ATARI USER & the Laird

[ATARI USER & the Laird]

Partly. Met him several times at various functions over the last ten years or so. He's more personable in public than the online avatar would suggest, but some of the other traits are still evident (such as the desire to prove he knows more than you about retro games).

[Interesting tweet I found, just now, about the Vic-20]

Yeah I've commented to Rebecca about trying to either finish it or share it, hopefully one of the two will occur.

[Pac Man Fever album art]

In the lyrics, they DO say they've got all the patterns down, up until the 9th key

[How long have you been a member of eBay?]

Yeah I definitely joined eBay as well before there was a UK site.

[Comparison of Recently Unearthed C64 Joust Port to 7800]

Try Zolyx, it's not quite Qix but very similar.

[Ebay "you will no longer receive payments to your PayPal account"???]

Cheers for the update, honestly not seen anything about it rolling out here. I opened a specific separate bank account for Paypal years ago away from my main account, so I guess I will just add that to my eBay account in due course instead if it comes to that (as I currently have eBay billing me through Paypal).

[Ebay "you will no longer receive payments to your PayPal account"???]

On 4/10/2021 at 2:56 PM, Mikebloke said:

I'm about to be forced into the new ebay system in the UK. I'm kicking myself for not putting some new things on for sale before the change but been too busy. 

 

I've still been able to buy things, but I'm not too keen on having to put my card details on ebay just to sell for their profits when PayPal has worked just fine since its inception. Shpock seems to still be an option though and people are buying things with delivery on that quite a lot lately so it does work out. 

Hadn't heard mention of the same happening in the UK, yet. Certainly no one I know who sells using eBay/Paypal had said anything to date about it. Worried now.

[swordquest waterworld]

Wah? My copy is still sealed... *checks* I smelling shilling but who knows... the $2000 copy has no bids on.

[Vectorblade order]

Vectorblade only works on VecFever or Vextreme, not VecMulti.

[Ebay "you will no longer receive payments to your PayPal account"???]

None of this has been introduced yet to the UK or Europe, but I'm waiting for it. Making people think dealing with Paypal before was actually not so bad, at least you got your money immediately! I opened a new bank account just for Paypal years and years ago when they "forced" you into adding one to your profile, and to be honest, it has been useful when selling to then get money out of Paypal that I need to spend on non Paypal related matters. No way would I have ever added my main bank account though heh. So if I'm forced to add a bank account for eBay, it will be the same one as for Paypal.

[Complete Atari silver box PAL 7800 set]

Not looking to split currently.

[NTSC carts on PAL machines]

Laird irony alert! 😝

[What ATARI 2600 GAMES SOLD BY ATARIAGE DO WORK ON A ATARI 7800]

I had a pile of 2600 homebrew at one point (most now sold off) and all of them worked fine on my 7800 (PAL and NTSC depending on which I bought)

[Complete Atari silver box PAL 7800 set]

Complete Atari published silver box PAL Atari 7800 collection (42 games). All games complete, almost all boxes are in great condition or better (see photos). All games worked when last tested. Ballblazer is the slightly harder to find red label version. Asking £900 or best offer, plus whatever for insured tracked postage to your location.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[A Question]

If the source and target both use the same type of CPU (for example Apple II, NES and C64) then the term "port" is more appropriate if moving code over between them (for example both the Prince of Persia and Super Mario Bros ports released on the C64). Conversion definitely used for one unrelated platform to another, usually from the arcade in the 80s.

[Anyway to tell what region a game is in by looking at cartridge/box?]

That's because all the boxes are the same, Atari used the same boxes for NTSC and PAL releases. Can't tell what region a sealed title is unless you open it.

[Halo for the 2600 Released at CGE! Download the game here!]

Back from 2010 CGE heh...

 

[Rikki & Vikki]

True but I don't do Steam either, my PC isn't up to most games on the platform.

[Rikki & Vikki]

Still debating whether to stay in the 7800 scene or not, as I'm selling up all my originals currently (but not the homebrew yet, just the games from the 80s). Best make a decision soon, although I do have the money spare to buy it right now...!

[FS Your Best Offers- Protos Galore, Homebrews, Control Data Expansion System etc.]

PM sent

[CPUWIZ in hospital]

CPUWiz - Vorsprung durch Technik!

[CPUWIZ in hospital]

Well this changed since I last checked in yesterday. Shit, god damn, no doubt that will get bleeped out by the forum filter. Are the liver issues due to the reason you were hospitalised, or something else they discovered while treating you? If the latter... haunting similarities to my mother in law. Went into hospital due to suspected stroke, while running the tests, bam, discovered stage 3 pancreatic cancer. She lasted another four months. My thought with you my man, it was wonderful finally meeting you all those years ago at CGE, and 2020 has been sucky enough with Covid, and Curt's passing to let another Atari stalwart go.

[CPUWIZ in hospital]

Wow, glad you've been posting here Roman, all the best, here's to a complete recovery. We lost Curt already this year sadly

[The first ads for Magicard]

And the original release of Magicard was just the plain circuit board (which i used to own), the version in the shell with label came later.

[Supercharger Repro Box]

16 hours ago, TrekMD said:

I've never seen a repro box for it.  Would be cool, though.  I'm still hoping for a box for Sword of Saros!  I believe someone made them at some point. 

They did, it was CPUWiz/ShyOne, I had both Survival Island and Sword of Saros inside those, until I sold my Supercharger set several years ago.