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Popeye now sounds like a sexual euphemism

 

Apart from Matt, your best person would be Nezgar on Atari Age, he's the 1050 expert. As I have left Atari Age I would have asked him directly on there but I don't want people to think I'm either back or needy for the forum. The people were lovely but I don't miss the Atari side and trying not to get back to it.

 

You gone full on Commodore now Paul?

 

I’m sorry you aren’t doing so well and it’s killed off your enjoyment and enthusiasm. Definitely keep your 800XL and 64 as prices these days would make it difficult to get another.The 1200XL is a tricky one, I don’t know who gave you it.
If you decide to offload any peripherals down the road keep me in the loop.

 

Wish we could get an RAF Apache strike in on that upstairs flat, mate.

We'd give you a heads up of course 5mins before so you guys could get hid behind the sofa but one hellfire from these guys and those feckers would be toast:

 

I hope, but I have no faith in it, today has been quieter because she won't let her cheating husband out of her sight and I gave them a solid 2hrs of music at 2am, just to show them what it's like to disturb people.Despite the quieter time, I'm pretty down at the mo, probably will step away from here for a little. Nothing to do with you guys (top blokes all), all about my mood and how it affects me. I tend to get agitated very easily when down and the last thing I want to do is take my anger out on anyone here if I misconstrue something silly. Mental illness is a bugger and all the pressure I'm under from various things really screws with my head.

I'll see how it unwinds..

 

Take care, Paul and have a wee break.

We're all here for you when you feel better and fancy "coming up for air".

I'm fed up with aches and pains and Bev's pished off with hot flushes so I think it's the season / time just after Chrimbo, before spring has properly sprung, when a lot of us get miffed, fed up and are crying out for sunshine in our lives and need to be feeling all round better about ourselves and situations.

Go steady, my mate.

 

My best to you and Bev.

My thing has been building up lately, like you guys and probably a million others, I just feel like I'm in a room that I can't get out of and everyone just keeps taking potshots at me.

I'll see what to do, if I go then I'll be back at some point....

 

To round off the 1050 repair I had to recap and replace the diodes, repair damaged traces and finally traced the fault to the chip U2 which was why the Stepper Motor wasn’t working properly. I have since replaced U2 on the board with a 75478 and it’s working fine now so all in I ended up with a decent boxed 1050.
Anyone ever need a 1050 fixed in future I’m up for it.

 

Nice offer, I'm fine as it stands...Nice to see things getting fixed

 

In what way does it not work Andy?

You said the disco led is fine?

If said firmware is corrupt then being Chinese dodgy old gear there will be no reflashable firmware available (to Joe Public)and probably some cacky lead that needs to be made. Chances are that it's just poorly made.

PS, the lads expect better bar entertainment lighting that this!!

 

Sounds like a cap losing it, BUT on those cheap circuit boards it could be anything..Richie, you up for the challenge???

 

send it up the Farrell Group Headquarters and I’ll have a tinker.

 

You got a damn good thrashing old boy..Ha, seeing as it was the Potters, it seems they made a mug out of you lot

 

Nope, too busy either indoors on a console or out up to no good. A group of young lads used to turn up on the next field and give footy coaching to the local kids, lasted 2 weeks, no one was turning up, it totally stopped after 6 weeks when these poor lads just gave up.

Blimey, future prime minister on the far left..You pick..

And yeah, would be lovely to have another go at back then...

 

Agreed, mate.

It's shite.

And thank you for no one mentioning today's football results.

I think I may have got away with it!

(From heroes to zeroes in a week, Man-U-fucking Shited on today's performance)

 

I wasn't going to bring up the football Andy, but seeing as you mentioned it....

WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED??? YOUR BOYS TOOK ONE HELLUVA BEATING!!!!

 

Wouldn't swap my childhood days for kids now.
Great fun doing all the things you guys are talking about, staying out till it got dark and someones parents shouted for everyone to go home. Endless games in the streets. Feel sorry for children these days glued to the latest Tik Tok video or whatever. We were so lucky back then. And do you remember the summer of 1976? Blimey, talk about a heatwave

 

Yeah, 76 was red hot and down here we had swarms - literally millions of the little bleeders - of ladybirds and endless hot days, Al. Summat else. Great days back then and growing up next to the beach - at the end of our street - and the arcades just off the prom - made it a golden golden great childhood.

United want their arses kicking from Scumfield all the way back to the Stretford End and nothing less than a similar turnaround and performance against Real Betis on Thursday will get rid of the extreme bitter taste left in the mouths of Utd fans seeing the Scouse vermin rejoicing in our complete capitulation 2nd half. Diabolical and unacceptable, mate. Other than Sunderland losing 5-1 at home y'day too, it's been a great weekend

Going back to the games and the sheer joy of our our childhoods "larking" out til all hours and in and out of the amusement arcades as we played all ruddy day out and about on the streets, in the parks and on the beach - here we go with the 80s video games Top 50 - see if any of yours are in there - I've already spotted Time Pilot, Xevious and Robotron 2084 which are 3 of mine, in the Top 40...

Do it, lads, and beam yersens back to all our GLORY DAYS!

 

I couldn't believe the score as I sat watching it earlier, blimey.

Will need to take a look at that video and see how many of my favourite arcade titles are on it. No time like the present!

 

Here we go then:

Burgertime - first played it at a pool hall while on a caravan holiday. Probably my earliest proper coin-op experience so it had to be here.

Outrun - that cabinet, the music, the blonde in the passenger seat of a bright red Ferrari. Amazing atmosphere.

Star Wars - used to play the sit down cabinet every time I went to Portsmouth. It really was like being in the film. I'm going in!!

Pole Position - where my love of arcade racers started. The speech at the start "prepare to qualify" and the sound effects as I spun the steering wheel trying to stop hitting those damned trackside signs. I really felt like I was driving a formula one car

Galaga - okay, so I never played this much when I was younger, but it is my favourite arcade game now. Always head for it at shows like Play Expo. Pure shoot-em-up action as you take on wave after wave of swooping aliens trying to reach the top of the high score table. Gaming gold!

I'm visiting Arcade Club in Leeds at end of April and then later in September will be going to the latest venue in Blackpool so will catch up with all these classic games then. Highly recommend a visit to one of these dens of antique eniquity if you ever happen to be in the area.

So fellow Atariains, what arcade games in the video above made you go all wibbly and begging your parents for coinage in the 80's?

 

Brilliant memories recalled there, Paul.

I never came across Burgertime in the arcades but loved it as Mr Wimpy on the Oric, CBM64 and even the Speccy.

Star Wars and that trench run (use the Force, Luke) hit the exhaust port, sit-down jobbie with the amazingly good vector graphics and asterisks flying through the air, from tie fighters, trying to hit you (plus those gun turret towers) still brings back a heap of arcade memories for me too, mate. I was never very good at it but also loved the digitised speech which really did help to immerse you in the experience & made it feel just like the film indeed.

Never really got into Outrun at all but Pole Position - just as you say, mate, from the "Prepare to qualify" speech to the airship scrolling across the screen and the advertising hoardings and chequered edges of the race track just heaped realism upon realism with the gear changes and acceleration and the rush of adrenaline and excitement as you often did just qualify and enjoy extended time etc. Bloody brilliant job by Atari and the 8bit conversion wasn't half bad either.

Galaga (Zalaga on the Beeb!) has always enthralled me and that was the one, probably in the summer of 86-87 that had me and my mate Dar playing it every summer night long in our local arcades, feeding the 10p slot over and over and over again trying to impress the watching gals (one chick we both fancied was actually called Lynne Gallagher and we'd imagine that being great at Galaga would be a surefire way to impress Miss Gallagher... it wasn't weirdly enough...)

Finally for now, I never did see Popeye in the arcades but when I checked out the Atari 8bit version in the summer of 88 when I was seeing this lovely wee lass called Ali, I must admit me and her, when we could take our hands off each other, used to play this one every night on my 800XL:



Darn - where did our carefree yoof go, guys?!

 

Hi Richie, nope, it's more like full retro burnout. I can't really enjoy what stuff I have because of pain, I really try, but I get in to agony every time. Now this has been happened more frequently, and it just makes all my gear a source of pain. Add to that, a general downturn in my mood due to neighbours, and it's just made the whole retro thing tiring for me.

So with all this I sat down and looked at what I'm actually playing and got rid of all the emulated stuff that I'd not touched in years, and trust me, it was a lot. Now I'm looking at my real gear and deciding on its fate, I can't see me getting rid of my real Atari or C64, I still like them for the memories but that notion may change. With my other real gear I'll almost certainly down size. The only handling it gets from me is when I dust and clean it.

I could also do with some money, but I doubt I'd get much for the stuff I have bar the 1200XL, but as that was a gift it would feel awkward..

 

The 1200 was sent over from the US by Bob1200XL on AtariAge, another mate who lives near me converted it to PAL and popped in a U1MB board that he had spare.

It's not just the retro stuff, watching films is now hard as I'm in crippling pain quite soon. I would not mind, but when I sold off some gear last year I got the missing films I need from the Marvel ongoing set, almost all still shrink wrapped (bar the 2nd hand ones) still as the pain stuffs it for me.

Actually deleting all the other emulated systems I don't touch was good for me, cheered me up as I'd been thinking of doing it for ages. Not soo fun about the systems I do like, want to play, try to play and wham, pain...

Still, I'm walking, talking and driving, happy for all that..So not bad off, wish a hit team would take out my upstairs neighbours, spent all day screaming at each other, talking of getting a divorce because he has been playing away (again), now it's all happy families bar the screaming and stamping brat they have (3 now and one about to hatch) Joy oh joy...

 

Cheers Andy etc, as she is about to drop another 'thing' I can only hope that they are doing the classic house grab scenario, have loads of unwanted children to get a free house. Can't wait till September where the boy must be in school all day, at the mo it's 3 hours, and then he comes back and wreaks havoc. They really are animals, the hyena of the people world, nasty trash that just lives off hate..

It's almost fun to see he's screwing her over rotten...