A8 pirate 'Kilroy'

[scotty]

Anyone remember Kilroy? He cracked quite a few games back in the day, and also sold a bootleg copy of the happy chip as well as the US Doubler. I talked to him a few times, and bought the US Doubler from him. He was a pretty good guy. Brian ******** from Buffalo NY is all I remember.

 

[Mclaneinc]

Think he did Alley Cat...

 

Heard of him, never spoke to him, due to being in the UK I mostly spoke to the UK / Euro guys...

 

Every one with an eprom programmer sold US Doublers.

[Fres]

I'm guilty of having a US Doubler that did not come from ICD. If ICD were still around, I might want to throw them a $50 because the USD and SpartaDOS opened so many doors for me. What an innovative company with such a relatively small user base.

Edited December 9, 2014 by Fres

[Mclaneinc]

Also had a US Doubler that wasn't legit but on the other hand I did have a totally legal OmnimonXL (still got my manual somewhere), wanted a Happy but the dark side and the Kent Team arranged for me to have a Lazer drive (copy) which was annoyingly NOT compatible with the frontend software for the Happy, some tool had bastardised it in some daft idea that it made the lazer more legal as it was different.

[+Stephen]

I'm guilty of having a US Doubler that did not come from ICD. If ICD were still around, I might want to throw them a $50 because the USD and SpartaDOS opened so many doors for me. What an innovative company with such a relatively small user base.

Don't feel too bad. Many years later, Tom Harker stole thousands of dollars by collecting money for a second run of a CatBox (Jaguar peripheral), which was never delivered to anybody that paid.

[Bryan]

I worked with Tom Harker for a short while at the end of ICD. It was a while before I knew about the CatBox situation. He had tons of parts for them but needed the preorders to afford the metal cases. After I was set up with an ICD email and phone extension I started getting calls and emails about the late CatBoxes. Tom told me he had lost the records regarding the preorders and did not know who had paid. I left a few months later and Tom eventually abandoned the ICD offices and all their inventory. It's too bad because he had tons of confidential and pre-release Atari things in there.

 

I remember holding a copy of the commented XF-551 source code, a prototype 128K version of the 800XL, prototype Jag stuff, different unreleased versions of the MIO, and countless other things. It was all tossed away.

 

It's funny, when Tom hired my friend and me, we moved our website to the ICD servers. He's kept the pages up all this time:

 

http://icd.com/tsd/index/index.html

 

I still use the tsd logo on my gaming related pcb's.

[+Tillek]

I worked with Tom Harker for a short while at the end of ICD. It was a while before I knew about the CatBox situation. He had tons of parts for them but needed the preorders to afford the metal cases. After I was set up with an ICD email and phone extension I started getting calls and emails about the late CatBoxes. Tom told me he had lost the records regarding the preorders and did not know who had paid. I left a few months later and Tom eventually abandoned the ICD offices and all their inventory. It's too bad because he had tons of confidential and pre-release Atari things in there.

 

I remember holding a copy of the commented XF-551 source code, a prototype 128K version of the 800XL, prototype Jag stuff, different unreleased versions of the MIO, and countless other things. It was all tossed away.

 

It's funny, when Tom hired my friend and me, we moved our website to the ICD servers. He's kept the pages up all this time:

 

http://icd.com/tsd/index/index.html

 

I still use the tsd logo on my gaming related pcb's.

 

Different unreleased versions of the MIO? and countless other things? ........... hints perhaps? *all giddy for what might have been*

[+remowilliams]

Tom told me he had lost the records regarding the preorders and did not know who had paid. I left a few months later and Tom eventually abandoned the ICD offices and all their inventory. It's too bad because he had tons of confidential and pre-release Atari things in there.

 

'The dog ate it, I'm outta here!'

[Bryan]

 

Different unreleased versions of the MIO? and countless other things? ........... hints perhaps? *all giddy for what might have been*

I don't remember many details about the stuff, but the 800XL really sticks in my mind. The PCB had no solder mask; it was just a typical yellow FR4 board with tinned copper traces.

 

The ICD offices were on the 6th floor of a very tall factory building in Rockford, IL. It was owned by Reed Chatwood at the time. Here's someone's pictures of it (note the 130XE).

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/slworking/sets/72157630201337122/

 

Since most of the factory was unused, we could roam around it at will. I always thought it would make a cool Quake level.

[fujidude]

Netscape Now! 2.0 LOL

It's funny, when Tom hired my friend and me, we moved our website to the ICD servers. He's kept the pages up all this time:

http://icd.com/tsd/index/index.html

[Bryan]

Yeah, I have no idea why he keeps the old ICD site online. I wish my pages weren't there.

[Justin Payne]

'The dog ate it, I'm outta here!'

LOL. How appropriate for a feline inspired product.

[lotek_style]

Anybody got more info in them?

 

http://demozoo.org/groups/50445/

[Alfred]

Kilroy's BBS was the first long distance system that I called after getting the MPP modem that did 450 baud. I think I spoke to him once or twice back then. He did some work for a local sysop, The Foreman, who I knew informally that ran the City bbs iirc. Pete was the one who wrote Shrink and then Shrink XE.