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[therealbountybob]

Champions_2002, on Wed Mar 25, 2009 11:42 AM, said:

Here is my score, kinda hard to do with the keys

You should try n pick up a proper machine
Well sorry folks I remembered how to do the third screen... couldn't resist one more go round 21 score 250,090 A nice, original game, could just do with getting tougher on the higher levels to make it a classic.

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[atariksi]

therealbountybob, on Wed Mar 25, 2009 12:33 PM, said:

Champions_2002, on Wed Mar 25, 2009 11:42 AM, said:

Here is my score, kinda hard to do with the keys

You should try n pick up a proper machine
Well sorry folks I remembered how to do the third screen... couldn't resist one more go round 21 score 250,090 A nice, original game, could just do with getting tougher on the higher levels to make it a classic.

You missed the 19 bit value by about 12K.

Edited by atariksi, Wed Mar 25, 2009 1:17 PM.

[therealbountybob]

atariksi, on Wed Mar 25, 2009 2:17 PM, said:

therealbountybob, on Wed Mar 25, 2009 12:33 PM, said:

Champions_2002, on Wed Mar 25, 2009 11:42 AM, said:

Here is my score, kinda hard to do with the keys

You should try n pick up a proper machine
Well sorry folks I remembered how to do the third screen... couldn't resist one more go round 21 score 250,090 A nice, original game, could just do with getting tougher on the higher levels to make it a classic.

You missed the 19 bit value by about 12K.

When I saw you had posted I knew what it was going to be about Do use a bit based system for everything... time clocks, street numbering, currency ?

[atariksi]

therealbountybob, on Thu Mar 26, 2009 5:24 AM, said:

atariksi, on Wed Mar 25, 2009 2:17 PM, said:

therealbountybob, on Wed Mar 25, 2009 12:33 PM, said:

Champions_2002, on Wed Mar 25, 2009 11:42 AM, said:

Here is my score, kinda hard to do with the keys

You should try n pick up a proper machine
Well sorry folks I remembered how to do the third screen... couldn't resist one more go round 21 score 250,090 A nice, original game, could just do with getting tougher on the higher levels to make it a classic.

You missed the 19 bit value by about 12K.

When I saw you had posted I knew what it was going to be about Do use a bit based system for everything... time clocks, street numbering, currency ?

Just like base 10 is a good number for humans, binary is great to know if you program ASM on Atari, Amiga, PC, etc. especially when you are debugging stuff or writing ASM code in BASIC. Actually, I used to get paid $8/hour when I was in college for tutoring and my first consulting job was $16/hour. I tried to get him to give me a raise to $32/hour but he wouldn't. I did go to sleep today at 2:56am but there's a colon in there.

It's useful in the TEST instruction in 80x86 ASM to test whether a bit is on/off in a 32-bit register:

TEST EAX,33554432 ;test bit 25 (26th bit) and set Zero flag and clear carry flag
TEST EAX,262144 ;test bit 18 (19th bit) and set Zero flag and clear Carry flag

Also when you set the display properties in Windows to 16-bit color (you have 65536 colors) or 24-bit color (16777216 colors). However, 32-bit color is also 16777216 colors not 4,294,967,296 colors. Atari ST has 512 colors, Amiga has 4096 colors. Also work with DOS still which can only address 1MB-- 1048576 bytes.

So it's basically all around me.

Edited by atariksi, Thu Mar 26, 2009 6:47 AM.

[doctorclu]

Bluto just threw 7 or 8 cans at me in a row... I was not expecting that. It was on the top level of the music level, about the third or fourth time through. That was interesting...

[Shawn Jefferson]

atariksi, on Thu Mar 26, 2009 5:34 AM, said:

Just like base 10 is a good number for humans, binary is great to know if you program ASM on Atari, Amiga, PC, etc. especially when you are debugging stuff or writing ASM code in BASIC. Actually, I used to get paid $8/hour when I was in college for tutoring and my first consulting job was $16/hour. I tried to get him to give me a raise to $32/hour but he wouldn't. I did go to sleep today at 2:56am but there's a colon in there.

Hmmm, I think I'll ask my boss to rotate my salary one bit to the left. I just hope he doesn't have a sick sense of humor and rotate it to the right instead.

[atariksi]

Shawn Jefferson, on Thu Mar 26, 2009 8:56 PM, said:

atariksi, on Thu Mar 26, 2009 5:34 AM, said:

Just like base 10 is a good number for humans, binary is great to know if you program ASM on Atari, Amiga, PC, etc. especially when you are debugging stuff or writing ASM code in BASIC. Actually, I used to get paid $8/hour when I was in college for tutoring and my first consulting job was $16/hour. I tried to get him to give me a raise to $32/hour but he wouldn't. I did go to sleep today at 2:56am but there's a colon in there.

Hmmm, I think I'll ask my boss to rotate my salary one bit to the left. I just hope he doesn't have a sick sense of humor and rotate it to the right instead.

He was shocked as well when I asked for SHL by 1, but I was new to this "raise" stuff so I didn't know it's only a small percentage like 5%-10%. I just SHL my high score to 19-bit value (280,060):

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[atariksi]

doctorclu, on Thu Mar 26, 2009 6:52 PM, said:

Bluto just threw 7 or 8 cans at me in a row... I was not expecting that. It was on the top level of the music level, about the third or fourth time through. That was interesting...

I haven't seen that (on real Atari) and I just got to 23rd level. I did have one case where I touched bluto and the last letter of the 3rd screen simultaneously and wound up with a 2X zoomed Popeye but finishing the screen.

This game definitely needs a pause to go on further with higher scores as I had to lose one man just to take a break. I went to just right of the arrow on the 2nd screen where nothing can harm you except when notes reach the bottom.

[poobah]

not the best way to spend the day off....
still time for a few more rounds

75,650

[poobah]

SU lost, it has sapped my will for the rest of the evening =[

This will have to do.

91,590

[atariksi]

poobah, on Fri Mar 27, 2009 9:28 PM, said:

SU lost, it has sapped my will for the rest of the evening =[

This will have to do.

91,590

atari029.jpg

SU as in Syracuse University basketball team right? Didn't think you were from NY area.

[poobah]

atariksi, on Sat Mar 28, 2009 7:10 AM, said:

poobah, on Fri Mar 27, 2009 9:28 PM, said:

SU lost, it has sapped my will for the rest of the evening =[

This will have to do.

91,590

atari029.jpg

SU as in Syracuse University basketball team right? Didn't think you were from NY area.

Master of Science, Computer Engineering - Syracuse University

[atariksi]

poobah, on Sat Mar 28, 2009 9:43 AM, said:

atariksi, on Sat Mar 28, 2009 7:10 AM, said:

poobah, on Fri Mar 27, 2009 9:28 PM, said:

SU lost, it has sapped my will for the rest of the evening =[

This will have to do.

91,590

atari029.jpg

SU as in Syracuse University basketball team right? Didn't think you were from NY area.

Master of Science, Computer Engineering - Syracuse University

Must have been expensive. I went to Stevens Institute (across the Hudson River) where they had ATARI 800s! I was shocked when I first saw them, but they did make us by PCs. I saw some people there using TextWiz wordprocessor on Atari 800.