Wow! Cool! Have anything to do with how you got into game development?
----- Original Message ----- From: "James from Alchemy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 3:16 PM Subject: RE: audyssey: Monty, of course > 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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