DavidMil

My wife had to turn around and push my mouth closed, because my jaw dropped and refused to work for a bit when I saw those prices. And yet we paid them! Any idea how much that is in todays world? David

Seems like I'm always asking questions... So here's another one. Does anyone know how to read Atari serial numbers? Having worked at Compaq for 5 years and repaired computers and printers for and additional 25 years, I know there is a lot of info packed into the serial numbers. There was some variance from product to product but mostly the structure was the same. If anyone has some good documentation, I'd really like to see it. Thank you, David Milsop kingwood, Texas

If I can make working heads from your information, I'll send you one for free! I also want to keep up with Irgendwer to see how he is progressing. It looks like I'm going to have to breakdown and buy a newer copy of Corel Draw. Mine is version 9. I have a feeling it's going to take several tries with different materials to get this right. Thank you for the info, and I'll keep you posted. David Milsop Kingwood, Texas

I would really like to get that file if you find it. Repairing Atari products has become a driving hobby for me since I've retired. Thanks so much, David Milsop Kingwood, Texas

I was wondering how long it would take to hear from you. At least he posted some nice pictures! David

I still have my bright orange Thompson Electronics 'ProBurner'. A right hand cartridge that could burn eproms up to 27128 (16K x 8. This cartridge allowed you to look at ROM carts in the left socket and burn duplicate eproms. It also has a machine language monitor. I remember that I used it to modify my Eastern Front game. I loaded the game from the cartridge and then I gave all the Luftwaffe 255 starting points. Then I wrote the game to a diskette and played it from the disk. David Milsop Kingwood, Texas

If you are successful, I would like to buy 2 of them myself. Thanks, David Milsop Kingwood, Texas

Any way to get that translated to English? I would really like to look into this! David Milsop Kingwood, Texas

I also have two 1027's, and I would be willing to help pay for some research to replace the rubber material on the print heads. I've been thinking for some time about getting a couple from Best and making molds myself. DavidMil

That's a good idea. If you a afraid to try soldering another 1k or 510 ohm resistor on top of the current SM resistor you could always buy an old fashion through hole resistor and look for other points along the traces on each side of the SM resistor to solder the legs. Make sure you get a thin solder that has flux in it, and DON'T press hard! DavidMil

I got the 835 board and I'll test it out tonight. Is there something I can help you with? Thanks again, David Milsop

One other foot note. Reducing the resistance in the circuit too much could case more current to flow through the circuit than some of the components are rated to withstand, and that could damage some of the other component(s) in the circuit. DavidMil

Those were the days when I learned the Magic Phrase of gaming.... SAVE OFTEN!!! David

You may very well be right adam242. I remember that we took Analog magazine and one year we got the magazines with the diskettes. I'll look through my rather large pile of diskettes and see if I can pull any of those disks out. Come to think of it I think, I believe that I got some of those from Atarimax too. Thank you and thanks to everyone for all the feed back! David Milsop Kingwood, Texas

If you remove the disk from the jacket, be sure to clean the inside of the jacket with Alcohol too. If the disks have a hub ring and nothing else works; you can even try cutting out part of the jacket (after you take the disk out) with an X-Acto knife. Be very careful not to allow any of cut edges to turn up toward the disk. But I wouldn't try this until all else fails. DavidMil

Remember this was 1981. Most people, myself included, had no idea what the internet was. At the time only expensive colleges and some high tech businesses had internet. In those dark and dreary days you had to pay a long distance charge (by the minute) if you wanted to call a BBS outside your area code. Downloading a game at 300 baud took hours. I remember those days with fondness but I'm sure glad they are gone! David code

I have a game called Starship Titanic that I thought was a Scott Adams game, but as I look at the title I see that is was written by Douglas Adams. Is this the same person? It's a good game with a very Scott Adams like theme and a rather droll sense of humor. I tested it and it plays well on my computer with XP but nothing after that. David

All I remember about Guam was the way to the e-club and lots of beer. Oh, and the gigantic rats! David

I also gave up on Zork II. I never even tried 3. You know how twisted programmers brains get when they sit in front of a screen for days at a time! Having tried programing for a couple of years, I can sympathize... I've been writing down all the suggestions (except Zork) so please feel free to add any more if you think of them. Thanks, David Milsop

I remember 'eat coconut' because I had an argument with my eight year old son (at the time) because he was sure that coconuts grew wild so all you had to do was take a bag and collect a bunch of the little white stringy pieces of coconut. There was no internet in those dark ages, so I had to take him to the library to find pictures of coconuts and people opening them with machetes. The Liberian thought it was cute, and I just wanted to go home and get a beer. DavidMil

Anybody remember the names of some of the old text adventure game? You remember, the ones that you would type... eat coconut and the game would say." you can't do that." then you type... Get rock use rock on Coconut eat coconut I've got a great grand daughter that has been playing 'Myst' and I wanted to show her the humble begins of that game. Of course at the time our old text adventures were state of the art. DavidMil Kingwood, Texas

Thanks for the tip ProWizard. I haven't played that game in 30 plus years so I could easily be confusing some things with other games. I just downloaded the game from Atarimania, so I'll try it tonight. Thanks, DavidMil Kingwood, Texas

Please forgive My German... Ich hapt nicht Deutsch gesprochen fur Vierzig Jahre. Vielen Dank (?) David Milsop Kingwood, Texas

I think we used to play this game on the 400 when we first got it. I'm not sure if it came out of a magazine or not.. I don't remember if the screen was always black and white or if it was only black and white at night (except when the cop was chasing you the screen would flash red) and you'd hear the siren. Anyway you started out with a certain amount of cash and you could buy the type of car you wanted to drive and I believe you could pick the route you wanted to take. Then you sat behind the wheel and moved left to right to follow the road and avoid other drivers and various obstacles. You could drive the speed limit or not. You also had to watch your gas gauge cause if you ran out of gas you had to push your car to the next gas station. At night when you started getting close to a city the screen would start to lighten up. When you goy to one city you had to pick which way you wanted to go to the next city. Anybody remember this game? David Milsop Kingwood, Texas

I've sat here for an entire evening reading and watching everything posted in this tread. What a truly remarkable story. I Can't begin to remember how many nights my wife and I would put the kids to bed and load AR. We would take turns (one would walk around and the other would map). We took four pieces of graph paper and taped them together in a large square to plot the city. Thank you sir for this wonderful gift you have left us. And yes, I would be willing to buy a new release of the old game too (even if the autograph was extra)! The paper, the notes, and packaging are long gone. But I still have these: Thanks again, David Milsop Kingwood, Texas