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I'd be up for it. I'm in Grand Rapids.

Amazing work. Always thought a big boss monster at the end would be cool to rescue the last miner. Thanks for your work. Looking forward to seeing it progress.

I purchased an XM and DK XM many years ago. Obviously, I have the DK XM Cart in hand, but no XM. With Curt's tragic passing, I no longer expect the XM. I've been paying less attention to what's happened since his passing, so I was wondering what solutions might exist to play DK XM with full sound. Is there an "adapter" cart or "heir to XM" or something similar? Or, am I best off just finding DK PK once Hokey is out? Or, just buy a Hokey equipped Concerto and get/buy the ROM? Who knows? Maybe someday collectors will seek out original DK XM carts for their odd place in Atari collecting history.

Not familiar with Star Island, but this looks very repetitive. Is Star Castle the same?

Would it be possible to create a simple splitter that allowed continued access to the stock FB9 controller's on-stick buttons while using a "real" joystick or a Retron pad or something similar?

The 2018 version is on sale at Meijer stores for $9.99. I'll stocking stuffer it for "my kids" and update the firmware. Is there a complete list of known working arcade games that can be loaded from SD once firmware is updated? (BTW: Meijer also has the little AtGames Blast HDMI plug-in controllers for $4.99. They only had the Space Invaders and Pac-Man versions at the location I went to in Michigan. Anyone done anything interesting with these? They're all NES on a chip, right?)

Wal-Mart has this on sale today for $399. I got free shipping, too. Could not resist.

Side note: Does anyone think the opening scene from The Last Jedi must have been inspired by this game? They even call it a Dreadnaught! Would be fun to see a Dreadnaught Factor 2 that uses the 2-ship fighter/bomber model... or that combined a Star Raiders-like combat/fighter stage followed by the bomber stage at the Dreadnaught.

In a word: Remarkable! Received mine a few days ago. Cool packaging. Amazing graphics and sound. Fun gameplay (those "dark" caverns are frustrating). I highly recommend a gamepad. I'm using a converted NES pad that I bought here from an AtariAge user and it makes the game play really nicely (sorta like an NES platformer, TBH). Congratulations on making something so unexpected in terms of hardware and graphics and so fun in terms of gameplay.

My AtariMax seems to not be working, but I get the title screen and then the street with the music on Atari800MacX. Unable to get it to do anything beyond that at this point, but looks promising!

Cool. I'd be down.

My son printed one of these in his school lab for me for Christmas. It makes Robotron sooooo much better to play. Highly encourage everyone to get one of these. The prolines are pretty good for this game.

Seems like making C "start" could cause problems. Are you able to map start and reset to the select/pause buttons and make C Pause instead? Start will reset some games as I recall. I know that's weird, but might help avoid losing everything in some games through inadvertent restart.

Has anyone ever seen a PlayPak Mac-based arcade system? I've been fascinated by them since they were announced in the 90s, even though I know they are just a Mac inside an arcade cabinet. The game Battle-Girl was a 90s take on Robotron with some cool elements. This is a link to the defunct (I think) company page: https://web.archive.org/web/19980131182035/http://www.negs.net:80/Pages/Battlegirl.html Arcade Museum shows PlayPak's conversion of The Untouchable, but no one seems to have one: http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=10269

This. I hope that before too long someone who knew Ken and has technical skills to carry this out will compassionately reach out to his family and offer to properly archive Ken's work, perhaps even enabling the completion of any work he might have had in progress. It's a legacy worth preserving.

What a huge difference the NES-converted gamepad makes for Crystal Quest. tried it with the stock stick and it was almost unplayable. With the gamepad, it's a fast, fun platformer. Panky Panda I didn't try with the stock stick, but it also works great with the NES gamepad and is arguably one of the best games of its kind on the 2600.

Just went to load my Ultimate SD up and it won't load! No LED, scrambled opening Atari logo. Other carts work fine. Any easy suggestions for reviving it? I tried pulling the SD card out and reinserting it. It had been working up until two weeks ago -- played some GTIA/Atari Blast on it.

Looking for both at this point. Let me know what you have.

The drive cleaning kit seemed to help. The internal drive now seems to work most of the time. I've just purchased the ADPpro setup from RetroFloppy and will give that a go. Thanks again.

Wow. This is truly amazing. I can't believe how much is going on in this game. Well done! Are there ways to use some of the code you developed for this in other types of games, such as a vertical driving game or a side-scrolling/vertical scrolling adventure? Thank you for doing this. I can only imagine the reaction of kids if they saw this back in the 80s. My 14 year old was even impressed and confused with everything going on at the same time. Frenetic, but fun.

Well, those "basement" disks were instructive. The external drive managed to read and load Bank Street Writer, which appears to be functioning normally. The internal drive showed signs of life, but then errored out to an asterisk on some disks, while others just say "Check Disc Drive" or "Unable to Load ProDos" I bought a cleaning kit on ebay and will try that process. In the meantime, if anyone has known good IIc disk utility disks they'd like to sell (I'd rather buy here than off eBay), please message me. Thanks. Once I get a chance I'll spend a bit more time getting ADTPro configured and buy the necessary cables.

Thank you, all. I'm in Grand Rapids, Michigan (for those who asked). I'm expecting a few more disks this week from a friend who found a few in his basement. I'll keep everyone informed about how things work out. I bought this because my son is a big Apple fan (he's going as Steve Jobs for Halloween) and he wanted to know what it's like to use an Apple II (I had a Franklin Ace 1200 as a kid). I've taught him a few Basic tricks from the CNRTL-Reset prompt (some counting and "print" functions) and that seemed to get him excited to do more. I bought some IBM formatted DSDD 5.25 floppies, but can't reformat them without some software. Figured a DOS disc would be a good place to start, but not so much. Any other beginners advice appreciated.

Bought an Apple IIc in good shape. Bought an Apple Diskware DOS 3.3 System Master off ebay. Upon boot it says "check disk" and then nothing. Inserting into an external drive and doing a PR#7 results in a quick read of the DOS disc and then the internal disc making the dying whale (no disk) sound. This is the only disk I have for the machine. Is there likely something wrong with the drive, the disk or am I missing something (like is DOS 3.3 not compatible?)

So the game is done, scoring and collision detection now work? Wow! This is amazing. I'm going to give this a try when I get home. Would be great to see a video of the final working version with scoring and other functions working properly. Nice job. From the demo you could tell this was both a technical challenge and a labor of love.

Rite Aid has both the regular and portable AtGames Genesis consoles for $15 as part of its holiday toy clearance. Both the console and the portable. I picked up one today at a Rite Aid in Grand Rapids, Mich.