I know this is an old subject.  But here in Canada they still exist after a fashion but haven't had the name Radio Shack in almost two decades.  They hitched their wagon to Circuit City which ironically also went bankrupt and are now known only as "The source" and are a convience store sized version of best buy minus the appliances.  Though they still stick to the sky high prices.

Greetings Programs,

Been a decade since I've said that.  Who remembers what movie that comes from?

Seeing the above mentioned movies on tv again a month or so ago inspired me to pickup the trilogy on blu-ray.  Last time I'd seen them was on dvd before this site went active.  Another pair of 80's movies I'd picked up not long before were a double blu-ray set of Firefox / hearbreak ridge.

Greetings.

Been gone from here a very long time but not completely gone from the computer world.  Something I've been dealing with is a lot of my retro stuff (nearly all of it!) was dumped in the process of moving.  But I'll be looking at putting together a (probably limited) Atari 8bit system sometime to have something to use after I get a C64 system together again.

Robert,

Does he provide a list anywhere of what flash roms can be used with this cart? Also can it program roms that are compatible with a standard cart sans rom?

As an update to this old topic I've found RTN again. At least for those of us in broadcast range of  Buffalo NY. That is of course a dtv reciever. A friend who ditched his bell tv subscription and now uses a roof mount antenna can pickup rochester, buffalo, toronto, even hamilton & ottawa quite well.  RTN is now carried on WGRZ's digital transmitter, if I remember correct 2-1 and 2-2 are WGRZ's main channel in SD & HD, while 2-3 or 2-4 is RTN which was SD only last time I saw.

I have not tried netflix yet but I could. The main obstacle is the unjustifiable usage limits many ISP's including mine put on what we already pay enough for. Something I have been doing lately is converting my existing collection which is quite large to divx for SD and mp4 for HD. I've setup an old dell P4 system with more ram, larger HDD and installed PS3 Media Server software (a free DL for home use).  Despite the name it streams quite well to either a PS3 or Xbox 360 (I have tried both). Since I plan on putting 1 system on the HDtv upstairs the family normally uses it should work well providing a netflix like experience without the excessive overages.

Typically I go out to movies once a month, far less than I used to when living in Toronto. Mostly due to the closest theatre is abysmal though cheap, rarely a movie I want to see, always crowded with screaming kids and stinking of mothballs. When I do go I invariably end up at the cineplex in bowmanville or the galaxy at peterborough. Note: I do not mind kids but I object to having people running around the theatre screaming loud disrupting a movie I paid to see, so as stan lee puts it "nuff said". But here some of the cineplex locations do have half price tuesday showings which is when I usually go, typically $5.25 at the two I go to most often.

Luckily for us, with HDtv & blu-ray available and coming down in price watching movies at home has become a lot more fun.

While not really 80's tv but mid 70's I was a fan of Space:1999 as a kid. I had always wanted them on DVD and knew A&E did produce them.  Problem was the only stores close to me were "starstruck entertainment" which irritatingly went bankrupt right after christmas.  But I've had some luck recently, just over a week ago I was in belleville in their one solitary mall for an hour and found the last remaining Sam the Record Man store in existance. Not only did they have the series they had the first season on blu-ray which I did not miss getting.  It was definately not cheap but most tv series are not, cost me a whopping $99+tax. I asked about season two and it is not released yet but they will be calling when they get it in.

Oh Robert, I did see your note about the bootleg Max headroom, its probably a transfer from vhs that is more than likely several generations old. Being as I do video transfers as part of my work I can say for sure that what the equipment available to most people can do to restore video quality is limited.  Even with the equipment I have I am always fighting jitter. But more on topic I am a fan of Max Headroom and if I could find it locally and in region 1 I would definately go for it, especially if blu-ray.

Hey Robert,

I havent yet signed up for the blogspot thing yet but did notice the two entries about the mystery 6400 cartridge.  Both entries completely omitted what it actually does, as did the comvex site you provided a link for.  I am like most people into commodore, that is interested in new items but not for long if I can't find any solid information on what it really is and where to get one.

Btw, that reminds me of something.  Back in the 80's there was a series of 5200 games ported to the atari 8bits by someone calling himself "glenn the 5200 man". They were always of dubious legality back then but might be worth looking at now even just for curiousity sake. Many of them were arcade games I never saw on many other systems, games like space fortress (I think that was the title) and vanguard which was a favourite of mine so I ended up with the 2600 version.

Something odds going on with the forum.  I have been on the forums a few times since the disaster and this thread only just appeared for me now. After I refreshed the browser a few times.

Robert, it is NOT customs its the current mail strike, also I did not order from canada all the orders with excessive delays have been from the United States, and it goes back a couple of years at least. That is far longer than the current postal strike.

The Berzerk Cartridge I have is from a finished but unreleased game Atari had been working on back in the 80's very closely mirrors the Arcade original. Contrary to some fairy tales it is not based on the 2600 version which was popular when released but was not really the same.

Robert, do you have amnesia? have you forgotten what we've all been subjected to at the hands of the now gone lunatic fringe?

As you may have heard there were a few game prototypes from atari that never made it out at least not officially.  Games like Super Pacman, Berzerk and a couple others. Luckily they are now available on cartridge. Just a couple months ago I ordered Berzerk from B & C computervisions at www.myatari.com and I am quite impressed with the game itself.  Graphics are very much like the original arcade game from Stern and it does include speech just like the original game. The cart itself is I presume an eprom or eeprom of the 16k variety and the case is an original nos atari cartridge case. The only difference being the label. Since the game was cancelled before labels were produced. The label on the cart is quite nice and is a repro of the atari 2600 berzerk label picture without the orginal text but instead simply states BERZERK.  The game itself is not terribly expensive being $20 + shipping, a big relief from the overpriced Xbox 360 & PS3 games I have bought recently. My only complaint is not with the game itself or with B&C but with the US postal service horridly slow delivery methods. It took just over a month to get to me when it should have been 2 weeks or less. I had ordered a Commodore 16 book the same day and it arrived just under a week, from England!

Basically what happened was in the heyday of atari's home computer divisions a number of projects were started but never finished for various reasons. This includes such games as berzerk.  Luckily some of these games were found and are reproduced.

I hope that guy who got the 815 did not put it up on ebay. Finding one of those at all is a huge thing, free is like being given keys to the grid free of clu & the mcp.