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Free Game Download From Atari in February
RickR replied to Sabertooth's topic in Club VCS's VCS Topics
"Air Sea Bottle" (I'll show myself out) -
Free Game Download From Atari in February
RickR replied to Sabertooth's topic in Club VCS's VCS Topics
OK, apparently it comes from a Digital Eclipse e-mail and isn't real 🙂 -
Free Game Download From Atari in February
RickR replied to Sabertooth's topic in Club VCS's VCS Topics
I'm not sure, I am trying to find out. I got the image on Facebook -
While this is a little alarming, I watched the episode. The guy uses it for retro-gaming! He said it is essentially a flat panel TV with composite inputs. This is exactly what I would use this for!
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Free Game Download From Atari in February
RickR replied to Sabertooth's topic in Club VCS's VCS Topics
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It was worth a revisit though 🙂 Tendi flamboyantly overdoing her singing cracks me up!
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Dakar Desert Rally is free on Epic today->Feb 22! This game looks great. Maybe it's one we could try multi-player with atari.io forum members. https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/dakar-desert-rally Make note that the classic RPG "Fallout 2" is free next week!!!
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First dibs to everyone else. But if there are any left by March 15, I'll take them. I don't have any of those games. Thanks.
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Free Game Download From Atari in February
RickR replied to Sabertooth's topic in Club VCS's VCS Topics
I picked Caverns of Mars Recharged. First attempt: 305 points! I think I need a manual 🙂 It is so cool of Atari to do this. -
Administer electrical shock if user tries to remove cartridge or turn off console too soon. 🙂
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Cartridge slot pacifier!
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For sure. Who remembers those old motherboards that had TWO BIOS chips so that you could flash one, and if it failed, revert back to the other? I know, I know...added cost.
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Related to this topic slightly....my mom, whose dementia continues to progress 😞 For a long time, we had a simple "ladybug" cell phone for her to use. But she eventually lost the ability to use it...BUT we switched her back to a land line with the phone pictured below. And she loves it. She answers it and calls us successfully. So thank goodness these are still available. It costs more than a cell phone, but totally worth it for her situation.
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While I agree with that on principle, I'm also an engineer and know dang well that if there is a way to screw it up, users will find it. Therefore, a system should be designed to be idiot-proof. Store updates on the console itself and do not re-flash carts, for example.
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I'm sure I've posted this one more than once already, but this one NEVER fails to make me laugh. Trombone sneeze.
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My family has had a land line and the same number for ages. A few years back, I finally convinced my wife that we should switch to an IP phone service. So sure enough, we ported our old phone number over and it works exactly the same way. I even hooked up our old wireless phone set (with 3 handsets!). I estimate the switch saved us about $300 a year. My wife liked it so much, she switched her small business over too. As for the cell phones, I think it's cool to see people without them. I like having mine mostly to order food ahead with the discounts offered on apps. But otherwise, I totally get your point. So distracting! Also, travel is getting harder without a cell phone. Some airlines actually charge for printing out a printed boarding pass! And we've also found the luxury of NOT renting cars and just using Lyft/Uber. For traveling, a cell phone helps a lot.
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Aha! More research shows that this is a hardware limitation of the SID, and that it has been hacked for hobbyists who have added a second SID to their system! Here is the hacked version on C64:
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I just noticed something that I found a bit surprising. For the EA classic M.U.L.E., the theme song for the Atari version (which came first) has 4 voices. The C64 version, with the mighty SID chip, there are only 3! Here are a couple of videos cued up to a spot where it is easiest to hear. It starts with drum, then bass, then synth line. The Atari version clearly has two. C64, only 1! The lower-pitched rhythm synth is missing!! Do you hear it too? In any case, it is one of my all-time favorite video game theme songs. Atari version (start at 39 second point if I didn't embed this properly): Commodore version:
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YES! Thanks for posting this, as I was unaware. I'll check this out more closely when I get a spare moment. Some truly awesome efforts in the homebrew space not just this last year, but over the last decade.
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Comfort Games, the ones you keep going back to.
RickR replied to MaximumRD's topic in Classic Gaming General
2600 "Adventure" is one I return to often. I also really love 8-bit MULE, One on One basketball, and Blue Max. And I am known to play Windows Spider Solitaire when I have a minute to kill. -
Oh wow. My family had a TON of these, as one of my aunts was an Avon salesperson. We had the cars, and presidential busts. When I had to liquidate my parents' estate, I sold them all, but kept one...a Portland Trailblazer bottle that kind of looks like a trophy.