Paradroyd

The DS version plays very well on my Anbernic RG406V. Also have the original boxed cart on my actual DS.

One of my favorite Space Invaders games. I was just playing it last night.

Glass baby(?) with intense eyebrows.

So much fine craftsmanship!

Paradroyd (@paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org) Attached: 2 images This is what BBSing at 300 baud looks like. In 1984, this was about as good as it got for me. Tonight, I needed to hit a couple of Atari / ATASCII BBSs and all I had at hand was...

BBSing in ATASCII at 300 baud.
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Nope. Straight-up ordered it from Amazon UK. Had to retry multiple times, but I got it to work without any real shenanigans.

A box containing "The Spectrum" retro console.

Sometimes it's OK if things don't make sense.

A snippet of tonight's BBSing...

Dark Force BBS rendered in VT52 on a Atari Mega ST 2.

That second pic was supposed to be animated. I often forget that you have to post GIFs as video for them to play in-line.

A menu showing lots of Playstation 1 games displayed on a TV screen.

The title sequence for the PS1 game Einhander playing on a TV in the background. PS2 game controller being held in the foreground.

Thanks to @duhproject.bsky.social I've been playing lots of PS1 games on the PS2 this weekend!

My ticket stub from 1996 for Star Trek, First Contact, at Kenrick Cinema

I have retained this ticket stub as requested.

The theater though..not so much. It's been gone for a very long time.

I was wondering what that part meant.

The title screen for Galaga on the C64.

One of the best versions of Galaga I've played on any platform!

Great to look at.
Unfortunately, often not great to actually try to control.

FWIW, it's not just here, either. Even on BBSs, lately I find myself second guessing responses I'm tempted to make and I just let things go by.

Yes.
The 70s and early 80s were all about cop shows. This was one of the better ones.

I cannot dispute this.

I left there before it was even rebranded X. It was already headed in the wrong direction well before that, IMO.

Plus, it's basically a Dalek.

For the love of all that is holy, someone PLEASE fix the horrific single-stick controls on the MiSTer Ballezone core and replace them with a dual stick configuration!

Every cheap emulator I've had for the past 20+ years is superior to MiSTer for Battlezone because of that one single thing.

Ape Escape on the original Playstation. Very solid double jump mechanic in that one.

Also, kind of related..it also has a "slam" mechanic, where if you pull down while in a jump, it will slam down on enemies and objects.

Charlie Jade

The high score screen in Llamatron 2112.

Top score tonight.

Also, delivery from them is seldom "fast", anymore.

Lots of opportunities for "Hail Mary"-type moves that can turn a run around too. Like taking a 700 series (or higher) with a 001, etc. It's hard to do, but possible.

Interestingly, I just took these pictures of the 1.3 Megapixel MX-1200 at 13 Megapixels with my Pixel 8.

A 128 Megabyte Smartmedia card on top of a Fuji MX-1200 digital camera.

The front view of a Fuji MX-1200 digital camera.

The back side of my Fuji MX-1200 camera, showing the root setup menu.

Ah..Smartmedia. I still have several devices around that use it. One I have at hand is my original Fuji MX-1200. I bought this particular one in late January of 2000 at the nearby Walmart.I remember the date well, because it was my daughters 7th birthday and I bought it to take pictures on that day.

You've pretty much described the MicroCenter that's about 20 minutes away from me.

BTW, the Syncterm launch command with qualifiers for Pocket Chip is "syncterm -iOF".

ANSI BBS screen on the Pocketchip.

PETSCII BBS screen on the Pocketchip.

8 bit Atari ATASCII BBS screen on the Pocket Chip.

I was able to get Syncterm to compile on it and take it BBSing.

Compiling Syncterm was actually pretty easy.
Figuring out the combination of qualifiers I had to launch it with to get it to work on the weird screen resolution was a lot harder. But I eventually figured it out.