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Is there are wireless solution for people with big TVs?
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On 8/29/2023 at 11:45 AM, 82-T/A said:
I will definitely take you up on this, if you host the website for me.
I recommend https://neocities.org/browse
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On 8/27/2023 at 10:04 AM, 82-T/A said:
Ugh... figures... all of the comments are super negative. I guess I don't understand this, this has never been my personality... but for some reason, people seem to really feel the need to trash this. Other than giving a technical reason because blah blah (fake stuff), can someone tell me what drives someone to seek to poo poo on something when it doesn't affect them personally?
Here is a suggestion, perhaps list all the products that you like and plan on purchasing on a website. That way the internet can know ahead of time what they should not be critical of.
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Anyone sit close to a large HDMI screen these days? How long is the cord? I think this should have been wireless for these reasons.
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3 hours ago, leech said:
Curious what you would change? I would have wanted a heavy sixer, myself. Definitely would be better if it were FPGA. In fact this is one of the perfect examples of why FPGA doesn't count as emulation.
I would have wireless joysticks (two instead of one wired), and wireless paddles. I would also make it work with homebrews. In other words compatible with the original system.
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On 8/22/2023 at 7:18 AM, King_Salamon said:
As soon as I can order one in Canada, I will definitely order one of everything. Not because I need a new system but this will give me an HDMI 2600 that allows me to play 7800 and also gives me new paddles to use! (Sure beats having to open up and cleaning old jitter paddles)
I hope to see this stuff on shelves in Canada and other countries. This is more of what an Atari Flashback should have been in my eyes.
Not 100% compatible is fine with me. I have my old faithful 2600 for those and the homebrews but this one can be on display and hooked up all the time. Man, I'm excited for this. lol
I did not know it came with paddles , I thought it came with one wired joystick
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I am glad he decided to split the book into two. I would rather read the tech story and just skip the political one. I found his personal politics to be offensive. Just my opinion, you might like them, but they are not anything I am interested in.
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On 8/1/2023 at 7:28 AM, mickster said:
I list the items I need, my customer number, my address, and my credit card info.
Not a fan of sending credit card info through email, it is not encrypted.
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16 hours ago, danwinslow said:
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
From "The Second Coming" by W. B. Yeats
You use your tongue prettier than a twenty dollar whore.
- Taggert (Blazing Saddles)
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I called the number on his website during his own posted business hours. No one answered, but I did get an answering machine. It said to leave a message with what you were looking for in order to get a callback. Left my number and what I was looking for. No callback. I purchased from someone else instead. I would recommend others do the same, just skip the calling part and find the parts elsewhere. We are talking about parts for obsolete machines that were mainly designed for children nearly half a century ago. It's not worth dealing with "special" people like this character, so I am kind of glad he did not bother to return my call.
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From the developers:
That's Stella's jitter emulation. The game will not run stable on all CRTs.
You can reduced the sensitivity or disable it in Developer settings/Video/Jitter & Roll.
They marked the bug as closed.
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I opened an issue on github.
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Do you use a switchbox to go between your different systems or does your TV have a bunch of inputs?
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12 hours ago, Savetz said:
The family has decided to destroy all of Glenn's disks.
-Kay
I am sorry to read that, I can almost hear the disappointment in your post. The work you do in archiving is a gift to the community.
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Can anyone recommend a paddle gnob replacement source?
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Looks like it supports Linux now as well, but I ran into a problem trying to run it in Debian 11.
./AquaLite64 (The Linux Edition).out: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.33' not found (required by ./AquaLite64 (The Linux Edition).out)
Developer might want to link to a static version of this lib as a fix? I would be happy to test against my system.
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Is there a test cart for the Atari VCS/2600, something that runs the TIA chip through it's paces?
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IMHO , if you write a game and get paid then you are a professional. I prefer to think of these "homebrew" games less as homebrew and more as the products of small (sometimes very small) developers/companies and that the Atari VCS is still alive , like back in the day, because of them. Some of these new games are superior to games written in the 1980s. I pretty much just play Atari and other retro systems on my TV and I own a PS and Xbox, but they are not hooked up anymore.
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I purchased a composite mod on ebay for my 2600 a few years ago. I thought it was OK, but I am now noticing weird beeps and stuff when a game is not playing. They are faint sounds but you can hear them. Also , some sound is loud and some is faint. For example when playing 8K pac-man, and Pac-Man dies, that sound is noticeably fainter than the other sounds. I am going to open up the machine later tonight to see if I can spot anything obviously wrong, but any tips before doing so is appreciated.
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29 minutes ago, Allan said:
The problem with this is that pirated software (all 1970-1980 platforms) is sold on ebay all the time. And that is a good thing. Usually.
If it wasn't for the ability to sell 70s-80's pirated software there would be many rare titles lost. So if eBay stops people from selling brand new made pirates of classic software, they are also going to stop others from selling software that was pirated 'back-in-the-day' and therefore make it REALLY hard to archive really rare programs. For every common (big seller) game disk, there are many other programs that never sold in large numbers and are extremely rare today. Usually you can only find these in pirated software.
So even though it sucks that there are some people that try to take advantage of others on eBay, it is better that eBay doesn't stop this because it would become almost impossible to get un-archived non-game (or rare game) software.
Between archive.org and asimov , I am not so sure about that.
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17 hours ago, agradeneu said:
Well, seems he is not. Don't blame the forum for his flaws, he got a whole lot of support from fans, but obviously that was not enough for him.
Do you know how much support? Like in dollars/sales? I figure he did this to try and make more money for his work by "promoting" it.
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You can report pirated software, video or music on ebay. But I suspect you are correct and that ebay does not care. There is also bootleg car parts and other electronics everywhere on ebay and Amazon. Neither seem to care. Buyer beware.
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Yeah, by 2001 I had called it quits tooo.
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5 hours ago, x=usr(1536) said:
What timeframe was that in? We may have some commonalities in that department.
1997 or so
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I meant controllers. Something like the product released recently for the TG16 emulator thing, wireless controllers. You can reset and start a new game from the sofa.