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  6. Posted

     

    IMO - *If* Mountain King had its gameplay cleaned up, graphics spruced up, few more things to do or collect, drastically different mountains to explore AND the timer eliminated, be a great game! :lol:

    So, basically, it it were a different game. :)

     

    Pac mans up on my list, not that its a bad game, just a crappy implementation of the original. Too many others, but i never liked was Dragster.

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  11. Posted

    Here is what I started. The IDE+2 is not completed as I ruled it out early. It also doesn't cover all the flash carts available as I was mainly interested in those that can read/write to CF/SD/HD. If someone wants to add to what is missing, or correct anything I may have wrong, or add other interfaces, please let me know.

     

    Link to spreadsheet at Google Drive:

    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApPxZOV3-QLndDdoZzZXN3JQb1ZXWEtoVFpORFVuZEE&usp=sharing

  12. Posted

    I think it would be a good idea to make a comparison chart of the features MyIDE, IDE+, SIDE, Blackbox, Mio, Sio2SD etc. give. That makes it easier to chose which interface is your best choice.

    I sort of made one. I'll try to complete it and post it. Maybe someone will find it usefull.

  13. Posted · Edited by Ripdubski

    I found nothing fascinating about them at the time. My mother tried to get me to get a PC, even took me down to a pre-arranged sales pitch. It was a PC Jr. At the end of the day it couldnt play games, and yes that was a big part of my Atari usage. The pressure from her to get a "real" computer drove me harder to prove the Atari could hold its own. So I found good Word Processors an spreadsheets to do homework on, with a "see, the Atari is fine" attitude. I am so glad I didnt buy that PC, which was something like $1200 and instead got a new 130XE.

     

    I cant speak to the assembler, other than it was something I dabbled in, and was confounded by the complexity/number of instructions of the 486 several years later when I started playing with it on compuetsr at work. Maybe I should go back and learn 6502 to say I did it. ;)

  14. Posted

    Thais thread is full of poo stink. If you sell something you should own up to the quality, not pass the buck - it doesnt matter why - because its your reputation on the line. I wasnt interested in this game so it doesnt matter to me, but I will be leary in the future.

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  16. Posted

    My 8bit atari's are used 7 days a week. And I have a small business. I do my entire administration on the 800xl with syncalc.

     

    It takes 2 5.25" floppy disk to organize one calendar year of administration. It's rather cool to do that on it. I have a brother laser printer connected to my atari 850 and fixed to a rather small courier font so a lot of data can fit on one paper sheet.

     

    Only thing; I am forced to use at least 128kb atari... Since the files are rather big in memory.

     

    People think I am crazy that I do my administration on atari, but it's the most reliable computer in the house and I have around 100 spares so nothing else beats that.

    Now thats the kind of real world work I was wondering about. Wow! "If it ain't broke". And you dont have to worry about it being hacked into! Very cool!

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  17. Posted

    Regarding the show at the end where they were talking about the program that allows you to set up programs to be picked from a list without going to the dos screen, I can remember back in the day that I had a program called "LeMenu" which a friend of mine gave me. It allowed me to just place the binary files along without the dos.sys and dup.sys files to save space. The diskette would then auto boot and show the programs that were there. My memory is fuzzy but I think it gave them numbers and I would just hit a number on the keyboard to run that program. I could be wrong about this cause it has been like 30 years since then.

    There was one I used a lot that had the Fuji symbol and rotating colors at the top and choices at the bottom. IIRC it only took 2 sectors, but its been a while.

  18. Posted

    Funny you should say that.....I showed my son two vey simple BASIC programs and a book written for kids to teach the Atari and he asked me to switch computers :)

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    Cool. I pulled the 800 out this past weekend and after 30 years of storage it still works! With just a basic cart in, no sio devices, i wrote a small program to move a ball aroound the screen via joystick. My son, 6, loved it! Wanted it to be a man. I changed it to an atascii man, made mistake and it left a trail. Corrected the trail, then he complained, wanted to turn it on and off. Set it up on the trigger so he could. About 20 lines of code. He was very intrigued that i was typing and the computer was responding. He had allo kinds of ideas for whats next. Then was sad that i coudlnt save it. I told him i saved it in my head :). I asked him if he wanted one and he said he would just keep mine. Lol.

     

    My wife even thought it was cool and shes not a techie. The Atari she remembered "only had the joystick".

     

    It was funny how many memory addresses and poke's i remembered.

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  19. Posted

    Tiny compared to some, but focused or so ai like to think.

     

    Consoles:

    Atari VCS 6 switch light

    Atari Flashback 2 (new, played once then boxed)

    Atari Jaguar (new, played once then boxed)

    Nintendo Wii (cant stand this one)

    Xbox 360 (regular game play)

     

    Vintage Computers:

    Atari 800

    Atari 800XL

    Atari 130XE

    Atari 520ST

  20. Posted

    I'm curious to the manner in which these old machines are being utilized on a daily basis. I think its incredible that these old computers still get the attention they hd 30 yers ago.

     

    I personally haven't used my 8 bit regularly since June 86. That is when I got my 520ST. I used the ST for a few years, but in a far less active fashion. I picked up a 1040ST around 95, fitted a SyQuest Zip drive as a hard drive and used it daily (for everything including banking, word processing, checkbook, some games) up until early 1999. In 1998 I did play with my 130XE for a while, but it didnt stick.

     

    Now, i want to use it a few times a week to teach my son "the basics" per say, and some programming.

     

    Can you all elaborate on how/what activities you are using these great machines for?

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