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  1. Atari Systems

    1. Atari General

      A general discussion for Atari-related topics that aren't covered by a specific Atari console or computer forum.

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    2. Atari 2600

      The Atari 2600 is the system that started it all for Atari, and is by far the most popular classic gaming console. This forum covers all 2600 systems produced by Atari, as well as 2600-compatible consoles produced by third-parties.

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    3. Atari 5200

      The Atari 5200 was Atari's second cartridge-based game console. Based on the Atari 8-bit computer line and labeled the "SuperSystem", the 5200 was Atari's answer to growing competition in a market they were losing control over.

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    4. Atari 7800

      The Atari 7800 ProSystem is a contemporary of the Nintendo Entertainment System and the Sega Master System. Based on extensive feedback from Atari customers, the 7800 features a streamlined design, backward compatibility with the 2600, a powerful graphics processor, and simplified controllers.

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    5. Atari Lynx

      Lynx was Atari's first portable game system, and world's first color handheld. It was designed by Epyx and the engineers who created the Amiga. Ahead of its time, the Lynx sported a backlit color screen, stereo sound (in model 2) and an impressive range of games. Check out our rarity guide or explore many games listed on Atari Gamer.

       

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    6. Atari Jaguar

      Atari's last game console, the Atari Jaguar represented a huge leap in technology from previous offerings. Featuring a 64-bit architecture, the Jaguar had great potential, but its power was difficult to tap. Even then, many great games were released and the Jaguar has an avid fan base today.

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    7. Atari VCS

      Discussion forum for the new Atari VCS console.

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    8. Dedicated Systems

      Before Atari produced the famous 2600, they created many standalone consoles such as Pong, Speedway, and Stunt Cycle. Recently, Atari has been creating new dedicated consoles, such as the Atari Flashback.

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    9. Atari 8-Bit Computers

      Atari's original 8-bit computer line, featuring the Atari 400, 800, XL, and XE series of computers. Powerful and well-engineered, the Atari 8-bit computers are still popular with fans today!

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    10. Atari ST/TT/Falcon Computers

      Atari's next generation computer line, the Atari ST computers were based on the Motorola 68000 series chips, the same as the Macintosh at the time. The ST would also be followed by the TT and Falcon.

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    11. Atari Portfolio

      The Atari Portfolio is a palmtop, IBM PC-compatible portable computer released by Atari in 1989, the world's first palmtop computer!

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  2. Classic Consoles

    1. Classic Console Discussion

      Discussion of classic gaming consoles outside the Atari realm.

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    2. ColecoVision / Adam

      Coleco launched the ColecoVision in 1982, with the console quickly becoming popular due to its library of arcade ports. The ColecoVision has a large homebrew following today.

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    3. Intellivision / Aquarius

      This forum is for discussion of the Mattel Intellivision, Atari's primary competitor against the 2600, as well as the Mattel Aquarius computer. Intellivision systems include the original Intellivision, Intellivision II, INTV III, and the Sears Super Video Arcade.

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    4. Bally Arcade/Astrocade

      Discussion forum for the Bally Arcade/Astrocade console.

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    5. Odyssey 2 / Videopac

      Discussion revolving around the Odyssey 2 / Videopac G7000/G7400

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    6. Vectrex

      Discuss the world's only vector-based video game console here!

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    7. Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) / Famicom

      Discuss Nintendo's first cartridge-based system, the NES, here!

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    8. Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) / Super Famicom

      Discuss Nintendo's second cartridge based system here!

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    9. Sega Genesis

      Sega's popular fourth-generation 16-bit system, would ultimately compete head-to-head with the Super Nintendo.

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    10. 3DO Interactive Multiplayer

      Discussion forum for the 3DO console and the unreleased Panasonic M2

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    11. Dreamcast

      Discussion for the SEGA Dreamcast console.

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    12. SMS High Score Club

      Join the Sega Master System High Score Club today!

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    13. TG-16/PC Engine High Score Club

      Compete for high scores on the TurboGrafx-16 and PC Engine!

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  3. Classic Computing

    1. Classic Computing Discussion

      Use this forum to discuss the plethora of classic computers outside of Atari 8-bit offerings. These include the Apple II, Commodore 64/128, Amiga, TI 99/4a, MSX, TRS-80 and others.

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    2. Apple II Computers

      Discussion for Apple's 8-bit computer line.

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    3. TI-99/4A Computers

      Discussion for TI-99/4A Computers

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    4. Commodore 8-bit Computers

      Discussion for Commodore PET, Vic-20, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, and other 8-bit Commodore systems.

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    5. Commodore Amiga

      Discussion for Amiga Computers, CDTV, and CD32

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    6. Tandy Computers

      Discussion for Tandy computers, including the TRS-80 Models I, II, III, and 4, Color Computers, and Model 100.

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  4. Modern Consoles

    1. Modern Gaming Discussion

      This forum is for discussion of all modern game systems, including gaming on consoles and computers.

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    2. Sony Playstation 5

      Discuss Sony's Playstation 5 console here!

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    3. Xbox Series S/X

      Discuss Microsoft's latest Xbox Series S and X consoles here!

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    4. Atari VCS (Redirect)   (8,838 visits to this link)

      Discussion forum for the new Atari VCS console.

    5. Nintendo Switch

      Discussion about Nintendo's latest game console and games.

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    6. Microsoft Xbox One

      Discussion forum for the Xbox One.

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    7. Sony PlayStation 4

      Talk about the Sony Playstation 4 here.

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    8. Microsoft Xbox 360

      Discussion about the Microsoft Xbox 360 (not including the original Xbox).

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    9. Sony Playstation 3

      Please discuss the Sony Playstation 3 and games here.

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    10. Nintendo Wii / Wii U

      Discussion forum for the Nintendo Wii and Wii U consoles and games.

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  5. Gaming General

    1. Gaming General Discussion

      Gaming discussion not covered by other specific gaming forums.

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    2. Arcade and Pinball

      Many of us grew up pumping quarters into arcade games, and here's where you can discuss all your favorites. From Pong to Pinball to the latest arcade games, if it has a coin slot, then you're at the right place!

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    3. Emulation

      Emulators allow you to experience classic games on modern PCs (and other devices!) Discuss the latest emulator developments and ask questions about emulation here!

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    4. Hardware

      This forum is for discussion of hardware at a more technical level than you'll find in the other forums. If you have a hardware question you'd like to ask or have some interesting knowledge you'd like to share with others, post it here!

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    5. Prototypes

      Ever wondered about all those games that were announced but never released? Or games that have been discovered over the years that no one even knew existed? Or have you discovered a new prototype that no one's seen yet? Here's the place to talk about prototype games, led by Tempest of AtariProtos.com.

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    6. Gaming Publications and Websites

      This forum is for discussion of gaming related magazines, books, websites, and other publications.

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    7. International

      Internacional - Internazionale - Internationaal - Internasjonal - This forum is for discussion of classic and modern gaming in languages other than English.

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  6. Marketplace

    1. Buy, Sell, and Trade

      Please use this forum as a tool to buy, sell, and trade games and hardware.

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    2. Auction Central

      Use this forum to discuss auctions on eBay. Have something up for auction you'd like to share? Post it here! You can also highlight amusing, off-the-wall, or interesting auctions that others may want to hear about!

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    3. Wanted

      Use this forum to post a list of the gaming hardware and software you're looking for!

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    4. Free Games and More

      Spreading the Love with Free Games and other items.

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    5. User Feedback Forum

      Please use this forum to leave feedback about other users on AtariAge that you've had good and/or bad experiences with. Please read the sticky at the top of this forum before posting!

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  7. Community

    1. Events

      Use this forum to discuss gaming events of all types, including expos revolving around classic gaming, events catering to modern systems, arcade expos, and local gatherings of collectors getting together or a day of gaming.

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    2. Show Us Your Collection!

      If you're a repeat visitor to AtariAge, it's likely you also collect classic games and systems. Here's your chance to show off to the rest of the community your collection!

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    3. Member Blogs

      As members update their Blogs, messages will be posted in this forum so you can more easily keep tabs on who's writing what!

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    4. High Score Clubs

      Participate in high score contests for your favorite systems!

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    5. Poll Forum

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    6. Contests

      These forums are for discussing and participating in contests started by AtariAge, contests run by forum members, and of course, the weekly High Score Contests!

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    7. User Groups

      This forum and its subforums are for classic gaming and computing user groups. Find people in your area who share your love of this hobby!

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    8. AtariAge News Discussion

      Discuss news posted on the front page of AtariAge!

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    9. User Submitted News

      Please submit classic gaming news here!

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  8. Game Programming

    1. Homebrew Discussion

      Here you can talk about homebrew games that don't have their own forums allocated (which will be most of them). Have an idea for a game that you'd like to see someone program? Are you programming a game and want some feedback? Discuss it here!

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    2. Programming

      The programming forums are technical discussions of programming various classic gaming consoles. The more popular consoles have their own dedicated programing forums, so please only use this forum for topics that fall outside of those forums.

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    3. Hacks

      A hack is an existing game that has somehow been modifed in terms of graphics, colors, sounds, and/or gameplay. If you've modified a game and would like to share it with others, or have an idea for a modification you'd like to see done to an existing game, you can discuss it here.

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  9. Site

    1. Announcements

      Important site or forum-related announcements will be posted here. If you see a new announcement, please stop by to read it!

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    2. Forum Questions and Answers

      Have a question about how to use the forum?  Ask here and others can answer (including admins and mods!)  

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    3. AtariAge Store Discussion

      We'll post announcements about the AtariAge Store here, and you can also post your questions and comments about the store in this forum as well.

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    4. Site and Forum Feedback

      Do you have suggestions for how AtariAge can be improved? Please post them here, as well as criticisms, and kudos about the web site!

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    5. Rarity Guide

      The AtariAge Rarity Guide is a living, breathing document! If you have feedback regarding rarity guide values and the database in general, please discuss it here!

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    6. Archived Forums

      Resting place for forums that have have run their course and are archived here for reference.

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  • Recent Status Updates

    • shane857

      shane857

      Fletcher Reede: You scratched my car! Tow Yard Employee: Where? Fletcher Reede: [indicating with his hands] Right there! Tow Yard Employee: Oh... That was already there. Fletcher Reede: You -- LIAR! You know what I am going to do about this? Tow Yard Employee: What? Fletcher Reede: Nothing! Because if I take it to small claims court, it will just drain 8 hours out of my life and you probably won't show up and even if I got the judgment you'd just stiff me anyway; so what I am going to do is piss and moan like an impotent jerk, and then bend over and take it up the tailpipe! Tow Yard Employee: [tossing the keys to Fletcher] You've been here before, haven't ya?
      1. ClassicGMR

        ClassicGMR

        It's funny I just mentioned this movie in my status update a few days ago! "STOP BREAKING THE LAW A**HOLE!!"
          • Like 2
      2. shane857

        shane857

        One of Carrey's best, in my opinion...
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      3. GoldLeader

        GoldLeader

        Awesome!
         
        Over time you tend to forget just how funny some of this stuff really was.
    • Living Room Arcade

      Living Room Arcade

      Who wants FINAL FIGHT for Atari 2600?
      Look good?  Holler out to @alfredtdk in this thread and let him know!  
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    • TheGameCollector

      TheGameCollector

      I finished uploading my August 2022 gaming videos playlist. That month I played a lot of Sonic. First, taking up the most videos I finished up my first playthrough of the launch version of Sonic Origins, then played the Sonic Triple Trouble 16-bit fan game and Esrael's then-current version of his Sonic Delta Reloaded hack, plus I started the Donkey Kong Country: The Trilogy fan game and made more progress in Pokemon Yellow.
       
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    • Charlie Cat

      Charlie Cat

      *Sigh* it's Monday. 
       

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    • 7800Knight

      7800Knight

      Why did Johnny Rotten and Bananarama never go on tour together?  They could have called it - the Rotten Banana Tour!
      1. aeberbach

        aeberbach

        Banarama probably had too much artistic integrity to work with him...
      2. John Stamos Mullet

        John Stamos Mullet

        Because Bananarama only went on one proper world tour for 6 months at the beginning of 1989 ending in May 1989, and didn't tour again until 1999/2000's. Johnny Rotten was in studio recording PIL's album until October 1989.
      3. Atarian7

        Atarian7

        "It's a cruel summer, leaving me here on my own..."

  • Recent Posts

    • brain
      MSD interface?

      By brain · Posted

      User port RS232 for VIC/64/128.  I don't think it'll work on SX as I think it's using the 9VAC on the user port
    • Giles N
      So when is that Playmaji Atari partnership finally going to bear fruit ?

      By Giles N · Posted

      What I hope Atari do with time, - after getting all components aligned and quality-checked on many fronts, is to release a very powerful new modern VCS (3-4 Ghz) with a full Polymega-station (Base + all modules built in + expansion-ports), released as the Retro-gamers All-in-one Hardware unit. That is: the retrogamers equvivalent to modern gaming PCs.   It would cost alot, but also have enormous, or at least particular capacity, beyond normal PCs or other retro-consoles.   Building a e-shop with retro games would make it easy to get many titles, and the hardware part would make it possible to play, well, most famous retro cartridges and discs.   They could sell it as a ‘family of units’ with different price-classes.   Atari should contact several classic companies or licensing-reproduction companies, who’d make it their task to make licensed reproductions which they would sell as collections.   These should be available when they’d release such a line-up of Super VCR-PolyMega-Stations.   Imho    
    • woj
      Pokeymax v4 bring up thread

      By woj · Posted

      So I also exhibited profound stupidity, I decided to correct the soldering on the first Pokey of the two resistor networks and the 0.1uF cap for the opamp with the ugly blob that I left. Mostly because of my OCD. That turned into a three hour ugly  battle using the iron and the heat gun. After the first correction I got a buzzing noise on the stereo channels and no reflowing or braid supported solder sucking was helping. Multimeter suggested a short between two legs of the resistor network (not knowing which one as they are connected 1-1), but also otherwise giving weird readings on the whole output circuit. In the end I had to take them off fully, to discover there was indeed a deeply hidden bridge under the 20k one, clean up, use some paste and solder on two new ones (still had left one of each) with a heat gun. Not surprisingly, I also lost one of the unconnected lonely pads, let it rest in peace whereever it is (probably somewhere waiting to make a surprise short circuit one day again). That was not the end, iron and solder was still needed after this, and I had to purposely build a bridge on the ground side of the 20k resistor network, because for some reason some of the pins were not getting contact. I finally won, and apologies for a long post, but I really had to vent this out.   But that's not all. I think this is the weakest link on the board and perhaps it could or should be fixed. You @foft had a problem there, I had a huge one (own stupidity triggered), and on my second Pokey the resistor networks were also dancing and required attention, not to mention that my dry run soldering also created a bridge exactly there. I am thinking either the soldering pad footprint is too narrow for these (pads sticking to the inside down under the chip, rather than the outside, the bridge formed under there and there was no way to take it out) and should be widened. Or, since only three out of four resitor network channels are used, go with three single 0402 resistors. Brief look at the board design suggests it might be possible.
    • Gary from OPA
      Js99'er

      By Gary from OPA · Posted

      ok, thanks i will take a look at that version later on this week, and see how to set it up for my development needs. i didn't know there was a new typescript design, makes sense now, as there no mention of it in the first post on this thread. so much catching up to do, what happens when you miss a few years reading daily here on this forum!
    • CPUWIZ
      Atari Hotels just updated their website for the first time in years......

      By CPUWIZ · Posted

      I wouldn't throw those shirts away either, they are already collectors items.
    • LatchKeyKid
      Ghosts and Trolls Project

      By LatchKeyKid · Posted

      I took a look this weekend at the 4k bas file now that I have at least a starting idea of what I'm looking at and I see the code from the sprite website you posted does indeed take up alot of space like you said.   As long as you're not actually changing the colors line by line from animation pose to pose, it only needs to be entered once and not with every frame like the autogenerated code does.   When things drastically change like with jumping or the bones/collision, that's obviously a different story.   I've only got four 5 animation poses total (three for the hero and two for the placeholder enemy) in my first game and I'm already down to 2200 bytes free without any real work beyond just putting them on the screen.  No attacks, no actions beyond jumping for the hero, no collision, etc.   It fills up fast!   I just took out the redundant color info and left the color values for when f=10 (instead of repeating it up to 100) for both the main character and the zombie and it now has 592 bytes free to add other things you may have skipped due to lack of space. Ghost_and_Trolls_4k color test.bas
    • PowerDubs
      Atari Hotels just updated their website for the first time in years......

      By PowerDubs · Posted

      You guys are strange.    They may have changed only 1 digit... but Shelly (head of Atari Hotels) has been seen recently on video ...in an Atari Hotels shirt...at a motorsport event...we can expect to see new sponsorship soon.   There have been posts on Linked-in from a few different people involved...one a high position banker... one a guy from Lake Nona.   ....and if you watch the Yars Rising video- Atari has the Atari Hotel teased from and center in the city scene.
    • ATekGuy
      MSD interface?

      By ATekGuy · Posted

      I'm trying to find out what this card might be. Does anyone here recognize it?
    • TampaBay
      Discovered this 80's Arcade near me and I love hanging out there!

      By TampaBay · Posted

      OK will do!! 📹     Yeah that Ground Kontrol place looks amazing too.  They've got TRON, Star Wars, Galaga, and many of my other favorites, so I'm good!     Yep, the place in Vegas has similar lighting to Replay.  Still looks pretty awesome though.
    • Nessus
      Are CMOS RAMs noisy?

      By Nessus · Posted

      Gary from OPA, thanks for the advice about the bypass caps.  I had previously added a 10uF tantalum cap on the breadboard power bus, but had forgotten to put bypass caps on the chips.  They should be the little yellow thing sticking up among the rat's nest of wires.   Matthew180, thanks for the links and info about breadboards.  I spent a couple of hours this morning looking in to it.  Most fascinating!   As I mentioned above, I think I found the problem. K-R.

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