globeron Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Frankly, I got this score after the third attempt. In one try, I lost 8 ships in the saucer wave in the red (3rd) level ... this was pretty close to tossing that f** joystick across the room. (I did not know that I still had these feelings inside ) That level is very hard, I managed once to get after that and asteroid belt, but then the fast one came and game over. Suzo Joysticks The Arcade so far good (I saw that Mantadoc also has those). I think I know what the next game will be :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Frankly, I got this score after the third attempt. In one try, I lost 8 ships in the saucer wave in the red (3rd) level ... this was pretty close to tossing that f** joystick across the room. (I did not know that I still had these feelings inside ) You should play a 16-player death-match of Halo some time. Really comes out, then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 Only 11 hours left, guys.... Let's see those scores!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 Welp, that does it, guys!!! Congratulations to mizapf on his ridiculous score!!! Mizapf also wins the bonus prize for first Killer Sattelite posting. Tough month this month for the gamers... Mizapf pulled out the big guns and wiped us all out. I will be updating the top post in the next day or so with the winner's info. Mizapf will be along shortly to post the next game!! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwantgames:) Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 Congrats on the win Hopefully I can find time in between packing to move, baby Dr visits, and work to play some TI this month. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 Juchu! (like [yoo-khoo], the ch being the voiceless velar fricative) Playing games is somewhat similar to riding a bike - you seem to never forget some basic moves, even if it's 30 years ago. Recently, a friend of mine came here, and I said, "Have a look at AtariAge - we're having a gaming competition ... and this month it's Parsec". He just grinned. He remembered well that afternoon about 30 years ago when four of us sat in front of the TV set, playing Parsec for hours. We took turns, the joystick was passed on to the next one when a ship was lost. After an hour or so, we decided that one of us had the duty to deliberately crash the fleet until the first ship disappears in the list. The game went on for another hour, and I am pretty sure we cycled the counter (more than 1 million) ... at least once. I remember that the surface color remained yellow after level 16, and for a very long time, so we should have been somewhere well beyond level 20. Here's a screencast that I took some days ago, showing a 100k points session. As you will notice, the game was suddenly over, but mainly because I had difficulties with the diagonals on the Competition Pro. I desperately tried to back off from the Killer Satellites, but the upward direction did not work reliably. The next game will be announced shortly. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 Wow... That was educational. I think I have never gotten through the Asteroid belt on the first purple level... I remember getting down to "5.....4......3.....2....KRABOOOOOOOM!!!!" I have gotten to the Killer Satellites 4 or 5 times over the years, but I've never crossed 100k. May I just say about the new MESS speech core.... WOW!!!!!!!!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 Yes, the speech implementation is pretty good, but I cannot really say much more about it, other devs have been working it. I know it has to do with the patent specifications and uncapped TMS52xx chips, chirp tables etc. But it's not really new; the implementation is from about a year ago, at least. Also, I'd like to say it would be nice if the winners of the upcoming competitions could also post a video clip of a good match if possible (need not be the winning one). For instance, I would have loved to see how to really play Crossfire (I seriously sucked at that one). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 ^^a good suggestion^^ is from about a year ago, at least It has been longer than that since I had MESS installed... 2013 or so. I don't have a decent screen/audio capture software, or Id be happy to post a Crossfire gameplay video. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 (edited) I found this list of capturing software: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_screencasting_software I used SimpleScreenRecorder (in Linux) for the Parsec clip. Edited February 2, 2016 by mizapf 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 So we're about to go for a new competition ... There is unsettling news: Astronomers report that a gigantic fleet of alien spaceships is heading towards Earth! Below is a picture taken by a telescope, which shows a ship of the first incoming wave. And there seem to be many more coming... This month February will be the month of defending our planet against the ... TI Invaders! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted February 2, 2016 Author Share Posted February 2, 2016 So we're about to go for a new competition ... There is unsettling news: Astronomers report that a gigantic fleet of alien spaceships is heading towards Earth! Below is a picture taken by a telescope, which shows a ship of the first incoming wave. And there seem to be many more coming... This month February will be the month of defending our planet against the ... TI Invaders! oh man that game is evil hard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shift838 Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 Crap. I suck at that game! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 I don't have a decent screen/audio capture software, or Id be happy to post a Crossfire gameplay video. I've been very happy with Open Broadcaster Software (which can stream or record). Works on everything I've thrown at it so far, though I recommend the Windows-specific version over the newer multiplatform one, at least so far - but both work. https://obsproject.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 (edited) Has been quite a while... First worm wave, not horrible (but definitely not great) for my first time back in the saddle. My best was in the mid 20,000s, but that was at least a decade ago... Edited February 3, 2016 by Opry99er 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 By the way, it turned out that the invaders are "merely aggressive" (things could be worse)... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 I also found that to be the case, Michael. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Which level are we trying for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMole Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 This is very unlikely to stand, but here goes anyway: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 First try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 This is very unlikely to stand, but here goes anyway: Screen Shot 2016-02-03 at 16.17.57.png It looks like you did really well on the bonus UFOs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jedimatt42 Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 Isn't this one of the games with the secret code for infinite lives? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMole Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 It looks like you did really well on the bonus UFOs! Yeah, I typically end up with only 4k-ish points there, but I did well on both the yellow in-level UFO's as well as the in-between level orange one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
globeron Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 I found this list of capturing software: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_screencasting_software I used SimpleScreenRecorder (in Linux) for the Parsec clip. I am using Camtasia (http://discover.techsmith.com/try-camtasia/?gclid=COvhstDQ4MoCFegp0wodmw8FUg) for Windows. but I do not know (yet) how to do recording directly from the F18A VGA port (for Composite port I have a device Composite to USB) and also how to record the Sony PSP Player? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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