June 2018 teaser

Invitation to The Melbourne Computer Club Open Day
You are invited to come along to our Moorabbin Office on Sunday the 17th of June to see some of the great Projects that our members have been working on and talk to fellow Members about your own interests and help to influence the future direction of our club. The full details of the "Open Day" are as follows:- Event Details Level 1, 479 Warrigal Rd, Moorabbin 13:00-17:00 Sunday 17th June 2018	Activities Our Members will be displaying how to: Automate Curtains & Blinds Analyse Solar Usage Build a sun tracking Mirror Automate a Gate Opener Construct a Robotics Kit Build a 3D Printer Build a CNC Router
To Register for the Open Day please enrol on the Melbourne Computer Club Web Site Our mailing address is: Level 1, Suite 26, 479 Warrigal Road, Moorabbin, VIC 3189 Australia

May 2018 Meeting Report

Here's a nice little surprise for Atari Jaguar users from Jeff Minter and AtariAge on YouTube

We did a similar post in December 2017 but didn't know about the surprise!

April 2018 Meeting Report

Some really good serial communication port stuff.  Atari 800 anyone?

- Thanx Matt; Matt's amazing show & tell featured a device that provides WiFi from a standard 25-pin serial port.  Could that be used on an Atari 400/800? (Possibly, read on;

Some really good serial communication port stuff.  Atari 850 anyone???  Provides a 9-pin female (Educated guess making it female would stop users from attemping to plug their digital joysticks, keypads, indy-contollers & analog paddles into a serial port) connector)

Minecraft on the Atari 2600?  No just the opposite

March 2018 Meeting Report

This Month a real focus on Atari user groups...

     Discovered SPACE (the final frontier, that came right before the electronic frontier (the final final frontier(?)).  A group in the Northern Hemisphere lasted updated on the 11th of this Month (This post: Sunday the 18th of March 2018)

      And postings closer to home from Queensland, Adelaide & Tasmania (No Adelaide & Tasmania, you don't get a seperate link it's all to the same Forum) from less than twelve months ago (even some postings from our good friends Atari030 and Ragstaff if you care to take a look)

But could the future lie in RetroPie?

February 2018 Meeting Report

This Month's selection of what to watch gaming-wise comes from Tom,

Thanx 2 Tom 4 these GEMs;

Nolan Bushnell

Dragster - Part I

Dragster - Part II

Under the sea  (/water)

This (Mr.Pac-) guy

High score?

January 2018 Meeting Report

BBQ

December 2017 Meeting Report

'was the 8th nigh' before Christmas(, well actually day(Sunday), although in Greenwich it would be the wee-small hours of night) and the meeting was held.  A convener, an attendee - "Who could ask for anything more" (Ok, we'll be asking for more next year as we wind down from this year).


Do you have a need for Jaguar Pro-Controllers?  At a reasonable price?  Here's the proposal we found at AtariAge  Why do I need this you ask?  So you can play the following Jaguar games of course!

We also played some of this on the computer as we discovered a little more about Ken Sider

November 2017 Meeting Report

On this sunny, summer day in Melbourne the November MACE meeting was attended by Andrew, Tom, and a few tumbleweeds blowing by - fitfully faltering in front of our ST's screens before continuing on their way, driven by the dry wind. Unchained, released, but never free, the winds captive.

That laborious intro out of the way, onto less fanciful content: at today's meeting we continued a deeper look at Tautology 2 by Reservoir Gods, both the gameplay, and with Assempro's decompile function. It's always an amusing and fruitful idea to decompile programs written in C and try to understand the assembler output. I for one have no idea what's going on, but Andrew and our guest from the Microcontroller MelbPC SIG (this month, and last), Mohan Gupta, had some.

Tautology 2, for the Atari Falcon

Tautology 2 is a favourite of ours and is an original and interesting take on the Mahjong theme.

Other random noteworthy happenings on the Atari scene over the last few months which were touched upon include:

• The rebirth of the Atari-legend website. The new version of the site is looking great and hopefully it can become a centre of collaboration from the Atari community again, in preserving and documenting the old games and software we all love!
• We watched this interesting, 25 minute, documentary by released by Wrestling With Gaming last month on the rise and fall of the Atari Jaguar. A nicely done, fairly balanced (some retrospective narratives on the Jaguar are overly critical in my opinion) review of the rise of the Jaguar, the cancellation of its ST-related predecssor, the Atari Panther.
  
• Daimakaimura / Ghouls 'n' Ghosts arcade port by AnimainCorpore (Sascha Springer). This is really quite an incredible achievement on the STE, eclipsing the original game graphically by a significant margin and causing some scratching of heads over on the English Amiga Board which is a rare and enjoyable thing for an ST production.
  
• We had look at a Wrath of the Demon game play video. We are meant to be nostalgic types, we're meant to view the past through rose-tinted glasses, however in my opinion this games appeal has been tarnished with age. The graphics are impressive for the time, but the game play looks tedious, repetitive, and recycled.
  

Meeting report for October, 2017

Now that was spooky!

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