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That cable and your avatar are somewhat appropriate in this context @John Stamos Mullet 😆🤣

Thanks - some great homebrews to try!

Hey SlidellMan, According to RT's 7800basic guide: https://www.randomterrain.com/7800basic.html#alphachars_and_alphadata So it may be possible to utilise them but one potential issue is that the compiler may not like them? (worth a try I guess!). Saying that there is nothing stopping you from representing these characters in your on-screen font using standard ASCII characters. I was going to send you this new example as it represents your situation in your game giving you the ability to use a larger font on the title and the smaller font in-game for the score. Just remember you cannot mix these on-screen at the same time.

Hi Everyone, I've updated the Singlewide Text in Doublewide Mode item with an additional example which shows how to use both doublewide and singlewide fonts in the same game or application.

Thanks everyone - we'll get there eventually 😁

I will take a look at doing a build with that configuration when I sort out the concerto pokey issue.

Love playing Gyruss on my Mame cabinet - such a great game and the music is great too.

Some great games on the list! Hopefully we'll see some or all of them on the 7800 one day 👍 Bubble Bobble would be another to add to the list.

Thanks guys! I suspect that the issue relates to the pokey initialisation much the same as what happened with Popeye (as both are based on 7800basic). I'll need to investigate how Darryl fixed Popeye to see what I can do for a specific Concerto build. My Concerto currently doesn't get past loading much at all on either of my PAL 7800s currently but will see if I can test it here first. I should crack both of mine open and list some things as Robert is doing.

Thanks for trying it out @DrVenkman I suspect that the issue relates to the pokey initialisation much the same as what happened with Popeye (as both are based on 7800basic). I'll need to investigate how Darryl fixed Popeye to see what I can do for a specific Concerto build. My Concerto currently doesn't get past loading much at all on either of my PAL 7800s currently but will see if I can test it here first.

@x=usr(1536) I had a bit of a look before Christmas but we just can't fit anything else in! Thanks again for your suggestions! @TwentySixHundred Thanks Tony! Hopefully we can make a digital version available one day so you can play the other 80 levels! There are some crackers in there!

Results sounding similar to mine Robert - menu is working perfectly for me also. Fred has mentioned he has a few things he is going to test on the loading side going forward 👍

Nice start! JS7800 link using the file in the first post: https://raz0red.github.io/js7800/?cart=https://atariage.com/forums/applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=798714

If there is a mod here - this would be a great topic to be pinned! As James updates these very regularly it makes it a quick way to find the latest dev games 👍

Hey everyone! Well another year has passed and Arkanoid is still WIP 😒 I desperately want to finish it but the ball movement still needs further work and it just does my head in at times that I cannot get it a little better. As noted previously the enemies have been started and some basic movement has been added but is yet to be fully flushed out otherwise the game is pretty complete. Anyway I thought I really should release a new version considering I've been sitting on this for quite a while. So a reminder this was a full restart from the previous version and contains a whole new gfx engine using the learning from Millie and Molly. It also now has an amazing number of controllers available such as Paddles, Driving Wheel, Trakball, Joystick and Amiga or ST mouse (thanks Mike!!). Please note that this may not play well on PAL machines as the ball speeds still need some adjustments. Also note the lives indicator is not yet working. See the first post for the download. Apart from that I've really enjoyed helping around the forums with various projects, been playing with some little projects myself 🤫 but the best thing is seeing the amazing movement around the 7800! We have a great product in 7800basic to develop our games plus we now have Concerto and DragonFly carts available to the masses. 2020 brought us the human malware of covid but it also gave us an ever expanding community around this great machine. Looking forward to seeing what 2021 brings. Happy new year to you all!

@Trebor Thanks Robert for your continued hard work collating your collection 👋👋👋 No doubt many more people will be downloading this going forward now we have carts!

As said on the stream yesterday you have done a fantastic job with this @Lillapojkenpåön! Yes definitely finish it off!

Loving all the additional animations Lewis! Putting the 512k to full use!

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Glad your feeling better Bob 😁

Great stuff mate - well done on getting another one out the door 👋👋👋

A good tip someone suggested is the power/data cables are much thicker than the straight power cables - help me out! Hopefully that might help find/ordering a suitable one.

@mimo Have you tried installing the drivers (in the following post) so the Concerto is recognised? Some have said the drivers are automatically setup by Windows but I had to install them manually (latest Windows 10). There is some additional discussion above this post based on what I was seeing in the Device Manager. As Mike also suggested above try some different USB ports as mine was only found on 1 of the 2 I tried.

Hi! The .cbi updates are applied directly via the inbuilt cart updater so your 0.93 cbi can be removed unless you wish to keep it for prosperity or for returning to that version at a later date.

Oh this is a great list - Bob DeCrescenzo would be another! Really enjoyed John interview also thanks James 👍