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Nobody knows? I was just planning to save money in shipping costs, that´s why I asked about european distributors, if there are any? With saved money I could buy more new 2600 cartridges. Or was this some taboo question, because my second question was about european Atari 2600 cartridge maker(s)? As I said, I am **not** going to hurt Atariage´s or anyone else´s cartridge sales, I just would like to play some funny hack on my 2600, like some Pinky´s Tennis or some Pac-Man hack. If I want to play new Atari 2600 game, I will *buy* a new Atari 2600 game from distributor. I don´t have skills to make Atari 2600 cartridge, so I need somebody for that. Hopefully someone answers now. If there aren´t any european cartridge makers, I hope somebody could hint me for any trustworthy american Atari 2600 cartridge maker who could put some old hack to cartridge. Is Hozervideo trustworthy?

Are there any? Also, are there any european Atari 2600 cartridge makers who are willing to fill a cartridge with .rom file and perhaps glue a nice label to the cartridge for the same price? I am not planning to rip anyone´s cartridge sales, but might be interested to play some silly old hacks on my Atari 2600, I mean freely available ones which never had cartridge release or might have been sold out a decade ago. I know Hozervideo is still around, but Hozer is on the other side of Atlantic Ocean. Thank you in advance!

Thank you for your answers, everybody! :-) First, I would like to point out, that I have had my Amiga 500 since the Golden Days, so I am not selling it or throwing it away. Second, I am not willing to buy Amiga 600 or any other bigger model either. You lovers of bigger and better Amiga models are free to love your machines, but Amiga 500 is the only "true" Amiga for me. So the solution must be found for my Amiga 500. And no, I am not going to rip Amiga disk drive away from my Amiga just to add some hard drive. I want to keep my Amiga same. :) So, there still aren´t any PC-tools which makes it possible to insert downloaded Amiga 500 game to 3,5" disk and then insert it to my Amiga 500 and then just watch and enjoy while game loads without any problems? It still feels a bit strange, since it´s so easy with MSX, all you need is just to have 3,5" disk drive both for PC and MSX, then just download a game, insert it to 3,5" disk and insert disk into your MSX´s disk drive and load it and it works. (though you may need to use some POKE etc to make it run on certain models, that relates to "great" MSX "standard", but otherwise it´s just that easy) Yes, I know Amiga OS is not made by Microsoft. As Amiga 500 is decades old machine and it was so popular also, I really thought someone had made some PC-tool years ago to solve that problem. Then one would not need any cables or anything else, just an Amiga 500, PC with USB disk drive and internet connection. (and enough disks;)) I think the best option(s) for me are cheap and easy. I am happy with 8-bit games and day by day I am getting older, that´s why I don´t like the idea of putting much money in some "computer geek device" just to have possibility to play few games until I will get bored soon. Could you please tell me how much those "cheap and easy" cables do cost? Thank you in advance!

Hello! I am thinking of finding my old Amiga 500 and trying if it still works. I am wondering if these days there could be some easy way to make downloaded Amiga games to work on real Amiga. I checked some google results, but all were around ten years old and needed a hard disk for Amiga or something similar not too easy for everyone. I don´t have hard disk, my Amiga 500 originally has 512Kb and I have half mega extra memory with memory on/off switch in my Amiga, but I think extra memory didn´t work anymore when I powered up my Amiga many years ago. I have always thought there should be some PC-tool, which allows to insert downloaded Amiga game to disk and also inserts some program to disk to make it readable on Amiga 500. I hope my wish has came true. Sure, I still have my old disks (I hope that my favourite games still work), but it would be nice to download and play some games, which I never saw outside of old computer game magazines. Have a nice day! I hope you can help me!

Thank you for your answers! I guess I must find some cheap Commodore paddles then. By the way, are there separate paddles for VIC-20 and Commodore 64, or does both use the same ones?

Hello! Is it safe to connect Atari 2600 paddles to Commodore 64? I know, Commodore 64 has Atari type joystick ports, but I am asking as I know that certain old computer´s controlling hardware, like mouses etc, may be dangerous to use on some other old computer. In the past I once visited some site, which had list of 8- and 16-bit computers and their hardware and each hardware had a description if it may cause a short circuit if used on some other computer. That´s why I want to be sure before I will try anything else than ordinary Atari type joysticks. Other question is, if it can´t short circuit my Commodore 64, will Atari 2600 paddles work properly on Commodore 64? Kind Regards, MäSäXi

Thank you ninoy. Unfortunately all three joystick types they had, were sold out. I hope there are still some other manufacturers around.

Hello! Are there any companies which are making replicas of 1980s joysticks? Several years ago there appeared modern day copy of Competition Pro, which had four small extra buttons, since it was made to be used with PC. Are those made for PC any more? My main question is, that is there a company which makes 1980s joysticks for 1980s computers? If there is no such companies around, there is surely a demand for such thing!! Yes, one could still buy old joysticks from internet auction places, though prices are starting to get quite silly. But some day there will be fewer and fewer old joysticks, so it would be nice to have possibility to buy NEW (not new old-stock, but brand NEW, manufactured in this millennium) joysticks to use them on your favourite 1980s micro! It would be nice to play again old sport games, like Activision Decathlon and Hyper Sports, but I wouldn´t dare to break my old spare joysticks. It would be handy to buy NEW joysticks again!!! I guess I am not alone with this idea? P.S. I am aware of modding some old joypads to old computers, like Sega Megadrive´s pad for MSX, but I am asking for joy-STICKS, not pads.

Thank you! Though I remembered arcade had five, but maybe I am mistaken.

Hello! I am aware that rooms are looping, that´s why I am asking how many *different* rooms there are?

Oh, ok! Should have watched that other video too! Thank you!

Thank you but I will say nope, Sancho´s Forest seems to be correct answer (so far at least, unless somebody knows more lumberjack games:)).

Hello! A simple question: Can you please tell me the name of this familiar melody which plays during "Lone Raider" is loading? (starts at 0:48) Next song is clearly Flight of the Bumblebee. (2:37) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zENqdWZkOGM I guess the tune is made on some synthesizer? First I thought it is made with Atari, but some effects make me think of synthesizer. Or maybe it is recorded from Atari and modified afterwards? Does anybody know? Somehow tunes remember me of some BBC/Electron game/loading tunes.. Thank you in advance!

Thank you for the answers! And no, I was not searching for any miners but a lumberjack. Pick-axe Pete and Bounty Bob has a similar looking red shirt though, so thank you for a nice try! Forest cover picture looks familiar, though I was remembering that his belly side was visible, but this is the game I was remembering I think. So thank you! Judging from the screenshots, looks like a nice jump-over-the-animals-and-chop-the-wood-at-the-same-time-if-you-can game!

Hello and Happy New Year! I remember I was searching through many Atari 2600 box cover scans on some Atari 2600 site ten years ago and during these years I have remembered one box from that site. Box front cover had smiling lumberjack and I think he was facing towards you and (maybe) he had red shirt. Does it ring any bell which game it is? Thank you in advance, MäSäXi

If you are eager to know more, the whole thing is explained very clearly on following site by the author of the original game. http://www.bigfivesoftware.com/atari/Miner/Technical/technical.html And yes, you can find much interesting Big Five Software information from the same site!

Hello! I am not sure if you are talking about Sinclair ZX80 (1980) or Sinclair ZX Spectrum (1982)? If you mean the first one, and if you are comparing it to TI-99 or TI-99/4A, there is not much point to compare them, except for very different price range. ZX80 had black&white screen, with alphabets and numbers and some ready-defined characters in ROM. 1Kb of RAM. No sound. It overheated easily. If computer had to do something, screen went blank, until task was done, so no arcade games, or at least not arcade games in the form we understand them. And you all probably guessed already, that it had no sprites. ZX81 (1981) was a BIT better version of same computer, and screen didn´t went blank anymore, so arcade games were possible (made from ready-made graphic craracters, of course). This was somewhat popular, as it was cheap and (almost) everyone could buy it. Sinclair ZX Spectrum (1982, but we had to wait to late 1983 here in Finland) had 8 colours (each with two different brightnesses, so it was possible to have 15 colours), 256x192 resolution, maximum of two colours on same 8x8 character, no sprites and it had simple ten octave single channel beeper, which halted the computer when it played, just like on Apple. This computer became really popular in Europe. (at least in some countries, including U.K. of course, Finland, Spain, and some other countries too)

That passenger plane.... I think it is more related to real life scene in 1983, when russian fighter pilot accidentally shot south-korean passenger plane down and americans won 10-0 by making false propaganda (russian pilot/ground radio talk captured and edited by americans) showing that it was shot down purposely by nasty laughing pilots...... May I add, that I have once seen exactly the same cover of Zaxxon, when I was once trying to bid korean Zaxxon MSX cartridge. Of course there was no "Colecovision" text in it.

tigamesshelf is familiar for me already, it has many really good looking BASIC games!! But I meant Commercial cassette (and disk) games screenshots. :) (oh, I just found out that "assembly" section and that it has screenshots which say likes of "1981", "1982" and so on in their title screens, so I guess those are old (maybe even commercial) cassette games)

I will have to say, that I have played Jungler at the arcades in the Golden Eighties, and I loved that game A LOT!!!!!! It´s very good eat-or-shoot-other-worms-and-beware-of-getting-eaten-alive-maze-game!!!!! I still am sad that MSX doesn´t have Jungler, even it was made by Konami.

I wanted to say Munchman too, but I must confess that I felt it a bit too easy game. :/ Otherwise I like it!! But probably in the eighties it would have been hard enough. I have always liked Pac-Man style games!!!! And please do not get me wrong, when I said that I would have liked some TI games to have multicolour sprites. This is because I had always felt sad and angry because of many MSX games in the past were not made to look as good as they could have been looked like. I like single colour sprites too. Especially those TI-99/4A Donkey Kong´s fireballs! They are really Llovely Llooking!! And yeah, Moon Patrol looks and sounds good too!!

Yes, I thought about that. And same here. It wouldn´t be an easy task. I, personally don´t like MSX games that much anymore, have played them too much ages ago. You are fancying MSX games, as your TI didn´t have them, and part of your reasons is probably the fact that MSX games were made years later, so you can find "better" and more "advanced" games on MSX. And then there are many interesting titles on TI-99/4A which were never converted to MSX. :sad: First of all, the One and Only MINER 2049ER If I could have just one TI-99/4A game converted to MSX and get it as cartridge form, it would be Miner 2049er!!!! I like TI version much, it also has a proper title screen, almost the same what Atari original had! Colecovision conversion is not bad either, but it´s a bit different. I just like MINER 2049er game so much!!!! How I wish MSX had Bounty Bob too!! (or that TI had it... I have "grown up" with a chance to play Commodore 64 games sometimes, so there are lots of Commodore 64 titles which are missing on MSX.... :sad: POLE POSITION graphically it´s almost the same as Commodore 64 conversion, water puddles and some other things are missing though and cars seem to "JUMP" instead of softer movement what I remember from Commodore 64. But I still like TI-99/4A Pole Position a much!! POPEYE It´s much better looking than Coleco´s monochrome Popeye sprite, sadly it misses ingame music, I guess it´s because of lack of memory, I think, short tunes are there though and they are really good!! I just like Popeye music, that´s why it feels a bit odd to play it without music, but it´s still very good game!! And graphics are hellishly better looking than on Commodore 64! SHAMUS Yeah, I miss multicolour sprites for hero, (and maybe multicolour robots, made in SCREEN 2) but otherwise I like it!! There are others too... ANTEATER Yes, I Like This Game!! BURGERTIME that "music-starts-again-everytime-you-do-something" can get irritating, otherwise it looks fantastic!! CAR WARS Simple and fun!! CHISHOLM TRAIL Good oldies shooter!! DEFENDER Hmmm... I do hope it had multicolour sprites, but otherwise it looks good and sound effects are really gooooood!! DIG-DUG I like this better than MSX conversion (by Namco, by the way) as this has multicolour hero!! DONKEY KONG Looks a way better than a bit improved Spectrum port on MSX (yes, Multicolour Mario looks hellishly good, but otherwise... it´s very playable though!) HENHOUSE haven´t played, but looks fun! (and GOOD looking too!) MS. PAC-MAN misses interludes, but looks way better than MSX Pac-Man because of multicolour sprites!! (same about TI Pac-Man!!) MUNCHMOBILE Haven´t played this on TI, but I have seen and probably played it at arcades in the mid-eighties. I would like to enjoy this game once more!! PROTECTOR II This was one of my favourites on Commodore 64, and I was really happy to hear that TI-99/4A conversion had that original music too!!!! Sadly flickering multicolour sprites were not used on TI... and it misses something else too, like volcano can´t erupt to the top of the screen, you can fly past erupting volcano on TI.. and sprites move somewhat jumpy way... but it still is Protector II. There are many other good games too, but I just wanted to mention some which I STILL want to play (=haven´t bored at least yet;)) I haven´t played any TI-99/4A cassette games... so I can´t say anything about them.... is there any site which has screenshots of TI-99/4A cassette games? (or disk games?)

Hello again! Yes, I have dreamed for a long time to have possibility to play Texas Instruments TI-99/4A games on my MSX. Yes, I know that although MSX shares Texas Instruments´ graphics chip, TI-99/4A has a different CPU. But thinking of the fact, that with nowadays technology and knowledge, almost "everything" is possible, I wanted to ask, if it is possible to "port" TI-99/4A game to MSX. IF it is possible at all, it wouldn´t be as "easy" as Colecovision to MSX porting is (that´s why I wrote "port"). And if you say that it is possible, in theory at least, I am not expecting anyone porting games for me, as I understand that you are busy already with your own TI-99/4A projects. But I can still dream, can I? Anyway, I just wanted to get my fantasy discussed here. Kind Regards, MäSäXi =)

All "Super Boy" type games have 8 pixel (character by character) scrolling. Maybe you tried a bad .ROM dump or if it didn´t work on your emulator for some reason? Here are the games: Super Boy I http://www.generation-msx.nl/msxdb/softwareinfo/3034 Super Boy II http://www.generation-msx.nl/msxdb/softwareinfo/3035 Super Boy III http://www.generation-msx.nl/msxdb/softwareinfo/3156 Super Bros. World 1 http://www.generation-msx.nl/msxdb/softwareinfo/3279 Super Bioman 4 http://www.generation-msx.nl/msxdb/softwareinfo/3036 Also there seems to be Super Bioman I-III by Hello Soft, but I know nothing about them. Maybe they are Super Boys with different name and maybe with changed graphics? I don´t know.

Hello! Ages ago on MSX Resource Center opcode asked if MSX´ers do want to buy his products if he ports them to MSX and you said that Donkey Kong Arcade could be an option. So, since then I have been waiting to see and play Donkey Kong Arcade on my MSX(1)!!!!!!!!!!! Are you still going to port it for MSX? I ****REALLY**** hope you are!!!! I have another Donkey Kong wish too, that is, if you or somebody else please could port Colecovision´s original Donkey Kong too and put it to the same cartridge, that would be really COOL!!!! Kind MSX Regards to Colecovision folks, MäSäXi