What will you be playing on (or giving) the A8 on christmas day

[carmel_andrews]

Like it say's on the tin

 

What nice prezzies will you be giving your Atari (or non Atari) this christmas and what will you be playing on your Atari (or non Atari) on the day itself

 

No prezzies for my Atari but i will be playing defender and probably a few other games but mostly defender

 

i might give the snes and gba emu's a whirl as well (perhaps some of the turrican games on the snes and castlevania on the gba)

[+Gemintronic]

Zero. I bought a 1010 tape drive recently and haven't had a chance to figure out how to transfer games to cassette.

[Rybags]

I bought one of those false cassettes that lets you pipe music from another source - might do some tape load experiments one day.

Might do some GTIA heating experiments to see if I can get this DGF stuff working.

My Ataris have received plenty of presents the last few years - problem is I've barely used a lot of them.

 

One gift my Atari desk is in desperate need of is to just clear everything off it and give it a clean.

[TMR]

i've got an Amstrad CPC6128 for taking to events (so it'll be a traveling companion for my 800XL. =-)

[mimo]

A nice Sony pvm to replace my 1040s that emitted the 'magic smoke ' a few weeks ago. And a new lid for my 400 and 800 Thanks to the kind folks on these forums

 

I'll probably be playing a little special delivery and medieval mayhem if I get time

Edited December 21, 2012 by mimo

[+Stephen]

If I'm lucky and they arrive, I will be installing the production Incognito in my 800 Failing that, I will just fire up the old xmas tree demo which was one of the first things I ever downloaded (300 baud - took forever).

[Frankie]

I have a 1200xl arriving!

[+Stephen]

Sweet - the Incognito has landed My 800 will be getting some loving this xmas.

[Louis]

Playing Ridiculous Reality (for the first time), hopefully repairing some XE keyboards as well as a 130XE

 

Nice thread!

[mimo]

a nice big tube of superglue for my new 800 :'(

[+Stephen]

Don't sniff it Sucks about the shipping damage.

[beamer320i]

Actually got a decent holiday this year so will be splitting my time between the family and Ridiculous Reality, M.U.L.E. and Temple of Apshai. Hopefully my 800 complete with Incognito should be arriving before New Years Eve so that is something else to look forward to

[jk40001]

A parcel from another AA member just arrived. I stopped working and started to unpack immediately. As expected, I found some very delicate stuff inside: A800 + incognito proto board + incognito final production board. I wish my Christmas break would be at least 8 weeks long

[flashjazzcat]

After I've finished Dom's Incognito (and packed mine up to send back to Sebastian after I fried the Xilinx chip last Tuesday ), I might make a printer cable for my P:R: Connection and give it a spin with an old Bubble-Jet. The excitement...

[AtariGeezer]

After I've finished Dom's Incognito (and packed mine up to send back to Sebastian after I fried the Xilinx chip last Tuesday ), I might make a printer cable for my P:R: Connection and give it a spin with an old Bubble-Jet. The excitement...

 

How did you fry the Xilinx chip? I toasted one on a U1MB testing the IDE+ 2.0 from an upside-down cable. Thankfully Sloopy had a spare chip and replaced it for me

 

 

For Christmas, I might get around to fixing my Percom Drives as those are known for blowing the voltage regulators...

[flashjazzcat]

How did you fry the Xilinx chip? I toasted one on a U1MB testing the IDE+ 2.0 from an upside-down cable. Thankfully Sloopy had a spare chip and replaced it for me

 

I think I remember hearing about the U1MB incident. On "Black Tuesday" as it will now be known, I somehow managed to fatally ass-rig connections for the SIDE button and / or HDD activity LED and thus managed to give the Xilinx chip a zap with anywhere between (according to Candle) 5 and 11 volts DC, presumably because I assumed GND on the power board would do... ah well. These things happen to make sure we check more thoroughly in future...

[ClausB]

http://www.atariage....s/#entry1626037

[+slx]

Got an Indus GT for the 800 and joystick adapters for the mini machine of the other computer company starting with A that made it into this decade, hoping to play 4-player MULE on the big LCD.

 

New Year's Resolution: Actually make enough space on the desk to set up the 800 and the Indus and finally use the SIO2SD sleeping on the shelf for quite some time....

[+therealbountybob]

A nice Sony pvm to replace my 1040s that emitted the 'magic smoke ' a few weeks ago. And a new lid for my 400 and 800 Thanks to the kind folks on these forums

 

I'll probably be playing a little special delivery and medieval mayhem if I get time

me too - Special Delivery every year Post any scores here folks, it's a nice game for friends and family to have a go on too http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/206763-hsc9-round-20-christmas-catch-up/?do=findComment&comment=2663355

 

Also the latest abbuc mag just arrived to take a look at

 

Actually got a decent holiday this year so will be splitting my time between the family and Ridiculous Reality, M.U.L.E. and Temple of Apshai. Hopefully my 800 complete with Incognito should be arriving before New Years Eve so that is something else to look forward to

We should sort out some sort of UK M.U.L.E. meet up for 2013

[beamer320i]

Definately a good idea, M.U.L.E. is great when there's some human competition!

 

By the way, thought I'd have a go in the current HSC game, just posted my effort.. Will try to join a few more next year.

 

Dom

Edited December 23, 2012 by beamer320i

[JamesD]

The incognito for my 800 is in the mail.

[+Gemintronic]

Zero. I bought a 1010 tape drive recently and haven't had a chance to figure out how to transfer games to cassette.

 

UPDATE: I just bought a 130XE and disk drive and haven't had a chance to figure out how to transfer games to disk.

 

Still zero, I guess

[ClausB]

I'm a bad boy. I couldn't resist. At least it was on sale. It's a tablet case.

[+Philsan]

I'm a bad boy. I couldn't resist. At least it was on sale. It's a tablet case.

I would buy a tablet only to use that!

[a8isa1]

I was bad so no presents for the Ataris this year

 

Perhaps I'll play some of this year's new games, like Asteroids-Emulator, Ridiculous Reality, Pac-Man and even a little Midnight Madness.

 

Certainly I'll play a little Yoomp! (not new but always an Atari celebration!)

Edited December 23, 2012 by a8isa1