wiseguyusa

I have long heard about a "Rainbow" Easter Egg in Taito/Midways Space Invaders Part II I have never seen it. Can someone post or point me to a video?

So after all that a fellow Atarian threw in a Journey cart with the Gemini system that I bought from him. My friend/boss was really excited about the cart, but I was disappointed to learn that he already had a copy, it was just missing a label. I thought I was so clever when he put a picture of his carts on FB and I didn't see that one among them. Not exactly a swing and a miss, but not the home run I thought it was going to be. Will call it a standing double I guess. LOL

Well I downloaded Cool Edit 2000 (a stripped down version of Cool Edit Pro) but the help file is in a different format and Windows 10 can't read it. I'm pretty sure the "about the author" part was in that help file.

So maybe someone could make a "homebrew" hack that works like XBMC and you can toggle between original and homebrew(?) I'm glad that I got my curiosity satisfied without the investment, it sounds like the payoff would have been quite anti-climactic. Very interesting posts! Thanks!

I've only seen a few working ones, and it is a very challenging game. Could someone please tell me definitively whether or not there are cartoons between levels like other Pac-games? If the answer is yes, would someone please record them and post to youtube or similar video sharing "tube" site? maybe screen shots of the different mazes? Please & thanks

Might have been Cool Edit 2000 now that I think about it. From Wikipedia "Syntrillium Software was founded in the early 1990s by Robert Ellison and David Johnston, both former Microsoft employees. "

I read in the about file of Cool Edit Pro (before Adobe bought it and re-branded it as Adobe Audition) that the guy who wrote it got his start as a kid on an Atari 800. Does anyone here know him? Does he lurk here?

I am on my 2nd one now, when I sold the 1st one I swore that I would never have another one. Then I found a working 5200 CIB with the 2600 adapter and a dozen carts for $75, and I got sucked back in. The controllers are a dead horse issue, they have their defenders, and I have nothing for love for the purists the refurbish them, but most of us agree that they suck. But controllers aside, the switch box is a piece of junk and the power supplies aren't much better. It seems that this system was just built to die. I love my new 5200 so much, now that it is tested, It is back in it's box and on display, unlikely to return to service. For me the 8bit computers are sooo much better, I really don't understand why anyone would rather play the 5200. OK, Countermeasure was cool AF, but the rest of the games were nearly identical to their XL/XE counterparts. There are a few 5200 games that didn't make it to the computers, but the 8bit library is much larger, just with games. The cartoons in Pac Man just don't justify the additional headaches to me. I'm not system bashing, I just want to understand what makes the purists prefer the 5200 to the 8 bit computer line.

yeah, I sent my mom a deck of cards and a puzzle book media rate and it got searched and she ended up paying like $6 when it was all over in addition to the $4 something I paid.

So by definition thumb drives aren't "media" either, presumably the same goes for SD cards since they are "chips" right? http://www.stamps.com/whitepapers/media-mail-rate-guide.pdf Looks like I am late to the party on this rant, there are extensive threads both here and reddit on the subject.

You are right, you cannot ship cartridges via "Media" rate...... why the hell not??!?! Well never mind, I'll keep searching locally.

You can't ship a cart "media" rate ??? That is like $1.50 tops. If I am patient I can find one for $1 at Retro Replay eventually. If I ship out 3 intellivision carts doesn't the shipping offset? How about wager me a Journey cart that I can't ship you a loose 2600 cart for less than $2.67? Granted it's been a while since I have shipped a single loose cart, but $2.67 seems steep. At least you aren't trying to argue the rarity or value of the cart.

It never fails, if I wasn't looking for it I would have 3 of them, but since I want to give one as a gift to someone I can't put my hands on a reasonably priced one. I will pay $3 or trade 3 Intellivision carts for one loose "Journey Escape" cart. It costs about $1 to ship that is $2 for a loose common cart, reasonable. Someone in here is sitting on a couple, help me out! Also offering 3 for 1 Intellivison carts for TRS CoCo carts. Also not rare or particularly valuable, just haven't found any. But I REALLY need a cheap Journey cart fast. Help a fellow nerd out, it will come around! Please & Thanks

How did the collaborative homebrew process work? I remember when you first pitched the idea in the homebrew forum, it was not an easy sell!

Is this the appropriate forum? Just wondering if SD cards or thumbdrives could replace IDE drives when modding an original (2001) Xbox. Space, weight, storage, power consumption, heat, durability... Seems like replacing the IDE with an SD or Thumbdrive would improve all of the above. Please, thanks and sorry if this belongs elsewhere.

My idea was to add a speedometer and improve the graphics and call it 280Zzzap (the Bally version of the same basic game) maybe add the joystick to the other port and have hi gear/low gear like Pole Position more than anything it would be sort of an "inside joke" to those that know both games.

Wish I went to your school LOL

I have a 128D in my collection, I did enjoy a lot of the games & stuff for the C64 and I can't think of any other system that had a port of Kickman. Those disk drives though... UGH even the happy enhanced ones were sslloooww

I thought there was a homebrew of Doom for the 2600 a scroller similar to "Frenzy"

Yeah, in my circles only a fraction moved up to a computer and fragmented by brand.

I hated Camelot, something about buying my WASP cassette from a guy in a tie was very off-putting to me. I grew to hate all of the music chains.

There is sooo much I would have never experienced without Korvettes, anything in the Telestar series, KISS albums, I saw the first record with a warning for explicit content, Robin Williams "Reality: What a Concept"

Hahah did you see my other thread? in 8bits?

How common were 8bits after the video game crash? I got my first "computer" (as the 2600 is a "console") a 400 in 1983 when it appeared that consoles were dead and the computer was the next logical step. It seemed odd then (and still does now) that more people didn't. "Electronic Games" magazine had become "Computer Games" Now, my personal middle school experience was that almost everyone in my class had an Atari 2600, but very few went on to get a computer after the crash. Those that did, couldn't agree on a system, so we could no longer share games or "train" at home for competition. It also seemed that was when bashing the other guys system or brand began happening more, the SIG's had divided us. So numbers and demographics wise, If you added up all of the Commodore, Atari, TI, TRS-80, Apple, Adam etc how many households had an 8bit computer in the early to mid 1980's? Significantly less than had 2600's, Intellivisions and Colecovisions just a few years earlier.... right?

I just wanted to agree with that, and ask if there is a source with more context like a news story or blog post that the chart came from?