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raindog

Member Since 9 Dec 2002
OFFLINE Last Active Apr 24 2012 8:55 PM

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In Topic: Pac-Man Arcade enhancement

Thu Dec 29, 2011 12:30 AM

The thing about "tweaking" the music is that the music code just does 8th notes in Ms. Pac-Man and in my original hack. El Destructo's version does 16th notes like the arcade version, but that means the sound data space is doubled. There were also other glitches in that hack. I'm sure it's doable... if there's enough space left in Nukey's hack for the extra data.

In Topic: AtariVox rev2

Fri Nov 18, 2011 10:33 AM

I'd get one of these too, if the new version is going to support the Vectrex.

In Topic: Pac-Man Arcade enhancement

Mon Nov 7, 2011 9:39 PM

I had a bug in one of the last releases of my version of the hack that had the wrong number of scanlines, so maybe it stems from that. Do other games work on the Harmony?

In Topic: Vector Gaming Forums

Thu Oct 13, 2011 7:05 PM

View PostHatta, on Thu Oct 13, 2011 1:31 PM, said:

This is why USENET was so much better than web forums can ever be. All the fora you want, under one powerful interface.
And every site kept its own copy of the archive, so you didn't have to worry about your thousands of posts disappearing one day because one sysadmin didn't realize backups were being made, or the site ran out of money.

I still keep a pay Usenet subscription, and read a number of non-binary groups (they're not all dead or overrun with spam, believe it or not) but I've made only one post in the last 5 years.

(Edit: just signed up for the vector forum. I see this is another one of those hosted forum sites that not only has the usual forum disadvantages of not allowing me to read them with my choice of reader, but instead of simply having a mobile stylesheet they want you to buy a 3 dollar phone app. I really, really miss Usenet, and mailing lists, and even Yahoo groups. But the alternative is to not hear about new vector developments unless someone happens to mention them on Atariage, so I signed up anyway.)

In Topic: Intellivision Website Hacked!

Thu Oct 13, 2011 5:17 PM

View Postjaybird3rd, on Thu Oct 13, 2011 7:58 AM, said:

(I don't mean to come across as excessively demanding here, by the way. I recognize that Intellivision Productions is a business and that they don't have a duty to give anybody anything,

They do if they want new customers, not just the ones already waiting on fulfillment of months-old orders. I have more sympathy for them than I do Atarigrames, but "we're little guys catering to a small market" only goes so far when you make representations you can't fulfill.

Glad to have bought all the variations of their emulator products, but unless they make a compelling Android one someday, I think the DS version might well be the last.