Hi Tom, I vaguely remember the atari jaguar. Wasn't it two seperate game devices like Sega CD? How much does those things go for anyway, just for curiosity sake. allan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Randall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 1:57 PM Subject: RE: audyssey: Monty, of course
> Hey Allan and all. > > As others have said you can pick these machines up at thrift stores and > yard > sales and stuff like that usually for dirt cheap. As I said in another > message the only one I have not found for cheap for a complete system is > the > atari Jaguar which was their last system that was released in the early > 90's > and like a lot of atari stuff was way ahead of its time but poorly > advertised. > > 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 1:24 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: audyssey: Monty, of course > > > Hello Tom, > *gives secret atari brotherhood handshake* > Atari will rise again! > lol > It is good to hear some of those machines are still kicking. My atari > computer kicked the bucket in the late eighties and I grieved over it. I > can't seem to recall my atari call sign. I want to say it was 7600? It was > white and had this interesting feature where you could create a virtual > ram > disk with it. I am probably wrong about the number, I also owned the > advanced atari game machine with the controllers that had a number pad > and > > side fire buttons made of soft rubber, and a joystick. I remember playing > galaxians and star raiders on it. Oh and pac man. I can't remember any > others. It all starts to run together after a while. > keep gaming, > allan > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tom Randall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 2:14 PM > 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. He is sighted, but playing something like this, being a >> recreation >> from a game he actually played might be very cool. thanks allan >> >> >> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >> >> >> >> to leave send a blank Email to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> You can contact the list owners/moderators by Emailing >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] to go nomail send a blank message to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> change "nomail" to "normal" to resume messages. >> Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> to leave send a blank Email to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> You can contact the list owners/moderators by Emailing >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> to go nomail send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> change "nomail" to "normal" to resume messages. >> Yahoo! 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