formalized daycare, along with parents focusing on their jobs and themselves in the "Me" '80s, means KIDS ARE ON THEIR OWN.
- Travelling to and from school by yourself, coming home to an empty house with a list of crap to do on the table (throw something in the oven for dinner, clean up, take care of your sister)
- On weekends and in summer roaming the streets on bikes and hanging out from morning to night; no one knowing exactly where you are or what you are up to.
- Exploring ravines, jumping off roofs, blowing shit up with fireworks, fighting with bullies, buying tons of junk food from the convenience store, perusing old issues of Penthouse that someone swiped from their dad's stash, and generally getting up to all kinds of unsupervised mischief.
We fucked around and found out, a lot of times the hard way. But we figured out how to do things for ourselves.
We were mostly ignored then the same way we are now, so we learned not to give a shit and just get on with whatever we are doing, no fuss no muss.
And if any of that sounds like complaining, it's not. I wouldn't change a thing.
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12 minutes ago, JetmanUK said:
Gen X appears less visible as we don't have the standout negative trait that people judge all of a generation by.
They tried to throw 'slacker' at us, but it didn't really stick.
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3 hours ago, Mr. Christmas said:
there really is no Generation X
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14 hours ago, Kirkland said:
to see if the illustrations and diagrams were of noticeably better quality. Was trying to avoid plunking down $362 just to find out.
Can’t you discern this from the photos of the diagram pages in the ebay link you posted?
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4 hours ago, civokram said:
As i use a chromebook i can't use the harmony software to flash my harmony encore (or is there any way?), so i tried to put a rom in the root directory of the 4 GB FAT32 SD card and named it AUTORUN.bin and AUTOROM.bin (tried both, as i can't check on the 2600+ which firmware is installed (or can i?), but it's not working. There is no spinning "ying yang" logo and game loading failed. Any ideas about what i did wrong? I don't need to flash the cartridge in single mode when using the AUTORUN/AUTOROM method?
Autorom won’t work with a cart dumper (i.e 2600+), as mentioned in the post you quoted. For now you’ll need to find a way to flash a ROM.
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I'm looking for high quality scans of Intellivision boxes (300dpi or higher) for a project I'm working on.
I've found some nice ones here (1200dpi) but the selection is small:
https://archive.org/search?query=intellivision&and[]=subject%3A"Box"&and[]=mediatype%3A"image"
Anyone know of other good sources? I'm not so interested in modified art (e.g the "universal game case" format on thecoverproject.net)
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Relevant thread with a possible fix:
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/311158-activision-and-parker-brothers-cartridge-fix/
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55 minutes ago, MarcinJ said:
Something old and something new to my 2600+ collection. Hopefully the next update will allow me to play both.
Pitfall already works out of the box so you can play it now!
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8 hours ago, Sean_1970 said:
This came in the post today - way harder than I remember! The pre-paid club card makes me wonder if the club is still active 🤔
Nice; Reactor was probably the only 2600 game I ever purchased with my own money (all the others were Christmas/birthday gifts). I remember seeing a bin of them being cleared out for a couple bucks at Sears and buying it on a whim. Played a lot of this game and still love the intro tune!
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I think Amoeba Jump perfectly bridges the gap between classic 2600 and modern gameplay. It's the perfect pick up and play game and is quite replayable and addictive.
I know Atari Age already sells the homebrew version, but I think it really deserves a wide release!
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10 hours ago, etschuetz said:
the keypad is also not recognized by Windows using db9 to usb adapters.
Works fine here.
Are you pushing “0” on the keypad within 3 seconds of connecting to the adapter? This is required to detect the keypad in autodetect mode.
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3 hours ago, E. King said:
Atari really screwed the customer by not adding an sd card slot like the Retron 77 has.
To be fair, there are so many other ways to play "ROMs"; I think this is just a different type of device (even though technically it may be doing something similar behind the scenes).
I don't really see lack of SD support as a failing, I think Atari was aiming for the console that many were asking for: A first-party 2600 replica that plays original carts on modern displays, with all functions controlled by hardware switches (as with the original) and no menu/settings/configuration to take you out of the experience.
Adding more support for problematic cartridges is the way to go here, and hopefully the Harmony cart can be better supported via an update, even if the full flashcart functionality isn't possible.
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4 hours ago, Blinky said:
TX (data send from I/O board to main board) just sends the rom dump. No joysctick controller data as I previously thought.
Joysticks are probably read as a USB controller.
Would those USB joystick signals be available on D+/- or D1+/- then?
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12 hours ago, Blinky said:
There are also two pin headers that connect the mainboard to the I/O board (the big green PCB inside the 2600+) The switch inputs (1P_AB, 2P_AB, 16:9/4:3, B/W, Game Select and Game Reset) are connected to the pin header directly meaning these are read directly by the main processor. The Joystick and cart slot (5V logic) are not available on these headers. These are handled by the two MCUs (Micro controllers) on the I/O board and communicate with the main board using the RX and TX serial pins also on the header.
Are you sure joystick isn't present on the headers?
I see D-/D+ and D-1/D+1 labelled on the left header, which could potentially be directional signals for each of the joystick ports.
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33 minutes ago, Philsan said:
If I am not wrong, compared to original console, I found difficulty switches reversed, at least in Video Olympics: a= normal size paddle, b= half size paddle
That is definitely reversed; B should be normal size and A should be small.
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1 hour ago, Albert said:
That's the first I've heard of any games crashing on the 2600+. We had five units at PRGE running all day Saturday and Sunday, with several Atari employees and Ben from Plaion watching and interacting with people playing the systems, and I never heard anything about games crashing there, either.
..Al
Hmm, another possibility might be a faulty power supply on their end?
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This comment from the ScreenRant review has me concerned:
Quotemany of the games played on the Atari 2600+ over multiple days crashed frequently. Although the crashes typically happened at opportune moments when there was already a Game Over, they were nonetheless disheartening to see. These issues arose most frequently when playing any of the games on the combination cartridges such as the 10 Games in 1 or 4 Games in 1 cartridges, although there were still a couple of occasions on separate cartridges as well. In a way, this can add to the nostalgia and retro feeling, but its not necessarily the good kind of nostalgia, and is certainly a frustrating feature.
I'm interested in the 2600+, even considering it's current drawbacks, but "frequent crashing" is something that isn't really acceptable.
I haven't heard this so far from any other sources though, might this be a faulty unit perhaps?
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2 hours ago, Microjak said:
there's nothing better than the smell of a new cd booklet
except the smell of an old one
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16 minutes ago, Ben from Plaion said:
It's literally a copy of the text from the original Bezerk manual;
https://archive.org/details/Berzerk_1982_Atari/page/n1/mode/1up
If you look at the last page of the manual you linked, it appears to be from a 2002 hack version with voice added.
The original manual has much more info, I still have mine (similar to the one Thomas posted).
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14 hours ago, Atari_Bill said:
Also picked up an interesting Armor Ambush.
Looks like you've found the rare "Armor Abmush" variant
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19 hours ago, MrZarniwoop said:
I think they are the premier option in 2023, including a bit better than the Best Electronics gold rebuilt units which are awesome. I found them miles better than the Flashback ones, which I think are acceptable but uninspiring.
That is high praise, hopefully they have the same durability as the Best CX40s as well.
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42 minutes ago, Albert said:
Yes, there's a switch on the back that lets you choose between 16:9 and 4:3. Personally, I will use 4:3.
..Al
Question: Is 4:3 output as a 16:9 signal with black bars filling the space on the side, or is an actual 4:3 signal the tv would have to scale?
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I've got about 240 carts and would be happy to test this out