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Opened up a 4SW to clean it out, and was suprised how prominent the Atari Logo is on the motherboard along with the "Inovative Leasure" moniker Is this unique to this revision, or have I just never noticed before?

Has anyone ever taken a dozen or so 8 bits (C64, Atari, ADAM, TI99 4/A, TRS-80, Aquiarius etc.) and run them head to head to see which one is the best chess opponent?

The topic I started about calculating Pi seems to have expired (but the one that pissed off all of the homebrew programmers still there LOL) In short, I wrote a very primitive BASIC program that divided 22 by 7 and then generated random numbers after it had finished carrying that out to appear as if it was calculating Pi indefinately. I gambled that no-one would scrutinize the math and the gamble paid off I got an "A+" for an "Outstanding" science fair project. My C-64 fanboy programmer pal sent me this and says a C-64 CAN do it. What say you Atari Agers: Is this real? Can a similar program be written in Atari BASIC? // Concurrent computation of pi. //>> Dead link removed<< // // This demonstrates Go's ability to handle // large numbers of concurrent processes. // It is an unreasonable way to calculate pi. package main import ( "fmt" "math" ) func main() { fmt.Println(pi(5000)) } // pi launches n goroutines to compute an // approximation of pi. func pi(n int) float64 { ch := make(chan float64) for k := 0; k <= n; k++ { go term(ch, float64(k)) } f := 0.0 for k := 0; k <= n; k++ { f += <-ch } return f } func term(ch chan float64, k float64) { ch <- 4 * math.Pow(-1, k) / (2*k + 1) }

There is an Astrocade emu? Link please. What kind of contollers would you use for it?

....or maybe "go play outside" LOL I got a Coleco Telestar Ranger in 1977 and an Atari 2600 in 1978 I was an Atari guy all the way through Jaguar, then I bought a 386 DOS-PC

My favorite story about the 5200, my straight A honor roll classmate got a 5200 for straight A's. I convinced my parents that an Atari 400 would help me study and bring my poor grades up 6 months later when both of his controllers were broken guess who looked like the real genius

I don't want to come off as an Atari hater, I certainly am not, but the 5200 basically being a 400, yet the 400 was supieriour in every way!. So a more direct comparison would be the 400 from 1979, still it begs the question if the 5200 wasn't a huge step backword when compared to the 400 or Astrocade. I am just very impressed with what the Astrocade can do for a 1970's era game console. My 5200 was tested once, and put back in the box, if I have an itch I scratch it with my 130XE or XBMC. emu “No one's ever going to play this guitar. ... Don't even look at it" -- Nigel Tufnel That is how my 5200 is treated, like a faberge egg.

Can we all agree that the Astrocade had better controllers? LOL

Season 8 Episode 7 "Misinterpretation Agitation" a doctor is hot for Penny and locks Leonard and the gang in his basement with an amazing retrogame collection including a red cabinet game with an Atari logo that I did not recognize. Anyone? Attached is a screen capture from the episode but it doesn't show the red Atari cabinet in question.

I have to say yes. $300 was a lot to pay for a game system in 1977, But I think it was a better platform I love Atari, but the 5200 was a total turd!

Somebody please point me to a 2XL "community" I need info! and I maintain that 2XL is a "Classic Game" and therefore is on topic

I am aware of the overheating issues, for the most part all I have done is hook it up and test it once. I am also told that adding a fan helps. It will be sitting in my closet for a while, I am in the process of buying my first house. As such, it would be irresponsible to speculate on what mods or repairs I may attempt in the future. I'm just happy to have one in my collection! Next I want a Telestar Arcade!

I bought this in Colorado and I am very pleased with my buy, . $150 for the system, manuals, BASIC Programming package, 4 controllers, and 8 carts. I haven't done too much with it yet, but I have ALWAYS loved this system! "Scribble" the built in "game" reminds me a lot of Video Easel for the Atari 8bits. Who wrote VE for Atari? Who wrote Scribble for Bally? Do the Bally controllers work on an Atari or Genesis or Vice-Versa? What do I need to know about this system? How come it doesn't have a sub-group here on AA?

Oh yeah, the "Millard Masters" Mike Milliard was a High School Custodian by day, undercover taper with a stealthy wheel chair loaded with premium recording equipment by night. He was the sounce of some of the greatest concert recordings in history! Every thing that came through the Inglewood Forum from 1975-ish to mid-1980's just about. and yes the original bootlegs of this recording were called "Destroyer" to distinguish it from "The Destroyer" which is a mediocre audience recording of a much better performance than the famous soundboard recording the that would surface from the following night. and "Destroyer III" was an audience recording from Maryland a few weeks later.

Rollingstone.com/music/news/tangerine-dream-edgar-froese-dead-20150124 Edgar Froese, founding member and keyboardist of the long-running band Tangerine Dream and an electronic music pioneer, passed away after suffering a pulmonary embolism on January 20th. Froese was 70. Optical Race is an album by electronic artists Tangerine Dream, which was released in 1988. Optical Race is the inaugural album of the Melrose Years era, and the band's first to be programmed largely with a computer, an Atari ST using Steinberg/Jones software.

BTW I was only 8 in 1977, I'm not THAT OLD!

TSRTS was such a failure even Atari wouildn't put their name on it LOL

I went to LabelMaker2600.com and was having some fun with the label maker when I had a somewhat 420 induced idea. I uploaded a popular Led Zeppelin bootleg, left out the songs that were incomplete recordings, and renamed it "Led Zeppelin - CX-420" The bootleg is from 1977, the year that the 2600 first landed under Christmas trees in the USA. I thought that the cartridge design was kinda clever, hope you guys enjoy the bootleg, and get the joke. Enjoy: http://www.roguestream.net/ledzep/Clv77

What are some good spreadseet, accounting, finance etc. programs for the 400/800 XL/XE? allows you to save data to floppy.

Before I left Oklahoma I stayed on my journalist friends sofa for a few weeks, one of them being "Geek Week" when the comiccon came to town. His editor wanted a story on Cosplay, but he lobbied for, and convinced the editor to let him do a story on RetroGamers instead argueing that even Cosplayers were more mainstream than Retrogamers and that we are in fact geekier. So yea us! I guess LOL Anyway, as I took up residence on his sofa, he asked me who the king of the nerds was in my retrogaming circles and I put him in touch with Jesse Hardesty whose handle on here I forgot. I had to lobby for Jesse the way Joe had to lobby for his story idea. For those of you who know him, he is a charming, intelligent, articulate, friendly fellow, and Joe wanted someone more along the lines of the guy with the video game store in Cloak & Dagger or the programmer friend in War Games a pocket protector, thick glasses, techie elitist attitude that spoke too much tech jargon to be understood by the "Average Joe" no pun intended. I however wanted to put a friendlier spokesperson in the spotlight for our hobby, and I thought that Jesse did us all proud! Here is the story http://www.thetulsavoice.com/November-A-2014/Pride-and-joysticks

Simple concise answer that makes sense, is tangible, and I understand it!!

Let me know what kind of results you get with a SX212 !!! I have both an MJ & MJ+ so I can do some comparisons myself once I finish moving. My untimate dream would be to run a Pentium 4 with multi-platform emulation so the Atari and Commedore users (for instance) could have ATASCII and whatever Commedore extended ASCII was called.

Are the Missle Command carts that were unearthed perhaps the reissues with the easter egg removed?

I thought about that, bury them in the back yard for a few weeks, dump some concrete dust on them and sell them as "reproductions"

Trust me: you will love this one..... "New Mexico Landfill" kind of like DigDug or Space Panic but you try and dig up defective game cartridges and controllers without getting runover by a trash truck or collide with the documentary film crew. So who will code it? We will split the profits 60/40 (after all it was MY idea!) /sarcasm