MaximumRD

You are very welcome sir. Let us know what we can do to help you as a community. We love content creators here. Anyone and everyone doing their own thing to get Atari in front of people in a way that's fun and positive deserves as much support as we can muster.

Yesterday, software developer John Brooks released what is clearly a work of pure love: the first update to an operating system for the Apple II computer family since 1993. ProDOS 2.4, released on the 30th anniversary of the introduction of the Apple II GS, brings the enhanced operating system to even older Apple II systems, including the original Apple ][ and ][+.
 
Which is pretty remarkable, considering the Apple ][ and ][+ don't even support lower-case characters.
 
You can test-drive ProDOS 2.4 in a Web-based emulator set up by computer historian Jason Scott on the Internet Archive. The release includes Bitsy Bye, a menu-driven program launcher that allows for navigation through files on multiple floppy (or hacked USB) drives. Bitsy Bye is an example of highly efficient code: it runs in less than 1 kilobyte of RAM. There's also a boot utility that is under 400 bytes—taking up a single block of storage on a disk.
 
 
 
From Ars Technica:
After 23 years, the Apple II gets another OS update
On 30th anniversary of Apple II GS, devoted developer releases ProDOS 2.4.
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/09/after-23-years-the-apple-ii-gets-another-os-update/

Blah blah blah headphone jack

Yea even the postal worker was shocked

That's strange, they weighed it and shipped it rather than doing the flat rate?   Saving 10 bucks is great.
 
Nice picks too

Here is what i took out

I LOVE balsa wood airplanes! Great video Willie!

GYCW is back with one of the most overlooked conversions of all time, the infamous Atari 2600 E.T. was actually ported to another system!

Nox currently available free on Origin
 
https://www.origin.com/en-us/store/free-games/on-the-house
 

Ah FAIR ENOUGH. That makes a lot more sense lol. 

Yeah, that's what happened. LJ07 originally posted about this in the Atari 2600 section, but I politely pointed out the fact that MaximumRD already beat him to it. I guess the two threads got merged afterwards.

I think the threads just got merged

I kinda want a ZedX Spectrum, honestly. 

GYCW is back with one of the most overlooked conversions of all time, the infamous Atari 2600 E.T. was actually ported to another system!

Uhm, I post the same video at the start of this thread Lee............?   

Don't think I'm being rude man, because I'm not trying to be rude. Someone already made a post like this on here a few days ago. Sorry.

This is fantastic, thanks for posting it.  Three gripes with an otherwise great and entertaining video review:

1) One *can* catch Atari's E.T. before hitting the bottom of a pit and "beam out" before hitting bottom if there's no phone piece there, and in fact it saves a ton of energy since hitting bottom subtracts 269 energy units.  Granted, none of this is documented in the instruction manual.  But ideally one should levitate during a fall into EVERY pit, and gently lower oneself to the bottom if needed.
2) Atari's E.T. *does* include a way to turn off enemies (choose Game 3 to turn off the Scientist and the FBI Agent, keeping only Elliott).
3) The quoted review doesn't say "inspired by", it specifically says that E.T. is "similar in format" to Adventure and Superman, and it is.  They all have game "maps" traversible in four directions, something not common at the time.
 
In summary: OUCH.  Seriously though, this video BE GOOD. 

saw this on FB.......

GYCW is back with one of the most overlooked conversions of all time, the infamous Atari 2600 E.T. was actually ported to another system!

GYCW is back with one of the most overlooked conversions of all time, the infamous Atari 2600 E.T. was actually ported to another system!

OK this made me lol
 

 
 
This is cool, for more interesting tributes check out Butcher Billy on Facebook
 
https://www.facebook.com/ButcherBilly/?fref=nf
 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 

GYCW is back with one of the most overlooked conversions of all time, the infamous Atari 2600 E.T. was actually ported to another system!

WOW!  Who knew?

GYCW is back with one of the most overlooked conversions of all time, the infamous Atari 2600 E.T. was actually ported to another system!