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    Wow. It would have been great if you had gotten a lot more games when they were on clearance. Titles like Tempest 2000, Iron Soldier, AvP, Rayman, Missile Command 3D, Doom, Wolfenstein 3D... I could go on naming games. I am a fan of Zool 2 but Checkered Flag and Bubsy? Talk about a bad sample of what the Jag has to offer. You could have bought any other game you saw randomly and it would almost be guaranteed to have been better.

    I bought all but Bubsy. When I got the Jag I had been visiting my mom in Florida. We went to some mall and I saw the Jags on the top shelf behind the register at KB. I stopped to see the price. I didnt buy it. Later right after I left my moms, I asked her to go back and get it for me. She did, and also got Bubsy. Im not really a fan of the game and I didnt pick it, nor would I have. I kept it none the less.

     

    When I got the pther games on clearance I dont think they had Tempest or it wasnt marked down. I honestly cant remember.

     

    Ill check youtube for game play video of the other games and maybe pick some up. Thanks for the game advise.

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    Is that all the games you have? Tempest 2000 makes anyone LOVE the Jaguar.

     

    Atari wasn't as flush with cash as Sony & Nintendo (or even Sega at the time.) So while they had the money to build the machine, they didn't have much for proper marketing or game development.

    Sadly yes. I remember seeing Tempest 2000, wanted it, but for whatever reason never got it.

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    I pulled my Jaguar from storage this weekend. It''s only been hooked up once before, mint. I played about an hour, various games. It has been about 13 or 14 years since I played with it last, which was when I got it new on clearance from KB for $25. Seems like I picked the games up NIB on clearance from somewhere online at the same time.

     

    I have to say that while I was disappointed in the frame rate of Checkered Flag, which caused me to crash more than I would have, I was PLEASED with the overall game play with two of the other games Zool 2, and Bubsy. Club Drive = meh, and I might have enoyed Zoop more had I bothered to read the instructions.

     

    It left me wondering why Atari hadn't released it sooner, or if it was "on time", why they didn't market it harder. There seems to have been great potential for it. At this point just glab to be holding onto it.

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    So i have 8 games inbound. The first, Joust arrived. It is absolutlety killing me to play it, and. I can not wait for the system to arrive. Ugh!

     

    The more I think about it, the more I want a Harmony 2 as well, when available. This system will be my Atari gaming system, in other words it will be played with unlike the other systems. My other systems will stay in storage until I get a display case and have the glass UV protected.

     

    Will the Harmony 2 cover high score saves?

     

    Come on USPS, I'm dying here...

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    I have the MyIDE ][ doing what i want, but have one point of confusion to resolve.

     

    Following the instructions for creatung the CF card, I have 4GB card, I initialized it with Fat 32=Y, APT=Y. I created four 16MB partitions assigned to d1 through d4.

     

    When i look at the CF card on Windows I see 3 partitions.

    - 1 Raw which I format as Fat32 and copy XEX files to - no issues (950 MB).

    - 1 unidentified healthy partition, which I think is the APT one (950 MB). If I init with APT=N,I dont see this one and only the other 2 are present.

    - 1 image space partition (1.8 GB). I think this is for the ATR images to be placed, but cant figure out how to do it. Maybe I need SIO2PC to load it?

     

    My confusion lies around the APT=Y and what it does? I know its Atari Partition Table. Does it change how the cards partition table is written or is it only within one of the partitions, which doesnt make sense to me.

    Which partition is holding the MyDOS 16 MB disks?

     

    Thanks.

    Wade

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    Do you mean beyond the weekly posts? I could post the spreadsheet I use as an attachment at some point for archival purposes (I've been meaning to do that, actually), but I'm reluctant to use Google Docs because it's slower than Excel (or OpenOffice, which is what I actually use) and I'm not familiar with its privacy settings.

    Yes so we could look whenever if we get antsy and dont want to wait. Microsoft Skydrive is another option. SkyDrive documents are hands down better then Google Docs now. You can limit the editors and viewers on both. No big deal, was just curious.

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    I think the TG16 is a great and underrated system, but I wouldn't say that "not many" people had it. Wikipedia claims that there were 2.5 million units sold in the USA. While that isn't a blockbuster, it compares favorably to the Coleco at 2 million and the Intellivision at 3 million - and I consider those to be reasonably popular systems.

     

    How many systems does a console have to sell before we consider it popular..?

    I based that on personal observation. Most everyone I knew had NES or Super NES systems. But if you want to throw down numbers... Wiki states there were 34 million NES sold in US, and 23 million SNES. so was TG16 (2.5 million) less popular? Looks like it, at 13.6 to 1 (NES) and 9.2 to 1 (SNES).

  23. Posted · Edited by Ripdubski

    We are getting to the point were we need a way to prolong the life of Atari hardware, would a replacement motherboard that included vbxe, extra memory etc but with sockets for GTIA, 6502 & pokey and could be dropped in an XL or XE case still be an Atari?

    Something that always ratttles around in my head is a kickstarter to produce a new Atari or Atari compatable, specifically like the 1400xl or 1450 but with a single floppy (3.5") and and a built in expansion such as IDE+ 2, and higher resolution. With case castings matching those old designs. It probably would have to have a different name.

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