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  1. Tickled_Pink
    Um - I assumed that I couldn't? I remember when my uncle brought back an NTSC unit back from Venezuela and found that PAL carts didn't work on it.
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    So, looking at this thread, the gatefold copy of Surround I bought years ago but never tested because I assume it's NTSC can finally be tested if I got a 2600+?
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    Yeah, same here. I think a lot of us are jaded with some of the shenanigans that we've been critical of before. They've often been accused of effectively misreading the room or doing quick little cash grabs. But recently they seem to be getting things on track and if they continue to do that then most of us will be cheering them on. I've bought very few games for the Switch and, TBH, its spending most of its time not getting a second look, but one I did buy was Tempest 4000 because I loved Tempest 2000 on the Jag. And it's just as good. I'll sometimes take it to the yard we keep our horse and sit in the car just playing T4K while my daughter goes off for a ride. I sold my boxed Jag a few years ago before the market went nuts but kept my copy of T2K "just in case". It doesn't necessarily mean that they have to stick to their old IP, though. But original games cost more to produce and, in some sense, the market's more unpredictable. At least with a modernised version of classic IP, you should already have a ready and willing user base. I would like them to re-release every title they ever created, even ET or Pac-Man. A smart move from them is to change the box colours from the original so that people don't get conned into thinking they're buying a NIB 1980 original. And I'm happy that they seem to be going back to the coloured boxes rather than the silver ones. And who knows, it might help to drive down the cost of collecting the originals as well with people realising they can buy the re-releases, therefore reducing the number of people willing to pay some of the silly prices on eBay.
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    Yeah. Nobody reads site announcements. Pfft! We generally figure it out as we go.
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    LOWER DECKS! LOWER DECKS! ...

    1. Albert

      Albert

      Watched the first new episode last night, much watch second one this evening.  :)

  6. Tickled_Pink
    I've shopped at AliExpress so, no. No, I wouldn't. I like this version of yourselves. Where has it been all this time? We have seen some dodginess over the years, including some anti-community practices and companies allegedly not being paid for work, and that's what's helped to contribute to the distrust amongst the community. Pretty sure there was a thread some time ago about someone getting a ridiculous cease & desist from Atari, although I can't remember what it was about. The 2600+ is the first product I've genuinely been interested in from the current company. My only quibble is that it doesn't look full-size and doesn't come in a 70's era box for the ultimate nostalgia injection. Berzerk was the first cart I bought for mine and so I'm definitely interested in the revamped copy. Wife has asked me what I want for Christmas. I couldn't think of anything. Now, I have some ideas. 🙂 Don't suppose you have a copy of My Horse and Me 2 lying about in the office, do you? 😂 Daughter used to have it years ago on the Wii and recently asked me to find another one. She's now 21. 🤦‍♂️ I remember some years ago, you had a competition for developers to come up with new versions of Atari IP for modern platforms. I'm sure there are some coders on AA who might be interested in getting involved in another one.
  7. Tickled_Pink
    So, there I was, just had another miserable race in Assetto Corsa Competizione, sweating after 45 minutes of that in a hot office and I decide to quickly browse facebook when I see this ... And I'm like ... WTF?? Then I check the date. Nope, not April 1st. Then I start thinking ... don't believe everything you read on the internet, especially Facebook. And then I read the posts and there's a link to the announcement on here. So, congratulations are in order to add to all the others. Unlike others who were picking up clues, I had no idea. Zero. Zilch. I guess this means a little less stress? It's only good if it's a little less stress. 🙂
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    The Atari site does list worldwide retailers. I don't know where you live but Amazon are the official retailer in the UK. I was surprised at the price. Not been a big fan of retro consoles as they've either been expensive or haven't done anything I can't do on my softmodded PSP. But at under £100, it's probably cheaper than getting a HDMI upscaler that can take an RF input. So, it's definitely tempting.
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    Oh, yeah. Forgot to mention that this was the issue. Basically I have to offset the Y position so that it's bigger than I actually need it so that I can then do a 0-16+ypos, or something like that so that the flag is properly set.
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    UK having to shut many schools because of weak concrete. First two schools in Wales to shut are on the island, including my daughter's old high school.

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    2. zylon

      zylon

      replace about 10-15% of the sand in it, with dried, almost burnt, coffee grounds, and gain nearly 25% compression strength

    3. Tickled_Pink

      Tickled_Pink

      As far as I know, no incidents as yet but the affected schools are being closed as a precaution. One of the issues with this concrete is that it's full of air and when it starts to crack or crumble, water can get in and start attacking the rebar. The island has five high schools. One is relatively modern, having been built in the 80s, so it's of brick construction. The other two schools are my old school and Llangefni, which I would have gone to if we hadn't moved in '78. Both schools are almost identical in design and are currently being examined. They were built in the 50s, which is around the time the concrete was mostly being used.

    4. bent_pin

      bent_pin

      Full of bubbles, less reinforced than its counterpart, and unsealed is just a recipe for disaster. People will do anything to save a buck. 

       

      Thank goodness nobody has been hurt.

  11. Tickled_Pink
    I'd moved my timer content display variables to 'x' and 'y', I think. The clue that they were being constantly overwritten and rewritten was the flicker and one digit being replaced by a control character. Moving them to var50 and var51 fixed it.
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    Yikes. Almost a month without an update. Last week I did some refactoring. 7800 basic code can quickly become a bit of a mess. This caused an issue with the display of the timer. Took me a while to pin it down. I think a couple of standard variables are reserved? I just moved the variables to other standard variables and timer worked again. Just working on the laser firing mechanism and animation at the moment. More state management. For each laser.
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    Workmate today told me how excited he was to play Starfield in a few days. Had to tell him I'd played 10 minutes of it before work this morning. Got the Premium edition with my RX6800XT which seems to have an earlier release date. <smug>

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    2. Tickled_Pink

      Tickled_Pink

      Just spent a couple of hours on it. It's kind of like a cross between Skyrim and Mass Effect. In some respects, the combat is more enjoyable than in Skyrim and the interface seems to be slicker IMO. BUT there are some issues on my system with the audio. It also freezes for several seconds as it seems to be constantly loading content, which usually causes dialog to be mismatched with the NPC's mouth. Just checked the specs and everything apart from my CPU is at the recommended. When it doesn't freeze, it runs well with everything cranked up to Ultra, although I've noticed some graininess in the image. Possibly due to FSR.

    3. bent_pin

      bent_pin

      See what other stuff is running in the background and make sure you have enough virtual memory allocated.

       

      Gald you are enjoying it other than a couple small issues.

    4. Tickled_Pink

      Tickled_Pink

      The graininess is actually down to a "cinematic" filter they have. It's deliberate. You can turn it off. I dialed the graphics all the way down. Still some freezing but it's not as bad. I'd already cut back my startup programs a couple of weeks ago.

  14. Tickled_Pink

    BBC News Article: "What has India's rover been up to on the moon?"
    My brain: "Opening a convenience store."

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    If we performed as badly as Larry, we'd be fired on the spot. What is he holding over the Government? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_(cat)

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    2. Tickled_Pink

      Tickled_Pink

      @bent_pin Then why haven't they made him disappear? Got to have some kind of insurance in place.

    3. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      Heh  😼

    4. bent_pin

      bent_pin

      He's a furmidable opponent. Furtunately, he's friends in the press, and if his dead letter gets published, it would be catastrophic there will be now purrdons. Besides that, he's got a great purrsonality. Anyone who wants to challenge him should ask if that's the meowntain that they want to die on. For the meowment, there's not much to be done.

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