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I see a group of vultures circling high above atari's carcus, just waiting for one of the group to make the first strike....it's going to be messy and there probably won't be much of the carcus left

This has probably been asked but i'm going to ask it anyway Given that the original Pong unit was a demo only (according to the link i put up about Atari pong in the coin op section here) was the demo unit designned by Bushnell himself or Did Al(lan) Alcorn design it Just to point out i am only talking about the demo unit only not the actual coin op system http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/205895-happy-birthday-atari-pongataris-1st-commercial-success/ http://uk.news.yahoo.com/how-atari-s-pong-started-the-video-game-revolution-40-years-ago-165259921.html

CB....So is your A800 just an early production model or an Engineering prototype (i.e so that jay, Joe, Doug and Co can check that everything works as it should do)

Perhaps Sam Tramiel could buy out Atari (since he owns a VC company, built on his late fathers wealth) and the rise of the Tramiels will be complete (instead of a 'jack Attack', it'll be a 'Sam Attack')

Is that segaworld in the trocadero or the sega concession (which was also a segaworld) in hamleys, saw them both but didn't go in....just looked like another arcade The best Arcade in central London was on the corner of wardour street, old compton street and brewer street (it also had the distinction of being the cheapest arcade in london), at 10p a game where everyone else was charging either 50p or 1 pound Do you know if Segaworld also demo'd their games systems releases, like sonic, space harrier, outrun etc

linky only http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/01/21/atari-files-for-bankruptcy_n_2518778.html?utm_hp_ref=uk-tech?ncid=GEP http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/426143/20130121/atari-bankrupt-pong-infogrames-arcade.htm http://uk.news.yahoo.com/atari-files-bankruptcy-order-split-atari-eh-093918135.html About time too, now we can hopefully give Atari the viking burial that's long overdue After all you can only ressurect your back catalogue of retro format games so many times before people just get bored of them I think the problem was that Atari released too little original content and didn't innovate enough in the mobile/online market, namely that its competitors were coming out with better, more original content and better priced then Atari My guess is though, the die was cast once tramiel RM'd with JTS, since the only salvagable part of what merged with JTS was games software, which was the only aspect of Atari that survived Even if Atari come out of Administration (which is what bankruptcy protection is me thinks) Unless they can innovate in the mobile and online markets with their gaming content and start coming out with games that people want to buy, this whole buy out thing is going to be a waste of time (Unless ofcourse someone does what commodore USA did and buy the name to use on modern hardware formats) Lets see if Sony or M$$$$ blow a few million to bye out Atari just to put it out of it's misery

Same probalem with Hard drivin', some of those zipped files don't work on recent mame versions, thats' why i gave up using mame Perhaps there should be something like mame that works with any arcade machines dumped rom/chd zipped file (that doesn't break game compatibility with each revision of the emulator)

I've got the latest version (via emucr) but no support for NDS yet Also, you can't browse for emulator images (i.e snes/gb/gbc/a etc) in any other drive/partition other then C (i guess that is a bug)

In the next update to the emulator, is it not possible to include a feature within the monitor/debugger screen that closes it when you restart the emulation with GO PG from the monitor

I saw Bob Gleadow (top man at Atari UK) twice, once at the PCW show and once at the Atari organised Atari 90's show I also saw Les Player (former Technical Director at Atari UK) at the royal horticultural halls (victoria), think it might have been at an Atari computer fair The Yakmeister himself (Jeff Minter) at various Atari shows Les Ellingham (Founder/Publisher of Page six magazine) at 2 AMS shows in stafford (think i might have seen him also at a couple of London Atari fairs) The founders/programmers at Harlequin (Atari 8bit games publisher/developer) at one of the London Atari shows Noel Daniels....Used to work for Sillica shop (lead programmer behind A8 sidewinder and Thunderfox, one of the better uridium clones on the A8)

If your using a pc, get the windows version of Superpacker (which has exomizer built in) only thing is you need the MADS assembler program in order to use the superpacker (since you need to tell superpacker where the MADS executable is....for some reason) Superpacker packs all types of atari executables including xex's

Re: original VIC chip (not vicII), just after the Pet was launched, commodore got MOS to try flogging (selling) the VIC chip to competing hardware companies (see 'home computer wars' for referrence), apparently they weren't that successful at it, so commodore decided to get in on the act and the earliest vic chip based design were meant for Pet based systems The Vic 20 was merely an afterthought, when Peddle kept dragging his feet over the Pet based Vic chip systems, Peddle wanted a system to compete with Atari and Apple and tramiel wanted a low end system that cost less then the Atari, Tramiel won the argument and the pet was out of the picture so far as the vic chip was concerned Another interesting thing is, according to Joe Decuir, the CTIA was already finished (and ready for use) by the time the VCS was released

Hwo did they make the 5200 access 32k rom space, when the 5200 was basically a 400 minus a keyboard...or did the big A hack some extra rom decoding logic in the 5200 so you could access large rom space

Strange, i do remember some corner shops (i.e newsagents) selling computer games....don't remember seeing anything Atari though (only comm64, amstrad and sinclair) I only remember Mel C (or his column) when my commodore owning older brother (who actually started out with an A800xl) let me read some of his 'commodore porn' (i.e zapp, YC/CU and CDU)

10 quid for a magazine......who's it made by...news international/NMC etc (same people that do tatler/vogue etc) For that sort of money i'd want a ton a games some free emu's and at least 200 plus pages (plus an addendum with type in program listings)

I remember seeing the tv series kate and ali (i think it was shown on C4 in GB), in one episode i distinctly remember the son (think his name was chip or sommat like that) pulling an Atari 800 out from under his bed Also in chocky's children the main character in the series in the first episode is seen playing with his friends Atari 800 playing the game 'space invaders' at turbo speed If anyone remembers the 1980's series 'Magnum PI', in one episode when tom sellecks character is laid up in hospital, the kid in the same ward is playing the A8 version of defender on a 600xl it looks like and later in that episode, tom's character is seen using the 600xl to hack into some computer system using Atari brandard telecoms hardware

I didn't know that Mel C. programmed games, I though he was only a magazine columnist/freelace journalist type So, It wasn't the softie houses (as mclaneinc called them) that were 'anti atari 8bit' it was the el crappo distributors (who probably knew even less about that market then the likes of Atari did) Perhaps we should have waged a war against the distributors and sued them under UK consumer laws, like restraint of business, operating a cartel or anti competitve business practices (i.e UK or EU competition/monopoly laws)...Perhaps then they might have listened then The question is though, why were the software houses relying on the el crappo distributors to getting 'their product' into the stores/shops, why didn't the software houses just hire 'half decent' sales reps and sell directly to dealers/retailers etc, after all surely the software houses knew how to sell their own product (or am i missing something here)

Like they used to say in the programme 'The Pipkins'.....It's time for.....A decent competitor to Ebay....Anyone know how to design/develop a website....i've a few ideas in that direction Perhaps if ebay had a decent competitor or healthy competition, It might care a lot more about those that sell or buy from it's web service

I hope Atari rises from the Ashes of sony's demise (and that of M$$$$$) and starts kicking ar$e with a 2015 version of the VCS mark3 Perhaps Sony and MS are starting to make the same fuck-ups that Atari made way back when (i.e. thinking that they know this business backwards, perhaps since they are lead by HUMANS they don't underatand the idea of 'learning from the mistakes of others')