Atari 5200 Guy

Nice!

2'10"86 (new controller really helps!)
 

lol. I posted that comment to bump up this thread thinking that it might have got lost. 😆 
We’ve all been busy.  I know I’ve been busy and I haven’t been home to play more F-Zero. If I get to make it back home before the end of the month and can find time I would like to try again.

Haha there would be one problem with me on an Atari assembly line.
”Oh LOOK!! 👀 A new product!”  Swipe.

That is very entertaining and interesting.  They really dug deep into the industry and for 1981 that was pretty deep.  I liked hearing about the bug that was in Galaxian.  I so wanted to jump in on the 2600 product line.  I would have loved to have helped assemble those.

This one came up in my youtube feed.  It is fascinating!  I bit more well done than most local news stories about video games of that time.  You'll see a lot of familiar faces at Atari, including Howard Scott Warshaw with a whip!  This was made as the 5200 was being developed, so you'll see some clips from the 5200 game developers.
 

lol. I posted that comment to bump up this thread thinking that it might have got lost. 😆 
We’ve all been busy.  I know I’ve been busy and I haven’t been home to play more F-Zero. If I get to make it back home before the end of the month and can find time I would like to try again.

Usually F-ZERO is a poppin' event! I've been pretty busy, I'll try to set some time aside this week to play a few rounds and get a score.

I also am going to get some time in.  Grandma is leaving tomorrow!  We've had a house full of guests for the holidays, so I haven't had much time for games.  I also had to return to work this week.  Boooooo!  
 

lol congratulations on your big win! 
I'll try to join you shortly.

Here’s a start! 2’ 18” 56.  I’m using the SNES and controller that was recently dropped off at my doorstep.  Thought it would be a good way to test it.  Then again these older machines were well made.  It takes a lot for those to fail without throwing neglect or misuse in there.
 

Improved my time. 2’13”54
 

Forgot to mention…playing on real hardware.

I’m the only one who’s played so far?  

I have noticed Windows 10 boots faster with more RAM if you can give it more.  My system boots pretty fast…usually in 10 seconds I’m at my desktop screen.  Believe it or not, when you have a 16 GB system and see how well a system with, say, only 4 GB installed, you will see the difference. Windows has always been a system hog so the more elbow room you have the better it is.
 
I have dabbled a lot on the server side of computing and, yes, the more system resources available the more powerful and efficient your server will run. I own an old 1U server that is maxed out. It runs Linux and a few other applications to make it work. It was used as backup during my last few years at college when the college servers were down. I used it as a way to hand in assignments.  I’d leave it up and running but the thing sounds like a jet plane is in the house.  Somewhere on it is a website I made that allows people to play NES games. It was a school assignment.
 

I like the idea of another player.  With today’s internet speeds that would be fascinating to see. The only few things that would need to be done by a program are to see whose turn it is and get information about game play action. 
 
And don’t forget the second controller port has communication abilities.

My Dad’s family invested heavily in those drawers. They taped every show they had interest in and would sit and cut out commercials.  All tapes got a number and what was on them was documented on index cards and put inside those old time photo albums. My family thinking the drawers were made of wood stacked them about six high. Unfortunately the weight of the tapes destroyed the bottom two drawers. 

My Dad’s family invested heavily in those drawers. They taped every show they had interest in and would sit and cut out commercials.  All tapes got a number and what was on them was documented on index cards and put inside those old time photo albums. My family thinking the drawers were made of wood stacked them about six high. Unfortunately the weight of the tapes destroyed the bottom two drawers. 

And power an Atari?  When do we move?

And power an Atari?  When do we move?

Ahh.  Gotcha.  Solar panels to power some lights maybe? How could you eat?  Plan on cooking anything with heat or just raw foods?  Sounds interesting.

The orientation of the habitat's dish towards the sun takes all that light and runs it down light tubes that illuminate the entire space.  One would assume that a dish of that size, being some miles across, would be able to generate enough electricity 24/7 to accomplish a lot of tasks, heating, cooking and cooling being just a few.

Congrats!

Lemme look through my dups.  What 7800 games do you have?

By trading I was meaning trading with other members here or elsewhere.  Like trade a game for a game?  No money involved other than shipping?  Something like that.