Oh man.
Probably thats why I suck, I have no skill level.
I started with a 386 dos 5 machine which I dropped!
So do I lose by default or what?
At 09:16 a.m. 29/01/2006, you wrote:
>Hi, Tom.
>
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>I grew up on an Atari 800 I got for my 13th birthday from my Dad who worked
>at Atari for years back in the 80's. Spent a lot of time at two of the
>locations in the bay area. I used to love the arcade rooms they had set up
>there with not just their games but games from all the stand-up coin-op
>machines. And, they were set so that you pressed one or two player and
>played for free. Got to know the engineers, went to a lot of the company
>picnics and outings. Got to know the engineers, went to a lot of the
>company picnics and outings. My Dad used to bring home cartridge ROMs and
>the PC boards that they plugged into and I'd have to go through the box of
>the chips and match the numbers on the 16k cartridges (the 8k cartridges
>only had one chip), plug them into the PC board put them into a cartridge
>casing and see what game it was. I remember when one of them was Caverns of
>Mars well before it was released. My first Atari was a regular 800, but I
>still have an Atari 800XL down in the garage somewhere with all the
>peripherals, cartridges, discs, etc. I got to see all the machines Atari
>produced well before they made it onto the market and even some that didn't.
>In fact, I have a few hundred each of the old Votrax SC-01A and SSI 263A
>voice synthesizer chips that were being used in the Atari 1450.
>
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>- James
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>From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
>Behalf Of Tom Randall
>Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 11:15 AM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: RE: audyssey: Monty, of course
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>Hi Allan and all.
>
>Ah, another Atari Freak! Hail brother! I remember all those titles too, in
>fact I still have several working atari systems here and have some of them
>on good old 5.25" floppy disks and tapes although I avoid the tapes like the
>plague whenever possible. Not sure if I have the original Montezuma game or
>not, may have to hook one of the old beasts up and see. It is amazing how
>many of those old games we can play, true not as well as a sighted guy/gal
>but we could learn them because the sounds actually meant something.
>
>Regards,
>
>Tom
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>From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
>Behalf Of allan thompson
>Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 5:03 AM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: audyssey: Monty, of course
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>Hello,I remember playing several old atari computer games in the old days.
>My friends and I would have to load the program into the olde timey atari
>800 with a cassette loader. Any little bump or movement in the load would
>crash the load and we would have to start it again. So basically you had a
>bunch of kids being very still and quiet for ten to twenty minutes, and then
>a flurry of fisticuffs for the wico joystick when the game was ready to
>play..lol Man, we used to play blue max, shamus, this very cool game called
>age of discovery, and the classic lode runner. I seem to recall playing
>monty's revenge as well and this game returns back alot of memories... One
>question for James. Was any sounds used or recreated from the original game?
>
>Anyway, I am going to have to buy a copy for myself and my friend from those
>old days. He is sighted, but playing something like this, being a recreation
>from a game he actually played might be very cool. thanks allan
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