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  2. Posted · Edited by R.Cade

    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

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    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.

  5. Posted · Edited by R.Cade

    I just installed Win'95 using "Virtual PC", and the majority of files are dated 8/24/96.

     

     

    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.

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    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. :)

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  8. Posted · Edited by R.Cade

    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.

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    Well im pretty sure the voltage output is right because i had no trouble with it earlier. I will check the fuse.

     

    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.

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    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.

  17. Posted · Edited by R.Cade

    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.

  21. Posted

    Now, my only trouble is getting PacMan to load properly on the IIgs. I get the PacMan demo screen, but the screen displays an entire screen of 2s instead of loading the game. It runs fine in the II+, however. I have slowed the IIgs to the "normal" speed, and I have the caps lock on....it still won't load, though. All of the other Atarisoft games are fine.....any ideas?

     

    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).

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