Shawn

Wow! Currently watching She-Ra with my 8 year old daughter.  I really am raising my kids right!

Wow! Currently watching She-Ra with my 8 year old daughter.  I really am raising my kids right!

Well, tried to finish up a transaction on NintendoAge last night only to find the site had been murdered. Lovely!

Well, tried to finish up a transaction on NintendoAge last night only to find the site had been murdered. Lovely!

Today is the 35th anniversary of "The Terminator," which debuted in the USA on Friday, October 26, 1984.

I joined AtariAge in May 2006.

I had spent the previous seven years attempting to build a start-up company during the dot-com boom-bust cycle. It failed, horribly, and left me in a state of misery, dejection, and despair.

I was burned out, and partially catatonic from 2004 until 2006 from the entire experience.

I discovered AtariAge, and rekindled my love for the Atari 8-bit computers, where I started. and I started coding for the 8-bit, again. and it helped me remember why I loved computing in the first place.

...and I found my way back to sanity.

Since then, retrocomputing has been a constant fixture in my life, to counter-balance my day job, to keep reminding me, why I do what I do. To keep me sane. We all make each other better.

Thank you.

-Thom

I joined AtariAge in May 2006.

I had spent the previous seven years attempting to build a start-up company during the dot-com boom-bust cycle. It failed, horribly, and left me in a state of misery, dejection, and despair.

I was burned out, and partially catatonic from 2004 until 2006 from the entire experience.

I discovered AtariAge, and rekindled my love for the Atari 8-bit computers, where I started. and I started coding for the 8-bit, again. and it helped me remember why I loved computing in the first place.

...and I found my way back to sanity.

Since then, retrocomputing has been a constant fixture in my life, to counter-balance my day job, to keep reminding me, why I do what I do. To keep me sane. We all make each other better.

Thank you.

-Thom

I'm late to the discussion. But I was watching madlittlepixel's channel and he mention that AtGames is being sued. 

I'm late to the discussion. But I was watching madlittlepixel's channel and he mention that AtGames is being sued. 

Guess who just bought the entirety of Star Trek: TNG on vhs... this guy! 😎

What have I done?

*despite

*despite

bought a copy of xenophobe 2600 from venezuala several years ago, arrived today.  Never saw that  coming

With the exception of Morton Koopa, most of the one screen levels in my SMW 2600 remake are almost done. Very basic, and the bosses don't have collision detection. But hey, got a basic Mario working. Also got Yoshi's House, and  Top Secret Area complete. And Currently animating Bowser. I'll finish Iggy Koopa next. But if anyone is interested, it could be re-created(for the most part)on the 2600.BUT because I want to stay on Nintendo's good side as I want to actually publish to their system one day, I'm going to halt progress all together. I can send my play-field art over if anyone else wants to take a shot at it though.

Doing a challenge to see how much of a remake Super Mario World I can re-create with my limited Batari Basic Knowledge on an actual 2600 system. Got some basic art pieces done that do work, so some of the game is possible to recreate in a sense. Here is An imgur link to the images I made

If I can manage to create a proper engine for mario that sort of works, and split the game into different roms like final fantasy did on the ps1, I think there is a good chance it would be possible to re create a good chunk of the game. Not all of it, but a lot of it. Probably getting way out of my head on this, but I can try my hardest.

I'm conflicted... What should my 7800 game should be about, Sonic or Bubsy? How can I both?

Good news:

"I've reviewed your application and it would be great to have you as tenants. When would be a good time for you to review and sign a lease?"

We can now stop looking for a house to rent.

Just saw on Facebook that Trade-N-Games store was robbed - 100K of games out of his safe.  Not sure what subforum would be good for posting a heads up.

Has anyone actually named their kid Damien since 1977?

Sorry for the n00b question, but how exactly does a "Make Offer" work on eBay when there is a bidding period on?

Here's an idea: when you and your significant other are celebrating an anniversary, instead of telling that person face-to-face how you feel, post it as a status update on Facebook

Albert, when looking at AA with Internet Explorer the posts are about 30 screens wide. This was not a problem a week ago. Can you fix this?

I wonder what's up with the license holder for Ms. Pac-Man? I don't think it's shown up in any retro game compilations since Namco Museum 50th Anniversary on the GameCube/PS2/Xbox/Game Boy Advance. Do they just not like making money anymore?

Do Rom Hacks count as Homebrews?

hit a garage sale today, found a sears heavy sixer with 2 cx 10s, the grey psu and a couple of gatefold boxes

pretty happy with that