danwinslow

Well, bidders prefer a low start price ( like 99 cents, etc. ) and they prefer no reserve. Another thing that can make a difference is the keyword list. Yours looks OK but you never know what people will filter on.

Any repeated visual motion if stared at for long times will produce this effect. The brain compensates for perceived continuous motion by 'hallucinating' an opposite movement to cancel it. This steadies the image in the visual field and improves perception. It persists for a small amount of time after the continuous motion is removed, so when you look away from the motion you can 'see' the opposite motion that your brain is generating.

The sound chips are controlled by software that writes to registers and memory locations that control the sound output. You can't drive the chips directly by hooking up power to the pins. If you are trying to capture the game sounds from a particular game, you will have to copy or else duplicate the programming code.

Yes, I've seen draco's project, but there is very little information in english, just kind of a high level description.

You need to learn to program these machines. You create sounds by programming registers that control the sound generation hardware.

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I don't get the entendre.

is page6.org down?

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I did Thanks.

No. I was talking about copying files back and forth between a PC filesystem and ATR's on the same filesystem.

Anyone have a utility that can import and export between PC file system and ATR disk images handy?

I can't get the 'hard disk' H: option to work...all I get is IO ERROR.

By SRAM I take it you mean Shared RAM...? Also...if I had a small SBC ( single board computer ) with some IO lines...A/D IO I guess, and some standard serial pinouts...could I connect the address decoder such that I could write back and forth to the pins on the SBC?

Well, why don't we just have you interview people that want to play, and if you approve of their devotion you can let them use a kiosk, where you can watch them play and monitor their behavior for any non-Xebec approved activity?

So....address decoding involves some kind of chip that has the cart lines on the front end and then decides how to 'route' the signals based on some condition?

Well, I'm not really thinking about ROMs. I am thinking about how in general you put interfacing devices onto a cart, such as the IDE interfaces or the USB interfaces. If some setup like that has a register at $D001, and I write to that addr from the atari, the cartidge chip would see it, correct? So the cart effectively just drops into an 8k space and you can hit it just like you would non-cart hardware or RAM.

Ok...so you plug in a cart. I take it that somewhere in memory the cart takes over a section of addressing, so that what was at say $D001 is now actually on the cart. So to interface with the cart you can just write and read from certain memory locations? How does a chip on the cart see the other way? If I write from the computer to an address mapped to the cartridge, does this value appear in a seperate address space in the cart or in a register or something?

jeebus!

I suggest you quit your job.

Well, I disagree. Just, you know, in general kinda.

I never said I liked the ST any better And the Amiga operating system was just a mess. Great idea, nice concept, but the execution was terrible. Very complicated and they didn't give it enough time to develop. It's too bad, otherwise was just a great computer.

Welcome. I tried Amigas for the same reason, but hated them due to their extreme unstability.

Hrmmm...sounds like the hardware equivalent to hard-coding stuff in a program. Well, that explains the lack of overclocked Atari 8bits.

Xebec - ok, thank you. Now I understand why you feel so strongly about AR. What I still don't get is why you feel that gives you the desire to control how other people should play. What it boils down to is that you are objecting to the lack of perma-death, not just for yourself, but FOR OTHERS too. Not only is it sort of egomaniacal of you, but it's impractical too. If people want to hack up the game such that its easier to play, well then they just will anyways, and actually already HAVE. In fact, I think I'll patch in Barney bitmaps just to annoy you! But seriously, I understand your objection to a beloved thing being changed...but you cannot prevent it, and shouldn't try. It is not your private territory, and never was.