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  1. Posted

    I wonder if the business is fun book mentions how the engineers were cheated out of their bonuses. I'd never heard about that before.

     

     

     

     

     

    They were exactly 'cheated', warners were doing what the business world calls 'creative accounting' by basically writing off all development costs associated/attributed with the A8 (which ofcourse meant additional payments to employees) and the engineers took that as meaning they (atari) were reneging on promises or guarantees made

     

    Atari came off the worst though, so in effect a company trying to 'hide losses' like warners atari division did came back to haunt them big time

  3. Posted

    I think the problem is that Sony and M$$$$ are making the same big mistake Atari made (i.e. thinking that they 'know/Knew' the market they are active in (i.e videogaming)

     

    And like Atari discovered back then (with the 1983/4 crash) which they never quite recovered from and Sony and M$$$$ are discovering now....NO ONE KNOWS THE MARKET

     

    Sony and M$$$$ dropped the ball big time by being to restrictive on 3rd party software development on their respective platforms, i'll admit to a certain extent it is also affecting both Nintendo and also Apple

     

    After all, why do you think that andriod mobiles/tablets are gaining the upper hand in the mobile/tablet market, why do you think that mobiles and tablets are getting better support for games then the likes of the nintendo, sony or M$ platforms

     

    Simply because, Andriod platforms is open source, therefore anyone is free to develop programs and software for that platform, which in turn means you're not restricted in what type and kind of application you develop for android and also not restricted as to what sort and quality of content is developed or released on that platform

     

    The problem that sony and M$ have is that their restrictive policies on 3rd party software development are basically handicapping if not harming their platforms chances in the wider market, essentially what sony and ms are doing is no different to how Atari got their system supported before the crash of 1983, i.e. if you want to support our platform you have to pay us a percentage for each unit you sell that works on our platform

     

    That system simply doesn't work anymore, the internet/web has basically seen to that as has android and linux based systems, the software market (both games and non games) is fast moving to more 'homebrew' and independent developers/publishers and unless the likes of MS, Sony as well as Apple/Nintendo and their software supporters realise this and move with the times, not only will they get left behind, their platforms will be as relegated to the dustbin of gaming history as the likes of the Atari's and the commodores, and the Coleco's and the SEGAs of the world have

     

    Some points here

     

    A....given current economic situation, why would someone buy a desktop gaming system (new one, like a ps4 or xb720) for 2-400 pound, when they can get a almost free mobile phone or tablet pc just for signing up for regular monthly calls or data use and that that mobile phone or tablet pc can play essentially the same type and quality of game that you get on the desktop platforms

     

    B- again, given the current economic situation, why would someone want to buy a 30-40 pound 'AAA rated' game on a desktop platform when they can get that same quality or type of game (which similar hardware features) for a lot less on a mobile phone or tablet pc (or in some cases 'free')

     

    C- Why would a homebrewer or independent publisher/developer want to side with someone like MS, Apple, Nintendo, Sony etc and their restrictions on 3rd party software development and not forgetting...having to PAY to develop software for those platforms and also give those companies that manufacture those platforms a percentage of each unit of any game available on that platforms that is sold, when you don't have any of those restrictions with android, you pay nothing to whoever owns android and you keep all the money you make on selling your andriod compatible software

     

     

    Perhaps the likes of Sony, MS etc still think that they will still sell a zillion new ps4s or xb720's....perhaps the big boy publishers still think that their 'AAA' rated desktop gaming platform game(s) will sell in the same quantity as they have in the past

     

    Both absolutely wrong, why do you think the Wii U is selling so badly, the market is changing, the market is fast evolving and unless these big boy publishers and hardware makers adapt to the new market, they will die like the dinosaurs did

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  4. Posted

    I only mentioned the calculator mode since it would make things easier to calculate how many sectors you need to write to and/or from the disk (i.e. you just subtract the hi mem from lo mem and divide that by 128 or 256)

     

    If i recall the way omnimon did it (h himem - lo mem /128)

     

    Or even better with the sector write option, just tell the option to write xxx and yyy memory to disk without specifying how many sectors to actually write (since the option would automatically figure out how many sectors to write)

  6. Posted

    Is ultimon II nearly finished John or have you just started it

     

    Lasstly if your still doing it, could you add a calcultor mode (like the one built into omnimon)...or even a binary load option (i.e load dos exec. files without dos)

  8. Posted · Edited by carmel_andrews

    I am guessing Paul and John used to drop into sillica sometimes, I know that someone kept putting up his music files on the XE (it must have been one of them 2)

     

    As for computerhouse UK....good memories, used to go and see them fairly regularly towards the end (i.e. a walk from islington to fulham), the person that Started Gralin house and one of the original L.A.C.E members (not to be confused with Gralin international) worked for computerhouse as their inhouse hardware guy (i had quite a few chats with him at the various LACE group meetings)

     

    lastly if you're using ultimon on anything over 128k (emulator or pucka A8), i don't think it will work (I recall someone at LACE telling me that)

     

     

    the pdf and the ultimon files are separate files

  10. Posted

    It is somewhat sad though that a good number of 'amiga sites' seem to want to erase or airbrush Joe Decuir out of amiga history (since he was one of the first 'hires' by Jay, apparently employee no.3) and principle designer of the Agnus Chip

     

    It's somewhat like say, A8 or VCS users/owners saying that Joe had nothing to do with the A8 or VCS

     

    Perhaps amiga sites and users are somewhat more disrespectful or disingenous to someone that actually made a contribution to the original amiga design

  12. Posted

    ....About the Amiga

     

     

    Shame that both Atari and Later commodore essentially ballsed everything up....Atari for turning down Jay's original proposal back in 1979, Commodore for basically doing a cack job at positioning the Amiga properly as well as slowly absorbing what was Commodore Amiga Inc into commodore's existing coroporate structure and the same went for the Amiga technology (basically, commodore buying out Amiga for the very same reason's tramiel wanted amiga for, i.e. the technology and not the company...Only difference was commodore went about it backhanded like)

    amiga.doc

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  13. Posted

    Looking at the original link i referred to

     

    It looks like you need a 'heat retainer or conductor' applied to said ship in order to elicit the desired effect

     

    Since, merely applying additional heat to said chip won't do a jot, since as i understand it...a chip by it's own devices doesn't retain or conduct heat

     

    2 heat retainers/conductors i know of are, hair (as mentioned in the link on post one) and glass

     

    only thing is though, applying extra heat via this retainer/conductor and then tranferred or channeled back into said chip, won't that increase voltage levels on that chip (somewhat likened to how solar panels work)

  14. Posted

    Thanks for the filez John....Hows things going since you left the Atari scene (post computer support)

     

    lastly, isn't it true that one of the futureware programmers (of sidewinder fame) helped you design 'Ultimon', Paul Carr unless i am mistaken

  15. Posted

    I was going to stick this in the amiga post that dauber made, since it does sort of relate to amiga things

     

    I seem to remember that during the period between commodore going under and gateway turning the amiga into an OS only platform, that there was an attempt by whoever owned amiga at the time to expand amiga's technology or OS onto the mobile/portable devices market, probably as a competitor to Microsoft, apple and also Psion/Palm

     

    I am just curious or interested to know how well Amiga did in that market and how many mobile/portable devices the technology or OS was ported to, the only one i recall was something called Zaurus (or was it Taurus) and also whether they are still 'active' in that market (something along the lines of AROS based mobiles/portable devices perhaps)

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    Linky only

     

     

     

    http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?client=tmpg&depth=1&hl=pl&langpair=pl%7Cen&rurl=translate.google.com&u=http://atarionline.pl/forum/comments.php%3FDiscussionID%3D2251%26page%3D1&usg=ALkJrhi7BTxb2TzG6YfiuHpJQX8_N9tUGQ#Item_0

     

     

    soz for the translate thing since I don't speak the lingo

     

    Looks interesting, apparently a certain person here on AA was behind this new gfx mode (if you read the article/1st post)

     

    Seems to be a prob with the download though, keep getting this msg in polish (guessing that it's an error or something)

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  22. Posted

    Doesn't this also stop some forms of piracy, since you will only be able to play the game you purchased on the machine you first played the game on (i.e. you won't be able to play that game on any other sony system)

     

    I think this is some sort of software protection system preventing illegal copies flooding the marketplace

     

    The thing about not being able to use second hand games (or used games to you people) is a side benefit (to MS's games publishers/developers)

     

    I think this was a move by software devs/pubs against sony, the idea being that if sony didn't agree to this (i.e the online verification system) then their platform wouldn't be supported

     

    I think a similar system is already in place on tablet pc's and mobile phone apps (i.e. you can only download the content on the device your'e going to use the content on, again to prevent a used app market and also to stop piracy to some effect)

  23. Posted

    Doesn't this also stop some forms of piracy, since you will only be able to play the game you purchased on the machine you first played the game on (i.e. you won't be able to play that game on any other xbox system)

     

    I think this is some sort of software protection system preventing illegal copies flooding the marketplace

     

    The thing about not being able to use second hand games (or used games to you people) is a side benefit (to MS's games publishers/developers)

     

    I think this was a move by software devs/pubs against MS, the idea being that if MS didn't agree to this (i.e the online verification system) then their platform wouldn't be supported

     

    I think a similar system is already in place on tablet pc's and mobile phone apps (i.e. you can only download the content on the device your'e going to use the content on, again to prevent a used app market and also to stop piracy to some effect)

  24. Posted

    Some Atari jaguar memory cheats

     

    Atari Jaguar Cheats (thanks to the ‘Alpine’ option and the Pc Memory Finder ‘Artmoney’)

     

    ** all poke values are max

     

     

     

     

     

    Memory location (hex) Poke value (Hex)

     

    AvP

     

    Weapon1 ammo 2F215 2E

    Weapon2 ammo 2F225 FF

    Weapon3 ammo 2F235 55

    Weapon4 ammo 2F245 55

    Energy/health 30A6B E8

    Security Card 30AD0 F

     

     

     

    Cybermorph

     

    Weapon1 ammo 9AF9D FF

    Weapon2 ammo 9AF9F FF

    Weapon3 ammo 9AFA1 FF

    Weapon4 ammo 9AFA3 FF

    Weapon5 ammo 9AFA5 FF

    Smart enable 9AF98 9

    Smarts 9AF99 63

    Energy 9AF78 C

    Lives 9AFAA 63

    Speed 9AF8F FF (40 for stationary)

    Pods/Collect 84AD 00

    Pods/Remaining 84AB 00

     

    In Previous versions of emulator, (i.e. before 2013) don’t set smart enable permanently only set it when fully landed on each planet and unset it before you complete planet…Or the game will crash (prob. something to do with how the emulator is programmed)…Don’t ask me if it happens this way on a pucka (real) Jaguar and said game

     

    Also for pods collect/remaining, you will have to save some pods or you’ll keep getting ‘too many pods destroyed’ message

     

     

    Doom

     

     

    Health 4D9DB FF

    Armour 4D9DF FF

    Weapon 0 enable 4DA3F 1

    Weapon 1 enable 4DA23 1

    Weapon 2 enable 4DA27 1

    Weapon 3 enable 4DA2B 1

    Weapon 4 enable 4DA2F 1

    Weapon 5 enable 4DA33 1

    Weapon 6 enable 4DA37 1

    Weapon 7 enable 4DA3B 1

    Weapon select 4DA1B 0 to 7

    Weapon ammo 4DA43 FF

    Weapon ammo 4DA47 FF

    Weapon ammo 4DA4B FF

    Weapon ammo 4DA4F FF

    Blue key enable 4D9F7 1

    Yellow key enable 4D9FB 1

    Red key enable 4D9FF 1

    Blue skull enable 4DA01 1

    Yellow skull enable 4DA04 1

    Red skull enable 4DA08 1

    Blue shield 4D9E5 FF

    Blue shield 4D9E6 FF

    Blue shield 4D9E7 FF

    Rad shield 4D9EE FF

    Rad shield 4D9EF FF

     

    I don’t think you can set keys and skulls at the same time (so it’s a case of one or the other)

     

    I think the blue shield is invincibility (or it may be the rad shield, green)

     

     

    Trevor McFur i/t Crescent Galaxy

     

    Lives 1FFD2B 9

    Weapon 1 ammo 1FFAD1 9

    Weapon 2 ammo 1FFAD3 9

    Weapon 3 ammo 1FFAD5 9

    Weapon 4 ammo 1FFAD7 9

    Weapon 5 ammo 1FFAD9 9

    Weapon 6 ammo 1FFADB 9

    Weapon 7 ammo 1FFADD 9

    Weapon 8 ammo 1FFADF 9

    Weapon 9 ammo 1FFAE1 9

    Invincibility Shield 1FFD2D set to anything below 6A

    Shot strength 1FFD41 5

    Invincibility 1FEFC9 0 or 2

    Green shield 1FFAF7 FF

    Bomb type 1FFACD 0 to 2

    Weapon select 1FFACF 1 to 9

     

    For invincibility option w/o sprite corruption set weapon select to 7 and enable weapon and set invincibility to 0, setting invincibility to 2 affects the invincibility shield, setting invincibility to 2 gives sprite corruption

     

     

    lastly, I dunno which instructions refer to these memory locations (as above) or whether these locations aren't the 'real' ones and refer you to elsewhere, only way i guess we will find out is when a breakpoint option is added

     

    Additionally the games that shamus said won't work, i think he means in 'alpine mode'

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  25. Posted

    Actually, cybermorph and doom do work (at least on the windsucks version), was playing with them yesterday

     

    Am wondering if this 'alpine' option also features a memory editor, so i can find out where in PC mem the jaguar memory is emulated (using artmoney)

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