MICVIEW - a Micro Painter Viewer

[MICVIEW - a Micro Painter Viewer]

Just now, tschak909 said:

too afraid to touch C? It won't bite you.

-Thom

 

Im an old timer - couldnt figure out C back in the early 90's.  When my son took a class in C about 5 years ago he needed my help.  I surprised myself by actually figuring it out and like C alot.  However, the pointer mgmt stuff gives me too much of a headache

[MICVIEW - a Micro Painter Viewer]

1 minute ago, tschak909 said:

Add it. I made it do one thing, and one thing well.

-Thom

 

The Fujinet stuff is awesome but I dont think Python is available on the 8bit for dev purposes

[MICVIEW - a Micro Painter Viewer]

v2 maybe allows one to point at a disk and it runs through each picture like a slide show

 

[Microvision replacement screen project - pre-order & purchase here]

11 hours ago, nickle241 said:

i think it was the contacts, i cleaned them and it worked again and nudging the cartridge sideways caused a similar glitch before i cleaned it a second time, this is definitely an issue stemming from the processor being cut off from the controls, what a fun quirk to the design.

A good q-tip isopropyl alcohol bath followed by a good pencil erasure rub did the trick for me.  My dial was very twitchy and any slight movement of the cart made it worse.  Ive had to repeat the cleaning process a few times and its about 98% perfect now.  Sometimes on Connect 4 it will jump left or right.

[Top Ten Lists of 8-Bit Action/Arcade Games?]

Bandits

Threshold

Spelunker

 

[Why are some Atari 2600 games better than Atari 400/800 versions?]

mediocre programming and just poorly made versions

[Top Ten Lists of 8-Bit Action/Arcade Games?]

Drol

Defender (keyboard)

Alley Cat

Bruce Lee

Ball Blazer

Dimension X

Deluxe Invaders

 

[How to run 'Crush Crumble And Chomp'?]

This is a game I wanted sooo badly - the premise at the time seemed so cool.  Im pretty sure my next door  neighbor with his ZX81 16k RAM had this and it was fun.  Getting the slow Atari version was such a let down   Not sure if the C64 version or another one which is better could be ported?

[130ST TOS Boot Disk???]

The Mac had the System and Finder files that were loaded from disk on boot - I assume the 128K rom (64K originally) had the barebones OS and the disk files additional pieces.

 

IIRC in the US - 1040ST w/Mono $999, w/color $1199.  First "Megabyte" computer under $1000.

[Converting Jag CD's to ISO image]

Not sure whats different but today CloneCD is producing backups that appear to be of the right size.

[Concerto firmware thread]

Commando and Beef Drop (RIP Ken) also worked - but my cart connector is flaky.  I was 3 levels into Beef Drop when it locked up on me  - any reasonable fix for this?  If the cart isnt just right in the slot then it wont load or may lock up while playing.  A slight jiggle and best guess straightening of cart usually fixes it.

 

[How Many ST/TTs/TOS Machines Sold?]

ST was big in Europe - esp Germany.  So much so that inventory to the US was restricted so they could give Europe as many machines as they could produce.

 

Id imagine from 87-89 the STs sold in good numbers, but I dont have anything specific.

 

ST's were also the choice of many musicians across the globe.

[Best Atari Games to induce Ragequit? :)]

44 minutes ago, Ripdubski said:

8 bit: Pharaohs Curse

2600: E.T.

 

Modern: Oceanhorn (boss fight, post-updates -> still difficult)

Pharaohs curse, really?  That game is very forgiving  Now figuring you where the last piece you need is can be frustrating!

[Converting Jag CD's to ISO image]

2 minutes ago, glorfindeal1 said:

These are what I got:

Battlemorph -  615.5 MB

Hover Strike - 415 MB

Vid Grid - 732.4 MB

Blue Lightning - 546.1 MB

 

 

Mine are different - you just choose DataCD for CloneCD correct?  Any other settings?

 

Battlemorph - 387kb

Blue Lightening - 1523 kb

Vid Grid - 2692 kb

[Converting Jag CD's to ISO image]

22 hours ago, glorfindeal1 said:

Hey, it gives us something to do .  Saint did say his conversion tool supports clonecd so in case I got it right, I now have 20 CD games converted  

Do your numbers match what I was getting with CloneCD?

[Concerto firmware thread]

So I got Ballblazer to work - got the jazzy music so I assume my Pokey is working?

 

It seems maybe my cart connector is a little loose?  I moved my cart a tad and was able to get a few things going.

 

I ran the 7800 Test programs and one said No Pokey or no HSC found - this normal?

 

 

[Atari Jaguar + CD + Games - Everything must go!!!]

I re-read it and you are correct - nice $990 though!

[Atari Jaguar + CD + Games - Everything must go!!!]

Did your Jag CD sell for $1399?  OMG, I was offering my CIB w/Memory Track and original Gorf CD for $1400 and no takers!

[Best Atari Games to induce Ragequit? :)]

I think Last V8 gets a special place in this list - IMHO its #1 by a long shot

 

I cant think of another game which I was not able to atleast get through some %% and enjoy to a degree.  Of course Shamus I and II I would curse after playing for a long time and not progressing.  Eastern Front and Legionairre also fit into this category, but again frustrations came after long sessions.

Last V8 is 20 seconds of "I cant believe a game with crappy control that penalizes you with never enough time to see the second stage"  rage.

[Concerto firmware thread]

It’s a verified Pokey from Myatari.  I took out and out the okey back in - it’s seated level on the socket so I think it’s good.  BBlazer doesn’t run nor does centipede.  Commando gets to the mission briefing and hangs 1/2 way through.  Crossbow for the 7800 worked fine so it’s better than before.  Any suggestions on a known working pokey rom I can test?

[Concerto firmware thread]

Since my Concerto seemed ot be working good with 7800 ROMs I decided to install my Pokey chip today and now no 7800 ROMs will start.  I attached a picture of what happens when I try to start NTSC Ballblazer from Trebors pack.  Ive also attached pictures of my Pokey installed just to make sure I did something wrong and also the serial # of my 7800 unit.

 

It def looks like one side of my pokey sits a tad lower than the other, but it will not go in any farther on the one side - maybe the one side is too low?  I didnt not use alot of force to push the pokey in.

 

Before I take the pokey out and back in and such I wanted to verify things look good and if theres anything else I should test before hand.

 

 

[Concerto firmware thread]

After a few extra loops around the USPS block I got my Concerto today - thanks Batari!

 

I took it for a quick spin using a 4gb SDHC card formatted with FAT32.  No problems

I downloaded Trebors 7800 pack and everything I loaded worked.  I did not try any 2600 games at this point.

 

It also appears my firmware is 1.0 - Not sure if changes from .95 to 1.0 have been posted?  If so I missed it.

 

[Funning FoReM-850 26M on #FujiNet]

That is a blast from the past - thanks for sharing  - I ran a Forem BBS way back when and it was a tricky system.  I had the basic version and remember it rolling code in and out.  Good stuff!

[Converting Jag CD's to ISO image]

Thanks for this Thread - I installed CloneCD and began to create "Data CD" backups.  Just so Im doing this right, some of the discs are 200k+ but many are <16k.  Battlemorph is a good example where it was 1 session and 9500KB.  That doesnt look right to me?  Hover Strike CD is 235K for comparison.

 

Am I missing something or are these correct?

 

Vidgrid is 2700KB and Blue Lightening 37000KB

[Popeye 7800]

Fantastic conversion so far - whats frustrating is clearly the 7800 was much more capable than Atari utilized for their commercial releases.  I get the deadlines, etc.., but the colors and graphics on some of the arcade ports are terrible.  This looks and plays very close to the arcade.