VicViper Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 Centipede. Centipede is love. Centipede is life. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeguychicago Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 Was playing some Mario Bros. the Bob D. 30th Anniversary Collection last night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funknflow5200 Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 Centipede. Centipede is love. Centipede is life. especially the frameless trak-ball version! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VicViper Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 especially the frameless trak-ball version!Hmmm dunno, hesitant to mess with perfection. I've used my wico track ball before and it worked "OK." what is the big difference? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sramirez2008 Posted December 23, 2015 Author Share Posted December 23, 2015 After spending half the day at an actual arcade, I will spend a couple more hours playing the following games this evening, before packing for a trip to N.Y. Asteroids, Astro Blaster, Astro Fighter, Asteroids Deluxe and last but not least...Space Rocks! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sramirez2008 Posted December 24, 2015 Author Share Posted December 24, 2015 Astro Blaster is awesome...even more awesome with the Edladdin Supreme 78: All-Play 4/8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carbon Tiger Posted December 24, 2015 Share Posted December 24, 2015 Donkey Kong Jr. one of my all time favorite games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted December 25, 2015 Share Posted December 25, 2015 XMAS TIME, just to celebrate Christmas! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted December 26, 2015 Share Posted December 26, 2015 Beef Drop Normal Skill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 Beef Drop Child Difficulty. TOO slow on early levels and I was in a hurry during this playthrough! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaynz Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 Scramble and Dungeon Stalker... 'cause.. well, I just got the carts. Though the 7800 is getting a 'pro-level' cleaning this week... so to the ROMs I must go. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 (edited) Beef Drop Hard Skill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_--KSrnMugM Edited December 28, 2015 by oyamafamily Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xgames Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Lets see playing Fail Safe and Midnight Mutants Midnight Mutants is proving to be allot better than i had originally thought.Pretty tuff game aswell wish there was a save/code feature on that game . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inky Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Alien Brigade. Much better game than I remember, although for some reason I keep killing the humans when I don't mean to. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nosweargamer Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 Jinks Xenophobe (both in prep for the next podcast) Plane Smashers 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinks Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 Weez played super pac man score 24500 my best run as I suck, astro blaster, astro fighter, and dungeon stalker oh and some zippy 2600 on the 7800. I learnt my daughter sum gamzes after getting my ass handed to me on wii u splatoon. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 Beef Drop Easy Skill. One more video and statistical table to check out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynxpro Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 (edited) Hmmm dunno, hesitant to mess with perfection. I've used my wico track ball before and it worked "OK." what is the big difference? Okay, going into education mode here. The Wico trackball just does joystick emulation. It's well constructed but without modification, it just does joystick emulation [like the Colecovision Roller Controller]. Now fellow AtariAger BigO has modded one to export "gray code" so it functions exactly like an Atari Trak-Ball for games that support them. You can find his posts over in the 2600 forums. Another concern that's been brought up about the Wico, based upon Dan Kramer's evaluation for Atari going back to circa 1983, is that it has the capacity to really tax a 2600 power supply. Now, back to Atari. Dan Kramer designed the CX22 for the 2600 and the awesome CX53 for the 5200. The Atari Home Computer Division then took the CX22 design and made their own CX80 from it to match the XL computers. Despite having a Trak-Ball, none of the original 2600 games truly supported it; only in joystick mode. That's been rectified in the past few years here at AtariAge by people like Thomas Jentzsch and OmegaMatrix. Thomas started the trend with 2600 Missile Command-TB a few years ago but in the past couple of months, him and Omega have added support to 2600 Centipede, Millipede, Reactor, Star Wars the Arcade Game, Colony 7, and more to come. On the Atari 8-bit computer front, only Missile Command - and Slime, a game not released by Atari but by a third party software house - offered native Trak-Ball support originally. But most of Atari's titles for the 5200 had native Trak-Ball support built in for the CX53. So people like "Glenn the 5200 Man" back in the day ported/pirated the 5200 versions of those games back to Atari 8-bit so they could use their Trak-Ball controllers natively. If you want a non-modded console with great Trak-Ball support that you can acquire original cartridges and just plug-and-play, you need the 5200. As for 7800 Centipede and its alleged perfection, it does have Trak-Ball support built in but for a Trak-Ball that was never released*. Thus if you hook up a CX22 or CX80, they'll only work in joystick mode. Kenfused hacked this and added back support for the CX22/CX80. That's unofficially called 7800 Centipede-TB. It's only available as a ROM but you could get Albert here to create a cartridge of it. Or, when the Concerto SD Cartridge Adapter is released, you could play the ROM on your 7800. So, as it stands, 7800 Centipede isn't perfection, at least from a Trak-Ball Controller perspective. Well, that and missing the POKEY audio from the Atari 8-bit/5200 versions, but that's a whole different can of worms there. *If you do a Google Search for a 7800 Trak-Ball, you may come across Video61 selling a "7800 Trak-Ball". It's bogus. It's just a CX80 modded so the left and right fire buttons function as independent 7800 buttons but it won't magically restore native Trak-Ball mode from regular 7800 Centipede. Edited January 3, 2016 by Lynxpro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Defender_2600 Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 Hmmm dunno, hesitant to mess with perfection. I've used my wico track ball before and it worked "OK." what is the big difference? And in case may be of interest to try a version with alternative graphics, recently I made a 7800 Centipede hack in which I removed the frame/border around the playfield along with some other graphical update. Kenfused's Trackball support is included (Thanks again, Ken! ). http://atariage.com/...cade/?p=3257450 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynxpro Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 (edited) And in case may be of interest to try a version with alternative graphics, recently I made a 7800 Centipede hack in which I removed the frame/border around the playfield along with some other graphical update. Kenfused's Trackball support is included (Thanks again, Ken! ). http://atariage.com/...cade/?p=3257450 Still needs POKEY audio. [ducks]. And if one supported the XBOARD, the arcade audio could be used since it was Dual POKEY. EDIT: Sorry, forgot that it's Millipede that did Dual POKEY and you corrected me on that in that other thread months ago. Sorry! Hey Defender, since you got in touch with Kenfused, can you ask him if he'll authorize Albert to sell his 7800 Centipede-TB in the AtariAge Store? Or perhaps yours could be sold as Centipede-Arcade or something to that effect. The reason why I ask/recommend this is because we're getting a lot of requests from people over in the Facebook Trak-Bombers and 7800 owners groups to be able to purchase a cartridge version of them for the native Trak-Ball support. Albert informed me he doesn't have permission to sell it outright in the Store so Kenfused - or you - would be needed to authorize him to do so. Edited January 3, 2016 by Lynxpro 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinks Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 I dont get why these simple shooter games need pokey where there was no background music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VicViper Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 (edited) Okay, going into education mode here. The Wico trackball just does joystick emulation. It's well constructed but without modification, it just does joystick emulation [like the Colecovision Roller Controller]. Now fellow AtariAger BigO has modded one to export "gray code" so it functions exactly like an Atari Trak-Ball for games that support them. You can find his posts over in the 2600 forums. Another concern that's been brought up about the Wico, based upon Dan Kramer's evaluation for Atari going back to circa 1983, is that it has the capacity to really tax a 2600 power supply. Now, back to Atari. Dan Kramer designed the CX22 for the 2600 and the awesome CX53 for the 5200. The Atari Home Computer Division then took the CX22 design and made their own CX80 from it to match the XL computers. Despite having a Trak-Ball, none of the original 2600 games truly supported it; only in joystick mode. That's been rectified in the past few years here at AtariAge by people like Thomas Jentzsch and OmegaMatrix. Thomas started the trend with 2600 Missile Command-TB a few years ago but in the past couple of months, him and Omega have added support to 2600 Centipede, Millipede, Reactor, Star Wars the Arcade Game, Colony 7, and more to come. On the Atari 8-bit computer front, only Missile Command - and Slime, a game not released by Atari but by a third party software house - offered native Trak-Ball support originally. But most of Atari's titles for the 5200 had native Trak-Ball support built in for the CX53. So people like "Glenn the 5200 Man" back in the day ported/pirated the 5200 versions of those games back to Atari 8-bit so they could use their Trak-Ball controllers natively. If you want a non-modded console with great Trak-Ball support that you can acquire original cartridges and just plug-and-play, you need the 5200. As for 7800 Centipede and its alleged perfection, it does have Trak-Ball support built in but for a Trak-Ball that was never released*. Thus if you hook up a CX22 or CX80, they'll only work in joystick mode. Kenfused hacked this and added back support for the CX22/CX80. That's unofficially called 7800 Centipede-TB. It's only available as a ROM but you could get Albert here to create a cartridge of it. Or, when the Concerto SD Cartridge Adapter is released, you could play the ROM on your 7800. So, as it stands, 7800 Centipede isn't perfection, at least from a Trak-Ball Controller perspective. Well, that and missing the POKEY audio from the Atari 8-bit/5200 versions, but that's a whole different can of worms there. *If you do a Google Search for a 7800 Trak-Ball, you may come across Video61 selling a "7800 Trak-Ball". It's bogus. It's just a CX80 modded so the left and right fire buttons function as independent 7800 buttons but it won't magically restore native Trak-Ball mode from regular 7800 Centipede. Well, consider me educated. Until a version on cartridge comes along, I'll continue to blaspheme and use my Sega Genesis arcade stick. I would commit my funds to a cart release of the above mentioned Centipede Arcade or Centipede TB if it came out on cart. With or without Pokey Edited January 3, 2016 by VicViper 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynxpro Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 I dont get why these simple shooter games need pokey where there was no background music. Because the POKEY versions sound better than their TIA counterparts and the POKEY should've been the base 7800 sound chip from the start of the project. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynxpro Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 Well, consider me educated. Until a version on cartridge comes along, I'll continue to blaspheme and use my Sega Genesis arcade stick. I would commit my funds to a cart release of the above mentioned Centipede Arcade or Centipede TB if it came out on cart. With or without Pokey Albert can make you a custom 7800 cartridge for either of them. Just mention which ROM you want and what label you'd like... https://atariage.com/store/index.php?l=product_detail&p=950 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinks Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 Because the POKEY versions sound better than their TIA counterparts and the POKEY should've been the base 7800 sound chip from the start of the project. The extra 2 channels for pokey is nice. But the tia can sound amazing with enough programming talent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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