doctorclu

Thursday at 06:50 PM

So cool I had to pause work, hook up my 7800, load this up (Harmony) and play it. Really awesome.

April 8

Wow quite a score. Good luck in getting those working!

April 5

Just a quick word that the Model 1 and 4 computers have been picked up and on their way to good homes.

Thanks for all who were interested.

April 3

26 minutes ago, Texas Tandy restorations said:

PM SENT

If you were the one that sent a message on ebay, message replied.

Thanks for the interest. Put on pause on this for now as we might have a home for these, but I'll announce if not.

April 3

1 hour ago, emalphrus said:

I may be interested but not available to get to Dallas tomorrow and unsure of the 17th. I'm North (near Frisco) - would you or your friend have any availability to come this way a bit, perhaps on the weekend?

Sent you a message.

Hi emalphrus, I'll reply to your PM.

April 3

Free to a good home, can meet in the south Dallas area. Friend of mine writes:

"I have two TRS-80 Model ones with a lowercase adapters RS-232 expansion interface. And then my Model three that got me going to college lots of floppy hard drive also for the mod three and I think there is an Epson 510 printer in there. Books also. And for an enthusiast, I bet you anthing. They were power back up. I really hate to see them go, but I don't see myself ever putting the system back together for grin and giggles and they are just taking up space and rather than them going to a dump, someone might could have some fun with this stuff or find its way to a museum powered up."

There you have it. If interested, let me know. I will be in the south Dallas area tomorrow and the 17th. And I can also deliver on I-35 to Waco.

April 2

So what was the Coco 2 like? I always hear of the Coco 1 and Coco 3.

April 2

On 7/18/2011 at 9:03 PM, AtariLeaf said:

EDIT - Sorry, didn't read that you were talking about the Model II. Yep, that's the business one. It sucks.

LOL! My only experience with Model IIs was in high school. They were mostly used by the teaching staff for recording grades and printing.

Luckily we the students got to use the Model IVP in the typing/computer lab.

April 2

On 7/21/2023 at 9:12 AM, jhd said:

Deskmate was a Tandy-specific GUI. In some models (I am not familiar with the TL/3), the kernel software was installed in ROM, but everything else was on a floppy disk. The hard drive was an extra-cost option, so your system may not include one. The original package included a word processor, spreadsheet, terminal emulator, basic database, and some other things.

The original TL/2 disks have been dumped: http://www.oldskool.org/guides/tvdog/system.html.

Deskmate... that is so cool. So essentially it had what an ST had. A built in GUI, and no other built in applications.

The only thing I saw cooler was a Headstart Explorer that had a built in GUI and a bunch of built in apps (calculator, word processor, calendar, etc) and I think if it just had a terminal emulator built in, I would have been hooked.

April 2

Ha... totally snoozed this month.

March 26

20 minutes ago, zzip said:

A new ST section with some of the Accolade/Microprose titles they've acquired?

Bubsy for Jaguar?

I second this one. I've mentioned the Accolade titles and especially Bubsy for the Jaguar and gotten a "hmmm" from Atari on Twitter/X.

Needs to happen.

March 12

The CX 78!

March 12

On 3/11/2024 at 12:03 AM, AAA177 said:

I'm curious: do you think it disappeared because I asked it to do something related to a copyrighted IP? Because I have made other requests such as write an Atari BASIC program to draw a line, or write an Atari assembly program to draw a pumpkin...in both cases it generated code.

I look on AI as like when Kirby eats a bunch of stuff and then burps out something gross.

I find what you say here interesting. Has it come the awareness of AI producers that they were stealing the work of others, and people have legally complained?

Was the code (just me wondering) that the AI gave the code to Pitfall Harry that the AI was able to find (more than likely) and then realized somehow "oops, I wasn't supposed to reveal I knew that..."

March 1

5 minutes ago, teuton17 said:

Sorry, I never played that game, so I do not know.

Be curious to know which games worked for you. So far for me Gorf and Dragon's Lair. But what you mentioned gives me a bit of hope for Battlemorph. Just need to try a good, fast, quality San Disk SD card and might have better results.

March 1

On 2/3/2024 at 8:30 AM, teuton17 said:

I have used Micro Center and SanDisk cards for the Jag GD successfully. I previously used Samsung EVOs for most of my larger cards (256GB to 1 TB), across many systems, but lately they have become incompatible. I have switched back to SanDisk exclusively for the larger cards.

In all these that worked well, did Battlemorph run alright on them?

February 27

Hey welcome back fellow Jaguar HSC folk!

Thanks to CJ and the Reboot folk for posting the $10 copy of Downfall +... truly awesome.

Here are my three scores just in case I don't get better ones made...

February 27

On 2/16/2024 at 1:14 AM, MichaG said:

Sad decision, I've just played Downfall several rounds to reach 1,000 points...

And so Mark was given a no cost Freefall...

February 21

On 2/8/2024 at 3:15 PM, Radio F Software said:

Also I am proudly the fifth member of the Bubsy club here on AtariAge.

Oh good! Guess we need to get more going on there.

And also check out the Bubsy Bobcat Fan Blog if you don't already.

Got a link for that Twitch channel?

February 21

On 2/3/2024 at 10:58 PM, Biff Burgertime said:

Is this an accurate representation of the controls? If so, why? I fired up the original Bubsy on Genesis just now via my RetroPie (+ authentic Genesis pad via USB converter, woohoo!) and C does nothing. B jumps, A glides, there is no "jump slightly higher" button.

Sorry for the wait on the response. The keys can be remappped, but you figured out two of the controls. One jumps up a bit and glides, and the other is a straight up jump. The other you hold down the button and move the D-Pad left or right and you can look at things off screen.

February 21

On 2/19/2024 at 3:52 PM, Radio F Software said:

I know I'm double posting but too much time has passed and I can't edit my previous post. What I have to share is too important for that to matter though. Behold:

(I don't remember Bubsy's theme song being this good.....)

That is so perfect!! The cheerful instrumentation with that song. Wham's "Wake Me Up". Nice...

February 7

On 12/22/2022 at 12:17 AM, CyranoJ said:

I was saving this for Xmas day, but may as well get some play time early if you can.

Happy holidays, everyone - I hope you all have a great time.

ROTJ.rom 4 MB · 543 downloads

ROTJ.mrq 31.05 kB · 164 downloads

Skunk / JaguardGD / BigPEmu locked (Eanable 'Force JGD' in the options)

Well it only took me two years of off and on play, but I finally beat the hard level! Had a score of like 105,955 or something like that.

Lot of fun. I think I'm wearing it out. Loads sometimes, and sometimes not. I think I like the speeder bikes part the best.

January 18

On 1/9/2024 at 9:39 AM, Rick Dangerous said:

Oooohh...I might have to revisit this one. What this game lacks in gameplay it makes up for in comedic value.

The main reason I played it.

I just love how the characters were all over the place. Also, go for ultra gore/blood. Makes it even more hilarious.

January 18

3 minutes ago, zzip said:

I'd say the cheap feel of the XEs is the turn-off. I'd have no issue with the looks if they were built at least as well as the ST.

Are the Maxi's truly full-size? If so, I'm not sure they'd make something as large as the Atari 800. I could see them choosing something compact like the 600XL

A compact 600XL? Could get behind that.

Soooo... how it the pack in joystick for this thing? That will be my ongoing question about this after having like five modern day joysticks fail between the Flashback 2 line, and other replacement joysticks I picked up at video game stores.

We wanna play games, and we don't want to be delicate about it. Don't cheap out on the joysticks.

January 18

On 12/25/2023 at 6:34 PM, WIZZARD77 said:

Does anyone have a save file for Battlesphere gold with all the codes unlocked? I'm having a hard time getting it to save properly

Sounds like something worth building. See what we can do. Which actually brings up a good point. 1) does BS:G* create a .e2p file? 2) I seem to remember patches could be uploaded to Battlesphere through BJL link? If so, would that information be saved to the .e2p file?

Suffice to say I've enjoyed what the .e2p file outputs. Sometimes it is legible (and you can alter with a text editor... whistles...) and sometimes it does not.

I will say this, on Attack of the Mutant Penguins I found that if have all 16 levels unlocked, then play a game from the start, it will save a few levels short of the level you completed on that round. So if you want to have the ability to start on level 16 I believe not letting it save the final ending screen/game over might keep that from happening. If it does, just reload the AotMP .e2p file on the Game Drive.

January 18

I've been enjoying using an Atari 800 with FujiNet here recently. Mostly use it for getting on BBSs to write other users on those systems. I use mainly Bobterm for ATASCII and Flickerterm for ANSI.

I've gotten on some of the games that are FujiNet modified and played them through that.

And of course while there is much that I have not tried, the lists of what you've tried also help.