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  1. Posted · Edited by mumbai
    concision

    23 minutes ago, Ikrananka said:

    As far as I'm aware there are only two different fonts used in the spreadsheet, Arial for column headings and some text on the Introduction tab, with the rest using Courier New.  Do you have any examples where you're seeing other fonts used?

    The reported fonts in use: Calibri, Arial, Courier New, Helvetica, Helvetica Neue, Verdana, and Wingdings.

     

    How each is employed would require more detailed analysis. It may be that it's trivial cases whitespace or singleton characters. Not sure if you're asking me to seek out where the other five typefaces are placed?

     

    23 minutes ago, Ikrananka said:

    Here's a PDF of the "US 82-85" sheet as requested.  What do you see differently?

    At a glance, the checkboxes in footnotes 10 and 12. I'd have to look at all the sheets for quirks to note other missing or replaced glyphs.

     

  2. Posted · Edited by mumbai

    Within the "Telegames 86-13" sheet, the following "generic" white-label releases known to me are absent:

     

    + Gorf

    + Pepper II

     

    I suppose "86-13" in this sheet title is meant to convey the date range "1986 - 2013". Perhaps consider using less cryptic four-digit year representations? I also guess that abbreviating years was meant to shorten sheet titles for tabbed display. Given the sheer number of sheets, I imagine they don't simultaneously fit on-screen in a typical use case as it stands.

     

    Side question: for comments, edits, etc. is the preferred style one suggested changeset per post, or would you rather things be gathered into single posts even if they happen to straddle sheets, topics, issues ... ? 

  3. Posted

    One small nit (prompted by opening via Numbers): is there a reason seven different typefaces are used within the spreadsheet?

     

    It's a very, very small thing, but... leaving the fonts untouched as employed, I see, for example, 'w's and 'q's that I guess are non-alphanumeric glyphs (that display without issue on the originating system)?

     

    Is it possible to export as PDF one sample sheet (say, "US 82-85") to clue one (ok, me) to the intended display of information?

  5. Posted

    5 minutes ago, opcode said:

    Hi. No, it uses the standard controller. SAC are scarce and too unreliable. I had a pair out of box and they didn’t work well, so I didn’t think it is worth the effort to support it.

     

    Care to share the controller layout, then, or will it be as with Front Line SCE?

  6. Posted

    15 minutes ago, youki said:

    On your video game cartridge you have a software (the game),  You own the Cartridge but not the game.  you have just a license to use the game.

    I don't have a horse of any color in this, but this statement vastly oversimplified matters. It is an interesting interpretation of how first sale doctrine present in many regions might apply (or not) by treating the physical mechanism of a solid state cartridge as nothing more than an access dongle, but to my knowledge, one that doesn't fit existing precedent in such a broad manner absent quite a few other pre-conditions.

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  8. Posted

    25 minutes ago, tanuki said:

    I've just checked paypal and I can't find any transaction on september 1. We didn't manually return any payment. Do you have any transaction number that could help us to track it on paypal please ?

     

    PM sent with requested details.

     

    I believe I misexplained what little information I received from PayPal with the refund. It was not manually returned. Payment was not manually approved within the 30-day window, and was thus returned (by PayPal) for lack of action from Cote Gamers' recipient account.

  9. Posted · Edited by mumbai

    On 8/31/2019 at 4:35 AM, Dutch Colecovision Fan said:

    Hello CôteGamers, do you have any idea when the game is going to be shipped? If there is a delay please let us know. 

     

    Same question, different spin: my payment from August 1 for a pre-ordered copy was refunded September 1 with no reason given and no response to a direct inquiry placed through the website. I was under the impression at time of payment that the game was ready to ship.

  11. Posted

    Without keypad functionality, unless hot-swapping controllers or using something like a Champ Adaptor, how to select numeric difficulty level / # of players to progress to actual gameplay (as with the bulk of 80s-era games), though?

     

    The "most games" work and "I chose a configuration that I found to be very common" seem potentially problematic ... curious as to whether that means the start button is mapped to enter a sequence that selects (only) one-player, difficulty-one. That the seller/maker cannot be bothered to list out crucial details is unfathomable.

  12. Posted

    My understanding is that some "SGM" games are playable on the ADAM in cases where the only thing required is the additional memory space afforded by the SGM, though that recollection could be faulty and even if correct, I'm not certain anyone has compiled a list of such games playable on an ADAM without use of the SGM.

     

    (Did the email messenger for the forums auto-translate from Italian? Neat.)

  15. Posted

    49 minutes ago, Milli Vee said:

    In simplest terms [...] instead of uploading software to facebook (and here) [...] the archive should be used.

    No, I got that. The point I don't think I made clear is that opening with (and reiterating) "am I wasting my time here?" signals something else entirely.

  16. Posted

    1 hour ago, Milli Vee said:

    [T]he relevant parts about "here" etc is for facebook but it also would be of interest to those here[.]

     

    As for uploading to the archive - it is just that, an archive - if Adam users have software they have written - upload it[.]

    I see. If its purpose is to serve as an archive, is the question whether it's not needed given the lack of direct submissions?

     

     

    What I'm trying to wrap my mind around is the basis for your sense it might be a waste of your time/resources/whatever. Is there a target submission or usage rate that you feel warrants continuing with the site? Or is this a gentle reminder that the site as such exists? :)

     

     

  17. Posted

     

    (Don't traffic on Facebook, so this is news to me...)

     

    I guess I don't understand the question w/r/t time-wasting at first glance. I had taken the primary purpose of the site as making ADAM software accessible to others. Granted, I haven't plumbed the depths of what's there now, but is it possible there are few contributions made thus far because the bulk of it is already available there?

     

    It's also unclear to me where the "here" is that people put things on rather than post them to adamarchive.org ... Facebook? AtariAge? Elsewhere? I assume you're scooping those materials up and placing them on your site manually (maybe not), so I don't know whether the problem is lack of input or lack of interest on the part of others to cross-post to your site without your direct intervention.

     

    Or am I missing some larger issue?

     

  19. Posted · Edited by mumbai
    words!

    18 minutes ago, Albert said:

    A dump of the email would help. At first I thought you were talking about plaintext emails.  You can send it to me via PM if you'd like (stick it in a code block so it doesn't get parsed at all).  I am able to click links in emails without any problems, and the ampersands aren't showing up as "&" as you described above.  What mail app are you using?

     

    Is this the "Go to this post" link in the notification email that's malformed?

    It is the "Go to this post" link in the Text/PLAIN message part.

     

    AFAIK, there's no way to receive "just" plaintext email now for notifications as with the prior version of the forum software ... or at least I can't seem to locate a configurable option to enable such. I posted an issue ticket in another forum here about that. Notifications are sent multipart text+HTML now.

     

    I typically use (AL)PINE, and when unavailable, any other agent configured to prioritize the text body over the HTML, where possible. The issue doesn't stem from choice of email reader, though. I'll PM you a complete example email.

  20. Posted

    2 minutes ago, Albert said:

    Yeah, that most certainly looks like a bug.  Can you take a screenshot of the email you received so I can pass that along to Invision?

     

    Not sure what to screenshot here; it's every following message I receive that exhibits this behavior when the update notice points to a particular comment within a thread rather than an entirely new thread (i.e., this is easily reproduced).

     

    I could screenshot the plaintext multipart-MIME message body, but it's not going to show much other than the malformed URL given my choice of MUA. But I can send that if you think it'd help (or I could send a dump of the entire email as received?).

     

  21. Posted · Edited by mumbai
    capitalization!

     

    There's a small issue with links generated for the text part of emailed notifications for followed threads.

     

    It seems that ampersands are escaped as HTML entities within URLs ... actual example from followed thread mailed to me today:

     

    https://atariage.com/forums/topic/293304-colecovision-hover-bovver/?do=findComment&comment=4309876

     

    Following the link generates 'Error Code: 2S136/C'.

     

    Unescaping the URL manually like so produces an address deemed valid by the forum backend:

     

    https://atariage.com/forums/topic/293304-colecovision-hover-bovver/?do=findComment&comment=4309876

     

    Now, I'm not sure if the problem is that the URL is being escaped for mailings or that the forum software doesn't unescape them when requested. The former, I suppose, as there's no need to replace ampersands with the corresponding HTML entity for plaintext MIME message bodies.

  22. Posted

    5 minutes ago, hoserama99 said:

    Which brings me to eBay seller "jowrober". He's got a number of old carts up for auction now that are using the repro labels, but he doesn't appear to be aware of that (he said they were bought in an estate sale lot), and they're not mentioned as such in the auction.

    This seller is fully aware of what he's offering; the "estate sale" explanation is a ruse (I've received that same reply). It doesn't fit with his labels that take liberties with the originals ... and he's recycled several cartridges purchased from me in this way for resale on eBay, so... caveat emptor, indeed.

     

    Knowingly misleading the uninformed is good for the bottom line, I guess, which appears to be the most important thing here.

     

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  23. Posted

    9 minutes ago, Mike Harris said:

    Looking for a decent priced ADAM Disk drive to recover my 80's work to use with my VDD.

     

    [...]

     

    Does anyone out there have a working drive for sale at a reasonable price.

     

    Perhaps post in the "Wanted" forum rather than this thread to improve your odds of a favorable response?

  24. Posted

    9 minutes ago, nanochess said:

    Didn't knew, but glad it came from you. When I started my loose cartridge collection, it was almost completely bought from you :)

    The one pictured just left my possession this past February; it seems to have taken the long way to Mexico through Canada.

     

    9 minutes ago, nanochess said:

    I had alerts all these years. Although maybe I lost the chance because all times my address was set to Mexico 😅

    No idea here, but I can assure you more than a handful of different specimens have turned up on eBay, CIB or NIB, over the past three years.

     

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