Video 61

hi, and if you knew that the MMU(memory manage unit)atari used in the the ST could handle 64 megs of ram, what would you say to that in 1985? all jack needed to do is to add two extra lines on the motherboard to accomplish that. instead he hobbled the unit for years to 4 megs in most cases, whilst the peecee and the mac were loading up on ram. lance www.atarisales.com

now some more excellence squeezed into 64k lance www.atarisales.com

hi, correct. he also saw 40 warehouses full of stuff for liquidation. in one warehouse alone, atari had five million copies of ms.pacman for the 7800. jack just started up the largest liquidation in computer history. it undermined his distributors, dealers, even customers that paid full price, till at the end, no one trusted him, and everyone was saying when will the liquidation begin. and jack proved them right again. everyone remembers jobs, it will be the same for gates, but a pioneer of computers jack t. who was he? lance www.atarisales.com

hi, they wanted to take advantage of the incredible inventory atari had at that time. there was something like 40 warehouses full of stuff all over the world. jack being a yard sale type of guy, saw it as a bonanza, he liquidated 40 warehouses full of stuff, and used that money to pay warner for atari, and of course himself. by the time warner caught on, it was to late. so he used the games to subsidize the payments to warner, himself, and create computers, perfectly fit his ideology. except he came from a period where hardware was rare, the period he found himself in later on, hardware was a money loser for most companies, software was everything. jack simply could not catch on at all. he still thought people had to come to him for hardware. meanwhile everyone and his uncle by then could buy a computer, or even make a computer. what sold the game machines was very simple, lots of games, good ones, mediocre ones, bad ones, weird ones, you name it, it helped sell hardware. lance www.atarisales.com

hi, and on the 7800 it is great also. tomcat f-14, f-18 hornet, super huey, were all good sellers for me. atari should have released GATO! atari should have done battlezone also, tank command is a rare one on the 7800, and incredibly hard to play. skyfox as well as rampart should have been released also. atari unknowingly was creating a simulation platform, with a following. but hating games, they were completely oblivious. lance www.atarisales.com

hi guys, now we are back on subject 🙂 great game, notice the nice easy build up of the story of the game, in a clever single screen setup. this is a very clever way in getting you involved in the story, yet it was squeezed into a 64k cartridge. the youtuber used the disk version, i could not find a cart version of a review, cart and disk are pretty much the same. lance www.atarisales.com

hi justin, yes so many of the games back then were designed for t.v. use. lance www.atarisales.com

hi justin, it was ahead of its time for sure, by the time jack relented and spent a extra dollar on shielding, it was a has been. playing most games, one meg or ram will do it. once the falcon came on, 4 megs will do it in most cases. lance www.atarisales.com

hi justin, no one trusted him anymore. by the time the jag came out, jacks way of doing business was dead. he never figured it out. lance www.atarisales.com

yea forgot about the cardboard. jack did basically the same thing with the TT030, it was way ahead of its time, a actual unix work box that was easy to use. he was about two years ahead of the pc and mac. but over that two year period, the TT030 kept failing the r.f. shielding test, jack ended up not budging, then the pc came out with a unix box, jack relented and fixed the shielding problem, by then the industry said TT030, whats that, i got a fantastic peecee. software is the name of the game. it always was, always will be. even when some of jacks software releases did good, he ignored it. lance www.atarisales.com

hi, about a 50% failure rate of the cheap c-64 mother boards made from phenolic material. which has a tendency to etch, and does not handle heat well. jack used the same type of board in the xf-551 disk drive. you will notice that disk drive has a high failure rate. the drive is a absolute mess. you need a special 5.25 disk to format side two, they never made them available to their own customers, it was supposed to be a 720 3.5 drive, never made a dos that recognized anything over a double density formatted disk with 180k per side. lance www.atarisales.com

hi, it was jacks saying minus by cheap asses. everything went to hardware, they hated video games. but the over whelming percentage of software sold, is video games. lance www.atarisales.com

hi, that happens a lot. lance www.atarisales.com

hi, SNICKER!!! but jack was really stuck in the 1970's, he could never figure out what happened in 1979-1980. games, it was that simple. lance www.atarisales.com

hi justin, and jack ignored it all, trying to make pennies on hardware. lance www.atarisales.com

hi, and you got a good one for a buck, nice job! lance www.atarisales.com

hi, atari was always the machine to beat. look what they did with midi maze, then shelved it. the nes could never do that. lance www.atarisales.com

hi justin, i used this one because it has the 2600 version also. it was a milestone on the 2600 to 🙂 lance www.atarisales.com

hi, great list indeed. the opening sequence on the xe version of ballblazer, puts the 7800 version to shame! lance www.atarisales.com

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hi, typical jack, never wanted to pay royalties, but even with the name change, awesome game. here is into the eagles nest. the XEGS had the horse power to contend, you can see it here, lance www.atarisales.com

hi guys, i also forgot thunderfox and rescue on fractulus.

hi michael, i forgot to add star raiders II, awesome game. lance www.atarisales.com

hi michael, i think its the jack thing again. someday i will burn some. i am not even sure they work, i never tried them. lance www.atarisales.com

hi steve, ditto, but also include airball, into the eagles nest, mario bros, crime busters, crossbow, necromancer, ace of aces, the cream of the XEGS cart crop. lance www.atarisales.com