tjb

As I said earlier, to each his own. There will always be people who will like what you've done and others that won't. It's just the way it is. Your tool could be perfect and there will still be people who disagree with it's implementation for whatever reason, right or wrong. If people say it sucks without any suggestions or constructive criticism I'd take those with a grain of salt. As for those who provide useful comments/suggestions, take that as a opportunity to improve your tool, not as a personal attack. Admittedly, often it's all in the delivery of the message. Some people tend to be more politically correct that others. Either way don't take it personally and definitely don't let it detract you from developing the tool. tjb

Wow, that's awesome! Thanks for sharing with the community! tjb

To each his own. FWIW, I'm particularly interested in the MSX support...I recentedly picked up a one-chip MSX. tjb

Cool! Thanks for sharing! tjb

Hi Tom! It's great to have you here on AtariAge. Some of my fondest memories as a teenager were playing your games and reading your Bootcamp column in Analog. Any chance you might someday write a new game or app for the Atari 8-bit? tjb

I have the manual for the thing but lost the software many many moons ago Ed Cool! Do you have any experience with it? Was it a good product? Thanks, tjb

I would say so. You turned a pretty good profit there tjb

I like dealing with Brad over at Best. He's a bit more expensive on some stuff but his stuff is always in pristine condition and he's super prompt on shipping. I've e-mailed him at all hours of the night and be suprised to get a quick response. He doesn't mess around. Very professional. tjb

That sounds about right, I was thinking $30-35. They're pretty common. tjb

Man, did I miss something?! $300.00 for what? tjb

Is that the leaning tower of GameCube? You can never have too many game consoles, right Ax? tjb

Did you get the zizzers as a peace offering? AX lol..Actually I did have her in mind when I asked for that one. The funny thing is that she is a sucker for a good deal. The fact that I got some cool stuff for the price of shipping makes a difference. She really doesn't care about me spending the money. It's the space and clutter. I know you can relate. tjb

The free stuff cometh and the wife will again get pisseth tjb

Thanks for the information. Previously I have heard of these in passing but didn't know anything about them until now. I may end up picking up one. It doesn't seem like a bad price to me especially when you consider it includes shipping. tjb

Yeah I guess it is kinda cool. Just really pricey. tjb

It's "cute and powerful" with a wireless mouse: http://cgi.ebay.com/Atari-1024-ST-With-ATARI-wireless-mouse-RETRO_W0QQitemZ180409315511QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item2a013bb0b7&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14 Everytime I think I've seen it all something like this comes along... tjb

As far as 8-bit carts go I'd closely monitor the marketplace here at AtariAge if you don't already. You can also post wanted to buy messages. I used to buy more stuff off Ebay before I discovered the marketplace here. The condition of the items is almost always better and usually much, much cheaper. You may have to wait a bit but it's usually well worth in IMO. As for the game, I haven't seen it before but it looks like maybe it came from Analog or Antic magazine back in the day. tjb

Years ago before I had a nice SIO2PC interface I used a P:R: connection along with a Null modem cable to transfer Atari executables from a PC to an Atari in order to save them to diskette and play them. You could certainly do the same thing with the 850. It's not near as nice as SIO2PC but its still a viable option. These days serial ports are less common on PCs but you could still use a USB to serial adapter. tjb

My first homebrew game Wasp! was written using it. The announcement is here :- http://www.atariage....w-with-a-twist/ It was also used to make Harry's Hen House (which is still a work in progress and needs to be completed). Originally both of those games would only work in the emulator but that problem has long been solved and they both work on real hardware using my CC2. The dev system is not available yet because I need to write some demo applications to show developers how to write a game framework using it. There is no documentation apart from header files either . I'm also thinking about making it use a more flexible approach to display lists from the stuff I've learnt writing my first two games. It will also come with a graphics conversion tool that takes windows bitmap files and converts them into 160A, 160B and 320A display formats. That sounds really cool. I look forward to checking it out. I'm somewhat familar with Wasp! (I ordered a copy ) but I came in kind of at the tail-end and honestly didn't bother to read the thread from top to bottom. Sounds like I need to. tjb

No chuckling from this one . I'm still trying to find the time to do some game demos so people can get going with my "C" development system for the 7800. Hmm, C development system for the 7800. That sounds very interesting. Is it available for public use? Can you elaborate a bit? tjb

Geez, so roughly how many AXboxes do you have? tjb

OMG, it looks like someone wiped their a** with those! Terrible! tjb

Without the 3.0 card you can't play SuperCD games, is that correct? tjb

What assembler did you use for Castle Crisis? tjb

No offense, but the avatar kind of reminds me of my ex mother-in-law (on a good day)... tjb