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Got back last night from the family reunion in Wisconsin. Weather was great, though all the Wisconsin folk were complaining about the humidity - while I was busy applying Burt's Beeswax to keep my lips from drying out

Took a lot of photos with my new camera, a Panasonic DMC-TZ5A(the A means it has the blue case, which looks much better in person than the pictures of it). Besides photos it also takes videos, up to 1280x720. There's 7 movies scattered amongst the photos.

The twins Mason and Logan were a handful - they'll be 2 next month on the 4th. I'm not sure how my brother & SIL keep up with 4 boys, though Justin(their eldest) helped out a lot.

Brandin(nephew 2) was sporting a mohawk when I got there, so I got him some hair color for it. We were planning to get blue, but they were sold out so he picked green instead. It glowed quite vibrantly...

Yep, this review is out of order due to it having been the game for HSC Season 5 Week 42. If you're not currently taking part of the 2600 High Score Club then I highly recommend you check it out as you'll get exposed to a lot of really cool games! You can join in mid-season w/out any problems - there's no cost to join, just post a score in the current HSC topic. HSC Season 6 will also be starting up in the near future.

Oystron, by Piero Cavina
5/5...

Found MM on You Tube with a tag of nexgam and categorized as Comedy for some reason. Might make more sense if my German wasn't so rusty.

There's now 4 sliders to let you control Volume, Speed, Pitch and Bend



Application:  SAVI_app_20080603.zip (31.09K)
Number of downloads: 167
Source:  SAVI_src_20080603.zip (60.43K)
Number of downloads: 158

I'd been waiting for the third edition of Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X as the book I had doesn't match the current version of XCode and it was a pain trying to figure things out. For some reason I thought it was being released at the end of summer, but I found out last Friday that it was released last month. So I headed down to Borders and bought a copy. I made it through the first 4 chapters over the weekend.

And based on what I've learned so far, SAVI is now underway. SAVI is pronounced savvy and stands for SpiceWare AtariVox Interface.



So far the serial ports load up in the drop-down list. Refresh will update the list if you add/remove a serial device.

Having issues with the Test button though. It acts like it's sending something, but no sound is generated. I'll have to dig up my RS232 tester to see if data is actually being transmitted. The serial routines are copied from KrokCom...

AC 2008 featured Medieval Mayhem in their tournament. Translated from babelfish

Even has working switches - Atari VCS Homebrews Online

If you'd like your homebrew included just send me the ROM and Manual Text.

This weekend I'm planning to get the cartridge selection working on my JStella Online Test. I thought it'd be fun to turn it into a "Homebrew Showcase" as I don't think it's the best idea to be using Space Invaders.

If you'd like me to put your homebrew on the page let me know. I'd like to have a brief description/controls for each game that goes up.

http://spiceware.org...nline_test.html

All the switches except power function. I have a few known issues that I'm talking to Mauvila about.

1) any switch except RESET and SELECT causes JStella to lose focus and not respond to the keyboard.

2) Using F keys to set TV Type and Difficulty does not cause the switch graphics to be updated.

3) holding down SELECT only acts as if it was pressed once. Holding down F2 works as expected.

I've added a few new Atari pages to my site, plus updated the "play online" page for Medieval Mayhem. Many thanks to Nathan Strum for his contribution!