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Pity. I was hoping that it would be a portable Java program that would work on Linux or Mac.

Oh? I'd love to know how that works. I'm far more likely to get a serial interface (probably from Bob Slopsema) than I would be to get an actual ADAM drive.

Post #23 links to a .ZIP file, which extracts to an .EXE file. This is NOT the java version! Does anyone have it to share? Thanks!

I've been wanting one of these interfaces forever! I have one of the surplus ADAM keyboards that were sold back in the 80's at Radio Shack...just a ribbon cable coming out though. Any chance that may work that way, or am I going to need AdamNet?

No, but I'd like to connect a regular floppy drive to the ADAM with or without AdamNet.

So you can open up disk images and transfer files off of them? Cool--I just re-setup my ADAM after being down for a bit, and got back into TDOS--noticed that there's nothing there for editors, compilers, etc. Too bad I'll have to dust off my Windows Vista laptop to do it, all my other computers are Macs now that the living room PC died. Ugh.

That audio is spot on. I closed my eyes and it was like 15 years ago when I owned a Tron cabinet and it sat in my living room. Beautiful! Wish I was in a position to buy your game (it would be my first homebrew!). Maybe I can sell something on Craigslist...

Digging through some of the links at the beginning of this thread... looks like the guy who ripped everyone off committed suicide two years ago. http://www.atari.org.pl/forum/viewtopic.php?id=11005

Well, here's my experience with Legacy Engineering/Syzergy. I ordered a 2600 USB joystick kit about 6/7 years ago. Never got it. Since then I've gotten a divorce and moved, so that is a write-off. For all I know, it could have been delivered. I changed email providers with the divorce, so I was locked out of previous conversations. About 5 years ago I ordered another one, and I definitely did not get it. I've tried talking to Curt about it a few times, and he's always said stuff like its shipping right away, etc. I've kept all documentation and correspondence this time. Frankly, I give up. It isn't a huge sale, and he's got other issues. That's fine. But I've been lied to and despite the fact that he's an Atari demigod, he'll never be cool in my books.

I'm curious about a few things. Is it softcover or hardcover? Number of pages? Cost? I have a bit of planning to do before I can allocate even $30, so these are things I'd like to know. Thanks!

Didn't really hear a peep... has it dissolved?

It could very well be the monitor, I've had monitors ripple like that before. Did he try hooking up something different?

Looks great! Can't wait to see the finished game. All of these cool games done in 7800basic makes me wonder if I should give it a go.

This is fantastic news! Please let me know if you need testers. Oh, and a pesky request: cut and paste from other apps into the emulator? Thanks, Geoff!

Hmm... I smell a new community effort: the ADAM documentation project!

If you are willing to come up to Penticton (do you have a passport?), I'm sure that we can set up a meet here in the Okanagan.

NIAD, are many of those books available as PDFs on the net? I'd love to read some of them.

Excellent! Thank you. I've been hoping someone would pick up where Thumpnugget left off.

I've been waiting for SIX YEARS for my sticks from Legacy Engineering/Syzygy. In a weird way, I almost am glad I didn't get them because it made me think twice about ordering the XM. Curt may know a lot, but customer service seems to have escaped him. Oh, and Jetboot, this isn't the first time that the "Database got hosed".

The game is wicked... if that had been available back in the day you'd be a rich man.

My emulator is having issues, for some reason (not with your demo, just in general). Has anyone made a youtube video of this?

Where in B.C. are you, ls650? I'm in Penticton.

I sold a few ST computers back in the day, but I don't think I convinced one single person to buy an XE. We were also selling IBM, Compaq, Commodore and Apple... most people bought C64's on the low end, or PC's and Macs on the high end. I quit the week after Win 3.1 came out because I had a knot at the base of my stomach for Atari and Commodore at that point... soon as I saw VGA graphics for the first time I knew it was just a matter of when, not if, that Atari and Commodore were dead meat.

Looks really sweet, so far. Good teaser! I know it would fly in the face of him walking on the bottom, but shouldn't a turtle be able to swim?

Well, it could also have been that the early System/Finder software was buggy. Also, a lot of the first gen software was rushed, and programming tools were poor. For the next few years, OS updates were pretty frequent. You also had to use the proper mix of System versions with Finder versions, and all Desktop Accessory programs had to play nice with each other, too. Having said that, most of the bomb errors that I got was due to a lack of memory management hardware. Programs would leak into memory areas that held other things.