Goochman

Steve was also caught using an 8 way joystick at one point which nullified one of his scores. You can control the barrels different with an 8 way vs the normal 4 way. Regardless this thing is a mess - anything in the 90's/2K's should be tossed.

Magic Carpet was awesome when it came out - I bought it from GoG a few years back and finished 1 & 2, though 2 was a bit of a let down. Id think the entire engine would need to be rewritten/tweaked to run on the Jag. The PC version prob wasnt very efficient, though awesome back in the day. Even running on my modern rig the final level was a bear to get through - I was prob getting 1fps at one point with all the dragons and such.

Well if you're keeping a list my votes: Ultima V Bards Tale Zoo Keeper Winter Games II Elevator Action Bonus - Test Drive

That catalog was put into your 2600 box when produced - if you know when the console came off the factory floor that would be a better indicator. Yours couldve been produced in Jan of '80 and sold in July after Adventure had truly been released.

That did it - thanks!

Is there a way to control the artifacting color in the latest release? I was looking at Ultima III and its purple/green instead of blue/brown. Anyway to correct this?

That wasnt it - you could pick almost any virtual size you wanted - 1024x768, etc... It didnt emulate mono on the color monitor.

If you want me to test anything again let me know.

There was a desktop ACC that allowed you to pick 'any resolution' and it would scroll the screen with the mouse. It didnt really change the resolution if you somehow managed to connect a higher rez monitor, but it was a simple software solution to allow you to have a bigger desktop area to move around. Forgot the name of it.

I really enjoyed Wayout and wanted to complete every level, bu ton some levels that damn mirror that took away your map was too aggressive and eventually I just gave up.

Leonard ever explain why after getting a foothold in Europe they never advanced the hardware.................I understand you couldnt compete with Apples marketing budget, but damn you kept the same ST chassis for almost 5-6 years before improving it. The Mac went to the 68020 very quickly and onward from there............... That was prob one of Ataris bigger screwup was not investing in the platform, instead doing things like Federated, Transputer, etc.........................

I lost the IP address and file sharing credentials, could you post that one more time

Wouldnt every Jaguar be a "launch edition" since I dont think Atari ever made a 2nd order outside of the first 250k right?

Only real writein campaign I remember was for Word Perfect on the ST which worked, sorta. They ported 4.2 instead of the GUI based 5.x which was a mistake. I bought Word Perfect for the ST and used it for a few years, but being 4.2 really hampered its effectiveness on the GUI based ST.

Spectacular work gents - Very polished and an instant hit/classic for the 8bit. Whats next, Need for Speed

I hear alot of people talk about getting MAME cabs for $200 or less, but Ive never found one in the DC area, plus add a control board. Most non=working arcade cabs for sale are $300+, usually $600. For $399 you gt a nice clean good looking cab with a working LCD. The key to me is whether or not you can utilize the 'guts' to put something else in the cab with the LCD and controls - If thats the case then getting a nice new cool looking cab w/LCD (ok a bit short) for $399 doesnt seem half bad. If someone has a lead on a $200 arcade cab in the DC area let me know

It was a couple of years ago that I made the updates. The original information was something along the lines of the Atari was a bad copy of the Apple version with wrong artifact color pictures. Atleast the pictures are better, but I have no interest in helping that wiki become better on the Atari information side. Notice the 8bit U5 information - thats all I had before we found out where the demo came from.

The "Atari" descriptions on those Wiki's was terrible - the guy that runs that site I dont think was an Atari fan and left it out of alot of pages. I updated the pictures to be more color correct and the descriptions and got grief for it. EVentually all my edits were 'credited' to the owner of the page - I stopped providing feedback after that.

Dodge'Em - 1080 I believe Chopper Command 999,999 Laser Blast 999,999 (or 1 million if you count the !!!!!)

Cool - thanks for the clarification.

Omnigamer - you make an interesting comment above about starting in 2nd gear. Please no one take this as trying to reopen the can of worms here, just curious. You say its possible to get a 5.51 if you start in 2nd gear - is that confirmed? I think its also been proven that you cant start in 2nd gear correct? I only ask cause Todd has been saying the 2nd gear start thing since before 2000.

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Rays interview reads alot like re-writing of history in his favor. He brought a retail manufacturing mindset to a gaming industry that didnt work so strictly. He gave himself the white glove treatment with private jets and executive lunch room privileges. A little bit of rigor and some marketing was all the 2600 needed to make anyone successful, so he was one lucky SOB. What did Ray miss - just about everything the video game industry was to become. HIs mention about Alcorn doing the hologram thing as a distraction was laughable - Ray didnt provide any technical leadership or direction, so there were 100's of laughable 0 potential engineering projects going on cause all Ray and his mgmt team cared about was milking the 2600. If Ray had any idea what he was doing he wouldve dropped Nolan (like he did) and either promoted someone internally with an eye to the future or found an outsider that could do that job without smoking a ton of dope. That person would pick a path and focus the company on that path, instead we have 100's of dead end prototypes that came out of a rudderless engineering department. He lays all the problems on the feet of ET which of course wasnt his baby, but the seeds of destruction had been sown with the lack of vision, 5200 debacle and loss of engineering talent under his watch. My $0.02

Doesnt make up for the lousy attitude he had and terrible performance of the emulator.

Agree - the enemies and such are dope looking, but unfort the hero appears to have just come out of bed in their tighty whities. Anyway to spruce up the chopper?