y-bot Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 I have Tempests newsletters. One or two originals and the rest are photocopies and I also have the programming cartridge. I suck at scanning. I can send them to someone if they want to tackle it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranger_lennier Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 I'd be glad to scan them if you like. I have a good scanner and some free time for a little while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y-bot Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 I'd be glad to scan them if you like. I have a good scanner and some free time for a little while. Is this Paul from Bally Alley? Same address that I sent you stuff to scan before? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 I have Tempests newsletters. One or two originals and the rest are photocopies and I also have the programming cartridge. I suck at scanning. I can send them to someone if they want to tackle it.Oh that's right. I sold so much stuff in such a short period of time I've completely forgotten who got what. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranger_lennier Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 Is this Paul from Bally Alley? Same address that I sent you stuff to scan before? Yeah, that's me--same address too. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blazing Lazers Posted August 31, 2013 Author Share Posted August 31, 2013 Hey all, I just realized that if the Dan guy who had the Bingo at PC2K1 was also at PC2K, then he might be among the guys in the following photos: http://web.archive.org/web/20010614112449/http://www.phillyclassic.com/pc2k/ I checked every picture, and the only guy with ANY Studio II stuff (that's visible) is the guy who had two Adventurevisions on display as well. Going by the labels of the pictures, he's either "DanB" or some guy named Jeff, and is pictured with his wife/girlfriend Michelle in some other pictures. Can anyone recall if that is the Bingo guy from PC2K1? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 The Bingo guy was only at PC2K1. I don't recall seeing him again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blazing Lazers Posted August 31, 2013 Author Share Posted August 31, 2013 The Bingo guy was only at PC2K1. I don't recall seeing him again. Yes, but the guy who had it there is almost certainly the same guy who found a copy at a fleamarket on the way home from PC2K and made the Usenet post about it. And that guy also apparently had the Studio II Democart at PC2K, so someone might recognize him from pictures of 2K. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toymailman Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 And for last, there is 3 other Studio II homebrew games made by Lee Romanow: Outbreak, Climber and TV Arcade 2012.. These roms are available on Yahoo rcacosmac group ( http://dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/rcacosmac/ ) in the files section under the "Studio II and clones" folder. Also, the TV Arcade 2012 rom, it's a 5-in-1 multi-games which contains these games: Craps / Moon Lander / Repeat After Me / Space Rescue / Nim. The link is not working for me. Can you post the ROMs please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toymailman Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 oops, double post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranger_lennier Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 The link is not working for me. Can you post the ROMs please? There's a stray parentheses at the end of the link. It worked for me once I removed it. http://dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/rcacosmac/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toymailman Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 And for last, there is 3 other Studio II homebrew games made by Lee Romanow: Outbreak, Climber and TV Arcade 2012.. These roms are available on Yahoo rcacosmac group ( http://dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/rcacosmac/ ) in the files section under the "Studio II and clones" folder. Also, the TV Arcade 2012 rom, it's a 5-in-1 multi-games which contains these games: Craps / Moon Lander / Repeat After Me / Space Rescue / Nim. Here are the ROMs slydc mentioned. Also, there was a file called "Rocket", is this another homebrew? They can be added to a multi-cart list. Climber_V100.zip Outbreak_V100.zip rocket_v101.zip TVA2012_V100.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari2008 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 I won a Channel F ad from 1977 on eBay and I noticed on the backside it had this RCA Studio II ad, nothing we haven't seen before but I thought I'd share anyway. Uploaded with ImageShack.us 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mckafka99 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 I won a Channel F ad from 1977 on eBay and I noticed on the backside it had this RCA Studio II ad, nothing we haven't seen before but I thought I'd share anyway. Uploaded with ImageShack.us Thanks for sharing that! I am still looking for a copy of the RCA Studio II Ads that showed up in the Tv Guide when it was first released. Those ads were the first time I ever saw/heard of video games that could be played on a TV. I remember wanting the RCA Studio II becuase of those ads. It wouldnt be until 30+ years after seeing them that I finally acquired one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari2008 Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 I'm glad you enjoyed it. Hope you find those TV Guide ads, I'd be interested in seeing them. How are you enjoying your RCA Studio II? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toymailman Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 If Fauxscot doesn't make a multicart, I'll make one. I don't have a system, but that could be remedied, I'm sure. This topic seems to have gone cold. Would you still be interested in trying a multi-cart for this system? I have really liked you other products! I was hoping this thread would result in a schematic to upgrade the Studio 2 to have... color (like a studio 3) composite video / mono audio out easier power supply connection and of course the multi-cart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gemintronic Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 I think some amazing collaboration has happened in this thread. Was hoping there would be a hardware revival via more love for the emulator that runs on Arduino hardware. Now that we've got more dumped games it'd be nice to see people building their own new RCA IIs out of off the shelf Arduinos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blazing Lazers Posted December 9, 2013 Author Share Posted December 9, 2013 Just a heads-up, things are only quiet for now. There might well be some more news and discoveries in the weeks to come... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari2008 Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 I look forward to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranger_lennier Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Finally, another Studio II game dumped! This time it's Fun With Numbers. Thanks to brolly for buying the cart, Charles MacDonald for dumping it, and Marcel for adding the .st2 header. Here is the dump in various formats. Use the .st2 format for Emma 02, and the .rom format for MESS. http://www.mediafire.com/download/og13p9ys65y54is/fwn.zipBe sure to read the manual or the game won't make any sense. I played a two player game of Guess The Number and had fun with it once I figured out the rules. It's a good logic puzzle--the same basic idea as Mastermind. I posted links to my full scan set earlier, or if you just want this manual, get it here: http://www.mediafire.com/download/rra6vb8zl3a9diu/fun_with_numbers_manual.zip I believe that all of the American and European releases have been dumped now. We haven't always dumped both an American and European cart for games released in multiple regions, but in cases where we have dumped both, they've always been the same. There are still some missing games for the Visicom, the Japanese clone. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari2008 Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Thank you for this! I look forward to playing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranger_lennier Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Well, I've just been through the worst computer repair fiasco of my life—random computer crashes, backup software that doesn't work, replaced motherboard followed by replaced graphics card-apparently the graphics card killed the motherboard in a bizarre murder-suicide. Anyway, I think I've finally got everything working, so I could finish up the newsletter scanning task. y-bot sent me seven issues of Micro Studio News—issues 0-6. It ran from July 1979 to May 1980. Issue 0 was an original newsletter, and was a short, free issue to promote the newsletter. The others were available with a paid subscription. I only got photocopies of these (probably copied long ago). For the most part, these are easily readable. Issue 6 does mention some material prepared for the next issue, which would have been the first issue of the second volume. But they also discuss the struggle to get subscribers, so I suspect these are the only issues ever released. The newsletter tends to be quite technical. Most of it is user-submitted programs. These had to be typed in hexadecimal using a homebrew cart. There was also no way to save the programs. I'm not surprised that this didn't catch on. Computers and even some consoles, like the Astrocade, had official support for languages like BASIC and could load and save using external media like cassette tapes. I'm impressed by the people who did program under these constraints, though. If anyone uses these to make ROM files, please let us know. Most people will probably want the black and white scans, which only total 9MB. I've also uploaded my original grayscale scans—185MB total. The only real problem I noticed is page 4 of Issue 3, which is difficult to read in the lower left corner. It looks just as bad on the photocopy, though. Black and White: http://www.mediafire.com/download/7v3331o7ocw9z1a/Micro_Studio_News_bw.zip Grayscale: http://www.mediafire.com/download/7v3331o7ocw9z1a/Micro_Studio_News_bw.zip I hope someone finds these interesting. If anyone sees problems with the scans, let me know soon, since I don't want to hang onto the paper version much longer. Thanks y-bot for the loan and for your patience! 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Loguidice Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 It looks like both links are the same (B&W). Do you have the Grayscale link? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranger_lennier Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 It looks like both links are the same (B&W). Do you have the Grayscale link? Sorry about that. http://www.mediafire.com/download/nc5y7bzo5yq1tbs/Micro_Studio_News_grayscale.zip 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari2008 Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Wow!!!! Thank you for these. I can't wait to read them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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