[INTERVIEW QUESTIONS: David Paige (Atari VCS Marketing and Development) & Bob DeCrescenzo (Atari 7800 Developer)]

Hi, this is my question:

As a co-developer, how should we approach Atari if we'd like to see our (Atari 8-bit computer) games on the new VCS?

[DPC+ support !]

Hi, been a while since last activity in this conversation, but has there been any progress in bringing DPC+ support to the Plus/UnoCart?

[repAInt, iconic images recreated by AI]

As for the prompts, here is a couple of examples. Note that these prompts may not have been applied to the original images. In many cases I have generated an output image and then used that image to generate further iterations.

Positive prompt: Beautiful girl lying on her side, blonde, long hair, lilac dress, shorts, european, green eyes, RAW photo, cleavage, busty
Negative prompt: (easynegative), (badhandv4), bad quality, worst quality, lowres, illustration, painting sketch, ((asian))
Additional parameters: Steps: 20, Sampler: Euler a, CFG scale: 7, Seed: 3872395887, Size: 1280x576, Model: laura_v11, Denoising strength: 0.24, Clip skip: 2

 

Positive prompt: RAW photo, beautiful girl, long hair, black hair, ((green bra)), busty, cleavage, muscular man, turban, white shirt, brown vest, holding sabre, blue silhouette of a Persian palace, Prince of ((Persia)), best quality, high resolution, masterpiece
Negative prompt: (easynegative), (badhandv4), bad quality, worst quality, lowres, illustration, painting sketch
Additional parameters: Steps: 20, Sampler: Euler a, CFG scale: 7, Seed: 348494506, Size: 1280x864, Model: perfectWorld_v3Baked, Denoising strength: 0.24, Clip skip: 2

[repAInt, iconic images recreated by AI]

5 hours ago, twh/f2 said:

Whoa that had an impact. Great work PG and Poison.

 

Thanks! What does Poison have in common with that, though?

[repAInt, iconic images recreated by AI]

I had to touch up many of the images that contain text using "inpaint" feature as otherwise AI likes to ruin the texts with nonsense. I even did not bother to fix all of them and instead focused on the imagery and the most prominent texts. In some cases I removed the texts from the original images.

All text could be preserved but that would really be a tedious task. Not to mention that I'm still only learning what can be done.

[repAInt, iconic images recreated by AI]

There were too many. I can post them if you ask for a particular one 🙂

[repAInt, iconic images recreated by AI]

Yes, I might have preserved the cat if I focused on it but there were so many things to keep in the image and achieving a perfect result would require a lot more time. Some of the generated images were done in a couple of minutes, others took half a day.

[repAInt, iconic images recreated by AI]

Thanks for the post. I've uploaded my video to YouTube:

 

[International Karate RC and RCX cartridge conversion - all in one!]

10 minutes ago, Beeblebrox said:

Sure, personal preference I guess. What would think if the actual lines weren't there and there was just the gradient banding?

 

eg   but obviously wider banding

I tried that first and the luma steps are too big. Does not look good.

[International Karate RC and RCX cartridge conversion - all in one!]

It might work better with interlacing the adjacent lumas, especially on NTSC. It would flicker slightly but not that much. But it has also be considered that adding DLI change to almost every line would eat some valuable CPU time.

[International Karate RC and RCX cartridge conversion - all in one!]

 Not sure if DLIs on the background would work but here's an attempt. Also updated the lower part of the top image a bit if anyone wants to run it through RastaConverter. Just 12 colours in total.

 

[Is the SUB Cart good?]

I have replaced AVGCart with SUBAVGCart and I am happy with it. It does all that AVGCart does and adds quite a few new features. POKEY emulation is not great yet but it will get there. Covox works flawlessly and so do other features I have tried. It's a great solution to expand your Atari without soldering, hole drilling or even disassembing your preciouis machine.

[International Karate RC and RCX cartridge conversion - all in one!]

I've finished another background, this time it's the Odawara castle in Japan. Background color for the players should be $18, dark player could be $76.

 

Original image as taken last year by @R0ger:

Mockup:

[THE!CART... New 128MB FLASH Cartridge]

All right, that makes sense, thanks for explanation. 🙂

(I mean the explanation, not the law )

[THE!CART... New 128MB FLASH Cartridge]

Business-wise, wouldn't it make more sense to have the e-shop open to all and then maybe provide a small discount for members?

[THE!CART... New 128MB FLASH Cartridge]

On 6/3/2023 at 2:45 AM, Mathy said:

Hello Ken

 

 

If you're a member of the ABBUC, you'll find some in the ABBUC shop.  "Mitglieder" --> "Mitgliedershop" --> "Hardware"

 

Sincerely

 

Mathy

 

Completely unrelated, but what is the point of having an e-shop behind a paywall? 🙂

[Scorch - full game for Atari 800 and up]

One little bugreport: there shouldn't be a period after an ordinal numeral in English (like "3rd.tank").

[Still working on GTIA V-Gate?]

Not sure if it has been mentioned, but what is the actual visible screen area (in hires pixels) with the UGV?

[New Atari 800XL Revive Machine?]

Btw. one thing to consider regarding keyboard is the length of the space bar. While standard Atari space bar is 9U (1U being width of a standard letter key), modern keyboards mostly use 6.25U length and it's pretty much impossible to get the long space bar anywhere. For the sake of customizability (e.g. getting a keycap set from WASDkeyboards.com), it would be advisable to consider the standard modern space bar for the RM800 keyboard.

[Respectfully requesting for any AA members who have one more Ultimate Cart they would sell :)]

Why don't you just get an AVGCart? It's better in pretty much every aspect and quite affordable.

[New Atari 800XL Revive Machine?]

I was bored today...

 

 

[Homesoft]

Nicely done conversions! Also replacing the sampled FX is a pity a but certainly better than the distorted sound resulting from use of RastaConverter.

[onEscape Physical Release - Information and Ordering]

2 hours ago, -^CrossBow^- said:

I was able to finish the game last night. Really well done and the music is worth the price of admission along with the cool story. I will state that the last number puzzle I did have to write down all the permutations before getting it... unless it was mentioned somewhere else in the correct order during game play that I somehow missed?

Spoiler

There is no hint in the game regarding the correct order, it's just a matter of trial-and-error, though there are only 24 possible combinations. However, the correct combination is hidden somewhere in the manual.

 

[Atari 800XL CPU: 8302 ???]

Isn't 8302 actually production date? Week 2 of 1983.

[What is wrong with The Extirpator]

On 3/28/2023 at 1:39 AM, oky2000 said:

Well considering the way SID and POKEY make sound in a completely mutually exclusive way I think Rob Hubbard's wife did a great job converting Thalamusik to POKEY (the name of the tape loading music for C64 Sanxion). Rob Hubbard didn't write any AY or POKEY tunes, his wife did all the conversions he said in an interview.

 

I think it's pretty good for budget price of a couple of bucks back then, played a LOT worse full price games and with much more crap music too. Couldn't find a real copy to buy on tape sadly.

Can you please link the interview where he mentions this?