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  1. Kirkman
    I cannot wait for this project to become reality. I'm being tempted by a copy of Atari Karts for sale at the insane price of ~$160. I've been a Jag owner since 1993, but there are a bunch of rare Jag games I've never had a chance to try. Unfortunately they're all way too expensive. So this project would be s dream come true.
  2. Kirkman
    Sorry, I missed your reply! I don't really understand sockets and stuff, so I'm not sure how to answer your question. Can you describe more concretely what you want to do? You might also take a look at the source to SyncTerm, a telnet client which can properly display ANSI, ATASCII, and PETSCII. My app is limited in scope to a very specific use: displaying ATASCII animations on an HTML5 canvas. In terms of file/IO, I'm just reading a text file and parsing it byte by byte. The parsing is the main thing I've been working on ... trying to emulate the way Atari's text console works.
  3. Kirkman
    Just curious: what games were your favorites? Also, do any of you former Atari 8-bit sysops have ATASCII animations stashed away?
  4. Kirkman
    Updated the app today with a first stab at speed controls. You can toggle from 300 up to 14400 bps.
  5. Kirkman
    I agree. Some of these are really awesome. Tom D'Ambrosio did some great work. Do you still have any of your own animations?
  6. Kirkman
    Are you the same StormBringer who did the "ASCII.CTN" animation?
  7. Kirkman
    No ACE-St. Louis. Oh well.
  8. Kirkman
    Thanks so much for sharing those. At first glance they look like duplicates, but I have noticed that sometimes even duplicates have differences. I'll take a closer look later.
  9. Kirkman
    Thanks! It does a few undocumented things like stop the animation on [esc] and then step through frame by frame with [right arrow]. I needed a way to debug the rendering routines. But it's fun to just watch the way the cursor moves around.
  10. Kirkman
    You're the second one to ask me that today. There are quite a few on the Atari, but I'm not aware of any for modern systems, except _possibly_ Edscii/Playscii.
  11. Kirkman
    Hi everyone. I've been working on a project I'm calling AtasciiTube. It's a HTML5/JS app to play for ATASCII animations. I'm still refining the code, but it's working pretty well so far. Check it out: http://breakintochat.com/collections/atascii. Also, I want to send out a plea to anyone who saved any ATASCII animations from years ago. I have found quite a few, but I know there have to more out there. If you were an 8-bit sysop or user back in the day, or maybe you dabbled in creating these animations yourself, please give me a holler! I'd love to add any animations you can send me.
  12. Kirkman
    Yeah, I probably will pick it up after seeing the video. I love my Jag, but I'm not obsessed with getting every game. I'd just as soon stick with the good ones. A year or two ago I picked up Rayman, and I absolutely love it (though it is quite challenging). Games I own: Cybermorph, Tempest, AvP, Defender, Pitfall, NBA Jam, Rayman, Zool 2, Hover Strike, Troy Aikman Football, Syndicate, Flip Out, Trevor McFur.
  13. Kirkman
    I've been a Jag owner since 1993, but my library is still somewhat small. I have seen screenshots of Atari Karts over the years, but never had a chance play it. I was blown away by what I saw on this video. It looks gorgeous. I know it's rare but boy, I'd sure like to track down a copy.
  14. Kirkman
    Have you guys seen the new mobile game Star Trek Timelines from Disruptor Beam? The CEO of the company is Jon Radoff, who was part of the Atari ST BBS scene in the late 1980s. He wrote perhaps the most famous Atari ST door games: Space Empire Elite and Final Frontier. What a way for a career to come full-circle: From "Final Frontier" to "Star Trek Timelines." Anyway, I've been wanting to talk with him about these games for years. I first played SEE as a kid in the 1990s on Flash BBS in St. Louis. Anyway, if you're interested, check out the interview here: http://breakintochat.com/blog/2016/02/02/jon-radoff-creator-of-space-empire-elite-and-final-frontier/
  15. Kirkman
    Wow, that really sucks. I was just trying to connect to SFHQ today after a long absence, and wondered what had happened. Any hope since your last update?
  16. Kirkman
    FWIW, Deuce did finally release SyncTerm v1.0 (Mac download link). As part of 1.0, he fixed the broken copy-and-paste on the Mac! So I unequivocally recommend SyncTerm to anyone using a Mac who wants to call BBSes. Tons of great features, including support for ATASCII. --Josh
  17. Kirkman
    Cybermorph and Tempest took me quite a while. I don't think I used any cheats (beyond sector 6009 in Cybermorph), but I did make use of keys and sector codes. I'm working on Rayman now. I had always wanted the game as a kid, but didn't get it until last year. It's tough! And I don't have the time I had as a kid. @madman, I wouldn't be surprised if the kids hit *, option, and #. I think they were messing with stuff.
  18. Kirkman
    As a kid I beat Cybermorph, Tempest and Pitfall. Today I was playing Tempest with my children and it let me enter a high score. I was surprised ... I thought my score was too low. But we soon realized that the high score list had been reset! It's a little sad ... My keys are gone and all my initials. They had lasted 21 years. Anyone know how this happens? Is it just something that happens with old cartridges? Or is it possible my kids accidentally triggered a reset hitting some combo of buttons in Tempest?
  19. Kirkman
    I also want to say thanks for getting Tapatalk working again!
  20. Kirkman
    My apologies. I saw the title of the thread ("it's too dead in here"), and thought it was a miscellaneous topic. I figured I'd contribute my tiny bit of news at the end of it. Didn't realize the thread was in fact about a specific game. Feel free to delete my posts.
  21. Kirkman
    Just trying to keep the forum un-dead.
  22. Kirkman
    A little Jaguar anecdote. Tempest 2000 is one of my favorite old games. I could always do the Jupiter warp levels pretty well, but the green tracks were my bane. Yesterday I was playing T2K with my kids when I finally beat a green track warp level. Only took 20 years!
  23. Kirkman
    [Fingers crossed]
  24. Kirkman
    Can you run down the best plays to exploit? I have this game as well, and I'm not very good at it.
  25. Kirkman
    I understand th plugin is causing issues for the forum, but I wanted to say Tapatalk is my primary way of reading this forum. I hope the plugin can be restored. As far as the newest versions of tapatalk, all the old features are still there. Click the profile button at bottom right to get a list of web forums. Click a forum and then click the triple line icon to see all the options for that forum, from browsing sub boards to reading unread messages to search, etc.
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