carmel_andrews

Any chance of doing 'Underwurlde' XXL (since you do seem to do a decent speccy to A8 conversion ratio)

My thinking was that Atari and the FBI as well as US authorities struck some sort of deal around the same time JT was instigating these shenanaghans (after all it was in JT and Atari's interests to), the deal was that the FBI and US authorities wouldn't reveal Atari's involvement (i.e. some sort of imdemnity from prosecution) in exchange for some help in catching people that were 'dirty dealing', so to speak (or some sort of cash payment, like handing over any profits Atari made from the Dram sale)

I found out that most of these FOI requests come from researchers and Journalist types anyway, so the chances of a member of joe public wanting to put in for an FOI is very remote Or is it that these researchers and jounalists work for (or are producing work for) those organisations that can afford to pay the request fee

Sinclair was the UK version of ATARI, think about it, most of the UK games publishers started off the back of sinclairs products, from the single board systems designed by Chris Curry (actually based on a 6502 and not a Z80) to the likes of the ZX series and not forgetting that their engineers would go on to start up sinclairs competition (like Chris Curry, who co founded Acorn, Like the people behind the Jupiter Ace...forgot their names, like Miles Gordon who designed the sam coupe and of course the designers of the nintendo SFX chip, the KMS as well as the Atari panther and Jaguar...All got their start in the business via Sinclair Research/Science of Cambridge/Sinclair Radionics) Another interesting facto about Sinclair is that Sinclair Radionics and Science of Cambridge were partly Government owned or funded...So perhaps theoretically the government had a hand in starting most of the UK games publishers we remember (since, without Sinclairs success you probably would'nt have heard of most of those publishers or that they wouldn't have existed)

Linky only http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/03/charted_1983_home_computer_sales_in_uk/ Interesting that the Speccy pipped the c64 to top spot on some occasions and also the BBC series did as well Atari didn't do too badly 7th spot with the 400 I wonder if similar data is available for the later years

At least when i went to the computer shows (esp. Atari shows) i didn't get asked 'Youre into Atari, right' Atari is the beez knees.....everything else is just ZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzz (Enough said)

To asking a question about the bios that comes with the emu. Which OS revision is it largely or loosely based on, pre XL, XL or XE And how close (from an emulation PoV) is the bios to the OS revision it is based on (percentage wise) Lastly is there a section within the manual that refers to making MaxFlash images with Altirra, as well as images that can be used with these other i/o devices that are emulated (i.e Myide etc) and what kind of data can be put on these images (i.e atr/xfd/xex/atx etc etc)

Not neccessarily, the particular law enforcement agency or government department could ask the person wanting this/that information (i.e the FoI request) to show any research or documentation to backing up their FoI request (i.e. any work or articles they have done/written themselves) or even better they would have to get their request sponsored by that law enfocement agency or government department (this in itself should ileviate the majority of bogus FoI requests) Perhaps i should have said so in the first place (whoopsie daisy)

Crumbs, you mean you have to pay for it....whats the point (perhaps some of that stuff/info might be released under that countries 30/50 year rule There again i guess that's how many universities in the UK got to find out about Tommy flowers work on the collosus (via the 30 year rule),since the UK only recently initiated an FoI act/law

Crumbs, you mean you have to pay for it....whats the point (perhaps some of that stuff/info might be released under that countries 30/50 year ruleThere again i guess that's how many universities in the UK got to find out about Tommy flowers work on the collosus (via the 30 year rule),since the UK only recently initiated an FoI act/law

isn't the famous 'star raiders' loosely or largely based on 'star trek' And also any game that follows the star raiders theme (like elite from acornsoft/firebird)

or it might have been the fault of the distributors (according to some article i saw in databases 'atari user' magazine, in their atari world/red rat feature) that the A8 wasn't getting that mucho support (i.e the distributors weren't prepared to take on particular formats from the software houses, like the A8)

I think Atari's stronghold were in the north (i.e anything north of the watford gap), it's a shame however that that didn't lead to more software support (since the el biggo s/w houses were either midlands of based up north) i.e. USG, Gremlin, Ocean, Elite and co, with very few down south (like Mastertronic, virgin, hewson, activision, EA etc) Perhaps Atari themselves should have done more to get more 3rd party software support (but i'm guessing that by the time that JT and his cronies took over at Atari the game was up, even if the ST and compatibles did get better support then the A8)

So, Can anyone just send a FoI request to any US law enforcement agencies

Linkies only.... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/18/prince_of_persia_source_code/ http://jordanmechner.com/blog/2012/04/textfiles/ Old news i know, first i've come across it Unfortunately i have'nt actually come across the actual code Now, if only Mr Mechner code do the same with the A8 version of 'Karateka' Interesting thing is that Jordan used is brother David as the model for the main character in Prince of Persia

I guess you lived near medway then, I was more on the coast (margate, but next door in cliftonvile) have'nt been back there since i left in 1981 (apart from a day trip 7 years later) Wasn't sillica around when you were based in kent (sidcup) that was the best branch to go to, since they had EVERYTHING atari related, it was more likened to an alladins cave I did go to some of the commodore shows (as my older brother was into the system) but only the ones held at novotel in hammersmith (funnily enough in the next road Atari's present london offices are at)

Nice Atari 8bit cart you have there Mr Williamson (in the box marked Apples, ironically)

C&VG and Atari User

Shame we didn't see you in Sillica then TMR (when they started selling/stocking C64's, which was after they moved out of Lion House), there again Apart from hamleys, The games Centre, Virgin, Sillica, Pilot/Laskeys and Dillons (now waterstones blahhhhh) I don't think there were anywhere else in london you could have bought Atari hardware or software....It was all commodore and sinclair etc

Actually i recall that someone was done (as in convicted) for 'shilling' on ebay's UK site a little while back (something to do with transgressing the sale of goods act or something), i guess that is commonplace on ebays other 'local market' sites (non UK ofcourse) here's a couple o' links to said case http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1267410/Ebay-seller-faces-fine-bidding-items-raise-prices.html http://tamebay.com/2010/04/ebay-seller-convicted-of-shill-bidding.html

Crikes, are B&C still going, I remember their ad's in old antic/analog mags...KUTGW (whoever runs B&C)

Interesting that Jon Dean also worked at Konix, is that the same Jon Dean that worked for Atari during the dark days of Warners ownership and then worked for one of those games publishers (i think it was either EA or activision as head of their UK business)

An alternative to Craigslist (since they don't seem to do much outside the US) is gumtree...not too sure if gumtree are mucho into retro gear though I prefer going to carbooters (car boot sales) you can get a good deal if your prepared to 'do a tramiel' and HAGGLE carbooters= somewhat similar to garage/yard sales and flea markets