Jinroh

Yes it is tired to hear from young people how bad Pac-Man and Donkey Kong for the 2600 VCS are. I loved them, when I was young. I didn't know any other versions, but even my father who was a Pac-Man champion played the 2600 VCS version. 😛 Not only are they fun for what they are, but both of them are the de-facto stock video game sound effects for like 30 years. 😄

Congrats! I had to make a new account some time ago or I would be celebrating with you. I got scammed out of $1 in 1999 for some Pokémon cards. 😂

I'm more of a Y-Wing pilot, so cool that it has Y-Wings, A-Wings, U-Wings, and maybe B-Wings too. 😄 I wish there was one for Astromech droids. I have an incomplete BB-8 and R4 Droid build in my garage that I was making good headway on before I survived my stroke. 😒

Very cool day to day minutia of Atari. 😄 Entertaining to see the culture going on through e-mails. This one reminds me of when I bought a book on coding games in C for DOS around....1994 maybe. I did not have a C compiler or have access to a C compiler. 😅 Borland and Watcom were expensive at CompUSA, so...were off limits for me. At least Petrick had engineers she could mooch off of. 😛

I hope you can get it sorted out relatively easy. 🙂

Hopefully nothing major, I thought too, maybe one of the caps is leaky and giving the bad voltage.

Oh bummer, sorry it gives you a scrambled display. I wonder is something came loose or became unseated a bit when you moved. 🤔 Agreed though yes, the MegaSTe is a great unit. I wish I had a Falcon, but MegaSTe is the next best thing. 😛

Here is another snippet talking about it.

Yes from ST Format. 🙂 I don't see why it wouldn't work for the MegaSTe. I assume ST video out, has a joint video out/sync on pin 2 to make that to work. MegaSTe has a video out port IIRC, but I never used it, but I think it is RF maybe.

Battle Toads! Lethal Weapon! 😄 Cool World. 😄

Was poking around old ST magazines, and found this cable schematic to output composite video from the stock ST video port. Did not know this trick, and thought some of you YouTube channel guys might find it useful for recording ST games on the cheap if you hadn't heard of it either. My guess is that it would be 50HZ, rather than the 60HZ NTSC (IIRC the ST monitors are 50HZ), but not sure. Either way a modern LCD shouldn't care, same with a capture device. 😛

Pretty cool, great find. 😄 Never heard of this one.

Exactly! 😄 I hope more products can do this, to at least giving us the option.

I agree, there is much better feeling when dealing with the physical media, but the most of people don't care they just want to play. A shame the creator and community do not want to keep it both ways.

Agree, very nice. Gives me the Gyruss in space vibe.