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    It has been awhile since I played this game but I remember liking it a lot. Challenging puzzle game, perhaps made extra challenging for lack of instructions. Maybe I'll pull it out tonight.

     

    Eric

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    Programming the Lynx is pretty easy for an experienced developer using the free tools. And there are EPROM carts you can use, although frankly it's much easier to develop with the emulator and only use the EPROM for late stage testing.

     

    I'm hoping someone else can point you to the Lynx programming stuff online since all my Lynx links are on my old computer, which my wife is using now. If someone else doesn't chime in PM me and I can just e-mail you the stuff I have, which I think is most of it.

     

    Eric

  8. Posted

    Godzilla,

    I think I have a copy of your Slime World maps also.  My scanner is on the blink so I will need to type both Bill & Ted's and the Slime World stuff back into a text file.  As soon as I get it done, I will post it here.  Unless maybe I can talk Eric Ruck into letting me fax them again and he can create another PDF file.

    Michael

     

    Bring it on...not like it takes a lot of time to rescan the fax into Acrobat and stick it on a website. The vidoe game stuff does skew the website usage report, but since I'm in charge of the website, well, I just think it's funny.

     

    Eric

  10. Posted

    Let me add "Solar Quest" to the favorite games list. I also like Super Cobra and Poll Position. Heck, most of the games are pretty playable. Also, for most you don't really need the overlays, although for some it looks nicer and other (Pinball) it's absolutely required.

     

    Also, I strongly recommend laying out for a multicart if you have the dollars. And if you're rich uncle just died and left you an inheritance, the 3d goggles are really cool, even though there's only 3 games that use them. (Hint -- the 3D games play in color, sort of).

     

    I have a ton of vectrex games for trade/sale.

     

    Eric

  13. Posted

    I use two things from Radio Shack...the required component is a Male (I think) "F" to coaxial converter ("F" is another name for RCA). I also have a 3 way coax switch box from Radio Shack that works really well with the weak signal coming from the 7800.

     

    Eric

  14. Posted

    No, that's just the biggest Atari ever made. From what I understand, you could go up to a 1 megabyte ROM using the standard Atari bankswitching method. I don't think you could really add much more RAM though, since you would need to map it somewhere and there's a limited amount of available addresses.

     

    Sure you could, you could build something like a DMA where you plug a starting address of any length into a register or series of registers, then read or write serially from a shifted data register. I believe that's how you read the ROM on a Lynx.

     

    Eric

  16. Posted

    I was wondering the same thing. I have a friend big into FPGA's...I wonder if it would be possible to use one FPGA or similar device to act as both the ROM for the game as well as the sound chip. I also wonder if it would be adequately economical.

     

    Eric

  17. Posted

    I remember back in the day when some study showed that removing copyright protections actually correlated to increased sales...I'm not sure how apropos this idea is to that concept, but I wonder of this would work:

     

    Try the trialware/shareware approach. Post for yourself an emulator friendly image with limited content that directs the player to your website after a few sample levels, features or whatever.

     

    I wonder if that would work. I figure people are basically lazy and would use the ROM image that you yourself release rather than bothering to capture their own. Or perhaps downloaders would find your sample image first.

     

    Just an idea. I have a vested interest since I'm working on a Lynx game in my meager free time.

     

    Eric

     

    PS: I don't suppose you'd consider sharing your anti-emulator code with me in private?

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