Jeffy Arensmeyer

Hey, no one wants a half-assed beating. You've got to beat our full asses. It's become a standard. ò¿ó

None of this (HSC) is about that anyway. It's about fun. Of the games we've played, most I had never really sat down with until the HSC. That's why we're here; To play new games and gauge our playing abilities. And the Atarilympics were just and extension of the HSC that paralleled current events. Good deal. It's not worth causing a division (of haves and havenots) in a vain effort to eliminate cheating and dishonest scores. They're going to happen, just like eating grapes at the supermarket or cheating on taxes. Some people will do it because it's an alternative. ò¿ó

It would be tough to eliminate emus, especially if you include games like Track & Field. Many people aren't going to have the games, so you've alienated more than half the field by excluding emus. And cheating should be valued for what it's worth. To put restrictive rules on everything from emus, to photos, to joysticks, just for a friendly "merit-type" system is somewhat overkill. The cheaters will cheat, or at least cause enough confusion to periodically disrupt trust and confidence. This shouldn't evolve into photos of scores signed in blood. This should be incentive for everyone to know the games well enough to decisively "call out" cheaters and elminate them, instead of "How is that possible", or "It must be the emu" or "What kind of stick", etc. Some type of system for event scheduling is needed as well. Announce all of the games upfront, but have specific time periods for each event. And as a reinforcement for all events, limit any team member to a specific number of score posts per event. Essentially everyone would be allowed to post no more than 3-5 scores for any one event. That would help keep the thread from "photo clogging" as well as reduce the so-called sniping. If you've posted your 3-5 photos, hope they stand or save some shots for the next event. And I've not said it in this thread, but I thoroughly enjoyed the games and thought they went very well. Ze_ro has taken a large bull by the horns and won. Thanx for all you've done, and continue to do here. ò¿ó

A great idea, but very time consuming. I'd love to do it, but too many things are happening for me now. Are you going to leave enrollment open for late comers, or people like me, who just can't swing it right now? ò¿ó

Everyone can call it what they want; I'm pro-(whatever it is). a better score, whether it comes in the proverbial first hour (like all of the Activision Decath scores) or whether it comes in the twelfth hour. I'd rather spend time doing other stuff when I feel like I've done my best, but it's the late scores that push me further. Like I always say, if you give people an early target, someone will eventually hit it. It's about priorities, and if you're not willing to defend what you put up whenever the challenge, you can't complain when someone else beats it, early or late. And thanx for making me play the Swimming Relay. I didn't realize how similar it was until I sat down to make a score. Tough on the eyes, but fun, especially getting the jump start. ò¿ó

Call it sniping, or whatever, but I hate to lose, so if someone runs in and posts a better score, I'm hitting the game again, and will post better results if I get them. My wife was reading, my daughter was asleep, so it was either watch more of the closing ceremonies, or go for a Relay time. A rotating schedule would help this situation. I'm not going to get up at 2:00am and check scores, so a system that leaves a large enough period of time for completion for everyone, but forces them to post and then go on wife life could be effective. It's weird that it's considered sniping to post scores up until the last minute. Considering the entire event lasted two weeks, and I took only two days to play, that makes my 9:30pm post on Sunday relate to posting sometime early Saturday. And the four event minimum is a great idea to keep one team member from monopolizing a team, but it made it very difficult to pick events, especially if you come in spuratically or late. You don't want to bump your members out of the medals, but it's frustrating knowing you can get a better score, but you jeopardize your team by bumping someone. A minimum and maximum system should be employed. Or a maximum limit for single team members on one game, as was the case with Todd. He single-handedly locked down "Activision Decathlon" for his team, leaving all of them to play the other games. ò¿ó

Well, it was own fault for not keeping up as the two weeks went by, and then trying to read everything in one day, but the way the medals were handed out was "news to me". If I had know that ties would involve the reduction of other medals (i.e. two tied golds and one bronze, or gold, two tied silvers and no bronze), I would have bumped some of my team mates scores. Unfortunately, I thought that multiple same-medals could be handed out in each event (i.e. two golds, two silvers, one bronze, etc.). Like I said, my fault for not reading up, nor understanding true olympic rules. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. ò¿ó

It's also a matter of things you can do with a keyboard versus a joystick. Just today, when the discussions about rowing started, I fired up Stella and gave it a try. You can hold the left direction down and then just half stroke with the right direction and get those times. Trying holding left and alternating right with a joystick. ò¿ó

If an event had a tie for Silver or Bronze, did all get a medal or just some? And we (Team Japan. ò¿ó

...Leo Daniels' personal bio... ò¿ó

Page Faults and General Exceptions on all of them. My computer is a mess. I've got to load XP, but I don't have an entire day to waste doing it.And it's a mystery to me how a windowed screen runs slower than a full screen. Not at work, but at home, a full screen equals very slow play or a "blue screen o' death". ò¿ó

...and Bill Mitchell. ò¿ó

You can go here. ò¿ó

Yup, but on the twelfth stroke, I would hit left then. And I was pushing right (on the relay) on the fifteenth return stroke. That could possibly suck for some people. PCAE 2.6 is all I can get to run at home. I'm battling an un-updated version of Win98 with a registry that looks like a dictionary exploded. I've tried Stella, PCAE and z26, old and new versions, with only PCAE 2.6 actually working for any period of time. And Track & Field is about 10 times more fun than Activision Decathlon. It seems that T&F scales the running speed versus the event. I could get 1300 cm/s on just about every event, except the 100m Dash. I tired and tried, but all I did was waste energy I could use for other events. And I pulled my index card from 15 years ago on my Decathlon scores, and couldn't even get close, much less have something to post. ò¿ó

I've got one. Have a good, clear television. Both swimming events essentially came down to two things... pressing right as soon after "Ready" as possible without faulting and watching that tiny hand every time it touched the water. My small television isn't that clear, so I was about to go blind on the Swimming events, then you came in and pushed the time down very late in the evening. After my last post for the Relay, I couldn't see straight. ò¿ó

Agreed, just not tonight, at least for me. :dogasstired:ò¿ó

I'm offering this up because it's medal worthy, but it doesn't really matter. Some members of Team Japan don't have 4 scores each, so we're screwed anyway according to the rules. I've done this for two days now and it's been fun, but I'm ready for it to be over. No wonder everyone else is grouchy as hell about every little "thought" of irregularity after two weeks. ò¿ó

I'm running a 32Mb video card, 700Mhz AMD, 512Mb RAM, so when I make my PCAE 2.6 full screen, it runs at about 5 fps, but thanx for the "new info". ò¿ó

And I just remembered... I'm not sure about you guys, but when I play on an Emulator versus a console, the game seems much, much faster on the Emu. I'm wondering if there's no software limit on the speed increase of the food since the Atari console has definitive calculation limits that would govern speed, therefore the programmers had no need to put in a software limit. Thus, on an Emu, the speed increase would max out at the Emu's top calculation speed and not the pseudo-console speed. Just some food for thought for the programmers... ò¿ó

I'm posting early this week because this score took over an hour to get. I'm not wasting anymore weekend time on this game. At about an hour per 33K, it would to stand to reason that 100K would take about 3 hours, and 1mil would take about 30 hours. ò¿ó

Two improvements and one new. ò¿ó

Thought I had this cart, but I don't, so it's Emu time. ò¿ó

More either later tonight or tomorrow. ò¿ó

You take " " too seriously. Just giving you some grief, since I've apparently gotten my fair share from you in here lately. As I told Ze_ro, I've been very busy, and I actually came in and read all 16 pages (a good example of why every little score change shouldn't be posted) after I saw your siganture, just to find out what happened to Rocko. An amusing situation, but I thought it was weird how you typically refer to trolls as "it" and suggest everyone ignore them, but you patronize him by giving him space in your signature. And I have actually played two events, at work, during lunch. They were a dismal 1:00.00+ on the downhill and about 20K on the hacky sack. Playing on the Emus definitely has advantages and disadvantages. More tomorrow and Sunday, if not for anyone but Team Japan... ò¿ó