Garfield excluded from atariguide.com

[atari70s]

they say they have all releases before 1995 and have alot of the un realesed games good lucky charliebrown and combat2 plus many more but why no Garfield??any answers? isd there a offical rom of the game?

[liquid_sky]

Garfield ROM

 

Enjoy.

[atari70s]

thanks man always there. (.ZIP man ) why me hehe. any .BIN ole wise one?

[liquid_sky]

You need to uninstall winzip and dl winRAR or StuffIt or another .zip decompressor, as its not worth sitting on a goldmine of files you cant use... look for it in a self-extractor format in your inbox... now go find a good zip program

 

[ 12-29-2001: Message edited by: liquid_sky ]

[Ze_ro]

Dude, you actually bothered to compress a 16k file? Considering how small all these roms are, It's usually not even worth it to compress them.

 

--Zero

[Rhindle The Red]

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Originally posted by The Night Phantom:

I imagine this is the reason AtariAge has bundled the ROM and text file into a single zip file, rather than distributing an uncompressed ROM all by itself.

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AtariAge distributes all the ROMs on the site in .zip form. Most likely, this is because file associations might accidentally cause a program to launch or something like that, if just the .bin were sent. As a .zip file, even if you set it to open, it will just send it to Winzip (or whatever) with no problem then saving the ROM. It also helps to have a standard format for when (such as in the case of Garfield) they have to include additional files.

[liquid_sky]

One Plus of zipfile distribution is ease to email. I tried emailed a friend the binary image of kaboom and he said the virusscanner built into hotmail identified the game as a virus.. so we tried again.. seems hotmails virusscanner thinks all .bin files are viruses

[The Night Phantom]

quote:

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Originally posted by Rhindle The Red:

AtariAge distributes all the ROMs on the site in .zip form.

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Eep! You're right, of course; thanks for pointing out what I overlooked!

 

quote:

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Originally posted by liquid_sky:

seems hotmails virusscanner thinks all .bin files are viruses

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Ya know, I never cease to be astounded by Hotmail. Whenever my opinion of it appears to have hit rock bottom, Hotmail is there to show me how much lower an opinion can sink.

 

I can see it now:

 

From: [email protected]

Subject: KABOOM VIRUS PLEASE READ!!!

 

PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE YOU HAVE AN E-MAIL ADDRESS FOR!

 

If you receive an e-mail with an attachment named "KABOOM.BIN" DO NOT OPEN IT!! It is a HIGHLY DESTRUCTIVE "MAIL BOMB"!!!

 

This is actually a very old virus that has been around since 1981! However its destructive potential went mostly unnoticed until the information was announced from Hotmail yesterday morning. Running the virus has already cost countless hours of lost productivity. Microsoft says this is a VERY dangerous virus, even worse than "FISHDRBY.BIN", and there is NO remedy for it at this Time.

 

Pass this warning along to EVERYONE in your address book and please share it with all your online friends ASAP so that this threat maybe stopped. Please practice precautionary practices and tell anyone that may have access to your computer. Forward this warning to everyone that you know that might access the Internet at any time in their lives. Take out classified ads in your local newspaper and SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THIS VIRUS!!!!!!

[The Night Phantom]

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Originally posted by Ze_ro:

Dude, you actually bothered to compress a 16k file? Considering how small all these roms are, It's usually not even worth it to compress them.

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The link Liquid_sky provided points to an AtariAge file containing the Garfield ROM and an associated text legal notice. Among other things, the legal notice states:

 

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Permission is granted to distribute the ROM code for the Atari 2600 game, Garfield,

provided that the copyright statement in this text file is included with the code.

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I imagine this is the reason AtariAge has bundled the ROM and text file into a single zip file, rather than distributing an uncompressed ROM all by itself.

[Wntermute]

I think if Hotmail tags every *.bin as a virus, there'd be a lot more ticked off Mac people. Mainly because .bin is a common file extension Mac users add to MacBinary encoded files. (MacBinary is used to preserve both the data and resource forks of a dual-forked file when sending to other OSes.. otherwise, only the data fork would be sent, killing many useful files..such as applications)

[liveinabin]

That should be easy to get round. Us mac users only need file extension tags when sending stuff to PCs. macs work fine without them, as long as the recieveing mac knows what program to use for that type of file (and you can always tell it)

[Joel D. Park]

Night Phantom,

 

That mock hotmail email is Fantastic. I got a good kick out of it.

 

THANKS

[The Night Phantom]

Happy to serve. I tried to tone down the outrageousness on the off-chance that someone really would copy it and send it out!