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    It's listed as GTSC FWIW. They also list GST-ASM. I had never heard of them either (before seeing the ad). Thanks for the link BTW.

     

    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

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    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

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    The free stuff cometh and the wife will again get pisseth icon_mrgreen.gif

     

    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

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    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

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    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.

     

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    Hmm, C development system for the 7800. That sounds very interesting. Is it available for public use? Can you elaborate a bit?

     

    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 icon_sad.gif. 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 icon_smile.gif ) 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

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    I know the veterans are probably chuckling at this, but my programming experience is limited to C/C++ and various flavors of BASIC, and it has been ages since I have done any of that.

    No chuckling from this one icon_wink.gif. 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

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    Right off the top of my head I can think of two games that were re-released as an XE cart that were actually enhanced for the release: Choplifter and Mario Bros. Are their others?

     

    Well Choplifter was changed for sure, I wouldn't call it enhanced myself though. icon_smile.gif

     

     

    I haven't played it myself. Better graphics but terrible game play? Or Bad all across the board. From what I've seen of the screen shots I think I would most likely prefer the original.

     

     

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    Definitely ca65 for any large-scale effort. Powerful scoping, and a comprehensive linker let you produce just about any kind of image you could want. Libraries? pfft, who needs em. :-)

     

    I agree about the libraries. I started out working with in the comforts of C using CC65 and calling assembly routines. It got to the point where more and more was done in assembler so I went ahead and went all assembler. I didn't have to conform to CC65's parameter passing scheme or memory model. You're free to do things however you choose. I'm not knocking CC65 mind you, I think it's great. I'd have the same constraints with any C package. On an 8-bit Atari some things nearly have to be done in assembler to gain every precious cycle and byte of space.

     

    tjb

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