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I used to have one.. but it was years ago. Can anyone hook me up? Even better if one is available that can run on a windows PC rather than through emulation.

I actually ran across a title that does not work properly. It is Fidget on disk 41. The poor little guys feet are missing.. it's a little hard to play when you can't see them. I just grabbed the version from Fandal's site and it works just fine.

I've been going through homebrew for the Atari 8-bit and hand picking out games that I like. I'm looking at this one.. and I want to like it.. But I can't for the life of me figure out how to finish the first level. At least in Magnetit 2000 I can get past the first level. But this first level for the original Magnetit has me baffled. At best I can get two letters extracted before all my possible paths are blocked. Help!

Yeah I downloaded recently a few attachments with more complicated names and thankfully they turned out ok!

Thanks for these.. I completely forgot about Dallas Quest!

Thanks guys.. I figured the two most likely culprits were either custom read/write code or lack of interest in a particular game. I didn't think about the limitations of rewriting to flash carts too much. I'm mostly interested in these multidisk 2 cart images for emulation anyways. Just to save the hassle of disk swaps. I did forget to mention Gauntlet Deeper Dungeons. Which I know was converted.. but the guy created a Multi Game cart for that one. So it's not standalone.

I was wondering if any of the following games ever got converted to a single disk images or to the MaxFlash cart..? 221B Baker Street Blade Of Blackpoole Bop'n Wrestle Field Of Fire Golf Championship Jinxter Jupiter Mission Lode Runners Rescue Mail Order Monsters Millionaire Mindshadow Pawn, The Phantasie Phantasie II Racing Destruction Set Seven Cities Of Gold Star Fleet I - The War Begins Universe Wargame Construction Set Thank you

Yeah I'm guessing it is not working on standard MAME/MESS cause the Hardware info shows the YM being there. I'll probably setup a7800 on my laptop and see what happens when I run it there. Unfortunately they forked into their own version. But no biggy. It's just one game and the TIA sound is quite good anyways.

Whoops... I meant to say it's not detecting the YM sound..

The top screenshot. However Pacman Plus stated in the thread that the game won't be capable of detecting pokey when run in emulators. So no biggy. I was just curious to see how the Yamaha sound in the game was.

Screenie here says XM is loaded ( mentions YM sound as well ). Yet know indication from the main screen that it has been detected. Please note this is the official mame build ( retroarch ) and not a7800 which is not under retroarch. ( I've been using CMD files to activate things like the XM and high score cart ). Hmmm Pacman Plus does mention emulators not detecting the Yamaha.. so maybe that is what it is.

ok. I got the two XM titles working. Got sound in Donkey Kong XM which originally I was not getting sound. To me the Pac-man 40th anniversary pokey does not sound any different than the XM Yamaha sound? Maybe I'm missing something. I had to revert to the 2nd to last release of Pac-man 40th anniversary. The final release would just sit at a blank screen. The Pac-man 40th anniversary small mazes doesn't work for me at all. No biggy I guess since I honestly don't hear any difference between the two. I've just been doing some experimenting with Retroarch MAME and in order to do this kind of stuff I have to create a ".cmd" file for each game that I want to run in a special manner. But these experiments will also lead me to be doing other things with other PC or console based emulators in MAME with some work.

I only ran into two titles that should be playing pokey in emulation but are not. One I was able to edit the header file to "trick" MAME into playing pokey sound. The other I was not so lucky.

I've been getting into setting up a7800 to use the XM and Hi-score cart emulation. Which homebrew currently takes advantage of the XM specific features? The only two I know of off the top of my head is the Pac-man Collection 40th Anniversary and the Donkey Kong XM. Are there any other titles?

Thanks for all these nice 2600 conversions.. Just one slight, subtle thing that is important to gameplay strategy in Fishing Derby. The speed for pulling the fish in is supposed to be slower and it speeds up when you press down the A button. Plus the fish tend to resist a little more on the original than they do on your version. Otherwise, good work!

I really hope you plan on getting the search function fixed.. it's slow and completely erratic. I received numerous "community not available" screens when trying to do various searches in the 5200 forum.

Probably 1983.. I believe my first modem was the Atari POS 1030.. I remember I could type faster than the thing could send text. I eventually updated to a Hayes compatible 1200 and the eventually 2400 modem. I was a CO SYSOP of various BBS back in the day. My neighbor had a fairly popular one at the time running on an Atari 130xe. He owned a MIO so he had it running on some decent sized hard drives . Another friend of mine who moved to another neighborhood also ran a BBS. His ran off of a 1050 drive and a dual sided floppy drive.. I forget the name of the drive. I got involved with fidonet stuff around 1987ish. A guy online helped me setup my PC so that I could dial in and download the fidonet threads I was interested in and it ran all of that software mentioned in the documentary ( including PKXARC ) to decompress all of the message threads so that I could read and reply to them without having to connect to his BBS. I definitely remember having to dial at certain times of the day to reduce phone call costs. I eventually setup a BBS on my PC running off of a 30 meg hard drive. It only lasted 3 months before I accidently killed the hard drive. Oh I was so naive back then in handling my hardware.

Doi.. Don't know why my eyes saw the words BBC.. I'm gonna watch it but yeah.. a lot of that tied back into fido-net.. Which I was partially involved in back in the day. I don't follow these kind of things as much as I used to .. but I think a similar situation may have been and / or is occurring with GIF / JPG / PNG.

BBC did a documentary on this?

Well way back in the day in the PC world. Arc was the king. But then the owners of the Arc protocol wanted to charge license rights so everyone switched to Zip. That is the way I remember it. 7zip came along much later. I'm not convinced that 7zip is better than a RAR solid archive ( which is pretty much what 7zip is ). But then I'm too lazy to do tests. My biggest beef with WinRAR is it always seems they change something that forces you to have to update it to be able to decompress more recent archives. 7zip is ok.. but it's interface leaves a lot to desire in functionality. That being said.. I can decompress zip, 7zip, RAR and various other archive types no problems with WinRAR. Both are integrated into my file explorer right click menu so I can use either one. Personally I don't like Winzip.. but each to their own. Either way I'm not fussed to much about it..

Happens to me three!

ZeroPage Homebrew changed the topic title at some point. Maybe that is what threw you off.

I don't know if you have any plans to work on the Deflection ( Dark ) theme or not.. but at the top right of the screen I have this.. and it won't go away. That junk about "Find results that contain". Otherwise it seems to be ok? I probably won't notice anything until I start using the forum more. BTW welcome to the flipside. I guess I'll have to wait for the search indexes to rebuild. I've been revisiting some of the homebrew images like I occasionally do to make sure I have the latest.

"Never tell me the odds" - Han Solo Normally I would just say to bring your towel and peril sensitive sun glasses!

Well I myself tend to be pessimistic... but that being said I honestly hope things go well. So far this board has survived the transitions despite the odds. Just make sure the forum is double vacinnated maked and double boosted before the transition! Sheesh... some people are so rude.. How dare they speak to their elders like that!