RickR

Bear with me, I'm not sure what I'm doing. This article on some very classic hot rods piqued my interest: http://www.automobilemag.com/news/eight-favorite-american-dream-cars-of-the-1960s-from-the-2017-pebble-beach-concours-delegance/ The "Reactor" in the article gave me a feeling of deja vu. i know I've seen it before. Sure enough, the article mentions how this car was used on several classic TV shows, such as Star Trek, Batman, and "Bewitched". Here it is as the "Jupiter 8" from the Star Trek episode "Bread and Circuses": Not from the actual episode, but a pretty cool picture of William Shatner in costume with the car. And here it is as Catwoman's car on Batman, dressed up with ears, tail, and muzzle! And on Bewitched. Cool car, and the good Darrin (Dick York)! I know a lot of really cool custom cars were used on a variety of old TV shows and movies, and I'm hoping we can post pictures of those cars here.

I'll admit the joke sucked. Most of my jokes bite.

COSMIC ARK!

Check out this thread: http://forums.atari.io/index.php/topic/3524-installing-linux-on-an-old-laptop/ I don't think spending $1000 is necessary. Older PC's and laptops are still useful and much less expensive. Let me know if you need help finding an affordable used PC, especially if you are in the NW part of the country. I have a few in my attic that I could sell for less than $100 shipped. One of them even has Win 10 on it.

Oh yeah, the Star Wars games are great too. Nice choices.

OK, so that makes it much more appealing. I don't know what games are on there already, but I'd add Super Punch Out, Space Invaders, NBA Jam..

I think we should! No disrespect to NSG....he's the master of this game. We are striving to get close to his awesome score.

Nice score!

The updated shipping list. Thanks everyone. jmjustin6 (GA) Ballblazer (MD) correagonzales (NY) - Out Sept 2-6 chas10e (ME) Willie! (NC) AtariBrian (NY) Starbuck66 (MI) - vacation mid-Sept. TrekMD (FL) nosweargamer (TN) greenween (CO) MalakZero (CA) RickR (OR)

Very cool stuff! NSG, I have some Neo Geo Pocket color games to trade. Remind me during our next trade.

I've tried a few different strategies: Going left instead of right. It seems like the enemies don't get behind you so easily this way. But my brain doesn't like it. Going fast and clearing each horizontal row at a time. This works to a point, but around wave 3, the other row shots become incredibly accurate. Going slow and trying to shoot each trio is the best option for me. Try to keep them from getting behind you. Once you get to 40k or so, things start moving very fast. There's no time limit, so moving very slow has no real downside. In all cases, keeping your eye on the radar is key.

60,500

This evening, I'm watching Netflix on this old laptop. It works. Well. Unbelievable. That's something I definitely could not do in Windows XP. I've restarted watching Star Trek: Voyager from the beginning. Should be pretty fun, I watched this show when it was on originally but have avoided the reruns since.

His mother tossed it out??? Sounds a little fishy to me C64c looks nice, but I've learned something interesting about them. They used a later revision of the SID chip in most of them, and they don't sound quite the same as the older model.

I will check that out. It is great fun to try new things and LEARN. Thanks!

This all started when MaximumRD found a really nice old netbook at the recycling bin. He started looking into replacing Windows XP with something different. I was curious about why. I have a really old laptop myself with XP that works ok. A few other nice folks pointed out how unsafe XP is since it's no longer patched or supported. Let's Do This! Linux Mint, here I come. My laptop specs: Dell Latitude D410 - 12" laptop (early 2000's vintage) Intel Pentium M "Centrino" single core CPU at 2.0 GHz 2 GB DDR2 memory 40 GB physical hard drive I got this laptop for $3 from Goodwill. I found a power adapter for $0.87 (sold by weight) at the same Goodwill. It came with a cracked battery (that still worked) and no hard drive. I had an extra IDE drive in my junk box. The battery got fixed with some black duct tape. I also found an external optical drive on ebay for $5. What I use it for: I love it because it's so small. I use it a lot in the kitchen. To look up recipes and surf the web while I cook. And sometimes to do Atari.io chats when they were during dinner time! What I upgraded to: Linux Mint, xfce version (which has low system requirements...perfect for an old PC). I chose the 32 bit version. How I upgraded: I first backed up the hard drive so I could revert to XP if this didn't work out. I used Clonezilla. But there are many other options. I installed the Linux live disk on a USB stick using Rufus. I booted to the Linux live disk. It gives you the opportunity to try out the OS without actually installing it. With no hard drive, it's a little slow, but you get a good idea of compatibility. In my case, the wifi worked, the touchpad and display worked. Everything looked good. A full install took about 30 minutes. What do I think: It works well! I didn't have to fuss with any driver installs. Everything worked fine right out the box. I probably will have some trouble installing a printer driver though. Speed is hugely improved. Youtube videos play without any glitching (not true on XP). Firefox worked very quickly....even with Facebook (not true with XP). Speed wise, it gave new life to this old computer. A lot of great software comes pre-installed. Firefox, a movie viewer, LibreOffice, music software, image viewer/editor. I can't think of anything I need to add. On the downside, there is a learning curve. Installing programs is not so easy on Linux. Typing in terminal prompts? Oh brother. My wife said it looked like a Mac. That's true. It does. I was able to access my Windows share (where I store recipes) pretty easily. I'm keeping it!

I won't be there until Saturday afternoon. That's day 2. Let me know if you'd like me to pick something up for you and ship it.

Welcome Jin. I hope you enjoy the forums and decide to stay!

I ended up buying the Archer unit from Ebay from chas10e's link (Thank you very much!) It works very nicely. And it's HEAVY. 5 inputs. Perfectly clear picture and sound with an amplifier built right in. By the way, I bought a 10 pack of the little screw-in RF adapters for a cheap price from a Chinese seller on ebay...and they shipped from California! I had them in just a few days. The plain splitter worked, but I think I feel better using a real switchbox -- to avoid any potential feedback to the other systems that are connected.

Make sure to post links to past reviews too! Haunted House, for example.

I won't stake my claim to this one.

I think shipping will be more than what I'm asking for for the console and 3 games. I think I'd be happy to get $30 + shipping. Let me know if you or anyone else is interested. Thanks.

No! I think that's an alien behind the boat...Alien Brigade.

Commando

It's like a game of 3D Tetris. Turn on the Tetris theme music and have some fun.