Noble Kale

Lets go through this, point by point, shall we? 1) Something revolutionary? What other consoles came close at the time other than the sms? How about things like the Rob Robot peripheral? I've never seen anything like it for another system.... 2) The nes was one of the only systems to come through the crash. It enjoyed large amounts of popularity, even while the rest of the consoles fell back to earth. <-- I'd call that an interesting history. 3) Original and interesting games? I can think of quite a few. For me, while the concept of platform games was not new, Super Mario Brothers 3 blew away all competition at the time. I'd say that it was quite damn interesting. And extremely fun. While it's a pain in the ass to get it to work half the time, it is in my mind a classic. The funny part is, when people say 'pre crash'/'post crash' determines what a console is. Really, that has no relevance anymore. Given that I was born in '83, I can't exactly remember the crash. As such, in defining a 'classic' system, one should simply ask 'is it still being sold/produced'? If it ain't being sold... it's a classic imho. (ie: dreamcast & ps1 are classics to my way of thinking, as is snes & mega drive)

Virtual cup & ball (or the mystique variation) ReakSports Crowd Surfing

mind you, one atarigirl was preoccupied with ho's at one point....

Have you tried using the dos program st2dos? it takes disks that have been formatted and then makes them readable in both st & pc. I've only used it for 720k disks (and 1.2mb disks with tape over the hole), but it may also work for 360k. As for copying programs in .st or .msa format from pc to st - I load the .st or .msa file in steem, as the second disk (using a blank image as the first disk), and copy them to the 'hard drive' that I've set up under steem. Then, I just head over to the directory where I located the 'hard drive' for steem (generally c:steemhomec), and the files are there to be copied. Unfortunately, this means that some disks that require special formatting are not possible under this method (unless I format the disk that way). So, the method is imperfect and I'm looking for a much better way

eBay snipefest ("All the thrills and spills of losing a precious game to some bastard who sniped at the last minute for five cents more") Snatch the Cartridge ("Run around the thrift store stealing cartridges off kids who think they're toy hammers, dodging puddles of.... you don't want to know, all while avoiding the strange smelling aisles....") HypnoCart ("just look into the pretty spiral.... loooooook..... loooooooooooook")

I once had a vcs that worked, but smelled funny. The day I brought it home from the thrift, I popped it open and found some weirdass gunk in there (freaking purple in colour ), and a few weirdass bug things. Well, I left it outside to air for a week, cleaned it off (with some pretty damn harsh cleaners), threw a combat cart in and it worked Mind you, I handballed that particular vcs off as soon as possible (though I did throw an air freshner thing into the vcs before I closed it).

The pirate thread is for raising post counts? *raises eyebrow* no, surely these threads are for that purpose: http://www.atariage.com/forums/viewtopic.p...ight=catch+stan As for Albert & Aimee, nooooo comment! (just kidding)

I take my hat (pirate or otherwise) off to you Albert, you're a smart one

While I congratulate you, I must note that you're the first I've known of who wanted to be a vcs. The main downsides being: - You have strange objects shoved into you - Too many people want to play with you. - Your nickname is 'Woody' (or worse, 'Junior') - People will/can dismiss you as 'too old' to be fun anymore - Most people want to keep you 'in the box'. - Those who will play with you, will probably also have others to play with. - You get posted around a lot - You'll sit on someone's shelf because the 'other model' doesn't 'chew' carts

My next question: can you enlarge the number of people in the 'Highest posters'?

My current few: Atomino (Atari ST) Moon Patrol (Atari ST) Joust (2600) Kirby's Adventure (NES) Turbo Sub (Lynx)

All I get is a blank grey box. (I've refreshed the image several times, still no go)

I've noticed that the 'lust' smilie seems broken?

how about this pirate smilie?

Bless your soul :wink: :wink: I see mr green is back in action

I miss the 'ole Eeek smilie. He was cool. (wait, just found him!) Aside from that, I can see myself using a lot now... If I make a ghost rider one, can you throw it in next to stan's spidey? :)

I notice that the icon just doesn't get the point across that the old animated one did

It looks to me like the guy home made the patch himself (or something similar). Another Alternative though, is that he drew up a picture in paint shop pro, then just added a texture on top of it so that it looks like its made out of a patch (pretty cunning if he did, probably hoping to make a killing) Either way, it wouldn't be a genuine patch. However, if he made it, it looks pretty cool. If he's faked it using paintshop, he's a bit of a bastard.

It scares me that Stan posts more than the Als :wink: :wink:

Nice feature. Funny how Thomas's avatar suddenly becomes super-sized after you create the feature though

I like it. Of course, I must now look around

Thank you I wondered why it had been left out.

I've noticed that the name of the thread being posted to is not actually present on the post reply page. This is fine if you post to one thread at a time, but I find using tabbed browsing that it's easier to post to a number of threads at the same time. As such, can the name of the topic be added to the 'Post Reply' page? Please? I almost posted a pirate post into another thread, where I'm sure it wouldn't have been as welcome

hmm, I must agree though, the overall 'look' doesn't quite gel with me. However, I'm sure that given time I'll get used to it. Just a shock difference from the old boards I guess Edit: Oh, btw, I notice that we're limited with regard to our signatures. I went to put a few more things in mine, and it said it was too long :(

Large avatars == A++++ :) Oh, and what are the requirements for more stars? I notice stanjr doesn't have his stars full anymore....