JayoK

Yeah, I'm a lurker too. I logon perhaps 4-5 times per week and just read. Registered in 2003 and only 223 posts since then! So I'm averaging ~12 per year or 1 per month. I just love reading what people are still doing, and playing and the innovation in the place. It's funny, I work with software myself (Product Management), but I can never seem to find the time to play with my Atari's and I've plenty of them!

And 3.5" are "diskettes" as they are in hard plastic ... a 5.25" is just a "disc" if I remember...

Ok, well this has escalated, I suppose not a big surprise, but can I just repeat some of the messages here from the (very small) buying community, a modest increase in cost for royalties towards the end-user is not an issue. Well no potential purchaser here has complained, so let's take that as a positive from this. At the same time, the huge efforts from @candle and @flashjazzcat are recognized and purchasers want to give back to this. On top of it all, the quality of products from @lotharek is also acknowledged. Let's take the positive, the community has a good view of the offerings thus far. So the polite request is please don't take this to the legal route, no-one will win (except the lawyer in fees). There is some history there that none of us outside the loop know, but I am hoping this is more an understanding and clarity of the position. Perhaps take the conversation off the general forum until a conclusion is found. (BTW I'm a purchaser of VBXE, U1MB upgrade, 64K SRM and the FJC firmware, etc., so I've benefitted from all of your collective work, I realise there's costs involved for all parties)

Sorry to hear this conclusion - I mean Lotharek was transparent that included in the cost was fees to the designer/authors of the software - which I have no issue with - I don't understand the objection to increase from $8 - $12, as the cost simply needed to be passed to the purchaser IMHO. As for inflation, it's rampant worldwide

Well, the fact you don't have to burn/install/test is key You can load OS/Carts/etc now on the fly. However, with the advent of emulators, Ultimate Carts, etc, I would see limited appeal unless you'er still developing/burning EPROMs for the boards (ultimately, you will still need to put the code somewhere permanent)

Not spooky castle, but Robin Hood had a castle in game.... this is a stretch: I see "Spellbound" Magic Knight was listed above also, but I know the game as Spellbound.

Yes, of course. I suppose if I really stretch it… it there’s a few castles near it

Hm... I think Quasimodo lives in the basement of the castle... one of my favourites. Great music and humour.

I remember using MAC/65 to cross-compile for a 6802 processor, and it stumped me why there was 3-bytes (injected) into the OBJ code. In the end, I just hacked a basic program to read and remove these bytes. For my own information, why is this needed with OBJ files? Thanks.

Who-hoo! Vote sent!

Yeah - I bought my 1st one as I always thought it was cool as a PBI device. Then I bought a 600XL and it came with one. I still love the notion of it

My first real job -- I learned so much that day

Not an Atari story, but in a former role (20+ years) ago, I received a brand new (expensive) Dec Alpha server for my company and it needed to be commissioned. As typical back then, it came in pieces and it has to be assembled (CPUs, disk controllers, etc, etc) all into the chassis. I had completed assembly and powered on the box. As it started through it's bootstrap, it detected no disks. Hmm.. so I looked into the chassis and saw that the SCSI cable wasn't pushed home fully. Stupid moment commenced: I reached in, and pushed the cable home, meanwhile my "metal" watch touched something, and an small bang with a smell of burning followed. Uh-oh... panic... on/off, check cables, etc. Burning smell continued... turned-off and think. Call to support, reported as DOA and an engineer was dispatched. He arrived took one look at the server and then at me... said... "DOA? Yeah right." New PSUs were installed and an invoice followed for a 2 x PSUs and Support Engineer... I had to explain. I haven't worn a watch since.

Oh Kik Start. My first ever Ragequit game. If you timed it all right the bike would fly... if you missed 1 jump you crawled forever. Was worse in 2 player mode as you’d never catch them if you made 1 mistake ...

I didn't know him personally either, but I learned so much from his work on the history and was continually fascinated with his unfolding discoveries of Atari's history. RIP Curt.