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Here's one I got not too long ago. http://rittwage.com/pics/appleiie/

Same thing happened to me many times. I've got several broken Ataris, broken TI's, broken Apple II's, and broken Commodore's this way. People are just stupid and think that if it's in a box it's fine. You can only get your money back under ridiculous circumstances so it isn't worth trying. The best is when they say to take it to the post office because it's their problem. It's not. Usually it's much worse and they pile heavy power supplies, disk drives, books on it and bust off all the keys also. Harder for that to happen to a 400, but still.

Ah, OK. Then that is the best solution for sure. I thought for some reason that wasn't an option.

Hi Albert, I know on large databases with lots of different table interactions, you could run into consistency problems if you don't lock the tables. However, you can do incremental backups with binary logs enabled. This allows you to do the full backup only once in a while (weekly, monthly, whatever) and then you just keep all the log files. The log files are used to "play back" all changes to the database, so you restore your full db, then apply all logs if something bad happened. This is assuming you are using MySQL, but other databases have similar ways to do this with transaction logs. Pete

All modern database products can backup while live- if you are taking it down to back it up, you are doing it wrong.

From WikiAnswers: "Any time you claim rights in a trademark, you may use the "TM" (trademark on goods) or "SM" (service mark) designation to alert the public to your claim, regardless of whether you have filed an application with the state or USPTO. However, you may use the federal registration symbol "®" only after the federal USPTO actually issues a registration, and not while an application is pending or after registration expires. Also, you may use the registration symbol with the registered mark only on or in connection with the goods and/or services listed in the federal trademark registration. Any major change to the mark or the goods/services will require another registration. Federal registrations require periodic maintenance fees (i.e., every 10 years)." So most likely the earlier versions were released before they officially held the trademark for that particular game title.

Good to know! The year seems a bit strange, as looking at Wiki again it says the release date for Windows 95 is Aug 24, 1995. The day an month are bang on though. What's also strange is that the majority of in the rom list I posted are 8/26/97. They are different by 1 year, but the day is pretty close. I'm not thinking to deeply into this... I just found it strange that the days were really close in all 3 cases. The first version of Windows 95 was definately released Aug/95, with over a year of beta versions available for testing before that. The "95B" release was in 1996 that supported FAT32. Before that you could only have 2G drives/partitions. The original Activision Action pack may have been for Windows 3.1 (I'm almost sure of it) and it also worked on Windows 95. Activision's Atari 2600 Action Pack for Windows 95 (PC) Release Region: United States Release Date: June 1, 1995 Strange that it was released "before" Windows 95, so this must be an error, or they just changed the name later.

That "first" collection of 2600 dumps existed and was traded around at least as early as 1995. I created a basic cart dumper using a the parallel port and a simple counter/latch under DOS and started dumping my collection around that time to play them in the first "Action Pack for Windows 95". I found you could make them 16k and save them over the files it was looking for. Soon after that, someone sent me a zip file with all of those early dumps with that naming. I didn't know anything about bank switching at the time, so I never did extend my tools or dumper (or SRAM cart) to handle that. This brings me way back to the early days of emulation. Dave Spicer and that first arcade emulators. Fun times- I even wrote a Centipede/Millipede emulator back before MAME existed.

Are you the one that grabbed that copy for $80 bucks or so the other day? Nice... Good luck copying the disk.

Those are pretty neat - I pickup old handhelds on auctions once in a while and this one doesn't usually go that high ($10-15). It has a strange flaw, though. Pac-Man only faces in one direction and you can only eat dots traveling in that direction, so it makes the game really odd to play. Not sure why they let it go out that way.

I love it when people say that it was "just working" as if that matters. Yes, things usually work fine right before they stop. Nothing against you- it's universal.

It could be capacitors are leaked and gone, but it could also be a POKEY chip has gone bad. Fortunately, they are very cheap and plentiful at the moment- I saw someone on here selling them for $0.80/each recently.

Unfortunately, with the release of the Harmony, the CC1 is worth very little now.

Yeah, sure, just swap out the ROM chips and I'm sure it'll work fine. Uh, no. That's pretty much like trying to exchange brains in some living creature. You can probably get the parts to fit, but no way will either one work after that.

The text in this auction is kind of misleading. "Tooling package for all parts and components to build the Jaguar game system" implies that it contains everything you could need to produce Atari Jaguars, when obviously it's only for the plastic case. And of course you'd need whatever manufacturing equipment is necessary to use the mold.

I'd bet the virtualization is skewing your dumps. You probably need to boot into straight DOS from a USB thumbdrive or floppy disk.

Pssst. Cover your *ss and show her these too :-) Wow, you need to make a couple big batches of RetroBrite.

Ah, that is slightly better than just Centipede. The only machines I see in bars around here anymore is Golden Tee.

It's not really worth $3000 any more. Anyway, you can put it on location somewhere, but you have to register it and pay taxes to the state. Unfortunately, I would bet that Centipede would not make enough to cover your yearly tax and the gas to pickup the few quarters it would generate.

You can buy those adapters on eBay for about $15. Also, Peter Schepers still makes them by hand, along with many other cable types.

Yes. I just ran it with no problems on W7 Enterprise x64.

They make little handheld Genesis/MD units that sell on dealextreme.com. They have SD storage, have a TV-out, and only cost $30 or so.

Go into the control panel and turn on "alternative display mode" and that will clear it up. There is something about RAM page mirroring that a handful of games utilize and this happens. That setting is not saved at reboot, so you have to turn it back on for any game that doesn't display correctly. (There are only a few).

You can get the cables made for the Sega Genesis from eBay. They are the same- the colors (of the cable ends) will just be different than the red/yellow/white on the back of the monitor.

Googled it, here is the manual: http://www.scribd.com/doc/24572650/P-R-Connection-Owners-Manual It's just a parallel/serial interface.