Bruce Tomlin

It would probably be difficult to do light guns on MAME because they depend on the timing of the monitor beam. A VGA monitor won't be scanning at the same frame rate, and the emulator won't likely be executing cycles in real time anyhow. A light gun could still be emulated for mouse clicks, though.

I have a CD with upside-down label art. Oh, wait a minute, I just turned it around. Never mind.

Maybe a bad address line somewhere? Hopefully it wasn't damaged when it was (ahem) opened. Actually, even that wouldn't be much of a problem. The real problem would be if somehow one of the address lines on the chip itself was damaged, either due to static or some other problem. If I had a copy of the dump, I could probably figure out which address line you would need to check with an ohmmeter. Hopefully you won't have to go to the trouble of having the chip desoldered to read it. The good news is that this isn't a symptom of bit rot.

Nope. I was using the adaptor.

I had one from back in the day, but early last year I found one (with otherwise empty box) for $13. Of course I bought it. Anyhow, sound works fine for me. Speaker is under your left thumb, volume control is below that on the bottom left.

Why not both? Or an N64 and a Dreamcast with an NES emulator self-boot disc?

http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/ Works on Windows, Linux, and OS X. In fact, I'm running my tracker and seed client on OS X.

Auto RF switchboxes aren't triggered by a "signal". They have five volts applied to the output, added after a capacitor from the RF modulator (for DC blocking). The RF is simply mixed into the wire on top of the DC power. Which is why you shouldn't use an old manual switch with a modern system.

Jakks Pac-Man scans (color, 150 dpi, jpegged) jakks_pac.zip

Be warned that most of these are incompatible with the CoCo 3, due to bus conflicts from a sloppily programmed PAL chip in the MMPI. There are people who sell a replacement chip which is compatible. I have read an old chip (thanks to buying an old PAL programmer from ebay) and posted the results on comp.sys.tandy, so it should be possible for someone with the right know-how to make their own.

Okay, guys, I think my BT tracker should work now. Here's the torrent link: http://fanboy.net/bt/AtariRoadshow.torrent I've got it seeding at 10K right now and will try to keep it at that all weekend, after which I'll probably drop it to 2K or so.

All right you wierdos, OUT of my pool!

Did you actually try running the OS X version as uploaded? By making a regular zip file of it, any unix flags (like execute) disappear, and if it's Carbon (which I think it may be), the resource fork will disappear too. If I give it a "chmod +x", I still can't get it to do anything.

If it's "missing", where does it go? He has a picture of the wire wrap board, and it's two ROM chips, a RAM chip, and a TTL chip. No sign of any room for a Pokey. Although I have been thinking of the possibility that there may have been a different dev board with a Pokey (since I've heard most 7800 development was done with RAM carts and/or EPROM emulation), why wouldn't this one have it?

What "current download dev OS"? I'm referring to my own dumper code which I wrote myself over five years ago, and which you will find the source to if you follow the link.

Did you get my e-mail? I sent you a link to the file on my web server, but it doesn't look like you've accessed it yet.

Oh, and for what it's worth, if Albert ever needs a cart dumped, he can call me up any time.

Not too hard. http://xi6.com/hacks/7800dump.html Mostly it involves 1) converting the 7800 to take an EPROM, 2) building a serial cable for the joystick port, using a MAX232 chip, and 3) adding a resistor pack to force the bus float to help identify dead address space. A few warnings, though. First, the Cuttle Cart 2 doesn't seem to like that resistor pack I added to force bus float. So don't do this on your only system. Second, some of the dumper code doesn't work right. In particular, I know I never got Activision FE bank switching working, and I'm almost certain (from looking at dumps that I had made in the past) that the code to dump Parker Brothers bankswitching is broken.

If it's built like the schematics, it doesn't have a ROM, so you have to flip a switch to select 2600 vs 7800 mode. Either way, it's still a "parasite" module, just using the base for power in and A/V out.

It's gotta go somewhere. Sounds good to me.

Just so people know, I finished the transcription of the panel Monday night, after a marathon session in which I finished the last 45% all at once. Curt has it right now to give it the necessary "guy who was there" editing.

Frogger is the most prized of all commons. Because it's a good game.

Either of the above methods really depend on the quality of the cable you use. I used option #2 before finally going with option #3. 3. S-video mod. Especially with an S-video male to dual RCA male cable (which Fry's sells for five bucks), connected to a Commodore monitor. Done properly, this will not affect the RF output, so you can have dual screens for showing your 7800 off to a group.

Only with a 7800. Cartridge audio is supported by the 7800.

Holy postage stamp, Batman! What's funny is that as the camera panned sideways in a long shot, I actually craned my neck following that label with the funny plus-shape on it, just because it wasn't familiar! Oh yeah, five bucks each. Riiiiiight. Pac-Man might be worth half that new in an unopened box. A hundred each for a console? Maybe with original box and instructions in good condition.