+stupus Posted November 13, 2016 Share Posted November 13, 2016 Now make sure you don't split up that beautiful family of 3 you have there hehehe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari_Bill Posted November 13, 2016 Share Posted November 13, 2016 Any idea when the next batch will ship? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tombstone Posted November 13, 2016 Share Posted November 13, 2016 HOARDER! Yes! I am ashamed to admit that I now have 4 of these. He does such great work. Frogger has to be on the horizon, right? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari_Bill Posted November 19, 2016 Share Posted November 19, 2016 Only four carts ahead of yours Atari_Bill, might ship this week if I get some me-time. I finished making all Tombstone's carts today, these might be shipped tomorrow already. Will continue according to the list. Is this coming soon? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e5frog Posted November 19, 2016 Author Share Posted November 19, 2016 Not shipped yet Atari_Bill, I'll try and make some time tonight already or tomorrow. Been having some more problems than usual with family, life and such, when on sick leave you have all the time in the world but yet nothing gets done. :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari_Bill Posted November 19, 2016 Share Posted November 19, 2016 Not shipped yet Atari_Bill, I'll try and make some time tonight already or tomorrow. Been having some more problems than usual with family, life and such, when on sick leave you have all the time in the world but yet nothing gets done. :-( Ok thanks. I do understand how other things get in the way. Just getting impatient I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e5frog Posted December 10, 2016 Author Share Posted December 10, 2016 All PCB:s are now in a cleaned shell of their own, "after assembly"-tested and edge label on, -15 and -11 also have back labels glued. Left to do:Glue boxes, put plastic on top label, back labels and cut these out, print the last four booklets. It's looking good, I think I'll have it done before Christmas 2016. I think -15 and -11 will be shipped within a few days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e5frog Posted December 11, 2016 Author Share Posted December 11, 2016 All boxes glued, -11 and -15 ready to be packed. Left to do: Attach sticky plastic on top and back labels and cut these out for the 9 carts, print the last four booklets. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoshiChiri Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 All boxes glued, -11 and -15 ready to be packed. Left to do: Attach sticky plastic on top and back labels and cut these out for the 9 carts, print the last four booklets. *bounces up and down excitedly* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazzeri Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 Two months after shipment (yeah, usual stuff) got my copy! Thank you for that! Amazing piece of work! Hope you have new ideas. We still need some 150 new Channel F games to compete with Intv and Coleco libraries. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blazing Lazers Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 Looking forward to mine! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelseya Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 Just wondering how these are coming along? I know I'm toward the bottom of the list and I don't mean to be impatient... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e5frog Posted February 1, 2017 Author Share Posted February 1, 2017 All parts are ready, just final assembly left as soon as there's a window of enough time. If family can keep well and work times are normal I'm sure I should be able to have them all shipped before the end of the month. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoshiChiri Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 My copy arrived yesterday! (Definitely a better Pac-man port than the 2600! ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatPix Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 Wow, I guess I was the lucky one that go a copy early Been enjoying mine alot, showing it around to other people, they got impressed. E5frog, do you think that PacMan is the kind of "top-notch" game we can pull out from the Channel F guts, or there is a bit more room for improvement? I guess you could add some more RAM in the carts, but I do'nt think that would change much on how much stuff you can have on screen... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e5frog Posted February 2, 2017 Author Share Posted February 2, 2017 It's rather advanced, the bottleneck is for updating graphics, writing to the video RAM is a rather slow process if you want to make sure the old consoles will be able to keep up with their slightly slower RAM. The early Luxor machine has slow memory and high CPU, it's running at 2MHz so the delay needed is set by that one. I'm not sure if we ever calculated how many pixels/s or /frame that was possible to get out of it... I think it's mostly a mtter of how much glitching can you take. I'm sure more could be done by more skilled programmers, I just got a few emails from a guy who made a program to squeeze in three virtual voices of music - on the single channel, so there's room for improvement. I'll see if I can arrange a recording of it. It would probably be possible to make quicker games adding look up tables for data in RAM or ROM to make rather advanced "calculations" and so on, if there's people interested in programming for it I'm sure we'll see more fun stuff. Here's a few ideas:3D maze (wireframe type) - perhaps with enemies.Add a light gun of C64 Gun Stick/NES Zapper style that uses light just to trig a direction... perhaps combined with the one above. Imagine a game like Duck Hunt on a Channel F. Ms Pac-Man - should be doable"Princess Rescue" - maybe moving a single screen at the timeSome kind of scrolling platformer would be fun, like that bouncing ball you have to keep bouncing on side scrolling platforms - should be possible. Any game ideas? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatPix Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Interesting I'm sure there is still room for improvement, tho the machine has limitations. But it's what make it fun, too. Maybe a RPG game like Dragonstomper? The problem migth more be in the amount of ROM you can adress? It's hard to think about a game style outside of classic ones... Donkey Kong? Sokoban? Tetris? Tetris might be a challenge speed wise, at higher levels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+fdr4prez Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Interesting I'm sure there is still room for improvement, tho the machine has limitations. But it's what make it fun, too. Maybe a RPG game like Dragonstomper? The problem migth more be in the amount of ROM you can adress? It's hard to think about a game style outside of classic ones... Donkey Kong? Sokoban? Tetris? Tetris might be a challenge speed wise, at higher levels. My Channel F console isn't working, yet, so I've not play the multi-cart. Tetris is already listed as one of the homebrews that are included: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/149932-fs-fairchild-system-channel-f-multi-cart-pre-order-now/?p=1829724 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blazing Lazers Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 It'd be interesting to see a text based game on Channel F. Warlords or an equivalent with two players and two bots would be fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+fdr4prez Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 These should be doable: Chess Othello SNAFU (from Intellivision) Nine Men's Morris Black Box Adventure (from 2600) There may be other games on the 2600 that may be suitable for Channel F, but I am not very familiar with the 2600 library of games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelseya Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 (edited) These should be doable: Chess Othello SNAFU (from Intellivision) Nine Men's Morris Black Box Adventure (from 2600) There may be other games on the 2600 that may be suitable for Channel F, but I am not very familiar with the 2600 library of games. Chess already exists on the Channel F. It was released in Germany by SABA. http://channelf.se/gallery/images/box.back.saba.20.jpg Edited February 4, 2017 by kelseya Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e5frog Posted February 4, 2017 Author Share Posted February 4, 2017 The problem migth more be in the amount of ROM you can adress? You'll be able to reach 64kB at once, ROM and or RAM in cartridge, the built-in 2kB ROM is always in the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+fdr4prez Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 Chess already exists on the Channel F. It was released in Germany by SABA. http://channelf.se/gallery/images/box.back.saba.20.jpg OK, I see it now. It is listed on your multi-cart game list in German: Saba #20 Schach So how about Chinese Chess? I haven't played since the mid-1980s, so I've no memory on how to play. Or the Chinese/Japanese game GO! If the standard 19x19 grid is too big for the Channel F, then a smaller 17x17, 13x13 or 9x9 grid may be OK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatPix Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 My Channel F console isn't working, yet, so I've not play the multi-cart. Tetris is already listed as one of the homebrews that are included: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/149932-fs-fairchild-system-channel-f-multi-cart-pre-order-now/?p=1829724 Oh true, I didn't remember about it, and I haven't ordered one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e5frog Posted February 20, 2017 Author Share Posted February 20, 2017 I finally got a reply about having the last Pac-Man main labels printed professionally, no details yet, they seem to be busy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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