Bruce Tomlin
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Nope, just a touch typist. If I were a stenographer, it would have been done already.
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I'm trying to transcribe this for those would rather read it. I've done about 15 minutes so far, out of 65:36. Maybe it'll be ready by the end of the week.
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Spy Hunter sucks without proper controllers, especially when you're running a conversion, like the NES version, which has no support for decent controllers at all. It's great in the original cabinet. I think the accellerator is supposed to be analog, and I'd like to play it that way on an emulator someday.
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Now I remember why I was playing the C64 version back in the mid '90s. It didn't have these bugs.
I don't know whether SID or POKEY makes better sound, so I'll leave that war to someone else.
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A few words about the encryption might have been nice, but basically it was great.
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I have never actually owned the game but, Looking at the cart scan for Bobby is going home it seems to have been made by one of those bootleg companies (Cooper Black? Quelle?)Cooper Black isn't a company, it's the font used for the game title on the label. Which this one is. (I could even have been the first to call them that, but I don't want to bother looking it up with Google now.)
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Well... I guess I can strike that off the list of things to check. All connections look to be solid.That's not good enough. A bad solder joint will look just fine except upon really close (magnifying glass) inspection, you may notice a circular crack around the pin. Just get in there and reflow all the solder joints for the plug connectors.
Those cold solder joints are as annoying as hell. I first learned about them when my old original Macintosh video would simply flip off. Beating on it would eventually bring it back. Eventually I noticed the ring crack on the pin for the video signal and figured out what was going on.
One time I found a broken Genesis 2 that was flaky as hell. Upon opening it up, I could see that half of the connector pins (power AND video AND joystick) had bad solder joints.
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that is why it is important that the device have a cartridge port and should have built in games like the bootleg nes padsHuh? The bootleg game units use Famicom slots. Not too many folks out there (in the USA, at least) with extra Famicom carts to put in them, or systems to put the Super Joy carts into.
So how many of you folks have noticed that Ken hasn't said anything else in this thread so far?
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RORG?
in Programming
Once you start using RORG, you have to use it with every ORG. So RORG $DF00 and RORG $FFFC are missing.Only if you're using this to make a bank switched ROM using RORG. And there's no need for one at $FFFC because there's no labels there.
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Atari never sucked, just some of the people in charge. Then again, without Ray Kassar's superb management style, we never would have had Activision.
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A few years back I was jammin' with the C-64 cartridge version of this. It's an extremely excellent game. The 800/5200 versions are supposed to be good too, but I don't think I'd want to play it with a regular 5200 stick.
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Hey, that's a great way to get rid of a few old commons! I do wonder what they're using for the hinge, though. I hope it's not just "glue down some felt and hope it doesn't wear out". That Imagic cart was probably a pain to hinge, whatever they did.
As for the screams of "they could be used in homebrews!", get real. There are plenty of commons out there (that's why we call 'em commons), and there's no way this can even make a slight dent in the supply. When AtariAge raises their bounty from 50 cents, then you can start worrying.
And those "rom chip dogtags" are just the edge connector sawed off of the PCB. (Who but a total nerd would tolerate the chip pins scratching up their neck?) Six bucks for those is a great way to make easy cash.
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It would be nice if it was CHROMA LUMA AUDIO R AUDIO L, but standard A/V would be ok.Ummmm... "CHROMA LUMA" is S-video. Only us crazy folks with old Commodore monitors have anything with separate chroma/luma jacks, so that's even less useful than an S-video port. And stereo output from a 2600 is way overrated.
As long as the board design has lots of tap points on it for mods, I'll be happy.
P.S. I just found out that Fry's has chroma/luma RCA-F to S-video-M cables for five bucks. I'd have preferred S-video-F, but this is still great, because now I can use more of my C= monitors without having to make more #@%!! S-video adaptor cables.
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I could go on but why bother? The robot masters would be bad enough in themselves, but then when you watch the animated sections between bosses and mini-stages it gets worse. Note to the localization team - don't get Japanese people to try and speak English unless they're FLUENT in it. Instead spend $100 to hire someone who ACTUALLY speaks English.Not good enough. Then they'll just pull some random gaijin in off the streets of Roppongi and you'll get voice acting like the mad scientist from the "wooden mecha" bit in the anime Robot Carnival. Not quite as bad as Japanese people pronouncing English badly, but not much better.
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...so I would expect it to be built like......like Jakk's has been making them.
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Not quite... they make playstation controllers cheap for like $5-10... and I made a atari pad easily out of those. the circuitry would be easy. plus its only grounding out the signal' date=' no special chips required. I say $5-10 max a pad.[/quote']Heck, just look at those Power Joy thingies at flea markets. Most of them are built into a controller, but still have a port for a separate controller for player 2. There is even a PSX version, which IIRC has two separate controllers.
What would be cool is if it were shaped like a miniature Woody (maybe with the slot in back for a cart in label-up orientation). Four or five inches wide, A/V cables sticking out of the rear right (like they should).
I doubt S-video is likely because supporting both S-video and composite would add unnecessary cost. And not everyone will have a TV with an S-video input available, so you can't make it _only_ S-video. It's probably easier to wire up a cable directly to a unit than to put in jacks and pack in a cable, so I would expect it to be built like
Even if a slot isn't in the budget, it would still be nice if whoever designs this thing at least leaves through-holes on the circuit board and holes for an internal ROM-disable jumper for folks who want to mess with it. (It would also make 2600 handhelds much easier to make than cutting up a real 2600.)
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And I was glad that someone else had gotten a program working to generate 7800 signatures, so I could take my time on it. The past five years or so, I haven't really been able to do much recreational programming (moving from San Antonio to Austin to get a job, then having to get another job, then buying a house and getting the rest of my crap slowly moved up the highway during weekend trips, all while my main hobby at the time was anime fandom), or I would have done this long ago.
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If it is the Pokey chip' date=' what does that mean. I will have to go through my Best Electronics catalog.[/quote']If it's the Pokey chip, that means five bucks plus shipping, but the bad one can probably still be used in a Cuttle Cart 2. (The Pokey chip does both the sound and some of reading the joysticks.)
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Have you tried more than one set of joysticks? Broken flex circuits (caused by opening the controllers without removing the start row bezel first) can cause fire buttons to not work. The other possiblity is one of the CMOS 4052 chips on the motherboard going bad, which requires desoldering work to replace.
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Actually, that's "sighting".
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I would, but I'm trying to give the 7800 some badly needed loving right now. And I don't think too many people would be interested my 2600-based touch-tone dialer. :-)
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So, is anyone going to re-port MESS to OS X any time soon? 0.70 is quite a few versions behind. (And I found a bug in the 7800 emulation of 0.70: in 320B mode, indirect with 2-byte characters shows up half as wide as it should be.)
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Some businesses have to pay taxes based on the value of what they have in stock at the end of the year. Sometimes it's cheaper to write off unsaleable stuff rather than have to pay taxes on it. This is why car dealers tend to have sales toward the end of December.
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I took a day off to go thrifting Monday, because I wanted to be in San Antonio that evening. Sunday I found a DC (no parts, just a Smash Pack disc inside it) for $13. I finally got to test it, and while it seems to be slow at reading CD-Rs (it took like a whole minute to boot a controller tester disc), it's otherwise in good shape.
Anyhow, I found lots of stuff Monday, lots of random cool stuff. Right away I found a Jakk's Namco for four bucks. Another big thing I found was a wastebasket full of K'nex for ten bucks, including a bunch of yellow glow-in-the-dark 8-inch sticks. I also found a Dreamcast keyboard for 2 bucks. Wow, only fifteen bucks for a TOTD costume! :-)
But the best find was probably a Zenith Space Commander 600 remote. One of the original "clicker" remotes, and at over 45 years old, an early technological antique.
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Vintage Computer Festival 7800 Talk
in Atari 7800
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For those interested in Crazy Otto information, here is what I've been able to find:
Video Games Magazine, Feb 1982
(it's on page 2, so use the second link)
http://www.gamearchive.com/General/Article...2-83DrVideo.htm
http://www.gamearchive.com/General/Article...-83DrVideo2.htm
And a screen shot from http://www.beercade.com/video/mspacman/mspacman.htm :