gozar

My favorite emulation machine is currently an Xbox. I already modded it 8-10 years ago, so it was a piece of cake setting it up. I went on eBay and picked a four pack of controllers to augment the two controllers I already have. You could probably softmod an Xbox and get it all set up for under $100 (including 4 controllers). The nice part of using an Xbox is that I can use the composite/svideo output on a CRT, looks like the original. I also use the component out with a projector that looks very old school. It's a blast to play! You can also remap buttons to keys on the keyboard, and even joystick movements. In Satan's Hollow I set a button to be joystick down for the shields. Downside is having to use Xbox controllers and the inability for paddle games. I've tried four player SNES bomberman, but I haven't tried four player Mule yet. (Wish it supported the 4 controllers as a multijoy interface too.)

Put me down for: The complete RAM320XE/576 card in enclosure 1200 CZK Covox audio +200 CZK ECI pass-through connector +50 CZK 130xe

Because when you have 20 carts sold it's a lot easier to track down who dumped it, if they sold a 100 downloads then it would be harder. :-) Is the A8 market big enough to actually support someone as their full time job?

I do appreciate your hard work, and want to see you succeed. But you are being fed bad information. Nowadays a cartridge is a lot easier to copy than a floppy, anyone who has the Atarimax USB programmer can easily dump the cartridge. This piracy talk is holding you back on your success. Look at Dungeon Hunt. A game that is not a well know property of which he has easily sold 40(?) copies and has a waiting list. "The greatest danger to the success of most artists is not piracy but obscurity" I went to Video61's website. There is no way I would ever order from a company where they don't even own a domain name, let alone a website stuck in 1998. I do wish you success, the A8 community needs developers. But it is a two way street, the developers also need users. I, for one, want to be able to play what I purchased on my 800xl and under emulation on my Xbox and Android game player. I cannot do that with Venture.

Well, here is my solution. I went to eBay and won a copy of Venture for the Colecovision for $5.24 shipped. Not that I don't appreciate the hard work that went into the A8 version, but being accused of piracy has put a bad test in my mouth. There are too many other projects, such as Dungeon Hunt, to support.

Might as well save your money, there are other companies in the A8 world that respect the needs of their users. I'm pretty soured on this whole situation, especially with talk of booby trapped code to prevent the use of flash carts or use in an emulator.

A good 80 column solution for my Atari 8-bit, preferably a PBI solution.

Apologies to Mclaineinc, he's saying the exact same thing I was saying, I read his message too fast. :-)

Or it hasn't been dumped because the Atari community is a lot different than it used to be. There aren't technical reasons why it hasn't been duped, and in fact it's rather silly to be expending so much energy into copy protection. Has Dungeon Hunt been uploaded anywhere? When my copy arrives I'll be transferring the ATR over to my IDE+ so I can play it on my 800XL. What's gotten people bent out of shape is that they want to support the A8 community and buy products, but instead they are treated as criminals. And to add salt to the wound, the product is purposely defective. Joking about the situation is not helping either.

Wow. Just when I thought it couldn't get more customer hostile. Especially in light of all of the conversations on getting the file size down to 16K.

The B+ does have composite out, they moved it to the headphone jack (it has composite and audio in the jack). The micro SD card won't be any different than a regular SD card.

Some 1' SIO cables would be nice, maybe even 6" ones. It could really cut down the clutter.

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I bought Kobyashi Maru!

I was never a Venture fan, but was wanting to purchase it to help out the A8 scene. Well, that's not going to happen now.

A service like Gumroad would let you put the digital version up and sell with a fee of 5%+$.25 of the price ($15 would have a fee of $1).

With my sio2sd and AtariMax flash carts, I have no desire to spend $50 on a cart. Put each game up for $5 download and then I'd be buying. I guess releasing on floppy would be cool if it came with a box and instructions, but then it would need to be priced at $15 or less.

I recently picked up a Princeton 27" CRT. It has composite and VGA input, HD ready, 800x600 resolution when using with vga. Quality is basically amazing. Everything, including RF is the best I've ever seen. $2 at a school auction.

I'm in for one, two once there is an XL adapter.

I think you're limited to 320KB on the PBI, but since disk access would be as fast as memory access, you'd basically have as much space as you have on your IDE drive. :-) It needs 80 columns, rs232 and parallel (and ethernet?), and then you've got yourself a winner. Where's the Kickstarter?

Wasn't there talk about if there is a memory expansion on the PBI bus with an IDE interface, then you could do DMA transfers from IDE drives directly into memory. Or maybe I'm remembering it all wrong. :-)

I really enjoyed my Ensoniq card. The orchestral score in X-Wing sounded fantastic!

The 600XL should have never existed. Atari should have focused on the 800XL and given it a proper 80 columns on the PBI. My biggest lament about my 800XL (30 years old this December) while I used it until the early 90s was the fact that it never really had 80 columns. With 80 columns it would have been an attractive alternative to the Apple //e. Even more so if they would have just integrated the 800XL with the 1090XL and sold that. But, hindsight is 20/20...

I would have liked to see Atari license Action! to replace basic in the XE.

Open it up and reset all the chips (I think all 600XLs are socketed).