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  2. Posted · Edited by R.Cade

    My memories of this game are skewed, because the local laundromat had a "Cosmic Guerilla" marquee on a machine with a "Cosmic Alien" board in it for years, and I played it many many times.

     

    I never suspected it was the wrong game, as there was no title screen that I remember that had the game name... :)

     

    Regardless, it was a pretty fun Galaxian-style clone. I liked the abrupt ship movements... .i.e, they were not smooth and would suddenly swoop toward you really quickly. Plus it had a "boss" which was unique at the time.

  3. Posted · Edited by R.Cade

    Experiences vary... I've had people send me 1000's of disks over the last 2 decades and some batches all work fine, and some all have problems.

     

    I would chalk it up to storage conditions and climate. Once you find a batch not working properly, though, just stop unless you want a lot of work cleaning out your disk drive. I've never had one ruined, but I did have to open the drive and scrub the head well to get it off. You get good at spotting them, though. Just take a look under a good light (or magnified light if you have failing eyesight like me). If you see what look like water spots, don't even try it unless you are prepared to go into extreme measures and clean it and your drive well to try to rescue the data.

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  4. Posted · Edited by R.Cade

    I agree on gammna attack there are 2 but only 1 is truly an original so far.

     

    Yes birthday mania there is 1 for sure and a possible 2nd claimed by the owner with no evidence ever provided.

     

    Malagai and gauntlet I think have to be counted even though especially gauntlets distribution had to be next to nothing.

     

    I agree though I never have considered confrontation to be a possible original release. And I still agree it's just a couple copies maybe that people who attended that ces show were lucky enough to get a chance to purchase later. That's not a release.

    I think this pic is the only known copy unless anyone else has more info.

    it does have a shell and label but obviously not anything with production quality.

    The manual did get made but they basically used it as an advertisement flyer too.

     

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    I agree I would be afraid about buying any copy of rsc. And I think this fear is playing a big part in the price drop off.

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Just out of curiosity, was the 2600 actually referred to as the Atari 2600 in the 80's? I always that was a modern way of referring to it.

     

    We're talking 1983 here specifically...

  6. Posted · Edited by R.Cade

    When I saw one of those last year, I figured you could buy the panels and make one at home and adapt MAME. However, at the time the panels were expensive and it would have cost thousands. I haven't looked, but it may be better now.

     

    If my math is correct, you'd need 992 of the 8x8 panels at $8-10/each. Ouch.

  8. Posted · Edited by R.Cade

     

     

     

     

    Correct - as per the CF7 documentation.

     

     

    My NanoPEB does this.

     

    The documentation says:

    CALL UNMOUNT(<drive number>) – un-mounts (removes) the disk drive and
    set the volume to the matching drive number. In other words, DSK3 will have
    VOL3 re-mounted.
    I take this to mean when you UNMOUNT a disk, it actually mounts the default VOL3.
    FWIW, I find everything about disk and file management on the TI99/4a confusing, and this doesn't help.
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  12. Posted · Edited by R.Cade

    The "rainbow color" version is the cartridge version, looks the same on the 800 or 5200. I assume any XEX or disk version of that one is a "Glenn the 5200 man" production or a cart rip, since I've booted all archived original disk versions and they are all the overlapped artifact-color title screen version.

  13. Posted · Edited by R.Cade

    Hey guys,

     

    I had a chance to play the test version (hopefully it was the newest build or close) and I had a couple of comments on the pinball part.

     

    1) It's awesome- great work.

     

    2) Some things happened that aren't normally possible. Example - hitting a ball with the right flipper as it goes over it should not be able to direct the ball back to the right. At best, it should go up the middle or to the left side.

     

    3) I was never able to hit the ball on the top and knock it across to the other side, which is how you get back to the maze. I tried for 10-15 minutes, never hit it once. It needs to be easier or at least possible. :)

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    What was more frustrating was Game Gear’s similarities to Lynx. “Game Gear was an interesting issue,” Needle remembers. “Sega was shown all of the Handy’s innards and schematics and specs as part of an attempt to partner with them after the Epyx marketing fiasco. And to see what I consider to be pretty much a copy of the Handy was a bit infuriating.” He continues, “I had become friends with one of the engineers at Sega, and during the last development stages of the Game Gear, after I had already left Epyx, Sega hired me to help with a few lingering product issues. I went to their Japan facility and they showed me the problems they were having. Some issues were just weak engineering on their part, showing me that they did not understand the functionality of the hardware they were copying. They had the output palette wrong, among other things.”

     

     

    https://www.nowgamer.com/retroinspection-atari-lynx/

     

    This seems like nonsense, since it was basically just a portable Master System. What did they copy?

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    Hello,

     

    Unfortunately, I have an Atari 800XL and and 600XL both with dead mylar keyboards. I'd like to fix at least one of them and wondered if someone had one (or more) of these computers I could use for parts that might have a good or repairable keyboard?

     

    I'd rather have the mechanical (keyswitch) keyboards, even though I know I could buy the mylars from Best- I'd rather not if there are better keyboards out there.

     

    -Pete

     

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    Youre loading up ACS and creating new adventures through the ACS MENU?

     

    I cant figure out where Im going wrong but I get squat. More interested in landsof Adventuria, spy/fantasy, and a fresh generic fantasy disk created tbh.

     

    I have no idea if the science fiction was played but apparently it has gone through LETS ACS FINISH YOUR ADVENTURE once. Same can be said of the fantasy module as well.

     

    Yes, "M" for make an Adventure disk.

  24. Posted · Edited by R.Cade

     


    http://atrey.karlin....i/600xlmon.html

    This method is way easier than SuperVideo 2.1. Has anyone done this mod, and does it give good results? I wonder if it can be "tweaked" to improve the results?

    -Larry

     

    I've done it- it looks OK. I did some further mods to reduce the noise in the picture. Removed a cap, and added one from GND to 5v to filter the power to that part of the board.

     

    If anything, it is *too* clear. You can see every pixel, like there is a horizontal and vertical grid. I've tried to filter it out to no avail so far...

     

    There is a little further you can go for S-Video, and I haven't done that part.

     

    (The moire effect is just my camera taking a photo of curved CRT)

     

    Really, now that I compare it to my 800XL standard- it looks the same, so it may just be my CRT. It is a "Super Fine Pitch" Trintron.

    post-4629-0-54709300-1540677716_thumb.jpg

  25. Posted · Edited by R.Cade

    I don't understand where you are going wrong with your process. I just did it again, no problem. Rivers of Light disk just created with AppleWin onto a blank DOS 3.3 image created with CiderPress using the ACS images on Asimov. I don't even think it matters that it is CiderPress- it formats any disk you put in there. The cracks are fine...

     

    I know this is not helpful to you, other than assuring you the disk images are fine.

    test.zip

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