WildBillTX

Heres the url for the story: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/a...tari_reissues_8

Breakpack's hack reminded me of the monsters in the Atarisoft Commodore 64 version (I dont remember what the 5200 version looked like, never owned one) and the 2600 version of Ms Pac Man. The new "Gulp" reminded me of the missle firing on "Megamania". How about taking the same sound effect Pac makes when he swallows a fruit and speeing it up?

I like the older counter font better - the new one looks OK on my 17' PC monitor but might be hard to read on a TV. Idea: I was messing around with the "Hack-Em(Fast!).bin" that you posted last week. How about making the fire button work also as a "turbo" speed-up button for Pac-Man? This could become the biggest selling AtariAge cart ever!

What is their reasoning for that? Maybe thats the reason why PespiCo created thier new Mountain Dew "pitch blacK" drink.

That happened to me in one of your earlier builds (about 3 from the last one you posted). The monster was blue at the time, and I was able to eat it, so l dont know which one.

It's better at fast mode since your updated roms yesterday - I only had one blue monster pass through. Anyone playing this on a Supercharger? I also played the original Pac-Man on Mame and noticed there's about a half second delay before the dying sound and death animation after Pac collides with a monster. Too late/complex or not enough space to work that in?

This may be off topic and im not a programmer so pardon me... Can someone reprogram an Supercharger game so it can be burned and played off a 8K or 16K EPROM chip instead?

Damn! I never knew a 2600 game could play that fast. What are the speed adjustments?

YES! thats what I wanted! Thanks. The point values look and work great. There's also a point value for the fruit too.

One thing I noticed about this game is that Pac-Man (Hack-Man?) doesnt pause when he swallows a monster as on the original arcade version. Could adding a quick pause help with the collision detection?

Now I want a banana!

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I would love to see it - but knowing that Coleco didnt make great 2600 carts I have my doubts its any good. BTW can the robots in the Atari 2600 version be hacked to shoot horizontally?

Some are fun - most I have found are horrible - people who thought they could sing. Go to http://www.ubu.com/outsiders/365/01-2.html and download Mark Savage - Do You Think I'm Sexy. Its from some high school talent show album and its a riot. And theres no way a CD can replicate the cover art, liner notes and some put in a booklet or poster. Im also a fan of 70's/80's Power Pop, Punk and New Wave and many great and hard to find albums from those genres have never been reissued on CD.

I got a monster stuck inside the wall of the tunnel - it was the red one and it tried to chase me anyway! Also it feels like the joystick response isnt that tight. Trying to make "Hairpin Curves" in the no maze mode is damn near impossible. Then again im playing this on X26 using a Microsoft gamepad.

Im seeing a lot more old 90's computer gear tossed out more than video games now. And again they are overpriced! I collect records too and the late 80's-early 90's were a blast for collecting. People were buying CD's and getting rid of thier record collections. I remember going to one store where they had 25+ boxes of nothing but 70's rock/jazz/country LP's. Truckloads of cheap cassettes too. Now everyone has CD's and you're lucky to find anything rare.

It happened to most ofl the Goodwill stores here in Texas - they all went corporate. They stopped renting space in old supermarkets and strip malls in the older/seedier parts of town. They bought land near the newer (white) shopping areas and built new stores - and jacked up the prices on everything.

I almost forgot that - wasnt the 2600 still very popular overseas back then?

Me too - epecially when stores blew them out in the late 80's and early 90's. I paid 30 dollars for a new 2600 jr and many carts were a buck each.

"gimmie soda...."

31: Hollow the inside out and use them as covers for your cassettes 32: Mini Bong!

I wonder about the company that makes it: Dactar (Milmar). I'm guessing it's some kind of (Tiawan? Spain?) bootleg knock-off.

I dont recalll Atari ever gaving the 2600 jr or the 7800 a strong promotional push. Nintendo was all over the TV and print media promoting the NES while Atari just stuck the consoles on the shelf. I guess Atari thought people would come and buy them again on thier famous brand name alone. Great products - lousy promotion.

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