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  12. Posted

    Great comic as always :thumbsup:

     

    I had an interesting way of stretching my arcade budget back then. There used to be a pizza place and an arcade within walking distance. The pizza place gave seven tokens for a dollar and the arcade gave out five. The pizza place had a weak selection of games, so I would get my tokens at the pizza place and take them to the arcade to play. They worked, so I didn't think I was doing anything wrong at the time. :roll:

  13. Posted

    I had two of the Amiga Power Sticks back in the early '80's. They are very small compared to other Atari controllers. I do like the buttons--they have almost no resistance when you press them and are great for rapid-fire games. The stick is lousy for diagonal directions and they are not very durable. Both seemed to wear out quickly but their small size could have been a factor.

     

    Also, these were later manufactured for the Amiga computers.

  14. Posted

    MMM . . .nothing like a Frostbite roll with a cup of tea in the morning. :D

     

    Seriously, that is the actual speed of the game at that level? :o Does the difficulty and speed of this game plateau at any point? How long have you been able to play after rolling the score?

  16. Posted

    Signs of sleep deprivation. Yes, from the manual for Case 5.

     

    All of the stolen goods and evidence in cases 1-4 must be found and returned for verification at their place of origin.

     

    Sure, objects and locations, easy to confuse. :ponder:

     

    What I need right now. :sleep:

  18. Posted

    Randy, after visting your web site devoted to 2600 adventure games, you need to get Private Eye. It's a great 2600 adventure game with 4 different worlds to map. (Game 5 puts all 4 worlds together into one.) :thumbsup:

  21. Posted

    I love Private Eye--used to have it as my avatar.

     

    But a game I haven't seen mentioned much is Super Football. It doesn't look great, but the play is awesome. The best football game on the 2600.

  22. Posted

    This is cool. And so simple to use, a computer illiterate like myself can use it. I may actually post a picture of myself, if can find someone who will lend me a digital camera.

     

    However, I do fear the spaming that may result from this feature.

  24. Posted

    Here is a quote from the Atari Age archives on this topic.

     

    Another trick first appeared in the game Dragster. Designer David Crane, known in the industry as "a coding machine," wrote an entire kernel on the fly. The code, of course, does not move physically, but rather moves in time, so that the program is no longer in synch with the television set, and what would otherwise be a static display scrolls horizontally. When Dragster first appeared, the trick was considered impossible to repeat, but it is now understood throughout the industry. One designer using it is Imagic's Bob Smith in the game Dragonfire.

     

    I don't know if you knew about this or not, but it is cool. I'm never going to attempt to program the 2600, but I do try to understand what you guys go through to make a game.

  25. Posted

    Z26 seems to run the greatest number of ROMS more accurately than the others. It's the one I use all the time. But the save game feature on PCAE is cool.

     

    Mac users have only Stella? Oh, I feel for you.

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