Songbird acquires classic gaming properties

[Songbird acquires classic gaming properties]

Great news, Carl!

Let's see what comes out of this... It will surely be nice stuff 🙂

[Fallen Angels]

Hi!

I don't know how on Earth I missed this post!

 

I loved RoF in the good ol' days.

... getting the alien for the first time at maybe 2 in the morning and jumping off my chair, ... hehe

 

As always, great job, guys!

[The Atari interview discussion thread]

@savets - thanks for the heads-up!

@gozar - great idea!

[The Atari interview discussion thread]

Oh, WOW, folks! I really can't keep up!!!

However, I can read faster than how I hear

So, just asking, is there a transcript somewhere?

[Treasure Island Dizzy]

Hehe, I choose the wrong thread, then!

 

However, I never thought about this jiffi stuff, since I always found those fine CDi formatted images, both unencrypted and bypass-cart based.

I am not sure I have all the homebrews, though, but surely I'd like to spin a couple of ST oldies.

One of these days I'll put some order in my Jag stuff, I have some earlier CDis and the the final versions, and also some printed ones... I need to get rid of the old/useless stuff and better store the useful discs.

Thnks, Sh3-rg!

[Treasure Island Dizzy]

Wait a minute, Gunstar.

You mean that many of those ABS homebrew and conversions can be burnt on a CD with no or little hassle???

 

May you please elaborate? Until now I only burnt CDi disks found on -as example- Reboot website.

[If you could change one thing about an existing Jaguar title...]

Because Atari karts has far more issues than just crappy music.

Hehe, of course!

But if I had to chose ONE thing to change, I'd prefer music over <insert stupid charachter to be changed> restyle.

[If you could change one thing about an existing Jaguar title...]

Hey, how it comes that nobody told "better music in Atari Karts"?

It's so frightening that I played always with MUSIC OFF!!!

[Atari VCS 2600 Retro Memory Game]

You know, when I looked at the "matched pairs" board it sounded "oh-soo-obvious" what were the matching cards.

Then you published a "shuffled" board, and I totally lost myself for a while, hehe!

[Atari Eiffel]

Hi, folks! Sorry for bumping this old thread, but I decided to finally solder a thermistor to my Eiffel board, and I don't know where to do it. I bought my board from lookie at satantronic IIRC, but I couldn't manage to contact him.

 

It seems to me that it has to go between pin2 and pin8 of the PIC. Is that right?

 

Thanks for any help!

 

Ciao!

[Side-by-Side video featuring Jeff Minter's visualizers]

I have the very same feelings as Shmudde: VLM has those crisp coloured pixels that set it above everything else. Nuon is a good derivative, I remember seeing lots of effects as Jag upgrades, but the Xbox blurred stuff is -hmmm- meh!

 

About Colourspace... oh boy! I bought it (a tape cassette, oh the days...) when I went in England on holydays (maybe at Dixons) and it blew me away! Too bad that I gave my A8+graphics tablet+tape recorder+CD unit away... :-(

[FA or FS or keep it? GORF white question]

Hi folks!

I'd like to ask for advice from you. I think I have to let my numbered copy of GORF (white case) go.

 

I know that there is some interest in it, so should I ebay it? Or go to gamegavel? Or maybe just find someone and sell it? Or keep it and nevermind it doesn't get much gameplay (and nevermind it could bring a few bucks that would be a nice side effect)?

 

Thank you for your answers.

[Boulder Dash(R) Label Contest!]

Hi, folks.

After all this time, I noticed that there is no mention of BD for 2600 on the boulderdash page at first star website.

I think they should add it.

[Star Castle Arcade Label Contest]

I like Jordi's artwork as well.

All of the entries are enjoyable, though.

[Duckie Egg]

I would add that these new-fangled games (ranging from assassin creed to pokemon) are getting more and more just a walkthrough, hence the kids get frustrated pretty easily with real videogames.

 

Back on topic, great game! I just love the "old farts" mode, but I can't get it all the time (don't know why). I would just love that the duks moved more smoothly, like the farmer.

 

PS: My kids love this game, too.

[Tube Second Edition]

Well, I must say... WOW!

My kids love this game, but I suck at it so, NO, I don't like it! hehe!

 

I would like to suggest one thing that has been already said: the balance effects/music.

 

I tried with a rotary, and I have a weird behaviour. is that expected? I mean, may I use my rotary at all?

 

Can't we have a few shields to use when appropriate? Some tracks burn as hell!

 

Also, what is this mph thing??? Aren't we Metric? :-)

 

Keep up the GREAT job!

[CHKDSK and DEFRAG]

I remember I used it once to check errors on VAT and ext2 and things were going awry, IIRC it couldn't recognise links and started eating stuff...

I also used it on my MegaSTE and it solved a lot of issues.

(I am not sure I still have it: it was on a friend's diskette)

[Elansar project]

Awesome, i'd say!

Great job! I'm hoping for the quality of the Jag version, too.

[Your Atari workplace...]

The hard drive needs an hard drive driver, I assume that ICD comes with one, you should find it and run it.

 

The Cd-rom nneds a driver, too. Usually METADOS does the job, but there is that gret program at anodyne software that makes everything to work (CD-r CD-rw, DVD, ...)

[Can Atari Falcons still get on the internet?]

You are right. I don't mind going to my online bank account with my Falcon, but surely it is good to get a file (FTP or WWW) without running cables or swapping disks

I, for one, use often enough AICQ, mymail, aFTP, zweather, GEMdict. But also Netsurf gets its fair share of teh interwebs

[ZIP100 on a Falcon]

The problem is that it is an INTERNAL cd burner, and I don't want the hassle of hand-making a SCSI internal/external converter

[ZIP100 on a Falcon]

May I add that I use a ZIP SCSI drive as well?

 

No adapters, just the original cable straight into the SCSI post of the Falcon.

I would like to add a SCSI CD burner, but I can't find an external/internal SCSI adapter, so...

 

It would be fun, though...

[Do you own a Atari Jaguar CD-ROM?]

I have a CD unit I bought from VGLQ. WOW those were the times! I probably spent more on shipping to Italy than the unit+games (kidding, of course, but I had a lot of deals)

[Can Atari Falcons still get on the internet?]

Well, a Falcon can give a nice web experience, actually.

No Flash or Javascript currently, but otherwise you have a good basic web browsing.

You have Highwire, Netsurf, Link, and CAB with various degrees of compliance.

 

I suggest Netsurf, that is a currently developed multi-platform browser, to be used with MiNT (I don't know if TOS/GEM is suitable, since you need the LAN drivers).

Highwire is also good.

 

Various e-mail programs give you a good choice, ICQ and IRC are covered, too, and you have two or three solid and functional FTP programs.

 

The first suggestion is to check what option to choose on the physical side of the connection (EtherNAT, NetUSBee, ...)

[Have you played Atari today? Jaguar Version.]

You know, I was going to use that jingle while bootstrapping my Falcon, but I didn't like it much, so I went searching and used an original jingle instead.

But, yes, it's cool that they used that tune in Jag. I ever read the story of that, where programmers were told to use a very minimal amount of memory for the booting screen, so they had to manually "score" the tune in memory...