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  4. Posted · Edited by Keatah

    I seem to remember, when I was a kid playing this stuff, that at certain points in the adventure style games it asked you to continue loading by un-pausing the cassette player or playing. This would then load the next part of the game.

     

    For example, with party mix, you load it, then it says "stop tape", you play the game, then it asks you to load the next segment. The Stella-gets-a-new-brain manual says to do exactly that too.

     

    Are there .bin files where all segments are combined into one?

  5. Posted

    I'm talking about the multi-load ones like Escape From the Mindmaster and DragonStomper? I can load the 1st rom, but how do we retain continuity between loads? Or how do we even get the second or third binary running? I looked through the dox on the stella-gets-a-new-brain disc. Nada. I'll go through this message board thoroughly next.

  7. Posted

    Ahh yes of course, that would be the only time I might use an online filehosting or backup service. I would even be more inclined to have my own mini-ftp server and an online service for that purpose. You generally should have 2 copies of anything important. 3 if you have a vital presentation or irreplaceable content such as photos and videos and audio transcriptions.. I thought about an online service right after I posted the message. DUH!!!!

  8. Posted

    Why is everyone switching to on-line backups?? And why is that garbage marketed?? Just get a usb stick, or hard disk. Then you do *NOT* have to worry about an internet connection or the slow speeds associated with that. Not to mention security and dependence on the server/company. And there are no accounts to pay for, or passwords to remember. Seems like online backups are fad, and a monkey-see-monkey-do type thing.

     

    Wouldn't you fell safer having all your stuff on a pocket sized usb drive - something like this? http://westerndigital.com/en/products/Prod...asp?DriveID=525

     

    or two of them if you really want security; and keep one offsite like in a relative's basement or something.. And in a plastic baggie in case of flood.. Something like that.

  9. Posted · Edited by Keatah

    And one more thing, I think that if we were limited ot 6502's we'd probably have tons of them in parallel, and on the same package, like larrabee from intel. Or perhaps if you meant hardcore 6502's running at 10mhz and in discrete packaging, meaning one chip per 40pin dip; then we'd have that as a master controller of many more dedicated chips. and I mean many more!

     

    But also, everything would be minimalist in nature. And that would be a good thing, as it would keep computer technology away from the idiotic masses and in the hands of folks who know what to do with computers. We wouldn't have all the mindless Uh'leet haxorz and pnwed crap going on in useless lan parties and garbage like that - a sad waste of resources.

  10. Posted

    Well, look at what an Apple ][ ended up being capable of!

     

    A nicely expanded machine had a Megabyte of RAM, decent graphics, sounds, interface devices. If you take a look at a //e enhanced, it's still a viable workstation today! That's 8 bits. Other machines, like the Color Computer, ran OS/9, and had their fair share of expansion options as well.

     

     

    Yeh! I still have mine with tons of original hardware, a 10 meg hard drive the size of a briefcase, svga graphics card, 4 meg ram, and various periperals. You should see the mx-80 dotmatrix printer. A sight to behold.

     

    I programmed the thing to play music ( the printer! ), by striking the pins and swishing the head back and forth. Slick, and I'd use the floppy to accompany it for rhythm, or background 'drum' effects, banging the head and recalibrating.

     

    And I just found a soduku puzzle solver that performs as fast as a 2ghz pentium, it solves the difficult puzzles in a fraction of a second. Fast enough were human error is the factor if you use a stopwatch. .4 seconds? .7 seconds?? Whatever. and that is on a 1mhz cpu, 48k.. And you know what? The data entry is so much easier than on a full-blow gui, like windows. Excellent programming.

     

    http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon/Sudoku.html

     

    And the apple ][ has ethernet and USB is in development now..

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    Cool little box there, sort of like the biohazard stuff in expoeriment labs I want one!! But -- lining the room with plastic is easy, and takes a moment. Maybe I'll do two of them, one outside in the garage or field on a non-windy day right after a rainstorm, and one inside. and see how long they last.

     

    I wonder if at a time in the past, they made hard disks that were low-density enough to be able to work in the open air? Something like maybe a 5-megger 12" diameter perhaps? Not the insane gigabits-per-sq/inch we have today.

  14. Posted

    I’m looking to install a clear window on a hard disk, something like the raptors from wd. And here is my plan. I was thinking of making my own cleanroom by putting an electrostatic air cleaner and our brand new unopened(never used to clean floors) vacuum cleaner with hepa filter in a closet lined with plastic garbage bages (unused too). I could dress up in a rain poncho thingy and put a bag on my hair to keep particles from drifting off. And I would work with the drive upside down, so that nothing would settle on the platters. And of course, I would work with the drive held overhead. I would tend to think that this would suffice for an impromptu cleanroom setup? yes?

  15. Posted

    We'd do something similar, with setting up championship structure and what not. But, we'd build a tent inside the stairwell in the basement area sort of like going down into a top secret war-room area. And we'd have food service via some rope and the laundry chute. We had walkie-talkies for communication with the surface. I still have the very same ones till this day, and they *still* smell of 1970's electronics with all the components and old solder flux and whatnot. The parts are all on individual leads/wires and through-the-hole mounting on single-sided boards. The resistors are colorful and organic shaped(!) and the capacitors are sky-blue cylinders or green or red chicklet-gum style packages. The transformers still have the original beeswax on them to help seal the windings.. We also had a red spray-painted phone for emergencies and whatever was urgent.

     

    Ohh well, the setup was the most coziest and warm place you could get, with the wood panelling and carpet 3 inches thick. The warm glow of incandescent lighting. Everything all 70's brown color. a 50 pound vcr and tv that would take all of us to move..! Cool. Like the commander's quarters in norad's mountain, or so we would imagine it as such.

  19. Posted

    I would frequet the PinPan Alley 'chain' of arcades in the suburbs of chicago - particularily west dundee and schaumburg illinois. Also there was a huge arcade called galaxy world near carol stream on rt 64/north avenue.

     

    I liked the PinPan Alley in Schaumburg because it was a few doors down from DataDomain (a computer store). We'd go to the arcade and play all afternoon long, then visit the computer store. I always kept somehow hoping that they would make all the cool arcade games for the Apple][+ I had at the time, (which I also got from another DataDomain located in woodfield shopping mall (a few miles down the road)). I remember hoping they'd come out with a super duper graphics card or something that would go into one of the expansion slots on the apple ][. Little did I know that 20 years later we'd be running the likes of stella and mame and other emu's on laptop systems that can be connected to 60" lcd monitors. But... I digress.

     

    I got to play a midway/bally prototype vector flightsim games called 'earth friend mission'. I got interviewed by the programmers to see how I liked the thing. Pretty slick stuff, see klov for more info. I think the roms for this are more difficult to find than marble madness II.

  22. Posted

    hey that's pretty cool. I used to use my 2600 as a pull-toy by using the rf cable. I don't know how many times I had to replace the cable. I even put wheels on it like a pull-luggage thingy.. And my baby sister would always ride on it. Still have that sixer to this day. A testamount to how well they were put together!!

  25. Posted

    My gramma made a big stink of laser blast since she was totally amazed that it was a cartridge by another company other than atari. Should we try it? Should we not try it? She was so serious, there was a huge discussion if we should get it or not, and if it was any good; as if to say if it was bad then things at home would get bad.. Ohh my!! I mean a huge HUGE discussion entailed for like 2 days! OMG!

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