Gernot

Never in my life This is the first time i hold this game in my hands, It's the first time i have seen the box (in reality). Except there would be something special about it and i could have in return the same cartridge, i'm no collector, never was. But the game is a classic, i played it emulated often with my son (stepson to be honest) when he was about 8 (age not confirmed, born '92) years old. It was the only Intellivision game he liked, since the range to select from was for him quite large, a SNES with ca. 20 games a SMS even 20 A500 can't tell how much, i even owned once a A2000 all amigas i bought used with some games A4000 maybe 10 which differ from A500 CD32 let's say 5 specific (additionally "Assassin PD collections") CD32 they was rare, i was proud owner of "Microcosm", this game showed what the CD32 could have become. But also "Global Effect" is burned in my memory, a game you never can win, you can only loose better. (he killed the CD32, naughty boy, played his first game on it "beat groundhogs with a hammer", he loved it aged 4 i never forget that) He owned a Gameboy, and later a Gameboy color. He had a similar game as Shark! Shark! for the Gameboy, made in China for a clone of the Gameboy "senchen" or something, i would have to google for it. The games i played on the PC (except emulated consoles) didn't interested him much in the beginning. Overall he never liked simulations, which was what i played on it. PS1, PS2, a Gamecube later a computer, but he didn't owns one anymore, he's a consolero, why not? plays no sim games and doesn't works with the machine PS3 and i assume the latest crap as well, i haven't visited him since about 2years. A gamer family how it seems. My wife didn't played often, except on the SNES, she had some favorites like "Timon & Pumba" or "Alladin" We played more "Back Gammon" ("maier", "tric trac", slightly different rules very common in morocco and france) together.

22 intellivision games pacman donkeykong tutankham venture (zaxxon, i'm not sure about) the coleco & parker games i ordered from a "direct importer" (black market) if i remember that right. more as i thought

Who made these clips HAL9000? Minotaur is a game i definately always wanted, when i was young. But where to get from in deep valley? easy yeah 130 ships maybe more, once i played i guess about five hours (incl. pauses), but i can't remember the score i had back then. i thought rightaway 500'000 this i still should be able to score. But hey i didn't had many games, right now i digged out the overlays (the cartridges i hope are bunkered in my moms house), and i noticed that (i knew it) i had due to the fact i owned three a lot of doubles, but not a wide selection. i gues right now with the "new" inty i should own 4xAstrosmash, FrogBog about the same, it was really not easy for me to get to the games ran from "pontius to pilatus" but... Due to that i played it really very often, if i didn't played with my friends. Let's see when i got a TV, emulated isn't 100% the same.

revolutionika "experienced" hmmm... (nun sei mal nicht so kleinmütig gernot) talented YES! but i can give it a try payment only if convinced and proof it will work in "naturals"? money i dont' want (but really only if everything works out, this will be my first technical model, not just some ship or some "humunculus") specifications (dimensions, ok i have some to take that from) but nonetheless, the inside would have to fit to the board ideas? restrictions? yeah, is it possible to make a raw exemplary on a 3D printer? someones got access to that? --- It's quite a while ago, one asked me if i wouldn't like to buy one, they are expensive, but not as much but still it exceeds by far all i own. his idea was if i wouldn't like to make poseable models or even ships, he said collectors will pay a good price for such but as usual 1. i understimate myself a little 2. i can't see a market for that but i might be good in whatever, but i have no idea about business as example, when i was around 6 years old one could get from me a toy car for a chewing gum anything except profit, it's a mind setting of mine. to earn something for work is something different, that's not profit, that's a balance. I'M READY:

erm, revolutionika, friend i have a problem under what sort of condition i have to file this? loose - incoplete? and where do i find a serial number on that? now seriously, i liked to add my "braaaaand new machine" distorted as my mind is, i 'm not quite sure, under what condition i have to file my console? CIB but it's your database, take a look at it and give me a hint http://atariage.com/forums/topic/234171-unboxing-a-brand-new-intellivision/

intvsteve or do you thought of my avatar? i guess i start a poll, i have a couple to select from the recent one compares to the one i use on YT it's a closeup of the "Alien Defense Craft 1944" (ADC44) klein Gernot (16, when i bought my inty) the prof. i like that one much, just like me in school, but to the surprise of my teachers... "erm, ja bla.. bla... bla..." a computer related one (diagram of the pascaline) "always be kind to your neighbour" that's really to read in this dragon apart from the skull (2 in fact) which he forms on the bottom of the post i will show a variation which was more a lucky draw. the computer (or photocomposition) allows you to see things different, you can double layers, mirror, rotate. a classic "it belongs to me" "AoxoToxoA" "DeadEnd?" "surfs up" and some more *this is a variation of the "dragon", it's a slightly different one the text would be if it's to read "Love and Peace to all WoMankind" it's painted with chinese ink and later colorized on the computer

Ein Auftragsheft? Yes, obviousely i live in switzerland, bin aber kein Schweizer. All the wealthy companies have their HQ or branch in Lausanne, Néuchatel or Zug, lower taxes you know. @intvsteve the bill? nah, i know the inty you meant. it's really in a good condition it was expensive, i posted this already last week with shipping SFr 200 ($227) but i didn't expected to find one so quick or at all in switzerland, when i saw the pictures in the offer i knew i don't have to look any further. i assumed most will look like this: it's 30 years ago, 30 years ago i looked quite younger as well but now...

That's something i thought about ver early when i noticed what is going on, shells, boxes, overlays, everything must be produced. in short terms, i saw it already as problematic to find one who will produce such small editions. --- I'm a printer, educated as silkscreenprinter in fact, but i also worked for while in printing adverts resp. gifts. Now only by looking at this, we didn't accepted orders under 1000pcs or a equivalent price. And it was a small manufactury (3ppl). molding plastics, is something different, that's industry (pops workplace resp. he worked in the machine industry who builded the molding machines). machines must be amortized molds cost as well

"a bill line here and a bill line there, all bill 'bout a dollar bill" --------------- Sad, no longer i'am a space invader, but i wanna be, give me my title back!

seems like everybody joins in here you got a slight idea how high the shipping costs to "heidi & peter" would be? probably you can hand it out to Lindsey Vonn, when she's the next time around here. for such a occasion i would even rent me a pair of ski to see if i can't match up with her. select mass of box from table below: 1: 1 lb (.4 kg) $30 $35 $40 2: 5 lb (2.3 kg) $50 $59 $50 3: 10 lb (4.5 kg) $79 $80 $63 4: 30 lb (14 kg) $144 $145 $112 5: 70 lb (32 kg) $223 $266 $245 6: 150 lb (69 kg) $426 $517 $478 would be class 4 i assume, quite expensive, but well i have some spare money, not much, but this it will cover. Just by looking briefly at it, some of the cartridges in this box was NEVER available here. $144 seem maybe much, but... Do you now what a "Lucky System" is? (i know it now, never heard that before) but most of all i would like to know "Synsonic Drums"??? but the chances that i win in a sort of lottery? = 0 Dharma, what can one do?

I can't tell you how i feel, like a child celebrating birthday x-mas and national holiday, all in one. birthday and x-mas in one is not such a big fun, i know it i'm born on a 4th advent (12/18/66) It's like someone would have stored it for 30years in a nitrogene atmosphere, almost. There is nothing missing, warranty and brochure, traders contact adress, everything is like it was bought new right yesterday. Only the right controller shows that its been used. Some boxes contain personal notes of the prev. owner, how to play it or scoretables, freaky. I'm sitting in front of "the rotten lathe controller" typing this words and i can't stop smiling & laughing. I just miss one thing now, a television for Intelligent gaming but that should be no proplem, i know where to get one from for a few swiss franks. doesn't have to be a big one since i live on a few squarefeet and have already no space left for all my junk. Better would be a old Multisync Monitor, like the ones i had for my amiga(s), because theoretically i would have to register my TV to "Billag" (nice name, "bill society of shareholders", yep they only write bills, nothing else, cool business) It's the outsourced (very popular nowadays) bookkeeping of our National TV Channel (under public law). It would cost me 300 "Fränkli" per year, for good, i have to pay already 150.- for my radio per year, sized like a cigarette box, cost 5.- i really thought once about to buy me 30 of them and to throw them from the rooftop of "billag", that would at least be some fun. One could get fined if he doesn't pay this, i don't know what it is, money you trow out of your window it is, to feed the poor shareholders, they will have to starve else. And this we don't want no? them poor shareholders. "Just wait, just wait, until that little devil comes around and grabs you by the feet"

ok, this i will have to learn here, i'm to slow for this forum (i'm used to edit posts even if they are old, but i can work with it, it's ok there was times, sometimes i do that still when i wrote a post and later "decorated" it that means, font sizes, colors, pictures, evtl. tables, or resources. but here a have to take care to do all with the first post, more or less. i understand it has a backdraw, when you can delete or re-edit posts. Save as Draft?) but hey that can be nice: http://spacesimcentral.com/ssc/topic/4841-play-2296-dos-games-for-free/ in frontier.forums, but that's quite a while a go i was complimented often for my tutorials or link collections to a topic. but i know i have here the possibility to write a blog if such is needed, which is the better option. m kbrd neds ma intance

Respect! (learn to read gernot) Today i noticed i really missed a lot of occasions and things while i was lurking around in our galaxy (resp. in pioneers galaxy) that's i.e. this occasion, which would have been in my reach: (even if that is a few years ago but, if i remember right 2007? i guess right in this year i launched myself into space with a few models for FFED3D but prob. i would have missed it anyway, the web content is vast and how to recognize something you don't search for? But it's sad, daddy would still have lived and maybe this analague technique had get him a little closer to my hobby, he never looked at "computergames" as something senseful, even when i posted above he rebuilded once a pong and a lightgun game once he said to me "if someone had to work 30h without a pause he would say that this is slavery" and i do this voluntarily, to script geometry is a enormous effort in time. Steve "Coolhand", who's a freelancing modeller said once to me "i don't understand how someone can sit a whole day on something i need 5mins for" but the goal isn't to be quick or productive when you script, i liked to learn that and also this took quite some time, certain things are still somewhat in the dark and i guess now 1-2 years after the removed the LUA models resource from pioneer i would be able to write a library to make it somewhat easier, or i started in autumn, but lost it because of a broken backup drive and a system failure, one misfortune isn't enough, i probably lost anything i worked out and since then i didn't even took a look at it because it hurts me. it was anyway not clever of me. I got in contact with a dev. from australia or i have to say he got in contact with me, it seems he likes my models and formost he understands why i see scripting as important literally he said: "youre right in every point you said, let's make a game together" Pioneer would have been a sort of layout, but he had far higher goals and i guess that scared me a little. i know scripting will be important. Another pro from the states started "rhodina", his idea was also that users should script their own game, but i guess it exceeds the will of a common user. while it ins't that hard "Marcel" which is still envolved in Pioneer, had no idea about it but liked to learn it, i just said: "if i can do it you can do that as well, look it's easy") in advance following links are in german, it's just a note http://www.digitalbrainstorming.ch/de/programm/pias the lecture would have been in "Bern" (switzerland) and it was part of this german project http://www.simulationsraum.de/blog/tag/tennis-for-two/ yesterday i found this because one on YT asked if this would be possible to rebuild and i answered, "i assume" thus i investigated a little further and i found the above blog and answered "definately" ok yes replacing bulbs, but on the other hand... bulbs? wasn't such used (if it wasn't used as signal output) because they have a swelling and a inertia? argh, that's near to 40years ago, but somehow i remember in certain circuits i used them... they have a certain resistance, lower if "cold" - higher if "hot", also they have a inertia (the bulb doesn't needs to glow for this), but neither that it works like a condenser, more like a coil. and such won't be to replace with a LED or any semicunductor. on the other hand, one can replace in principles any diode with them, what the advantage would be... "hey dad up in heaven, what is the advantage...." i forgot. safety issues is comprehensible. what went through my mind right now, the students in the german project had a problem, the signal of the atari paddles they used at start in the experiment wasn't debounced, they used even if not 100% accurate a (very early) IC to get around this problem. but what i thought about now is, except i'm wrong, a simple bulb would do job, the inertia is to high as if a bulb could output a signal with a echo. it's all about a few milliseconds. but i only pointed in the sky I better stay with my ships i guess, in this i'm far better but it's a facinating thematic. I really would have liked to be educated in electronics, but i was told i'm to bad in math's while what they ment is counting and counting can even a ostrich. therefore they had in exactly this company soon later apprentices which played online games instead to study, well fine, right person at the right place, as always. But i guess on the other hand it would neither have turned out well, i finished my education with a good diploma and i would have liked to work in coloristic, means to workout the different color sets for a textile design, but who got this job? The nice of the big boss, who was educated in nothing, right person at the right place. I "kicked them in the ass" and thought "without me, i will work on the construction site, this is at least fair money for a fair work and certainly no nice/nephew of someone gets hired if she/he can't work". Unfortunatly i'm born with the wrong name and the wrong nationality. Truely, if you ask a swiss if he's against germans "no certainly not, they are not even real foreigners". But as soon as you turn your back on them or if they don't know you are a german: "the germans take our jobs away" And where and what do they work? the hard jobs the swiss don't like to do, on the construction site or in health care. But i know it since i can remember, already at start of school they said to me "you have no chance, you get nowhere, because you are no swiss" handumkehrt erm, on the other hand "germans are all nazis" that's how i grew up. them are nationalistic as hell, but certainly i'm the nazi. I guess if one asks the few friends i still have in "Pioneer", they all would say this is the best ship i ever made. But it was my very first one, this might be rev.10 or so. It started with a MOD for "Need for Speed High Stakes", some crazy dude made a "Need for Space" out of it and he's the only one i know who made racetracks for the game, but the models i found a little boring, they was very low poly replicas of the "Enterprise" series, which he didn't made himself, he just altered them for his MOD. But i never would do it in this way again, even if the result is good, it was made with "CarCAD" a very simple CAD in which you have to set each verticle by hand, resp. entering the coordinates. But well looked far more primitive as this one, no good texture, certainly no window, cockpit, pilots and the engine pods was a "dipyramid", like for the original FE2 ship. Well, won't see that no more in action, only in a fork of pioneer "we don't want: cockpits pilots transparent set surfaces moving parts" ok, fly a "shoe box" all kinds of accusations up to that i'm a plagiator, yes certainly i made a dozend transscriptions and i don't know 20 ships i only converted from "SW X-Wing Alliance", but never claimed they are mine. I always noted that and for certain ships i even noted the name of the author on the skin of the ship. I wouldn't even claim that the above design is mine, even if some of my friends would say this is certainly your design gernot, it's typical for you. It's a Frontier ship and it stays a Frontier ship. "We had a offer from Frontier.dev, but we had to reject it, due to that all "elite" related stuff must be removed". But when one asked what this offer was, "it's not of interest for you". I was going wild like a berzerk, you can imagine.

i will stick to this a little, here comes the little green man he will blow you down "Space Wars"? i hope i get this right, quote: "Space Wars (and further all computergames) is a great chance for worldpeace" It was (unlike the above demo or it's predecessor) a work of Hackers, which abused a industrial technology to their own benefit, to the benifit of humans. It was the first time man didn't served the machine, vice versa the machine served man just for entertainment. It's goal wasn't productivity nor financial gain. I would like to broadcast above quote worldwide, best i would like to exchange with this for let's say 24h the stock exchange news, worldwide on every newschannel, which never stop even not when 1000s of ppl die caused by a catastrophe or by human blindness. http://www.wheels.org/spacewar/stone/rolling_stone.html

buti will see, if i can't update my missing games for MAME last time, it's already a long time ago, it has cost me weeks to clutter all together something i found in japan something in brasil something in the states something in "cookamongo" sometimes to get a single game complete. i'm not in a hurry with that, it's a lot of work. further most still run, yes a few i recognized which i really miss two classics Battle Zone Red Baron both two classic Atari 3D vector games, many many others wouldn't play a role to me "super mariko ban" do i need to play mah-jong with naked pixel-girls? nah! but i can still run them in a older release. jesterday i saw i really shitty arcade game, i hope this clip didn't... ah... it's on the edge, at least discusting disclaimer, i posted following advice only out of historical interest in no way ilike to encourage someone to follow it do it on your own risk enter to YT chiller arcade game it's not the hardest i stumbled over but it's already questionable i was envolved in a debate about some japanese game relatively harmless "Rape Lay", but well to me also questionable, but well if one needs this, what can you do? one of the japanese comments (i have no idea but something... i don't know a problem with their libido they have) that this is "kindergarten" it seems some (him as well) like all kinds of torture to children he excusues it with "a man has to test his moral" i said that's a lousy excuse i don't have to "test" that (better test yourself by swimming in a glacier lake at 0° celsius, that's a test) God, really you have to fight that old evil dragon, put him in chains and don't let him run free. It's inside of all of us men, we are all violent and rapists by nature, but dammit put him in chains and don't feed him! i said to him that it seems to me they lost something ours and his ancestors knew this. once they was famous for will and self control, better find a way back to this. but i know i'm only a barbarian (no said my wife you are no berber, the berber is me) ok then i'm a fur soled forest inhabitant a wild half animal germanicus. Better take care or Gernot takes his battle axe out of the sheath. Also i snooped occasionally through deviantart since i forgot my own registration name (what a rinse of memory) i entered to the search field simply Gernot oh, quite a lot of Gernots some pictures even erm, question anybody's got a idea? Apart from that the name is from the "Niebelungen" (Siegfried and all that cramp) Did they make a game about the "german warriors"? ok the thematic is ideal for a game, lots of warriors with mighty weapons, a final battle of 10'000 in a hall (imagine this mess) however i found that looks cool, gernot the white king yeah, i told him already that i didn't like that halo.

almost buddy it's safe as long as you use a peer2peer software halfaways i live in switzerland switzerland didn't subscribed to the SOPA our government has, let's say paused it, they just didn't answered to it. in switzerland it's legal to use a peer2peer program to download almost anything you like, we are free citizens (US would be as well and i know many US citizens who totally dislike the infringement of their citizens rights) but it's forbidden to upload, or would be (means theoretically you have to set the peer2peer program to that you won't share). we have this advantage to be the home for many global players like our banks CS, UBS, companies like Nestlé or Sandoz one can think now about them what he likes, personally i hate them especially companies like Nestlé, also our Banks are true Mafiosi, imo. thus we don't fear restrictions of the US government, it would be a bad deal for them as well it's a balance of powers, today it's not longer measured in amount of nuclear weapons, there is a different "cold war" going on. a war about money and resources. while if one liked to be mean he could say the EU sucks the chocalate out... you know from where. Funny is what some swiss vice versa i assume some US think of each other nation while i always say: "c'mon, we are almost identical, we have (almost) the same constitution, both are federations, each state has its own government and its own right to judge as long as it complies to the constitution, both nations seem to be rich while most of the capital belongs to a few, both are very proud of their nation, both have to be aware of nationalism as biggest danger" In any case if switzerland would be as large & powerful as the USA, we would act pretty the same and even we would play the role of a "world police". We, both, can't imagine something else as our type of democracy. only the offered downloaders are infected, in general one should avoid to use them wherever one pops up it's unfortunately somewhat "popular" to use them. they live from advertises, now obviousely the effect of a advert is limited, at least i don't mind about them, if they like then can plaster the page full of adverts i won't buy something or click on any advert. Admins of such sites can offer a more agressive way to advertise, e.g. to use the download helper to install a software or in worse cases a tracker. mostly they get "abused" to install either software you don't wanted or adverts for i don't know i.e. leather *** utilities in more worse cases they install a different search machine which appears exactly like good ole' Google i.e., but will redirect you to above named sites instead to the site you was looking for (personally i wonder what effect this has, i mean i.e. something like that would happen to you enter "atariage" to Google been redirected to "fine leather acessoires" would you buy something there? i can't imagine) other similar trackers, they appear only in the google searchbar and aren't to remove very easy, but i.e. if something like that would happen, enter the name of the searchmachine you like to get rid off in google (assuming it still gives you proper results) and you certainly find a step-by-step advice to remove them. it's nothing which harms your machine only goddammit annoying in a worst case it can be a trojan. a senseful precaution is to set a recovery point befor you download, resp. use such a download helper they offer. because in case it would spread such files on your HD, you can simply call the recovery and load the previous saved system state. files which was installed inbetween will be deleted. Certainly i tested them, else i wouldn't know it, but recovery point set, the first of the two download helpers was blocked by kaspersky, i set that myself when i stumbled once over one, thus i "told" kaspersky "block them". there is a second one and i thought "let's give it a try". Horrible, kaspersky nearly flipped out, and while it was downloading and installing continously warnings popped up. trojan here, tracker there. Besides the requested file it didn't downloaded, only junk They use a mean tactic to fool windows, the installer smuggles itself as a update to "MS visual C" in the system and due to that it can manipulate protected system files. (i noticed this by checking "installed software" in the "control panel", because i know i haven't updated it since date xx, ergo anything else must be fake because i didn't even trust MS, thus i like to be informed when windows likes to update something, i've made a few bad experiences in the past with so called "security relevant updates" and since that i like to know what it is what gets updated) it seems they use a stolen signature, because windows complains about nothing, which else usually happens if a installer has no signature. (what didn't means that it's something dangerous, just that it's unknown, usually you get asked if you trust the software) Kaspersky does a good job, it recognizes infected files resp. instructions immediatly and asks you to delete the source of them. but it's not 100% safe i would say, thus a wise rule is whenever such a download helper pops up, don't use it. download only with the windows downloader or add-on for firefox i.e. if that isn't possible, search for a different location of the same file you was looking for if that didn't exists, leave it. i was always able to remove whatever attacked me, but it can easy cost you stressful night. Personally i guess Trackers and Malware are included willingly, they get payed for it. Trojans & Viruses is something different, it's not in the interest of the admin of such a site, but since the offers arn't 100% legal sometimes and they are registered in "cookamongo" which has no orderly laws it's problematic to accuse them that's the only weapon they have against it. In other terms it's in the interest of large companies and copyright holders to implement Trojans & Viruses, no question about that for me. that mustn't be the compny itself, they can hire a hacker over a straw man, likewise they hire bat squads if some businessman didn't follows to their commands, oh no sorry they don't command they only "request", a gentleman never *commands. mafiosi in a clean white shirt, with manicured fingers and a charming smile (: GTA is Kindergarten compared to that. then we have finally legal software which can be installed but you never wanted it, it's also annoying and i'm disapointed that even "Chip" (a computer magazine here in switzerland) uses such downloadhelpers sometimes and if you aren't cautious it will install some i don't know software, nothing mean, i.e. a demo version of program x they warn you about that, in the way "when you istall make sure to uncheck xy", but i think it's stupid and i'm sure many less experienced will oversee this warning. but it seems computermagazines need a new source of income, they didn't sell so well anymore as a decade ago. i hope that has lifted the mist a little and that i didn't mixed things to much up. Besides, i'm not even a real swiss, i'm something which exists only in switzerland, as far as i know. i'm a so called "secondo" a second generation foreigner, here you don't earn citizens rights with birth. i had a US girlfriend she didn't believed such can be possible, she was still sceptical when i showed her my papers. "i have two passports as well, three in fact" she said "i have a british a US and a swiss" (goddamned half pakistani, half haiti-thaiti, which made with her big brown eyes and her braids all the boys go crazy, "black heidi" suits 100%) i said "yeah you have the swiss passport because you was married with a swiss, i'm still german", even worse my daughter is still german, third generation of foreigner even if she has never seen germany in her life. However we "secondos" use to say we are the better swiss, we know better what is written in the constitution as many swiss. We italian, spain, german, know exactly what we profit of it, if we compare it to our countries. Sometimes, yes i don't know what i am exactly, a bastard. Foremost i feel i'm a earthling, a fur soled forest inhabitant, a waterhose. *a gentleman maybe didn't commands but the Knight does! Feedom has the need to free, free your mind and your ass will follow! (wrote that and the funky beat is already hammering in my ears, tell me is that a psychic disturbance or is it more a pleasure?)

intermission, cool controllers, no? "solid state" the device should be from edit: 1958 but what do you think, i suspect it's a replica or at least it is fixed. because from on ca. 0:45 you see the working relais, but inbetween them i see two LEDs, am i right? still 1958 is to early, LED haven't existed, at least not in this finalized form. i watched it several times, but no they have no swelling, though it can't be a lamp.

But that DOES belong to the 80's If one thing is really good about the 21th century.

Reading my own post above something went through my mind, I would love to work with children! We had a drawer here in switzerland (he died a few years ago) which worked with and for children in the 70's (good seventies, where are the goals from then gone?) I liked him much i guess all children like such. It's besides something i already did as a child. You say what you like to have painted by me, by and by a story grows. One starts with a dog and then a dinosaur maybe a duck and someone has a crazy idea in which relation they could stand to each and the story starts, told by the children themself. Illustrated by "Nico" I really would love to do that, even to share my broad but not very specific or deep knowledge. I couldn't have drawed enough dogs and cats and horses for my 4 year old girl, "paint me a dog" and when my wife said "but that looks a bit lousy" or "i can hardly recognize that it's a dog" she stood up and said "certainly this is a dog, can't you see" Stop here gernot, i get a heavy heart again, it definatly hurts. I even thought about to runaway with the girl, and this is a interesting story, i don't believe in magic or such, but that was magic and i still don't understand how such is possible. Like i said i was pregnant with the idea to run away with the girl and in my imagination a monastery in nepal or tibet would be the right place where i can teach my daughter the things of which i think her mother never can teach her. Right at this moment i met E.T. No i didn't met E.T. but it was a situation like that. I stepped into a Bar close to where we lived, nothing extrordinary so far, There was a grey on a table with a half drunken beer but he certainly didn't belonged there, he was from another world. He stood there in his traditional tibetan clothing and wearing a horn cap. No YOU don't belong here. Freaky, he dared to ask "telephone" (dammit E.T.!) he repeated "telephone please" in broken english. No one seemed to notice him, he was almost shouting (as far as one like him can shout), i guees three or four times he repeated this "telephone - taxi, please". Of course i stepped up tio him and wanted to help him, unfortunatly i was out of credits, and had to ask for a telephone from the guests, they dared to hold back and it has cost me some, i had to get loud really loud and finally the barkeeper handed me his phone. I said no i don't need a telephone but he needs a cab, call one for him" - "are you certain he's got enough money for a cab?" I could have slapped him in the face to ask something stupid like that, typical swiss, only in switzerland (maybe USA) it's that "Füüfliebrig" - "Silverdollarish". Though we had some 20 minutes left to talk, the horncap and me. He opened "a daughter belongs always to her mother" hä? have i heard right or do i have halluzinogations? he repeated it because i still was bluffed. He never saw me, i have never seen him before, he doesn't blonged to a western civ. bar and tells me this? He said that even two or three times, his english was very bad. Ok i just said "yes true children belong to their mothers" (even if inside a storm was raging) then he killed me completely. "i'm bodhisattva - you're bodhisattva" i didnt' understood a shit and just said "m-hm" With the knowledge i have now, i know it's a sort of greet, a good wish under buddhists. But he insisted, it was not like a good wish, he wanted to be sure that i understand him. But i didn't and he almost got a little angry. I had upto this point not really a idea about what a bodhisattva is, might have it heard before but i had no specific imagination of that. It took half a year until i told a comrade, "i feel like i'm for the last time here" He returned "though you think you are a bodhisattva?" (i didn't think a shit my friend) And immediatly everything was joined, it came to my mind what it means. And still i have no idea how it's possible that someone from tibet wearing a horcap knows what was in my mind and could tell this very precise in my face. Where did he know from i was married, nope marks of the ring i had no, i weared my ring on necklace before, because it's hindering at work if you work with steel. Further he could have said "child" which would be still surprising, but he exactly said daughter, though where does he knows from i have children and that i have a daughter? Third how is it possible he knew what i was up to, that he knew what was moving me, that i wanted to run away with the girl? Really this i don't understand, there is no logical explanation to this. (except maybe, i don't know, probably i had a neon writing on my forehead) And it's by far not "logical" or not acceptable for me that i should be a bodhisattva. I know some would give their life to hear somethig like that. Some crawl three times in their life around the pamir to become half of that. But i guess exactly that's the point which underestimate most. To be that for real, you don't have to want it, you can't choose such neither you can work for it to reach it, what most i guess think that would be the point. vice versa it is, the more effort you take to become one, the more unlikely you will be one. It's in fact a matter of eager and you can become this only if you are free of eager (in this direction), but if you like to reach a goal, if you set yourself a goal, you have eager to reach it. Means that is ok to have some, certainly i have eager when i build a model, but that's not what i mean. It's more that most would think it's a reward for something, but it isn't a reward. IThat's like having freckles, you have them or not.

Though, "let me entertain you"

"What isn't this thread about? It's our own On The Road, with Gernot! :-)" oh yes! better be aware, i'm a lunatic, totally chaotic, i switch from topic to topic as it pleases me. You noticed that well. It's just everything is linked in some way, you say something and several things went through my mind, not one, several. click, click, click It's my biggest leak but also my biggest strength. really you se through me. erm, yes the question sounds very familiar to me "what is this thread about?" Swiss Cheese and Fresh Cheese, perhaps. let's give ot a topic (at sart i just liked to present my pictures) everything which comes to my mind losely related to Intellivision. losely because it could happen i post a picture of a fighterplane or one of my space-ships? good idea one of my space-ships. You will have to forgive me i'm more addicted to Frontier and our project Pioneer as to anything else. This is my home, the deep space. Anything which was related to space, i have a huge flash i guess from watching the eagle landing (even when i was only 3years old at this time and can't remember that). In pre-school i painted pictures of let's say our future or how i imagined it with 6, everything had parabolic antennas fittet, buildings cars, just everything, ppl asked me, "why do you attach these antennas everywhere, that makes no sense" - "it looks good (?)" - but look what happned when satellite TV came up.... phew yes and i whished i could have bought me back then all the space related games on the Intellivision. And i guess about the unfinished "Space Shuttle" i would have flipped out! I played that a little last week and i still think "great!", the intellivoice is used in a senseful way, not just something which is spoken, actual advices to your mission, that's great. Wow i even managed it for once to load the sattelite in my bay! "Danger - space debris!" When i see such then it's again clear to me the Intellivision was ahead of it's time. They invented many new genres to computer games. They searched for something which stands outside arcade games and they found it. One can criticise "Utopia" or "Takeover" i.e. but know no other strategic simulation of this time (i said i don't know, maybe they had a paragon) It's a genre which started for real far later, as i remember it. No chance to buy them in Switzerland, but i know "Jürgen" & i we would have loved it, we spent later many nights on the miggy playing round based strategy games. Still up to 2000 he came often to visit me and to play a roundbased strategy game on the A500. We both certainly owned PC's since a while, but in his opinion the PC wasn't suitable for playing games. Of course "Lords" we could have played as well on a PC. Homebrew like "Colonial Conquest II" you never found on the PC PD market, or not such well made ones. "colconq2" is for a homebrew game something outstanding and it's made in switzerland, written by a molecular-biology student. A lot has to do with chemistry in switzerland, even me, i'm a textiletechnician, chemistry was the most important topic, the whole chemical industry is rooted on textile industry. And lucky me i had a good master to learn from, a academic, but one from the "old guard". Not stiff, in no way boasting, vice versa always understating himself a little, witha good sense for humor and a broad knowledge, not only about chemistry. Apart from that, one could have learned a lot from someone who was born before WW1. His character was so different because in fact he would have been a poor a damned poor goat herder and this simplicity he kept. But not that he wouldn't have made his career, wen't between the wars to central africa, to search for new plant toxics, invented in the 60's for a local cosmetica producer the "Selgine" a toothpaste with seasalt. But stopped his career at the cenith, as he explained me, "it's wiser to stay back and leave it to the youth, i can't match up with them anymore". "to work as a silkscreen printer is far less stressing". Maybe there was other reasons as well. Not tolong ago i wanted to know what's behind "chemtrails", however debated on YT, this and that. But then i remembered him who often warned me about the effect of so called "radicals" to our metabolism, "on the other hand" he said "what can one do? we collect radicals in our lifetime anyway" And i started to see that from a little different pov. Of course i don't think chemtrails exist for real or not in the way some like to see that. I know that the US and USSR made weather experiments since the 50's (this is danger enough to "doctor" in such a highly complex system). But mostly i remembered him and the "radicals" which is a term that has become popular again due to the chemtrail "hoax". But "radicals" exist, it's simplyfied said a matter which stays in your body, something you collect over the decades with food and drink. Now by every effect they say "it's foundet on chemtrails" i know we collect "radicals" anyway and we should care more what is in our food as for chemtrails. Readed something about the harms of fluor which was somewhat new to me, but then i even remembered that old man I thought, "hmmm... what might have been the real reason that he left the chemical industry? could it be he was a critc to the use of fluorized toothpastes?" Fluor is such a radical and it doesn't belongs in our metabolism, certain amounts of fluor you will collect with the food, even when you are a cow. But "certain" amounts, "we have no idea what it does to our metabolism in larger amounts and we used it without to make that first proof" that was his words. (though in other terms for the chemical industry we are like white mice, let's see what happens to them") but he usually countered this with we all have once to die, or with "wait, just wait until that devil comes around and grabs you by the feet". or with "never mind - c'mon we have work to do" One could have lerned really a lot from a old academic. His view was different, it was founded on a different time. He was true enough to say that he was a "fan" of hitler, he said: "we technical interested young men saw only the advance in technology compared to switzerland" He builded a radio in a stable to listen forbidden german propaganda. And he's one of the lesser swiss who can stay to it and say, 70% would have voted for hitler in switzerland. Then he countered kowing that i'm a german: "germans are a warrior tribe" See even he could jump from topic to topic. ADHD? certainly it existed always. But in his generation it was unknown, just do something with them, keep them busy. Likewise to me, it was told "nervous", that's all, to control it i was sent to gymnastics, i still profit from this, i'm quite "elastic" for my age and yes it helped me to control it, you like to do all the crazy things you see the other kids can do, but first learn to have patience, patience with yourself. She the teacher, repeated often "patience is like a rose". It's foremost not wise to tell a child it has ADHD or anything on which a child can rest and think "ok i'm different, i have to accept this" That's by far not good if it's something psychical, you rest on that and it won't get better. If you grow up "normal" you have to compare to the others and that is only good, special treatments aren't as good as propagated imho. My stepson was diagnosted as ADHD, but i moved heaven & hell that he had to take no medicaments, and he finished school better as the rest, i know i'm right. My beloved daughter which i see far to less, whysoever, has a similar problem, but interesting it stops in my present, in my present she calms down. But i also know how to take her, she's restless yes, but never force a restless to do something which isn't in his mind, let them. We was solving maths (age of 9), which child does like that for real, i can't shut my mouth (as you noticed) though i just said something about that we are "fur soled forest inhabitants" primates in other terms, she immediatly jumped up went to a diagram of the evolution "here that is us, primates". Well done i said, now sit down and we solve the next one. See instead to say you get off topic or hindering her in expressing her knowledge, i followed her and honored her for her good understanding. That works, she never was unconcentrated, they are only unconcentrated if something is burning a hole in their brain, it has to find a way to be expressed or else it won't work well. Recently i read a book about "Gauss" he neither was a easy characteras a child, he was extremely ahead of his comrades and felt steady underutilized. Pretty much of the same "tribe" as i am, "niedersachse" just like pops, and how do i desribed a friend on SSC once my daddy? "imagine him as a sort of ubergeek, hopping around in front of these giant machines (computers) in his white coat". He truely underestimated himself, he had no idea who he was, he thought "i'm a lathe controller, who managed it to come this far" but not more. He had offers from Xerox and Siemens, but didn't contracted, he feared the new challange, but i guess he would have mastered it with no problems. His view to things was carved in stone, there was no "maybe". He could get crazy when they delivered a machine to australia and packed with it only the needed screws, "so stupid, they know they don't use metric screws, what shall they do if one gets lost and how much costs us a packet screws extra? nothing compared to a 20ton plastics injection moulding machine" He absolutely hated this moneygreedy philosophy today, to save a few cents for screws or to take cheaper parts because you save so and so many cents. "but they have nice signs on the office, displaying "supervisor", if they can only boast themself". He was hated by some in the office etage and loved by all craftsmen and apprentices. Unfortunately around 55 he had a heavy heart attack, he smoked quite a lot 3 packets a day, naked "gauloise bleu", that's a killer. this has put him to rest for about half a year, beeing around 55, they dared to make him clear that he had to pack his bags, he was in fact fired. The whole damned company all the workers stood up, "No, Wilhelm has to stay"! (fire one of the other idiots). It was only possible because the "patron" had died and his sons took over and typically they grounded this industry, by wanting to much and boasting themself to much instead to do a good job. inermission: my master the chemicist thought quite similar, he predicted many and asked me often "do you think that can work 70% office 30% producion, it should be vice versa and it was vice versa before we had computers, tell me son, i thought computers make everything easier and it won't need so much effort, now we have more and more working iin the office". Should i tell you why? No one likes to do do a hard job for little money if you can sit in a climated room and earn double, but now the craftsmen, silkscreenprinter, construction worker, NPP cleaner, geriatrics helper, carpenter Gernot asks "is that good?" - "what do they for the product?" There was times when craftsmen like me had all the rights, they could have come and go if it pleases them, they was not to replace and in fact we still aren't to replace, Anyone in a office is easy to replace, the boss is easy to replace and that's why they boast themself so much, they know exactly that they arent really needed to produce. we have the practical knowledge and without that nothing works and true how had a technician of the NASA speculated: "i'm convinced with todays engineers we will never burn such a candle (as the Saturn V), they have no practical experience". Without to boast, when i worked as service technician, each year a month, in a nuclear powerplant, i used to walk throgh the NPP like "scotty", touching my machines, just to feel them working, in the beginning this tells you nothing, but over the years you will notice the slightest difference which no sensor can registrate. Only we can feel, only we can judge, "ja hmmm... that feels strange, there is something not properly working - let's see..." How does scotty say in StarTrek "She doesn't feels well" - "what do you mean by she doesn't feels well?" - "She doesn't feels well" He said that a long time before it happened, he saw that they can't or won't work they only liked the title and the money. And what makes us really to father & son, if he started to explain something usually he started with adam&eve. My cousin wrote to his funeral: "When wilhelm talked about the battle of Näfels (1388) you had to fear he goes to the basement to dig out his arms and pick up his helebarde". and if he said the swiss faught with a guerilla tactic then you HAD to believe this! Eh, just like he would have been there and had the commando. I still don't understand "Grid Shock", but that's ok, one has to find out what's the purpose. I've read "vectron would have been rarely seen on a console", i was a addicted vectron player.

That was quite informative (mind blowing to be honest) i gues i will have to study that several times... but thanks for the insight to that (gosh that goes nearly to far for a practical like me, also to understand technical things in a foreign language is alwas hard. i'm used to solve problems with a wrench and a hammer, "Mario" the plumber) But great, you're cool. I fiddled around with MESS (and now i'm messed up), the sound is very good in mess it surprised me, intellivoice sounds very good (to good?), but i can't tell how accurate it is, i never had the chance to buy a intellivoice. Customer support for "niche" products like the inty was always very bad here, if something wasn't "mainstream" it was hard to find. Some games (or at least one) doesn't works proper, "World Cup Football (soccer)" hangs after the first half or if you scored a goal. The "camera" to call it this, moves instead to the centreline to the opposite goal and then it hangs, i noticed it still follows the ball when it should return to the centre. Will have to report that because that's sad for the else accurate MESS (where you have to find for the inty quite a lot dumps, but i have them complete now). When i first stumbed over the MESS browser implementation on Archive.org i thought "argh - ugly", but that's only the browser implementation which has such a bad sound and bad controls. They work on it, that's why MESS started the retro computing archive together with the archive. I hope it get's better (i don't know, Bliss offers something similar),i found that cool if we could play in a browser, that's better as to compare highscores, especially because i'm a sports player or was. Wrote that right yesterday to the one i bought me a "brand new" (looks like bought yesterday) Intellivision, it was the main reason for me to decide for the Intellivision. Sport games on other consoles was rubbish compared to the Intellivision, imho for a long time, graphically later i.e. SEGA certainly topped it, but to play the intellivison games was better. Not to talk about nintendos stupid sport games with their "advantage to the kid", i never liked them. They was even biasing (is that right?), means in Soccer it was clear Germany wins, that's no game, i am a german but such is stupid. Tennis was good for the SEGA, but Tennis is Tennis and the difference between the Intellivision Tennis and SEGA Tennis is minimal, at least to play them, certainly you could indentify "Boris Bum Bum". Really i can't tell how many hours we spent as boys in front of the inty, countless hours, sometimes sessions longer as 24hrs, until we got nearly crazy becasuse of to less sleep. It happened once when my best buddy left fom such a marathon to go to sleep, he returned on the next day and i was still playing. Since i'm unemployed such happens still sometimes, to spend 36hrs in a session to create a model is not unsusual for me. I just can't stop and if i see the model growing it's is like in a game, i like to see the next stage, to finish the model is like i have won. I'm only satisfied when i see it running in the game. next model

Hi there, still not satisfied? PM me (hover over my name, a window opens with a button "PM this member"), but i already sendet you a PM (check your inbox) though you should have even my e-mail adress. I will help you with a remote setup and some personal support, but we must stay in contact. DOSbox is no problem, but i know some have problems that's why i would have a tutorial ready, but it's not cut yet. We "dinosaurs" was used to work with DOS prompt, CLI and batch proggys, but the younger (some old as well, my schoolbuddy neither could setup DOSbox) generation has no idea about such, they don't need to know this to run a game like we needed it. We was also used to run berzerk when all was flushed because of a short power leakage, this is all chinese to them. PLEASE CALL ME, MY OFFER IS MENT SERIOUS I LIKE TO HELP YOU no matter if i'm a crazy dude and can't stand to long to a topic. --- short example: what do you think how many know this? you have a DOS program but no idea what the commandline switches/parameters are. usually you call the program and add a -? /? or -h /h or -help /help, one of them will work and the DOS proggy shows its help. but do you also know how to print that out? thats as easy if one knows it proggy -help > help.txt this outputs a text of the help in the program, which is far more comfortable to read as the help in the DOS prompt. just as a example and i swear many don't know this simple command ">" called "redirect output". We was used to, they aren't by far, we had to even when the interest was low for some, they don't need to care today about that. --- have phun! (and a big hug to all here in this forum, it's cool to be here, you are a relaxed community i like that and i missed that sometimes in SpaceSimCentral, we was once a relaxed bunch of space cracks, joked a lot and had a lot of fun, but i don't know why it changed somewhat over the years, eh some, especially of our (pioneers) young dev team have simply no humor. you can't joke with them they take everything the wrong way. Speaks like "i will fix me a pair of joysticks on my rollator just to play pioneer" are long past, but you know he is a grey and needs really a rollator. and everytime "lunatic" gernot returns to SSC then there is a big halo, "oh long time not seen gernot, we missed you" formost i guess they miss my way to produce a chaos).

right my fellow from downunder, they get everything and it won't cost them the last cent in the wallet. However i'm happy with my purchase. Photographs i will post as soon as i have it in my hands. It was expensive for SFr. 180.- ($210.-) for the console and 12 games, but the condition is extraordinary, usually this matters a shit to me, to be honest i never kept a single box, that uses to much space, i'm no collector, i'm a user, i mean i use to use it up. The only thing i care somewhat about are my vinyls, they need care, for the data on the ROM it won't matter how you store them. But no critics, those who like to collect shall collect. but let's see if i find my old cartridges, if they survived, i can sell some nice boxed exemplaries for a good price, i don'tlike to make a business out of it. But really i don't care for boxes, though it makes more sense to make a collector a happy with them. And they look really like new, i mean what should a careless on like me do with boxes? What is worth that all looks so unused is, that it grants it has been little used and the machine is in a good condition that's more important to me. But even vinyls i used, i mean some listened only to records to keep the vinyl maiden as possible. My vinyls was to listen to make ppl happy, that's their purpose in my opinion. but you know on something i'm jealous, i always would have liked to own th ECS, like i posted once i even contacted back then the general importer for switzerland, nope.

Anything allowed? fine! Phew ah, only three gernot, only three you are able to count to thre aren't you? let's see a thumb a .... great god. let's get serious, Settlers - Amiga / PC DOS (DOS-box, the one and only "Wuselspiel", once i owned them all, but the very first is still the very best) Lords of the Realm - Amiga / PC DOS (DOS-Box, i'm up to wite a blog, some personal reviews to my most played games. played last week a complete game) SimCopter - Win95 ("Streets of SimCity" same reason, same engine, solution found to run foremost "Streets" flawless on a win7 64bit machine, ask if interested the solution is on my YT channel, one tool solves all issues. Will create a sort of patch, to counter the hacked version of SimCopter which is spread in the web, no bad hack, you only can't finish the missions due to it that's a few weeks ago, but since then i haven't made many long gaming sessions, because this i count as played, above 2hrs, Lords needs easy 24h to be finished, Simcopter you neither only play for five minutes) that was what i really played, most other i played in the last four weeks was test playings (less as 15 min)