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  1. Posted

    On 12/12/2020 at 6:06 PM, CyranoJ said:

     

    • its a free* game what if someone put an unlicensed module on there, made a video, and then I got hastled by the author for putting it in my game?

     

    Wow, and people WOULD and have made a big deal about the mods used.  Good point.

  2. Posted

    10 minutes ago, doctor_x said:

    Ok - and again, I wasn’t trying to be disrespectful with my question.. I certainly wouldn’t do it justice - and not many others here could either.. But I wondered if the guy he did some of the research with might have had it passed over.. I mean - Curt had a HUGE collection of stuff... Perhaps his family will see fit to donate the stuff to one of the Museum’s.. Crossing fingers it doesn’t go to waste.. 

     

    Totally get you.  There were some rarities in there for sure.   Maybe if someone can reach out to his family and just carefully ask or give them options and places to reach out to when ready to sell.

     

  7. Posted

    15 hours ago, doctor_x said:

    What year was that - when the cop showed up for annoyance calls after only 4 reports????

    Luckily I missed 90s BBSing and all the pirate boards getting locked down and raided.  I was busy with college at the time..

     

    So for me and BBSing started in I believe '81 using a 300 baud 1030 modem, and I want to say I called the Dal-ACE BBS (in Dallas naturally).   Many BBSs followed, many Atari (JYBOLAC, INTACT, Psyclos Empire, The Equalizer BBS, the Danger Room, OA (my short lived BBS), NCC-1701, Sgt. Pepper's BBS, and The Ice Palace?) and called a few other BBSs where they had continue the story boards (Fast Times at Ridgemont High, MaR MaR's Place, The Unknown BBS).   I quickly left 300 baud and was using 1200/2400 before long.   Four to eight times the speed baby!!  :D

     

    BBSing from there I called BBSs while on Guam in '94-'95, when I got back I was on Chrysalis (a multi-line BBS with IRC, email, and telnet).   Got back into Ft. Worth and Dallas BBS scenes around '99.   Was on Collin County Station in the early 2000's, and over time got on the Prison Board BBS around 2006 which I used for dialup in Dallas and telneting out to other Atari BBS's of the now (Boot Factory, Dark Forces).   Though the Prison Board BBS does not have it's own dialup line, there is a service that is creating a dial-in point that connects to internet BBSs.

     

    And here in 2020 there are actually quite a few dialup BBSs.   The Backyard BBS and Basement BBSs are Atari run.

     

    So shed the beards and false teeth, get a modem, get a phone line "that can handle a fax machine" (as I had to tell AT&T when I was getting a line installed) and give dial-up BBSs a shot!

     

     

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  8. Posted

    Overall it goes something like this:

     

    Atari ST has the best graphics.

    Atari Lynx has the best sound.

     

    And the Atari Jaguar version with the ST port has them both... along with the sound sets from all the other Atari systems that you can select.  :D   Ironically, the Atari 2600 had a better sound set than the original ST sound set.

     

    But if I have to choose a straight up classic version, it would be the Atari 400/800 (XL/XE/5200).  Just like how the game handles.  You can soar along in that one.   Mostly a combination of gameplay/replayability along with the graphics and sound which just overall works.

  11. Posted

    On 12/3/2020 at 9:17 PM, amiman99 said:

    I swapped the Nuon motherboard to the M301 to see if the power supply board is OK, and because all ribbon cables matched it all fit fine.  Same problem.

     

    It looks like the motherboard is dead. It's not displaying the Samsung logo at all.

     

    I'm not sure now what the problem might be. I will try to see if the xtals are working.

     

    What comes to mind at this point is that this might be something to take to someone that repairs DVD players.   That 501 might be marginally working in some power component or other issue.

     

    Motherboards go out,  but I'm finding these days it is usually other parts (moving parts, parts related to power) go out more likely.

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  15. Posted

    1 hour ago, Stephen said:

    I got my Samsung 501 when I heard VMLabs were releasing the SDK.  I sold my 1st DVD player, an Apex 600 (hacked to be multi-region, no macrovision, etc.) on Ebay for more than I bought it new, and used that money to finance the 501 :)

    When the N501 came out the Nuon games were already selling at Best Buy for $5 a piece.

     

    Still I applied for a Best Buy card... and was turned down.   :(

     

    Roughly 17 years later I was at a pawn shop and they had a N501 for sale for $20.   Was great.   I bought another N501 shortly after for a good price, and had one controller or two N501s.  :D   And it was then I got to play with the home brew library of the Nuon.

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  17. Posted

    39 minutes ago, Stephen said:

    Cool that you still have your stuff Clu.  I do as well.  Did you ever get an IS3 disc from Nuon Dome back in the day?  I still have mine.  I'm sad that I was never able to secure a dev kit when I was coding mine.  With no debugging support and having to burn a CDRW every time, I just gave up.

    I might get your help though on the debugging.  The controls on the Atari 800 emulator for Nuon don't exactly work right.  Want to see if we can get that working.

     

    So my story for Iron Soldier 3 was a long one.   Picked up a 2300 in like 2001-2002 but by then the card that came with it was already expired.   Oh yeh that was for Tetris... nevermind!

     

    So I did order for like $150 a Tetris and Iron Soldier 3 combo through some guy on Atariage I want to say.   The package was lost in the mail.   Guy refunded half the amount, and the postal carrier was made to pay the other half.

     

    I didn't have Tetris till a few years ago, but I got ahold of a copy of Iron Soldier 3  fairly quick, like around 2002-2003.   We had picked up the 2300 for a friend, and I had the N2000.   Found Iron Soldier 3 played better on the 2300 so friend offered to trade.   Why I have the 2300 now.

     

    And few years ago I sold my rarer Nuon titles.

     

    I think I would like to pick up a new copy of Iron Soldier 3 for that 28 page manual at the very least.

     

    How about you?  (And others can chime in on their Iron Solider 3 tales)

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  18. Posted

    On 11/25/2020 at 11:11 PM, Chris Brockman said:

    Just wanted to remind NUON fans that the official NUON-Dome forum is still up and running and we are trying to get stuff going on the NUON

     

    https://www.thehelper.net/forums/nuon-dome-general-discussion.80/

     

    If you want to talk NUON this is the place to do it.  The last bastion of NUON on the net resides here!  Don't let it die.

     

    Always loved the Nuon Dome and spent a lot of time there.

     

    I'm on there posting away again!

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  19. Posted

    On 12/3/2020 at 9:51 PM, Songbird said:

    Thanks for the support, everyone! I need to figure out a good system for pre-orders, which will take me a few days. In the meantime, feel free to spread the word and I will post on my new Twitter account too. https://twitter.com/SongbirdPro

     

     

    This is all amazing Carl.  I was just thinking after seeing this on the Jaguar forum "This needs to go on that Nuon thread we have here"  and well, it was already here.  :P    Still got my 501 and 2300 Nuons, and could probably use an original copy of this again.  Never had the manual so that will be nice to see.

     

    And how nice this will look on a shelf with the Jaguar Iron Soldier 1 and 2.

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  20. Posted

    4 hours ago, Kal said:

    Well it takes a good 15 mins to turn on and decide it’s happy. I only have it for the skunk GUI 

    Sounds very much like the G4 Mac Powerbook from 2003.   I turn that on, it thinks and thinks.   I  try various buttons (usually space bar) and if I hear the hard drive accessing and eventually a "pop" sound as the speaker loads as it goes to the next screen, I'm IN!   Well, after another minute or so of fully loading.

     

    Why I am thankful to Linkovitch for updating the Skunkloader so I could run it on a regular more modern 2015 MacBook Pro.   I used the same 2003 laptop for years as "it worked".   Worth the trouble of upgrading.

  23. Posted

    9 minutes ago, Kal said:

    Isn’t working out how to beat the game part of the point of playing? The game we are all playing now is the same version so it’s a level playing field. 
    However I’ll go with the majority. 😘

     

    I know what you mean.   Still, impressive score!   And we've all had a hand in making this game better in the end.  ;)

     

    8 minutes ago, Kal said:

    Although I must add, it took me 40 mins to get V3 on my skunkboatd last night due to the age of my laptop. 😂

    Seriously?  😮  One transfer took 40 minutes?   I've got a laptop from 2002 (Mac G4 PowerBook) and even it only takes maybe 30 seconds.   How old is that laptop?  :P

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