Re: Kinda [OT] Look out all your Atari Game lovers,...and more games,...

2004-03-02 Thread Rod Lavington
On 2/3/04 8:24 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 01/03/2004, at 11:55 PM, Adam Yap wrote: > >> Ehem... Somewhere around the place i have 6 CDs full of Mame ROMs. >> There's also a DVD distribution floating around somewhere but I'd saw >> that distributing would be errrm... u

Re: Kinda [OT] Look out all your Atari Game lovers,...and more games,...

2004-03-02 Thread logrythm
On 01/03/2004, at 11:55 PM, Adam Yap wrote: Ehem... Somewhere around the place i have 6 CDs full of Mame ROMs. There's also a DVD distribution floating around somewhere but I'd saw that distributing would be errrm... unwise. Adam Im no lawyer but I think distributing them 'with' the em

Re: Kinda [OT] Look out all your Atari Game lovers,...and more games,...

2004-03-01 Thread Adam Yap
Ehem... Somewhere around the place i have 6 CDs full of Mame ROMs. There's also a DVD distribution floating around somewhere but I'd saw that distributing would be errrm... unwise. Adam On 01/03/2004, at 11:46 PM, Rob Findlay wrote: You can find hundreds of emulators you can run on the ma

Re: Kinda [OT] Look out all your Atari Game lovers,...and more games,...

2004-03-01 Thread Rob Findlay
>> >> You can find hundreds of emulators you can run on the mac from amigas to zx >> spectrums. Although getting the game roms is another thing. >> > > in the words of the Bard: > > "There's the rub" > > I wish I could resurect my old 7300 hard disk that had hundreds of > ROMS on it .. free G

Re: Kinda [OT] Look out all your Atari Game lovers,...and more games,...

2004-02-27 Thread Rod Lavington
On 27/2/04 5:05 PM, "Mark Secker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> was a shoot em up for the Microbee - I was the only one in the whole high >> school computing lab that had a game in their account ;-) The grovelling I >> had to endure from others so they could play that game! >> > > Ow you had

Re: Kinda [OT] Look out all your Atari Game lovers,...and more games,...

2004-02-27 Thread Mark Secker
was a shoot em up for the Microbee - I was the only one in the whole high school computing lab that had a game in their account ;-) The grovelling I had to endure from others so they could play that game! Ow you had BBC computers in your school obviously of a younger generation than me.

Re: Kinda [OT] Look out all your Atari Game lovers,...and more games,...

2004-02-27 Thread Rod Lavington
On 27/2/04 3:01 PM, "wyvern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i want to play 'Wireball' I loved that game even though the program as > printed in the atari magazine had errors in it I had to fix [pretty > brilliant i thought for one who knew nothing about programming] > > yep bring back the memori

Re: Kinda [OT] Look out all your Atari Game lovers,...and more games,...

2004-02-27 Thread wyvern
i want to play 'Wireball' I loved that game even though the program as printed in the atari magazine had errors in it I had to fix [pretty brilliant i thought for one who knew nothing about programming] yep bring back the memories those were fun times... anyone else remember wireball? Yvon

Re: Kinda [OT] Look out all your Atari Game lovers,...and more games,...

2004-02-27 Thread Craig Ringer
On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 13:24, Mark Secker wrote: > > you mean the "3D accelerator Vid card" ;) Rather more the overall comparison to: http://www.btinternet.com/~kemalenver/2600.html (of course, you're running OSX, Quartz, etc so the OS overheads are large - doesn't make it much less funny, thou

Re: Kinda [OT] Look out all your Atari Game lovers,...and more games,...

2004-02-27 Thread Shay Telfer
you can, if you have a NTSC TV, buy a joystick that has all the electronics plus about 20 atari arcade games all built in to it... www.thinkgeek.com I think stock them I hear rumours you may be able to buy a PAL version locally at Toys'R'Us Have fun, Shay -- === Shay T

Re: Kinda [OT] Look out all your Atari Game lovers,...and more games,...

2004-02-27 Thread Mark Secker
If you have a look at http://www.emulation.net/ You can find hundreds of emulators you can run on the mac from amigas to zx spectrums. Although getting the game roms is another thing. in the words of the Bard: "There's the rub" I wish I could resurect my old 7300 hard disk that had hundre

Re: Kinda [OT] Look out all your Atari Game lovers,...and more games,...

2004-02-27 Thread andy baker
If you have a look at http://www.emulation.net/ You can find hundreds of emulators you can run on the mac from amigas to zx spectrums. Although getting the game roms is another thing. Andy

Re: Kinda [OT] Look out all your Atari Game lovers,...and more games,...

2004-02-27 Thread Mark Secker
On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 00:25, Daniel Kerr wrote: Blast Back to the '80s with Activision Classic Games from the Atari® 2600! [snip System Requirements ** Power Macintosh G4 or better ** 400MHz Or Better ** OSX 10.2.8 or later ** 128MB RAM ** 3D accelerator video card with 16MB of RA

Re: Kinda [OT] Look out all your Atari Game lovers,...and more games,...

2004-02-27 Thread Craig Ringer
On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 00:25, Daniel Kerr wrote: > Blast Back to the '80s with Activision Classic Games from the Atari® 2600! [snip > System Requirements > ** Power Macintosh G4 or better > ** 400MHz Or Better > ** OSX 10.2.8 or later > ** 128MB RAM > ** 3D accelerator video card with 16MB of RA

Kinda [OT] Look out all your Atari Game lovers,...and more games,...

2004-02-27 Thread Daniel Kerr
Hi All! For everyone interested (or remembers) Atari games, and wishes they could play them again,..well I just got offered this game pack which is now available for purchase. (Almost made just for you Rod.) :o) Read on for more info. If you want to order it let me know! :o) Other new releases a