Na, you just need a lot more practice and PATIENCE! ----- Original Message ----- From: "shaun everiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 8:19 PM Subject: RE: audyssey: Monty, of course
> 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. >> >> >> >>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 >> >> >> >> _____ >> >>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 >> >> >> >>--- >>msn username: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>skype username: lord_amexos >>yahoo username: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>-----Original Message----- >>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. 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