96 Pac games in 1

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

So, you DENY the burn-in? What's next - denying the holocaust like Gibson's father?

Anyway, there's this wild new photographic technique that may help you. It's called, "turn the flash off."

Yes, yes, NATCH. I need to get that table out of there and then re-take some photos. I would also like a picture of all three games together, but that may not be possible.

Question! Do you / have you used the "speed" fix for Pac/Ms. Pac? Because I am curious as to how widespread it is. I can simply not play the Pac games without it. I can't get off the first board.

But yes: the burn-in on CC is pretty bad. You can easily see it when the game is off and you notice it slightly when the game is on.

The burn-in on the other two are very slight. The Pac kit has a "screen saver" mode that you can configure to run after n attract cycles. I definitely need to open it up again and turn that on. Ah crap I have more to write, gotta hop on this thread later tonight.

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Apartment F209 was coded, tested, and distributed on a computer sitting on one of those card tables.

(By a guy sitting on a folding chair in front of it.)

(Drinking beer.)

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

151,640, board 15. (First game I tried tonight, which ... well, it's not my theory, but I have a theory that I get better at activities after I've had a chance to sleep.)

And again I say that this is with the speed chip. I do not want to create a false impression of my talent. I played Ms. Pac on the GP earlier today, which has no speed fix, and I couldn't get off the second board.

The Ms. Pac/Galaga reissue in Breckenridge was the faster style of play, and I really doubt that the owner of "Fatty's Pizza" chose that. Could it be the default setting for that kind of machine???

[Jethro Q. Walrustitty]

Question! Do you / have you used the "speed" fix for Pac/Ms. Pac? Because I am curious as to how widespread it is. I can simply not play the Pac games without it. I can't get off the first board.

Define "speed fix" - the use of the term "fix" is confusing.

There are a zillion speed-up chips. Those were not unusual to find back in the early '80s. Nor was it all that rare to find one of those "Pac Plus" or similar, with slightly different boards, boards that would disappear when you'd eat an energizer, etc.

I have played some of them on MAME, too, but I definitely played them in the arcade back in the day.

But yes: the burn-in on CC is pretty bad. You can easily see it when the game is off and you notice it slightly when the game is on.

The burn-in on the other two are very slight. The Pac kit has a "screen saver" mode that you can configure to run after n attract cycles. I definitely need to open it up again and turn that on. Ah crap I have more to write, gotta hop on this thread later tonight.

Ugh, I can't stand burn-in. It makes me insane. I'm lucky that Baby Pac is on the original monitor and has zero burn-in.

Turning on the screen saver on your Ms Pac probably won't make much of a difference, because 1) the damage is already done and can't be undone, and 2) it's unlikely that you're going to let your machine sit on the attract mode untouched for days at a time, which is what caused the burn-in in the first place.

I assume that you turn it on when you are going to play a game and turn it off when you're done, and might leave it on for a few hours if you were having a party or something. Those conditions shouldn't cause any burn-in. So, it's probably not getting worse on your watch.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

OK, better picture of the Ms. Pac in action. It's blurry, but it's the camera, not the game. Or, more likely, the photographer not the camera.



And better picture of the downstairs now that the table is gone. Still need to move that HP box upstairs. I just have to figure out how to get the CC in the frame, now:

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

And I should really photograph the basement with the lights off. That's how other guys depict their arcade. Like this guy: http://home.columbus.rr.com/irobot/homearcade.htm

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

I found out that the ghosts don't turn blue on board 17. I found this out after I ate the pill and nothing happened. I knew that was going to happen at some point, but I did not know exactly when.

165,000. (Note: this is not good and nothing like going 92 boards deep in Galaga. And I got confirmation that people tend to think the speed-up feature is cheesy, so I am even less good than 165K.)