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Most of my old games I grabbed from my dad's old pc disk collection.
When I told dad about my fiddeling he wasn't interested, so here was a resource
the guy who owned it didn't care what happened.
Then I swapped software with friends, 2 systems and loads of disks.
At 10:30 a.m. 29/01/2006, you wrote:
>Why you lucky sucker! I had to beg my mom and pop for all those games. Grin.
>I even had to have a pocket full of quarters to head down to the arcade,
>because I had pacman fevor. Smile.
>In fact does anyone still remember the Atari game songs that were out in
>the 80's like Pacman fevor and Space Invaders? "He's hooked. He's
>hooked. his brain is nearly cooked. Space invaders."
>
>
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>James from Alchemy wrote:
>> Hi, Tom.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> - 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
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>> 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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