OMG i had no idea!!! (Atari LYNX related)

Xwards · Post by **Xwards** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 10:57 pm 0

My folks loved my Lynx - playing on that plugged in the wall meant that I didn't have to accost the telly in the front room!

Blue Lighting was amazing!

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 12:02 am 0

Xwards wrote:Blue Lighting was amazing!

That and Warbirds. Warbirds multiplayer was awsome. Learning that you could actually land was neat too.

Foozwah · Post by **Foozwah** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 4:25 am 0

Xwards wrote:My folks loved my Lynx - playing on that plugged in the wall meant that I didn't have to accost the telly in the front room!

Yup, I've been using my Lynx in much the same way for years.

Never really saw it as a pocket-style handheld (couldn't afford big enough pockets...), so much as a readily portable games console for which I didn't have to lug around a colour tv, when I wanted to move from room to room, or to a friend's place for multiplayer action, or when the lounge room telly was already in use.

Lynx is still teh winnah!

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 6:50 am 0

Oooh, I liked my Game Gear. Mainly because it had Halley Wars, and also because a couple of the lasses used to come and steal it to play with on overtime instead of working.

corrosive · Post by **corrosive** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 9:47 am 0

Yeah, the battery life was a bit dire (seem to remember as the battery faded the viewable angle on the screen changed too), but it was quite good fun. Didn't have many games, just California Games and Electrocop IIRC. Had to get rid of it due to losing my job

Got a Lynx II now, but I rarely use it, mainly because I haven't got a mains adapter for it yet and keep forgetting to sort one out

Kronos · Post by **Kronos** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 10:36 am 0

skab wrote:Hmm... just think "Atari 7800".

Atari had actually 2 options in 84-85: Release the quite powerful 7800 or licence the Famicom. They scrapped the Nintendo deal and shelved the 7800 till 87-something. Now that's what I call stupid.

Tramiel-stupid. CBM never recovered from the spirit of stupidness their founder injected into that company.

But then Nintendo scrapped a deal with Sony about a CD-add-on themselves. That thing became the PS1. Oh well...

irvin gould and medhi ali are the fuckwits who killed commodore, new plastic casings but same processor and custom chips for years=stagnation=eventual bankrupcy!!

the amiga 1000 would have cleaned up but for 2 reasons 1...the OS was written/adapted from tripos by dr tim king of metacomco as the original os was fried i think but screwed anyway. only a complete prick would think the amiga was LESS reliable than any copy of windows pre win2k or xp haha noobs! as for viruses....

also it wasnt released with a pc emulator this was so important to get businesses onboard until some1 bothered to port the top whack business apps to the machine...scribble or wordperfect???!?!?!

....at the time the absolute best was a 286 and ega...pffff useless machine costing 3x as much the amiga was light yrs ahead of its time in 85 and it was up and running in 84 in prototype boards anyway. they got royally ass fukt by cbm and atari anyway as is usualy with any great design by a small group of geniuses.

basically if atari and cbms best products were owned by sony things would be very different and if sony release a PS3 based "pc" intel and amd will be fukt and things will finally get beyond the stagnant shit that is the windows pc farce. if we had a decent efficient os u could afford to go on holiday and not have to buy a new pc every year when windows gets even more bloated and fukt

romanista · Post by **romanista** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 10:52 am 0

Old_but_still_a_kid wrote: the amiga 1000 would have cleaned up but for 2 reasons 1...the OS was written/adapted from tripos by dr tim king of metacomco as the original os was fried i think but screwed anyway. only a complete prick would think the amiga was LESS reliable than any copy of windows pre win2k or xp haha noobs! as for viruses....

come on, you can do better than that, there are a whole lot of reason the amiga failed to remain competive.. oh and don't get me started on amiga viruses.... (oh and the lynx was made by the holy jay miner too.., talk about a brilliant designer

)..

do love my miggy though......

corrosive · Post by **corrosive** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 11:34 am 0

Old_but_still_a_kid wrote: irvin gould and medhi ali are the fuckwits who killed commodore, new plastic casings but same processor and custom chips for years=stagnation=eventual bankrupcy!!

Can't argue too much with that point.
Edit : Well, that, and Gould and Ali's wages at the time. They were bloody enormous.

the amiga 1000 would have cleaned up but for 2 reasons 1...the OS was written/adapted from tripos by dr tim king of metacomco as the original os was fried i think but screwed anyway. only a complete prick would think the amiga was LESS reliable than any copy of windows pre win2k or xp haha noobs! as for viruses....

Wrong, the AmigaDOS was adapted from Tripos, the rest of the AmigaOS was put together by Carl Sassenrath (Exec), R.J.Mical (Intuition) and others. AmigaDOS/Tripos were written in BCPL, thus those blasted BPTRS.

also it wasnt released with a pc emulator this was so important to get businesses onboard until some1 bothered to port the top whack business apps to the machine...scribble or wordperfect???!?!?! ....at the time the absolute best was a 286 and ega...pffff useless machine costing 3x as much the amiga was light yrs ahead of its time in 85 and it was up and running in 84 in prototype boards anyway. they got royally ass fukt by cbm and atari anyway as is usualy with any great design by a small group of geniuses.

Wordperfect was available for the Amiga. I had/have a copy somewhere. And there was a PC emulator - Sidecar anyone? There was also Transformer (software only) which could run some basic PC apps (it coped quite well with Wordperfect 4.2). Can't argue with the "light years ahead of it's time". I've still got the incredibly worn issue of Byte that I must have read hundreds of times before I finally got an A500

basically if atari and cbms best products were owned by sony things would be very different and if sony release a PS3 based "pc" intel and amd will be fukt and things will finally get beyond the stagnant shit that is the windows pc farce. if we had a decent efficient os u could afford to go on holiday and not have to buy a new pc every year when windows gets even more bloated and fukt

You're dreaming. IBM clones already had a solid foothold by then - and if they'd released the PC emulator you speak of early on, it would have just resulted in developers saying "If you want to run our software, you'll have to run it on the emulator, we haven't got the resources to port to such a small platform".

romanista wrote: (oh and the lynx was made by the holy jay miner too.., talk about a brilliant designer )..

Jay Miner had nothing to do with the Lynx (edit : apart from probably being a large influence on those that did design it) , but I can't argue with the brilliant designer bit. I think by that time he'd moved back into medical appliances. He worked on the 2600, Atari 8-bits, and the Amiga for definite though.

Edit : Even more off topic I suppose, but those of you interested in what the Amiga could have ended up may or may not have seen the documents at the Dave Haynie Archive; if not, it's here : http://www.thule.no/haynie/

corrosive · Post by **corrosive** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 11:58 am 0

I'll go back on topic now

So is there a list of Lynx titles well worth getting somewhere? I think I missed the main lot when I got mine originally (only had those I mentioned earlier and Klax), and now I've only got Chips Challenge and Slimeworld.

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 12:12 pm 0

Old_but_still_a_kid wrote:basically if atari and cbms best products were owned by sony things would be very different and if sony release a PS3 based "pc" intel and amd will be fukt and things will finally get beyond the stagnant shit that is the windows pc farce. if we had a decent efficient os u could afford to go on holiday and not have to buy a new pc every year when windows gets even more bloated and fukt

No. You're wrong

. If you look for some of the excellent posts by various forum geniuses (I'm looking at Kemper_Boyd at this point amongst others) they've already mentioned that the Cell CPU is not particularly general purpose, and would not run current software, or even general purpose software particularly well. If it was really the wonderful be all and end all of CPU then we wouldn't have heard a certain large computer manufacturer switching to Intel recently, rather a much happier Sony / IBM.

And FFS, if the "windows pc farce" bothers you so much then buy a mac or use linux on a badger or something! Also, I've got 5 year old PC's running Windows XP quite happily with none of this bloatedness which you describe. Don't blaim the fact that people install all sorts of shite on the OS - things aren't nearly as "fukt" as you describe

Cheers

Bubba

corrosive · Post by **corrosive** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 12:24 pm 0

Bubba wrote:And FFS, if the "windows pc farce" bothers you so much then buy a mac or use linux on a badger or something! Also, I've got 5 year old PC's running Windows XP quite happily with none of this bloatedness which you describe. Don't blaim the fact that people install all sorts of shite on the OS - things aren't nearly as "fukt" as you describe

Cheers

Bubba

Get an Itanium and run Linux or some Unix on it? You've no longer got your old x86 architecture, and you don't have to worry about Windows bloat. Or software generally for that matter

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 12:29 pm 0

corrosive wrote:Get an Itanium and run Linux or some Unix on it? You've no longer got your old x86 architecture, and you don't have to worry about Windows bloat. Or software generally for that matter

I still think running linux on a badger is the way to go though

.

Cheers

Bubba

jrc313 · Post by **jrc313** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 12:42 pm 0

Bubba wrote:I still think running linux on a badger is the way to go though .

Cheers

Bubba

Surely a penguin would be more apt. Water cooled too

MadHippo · Post by **MadHippo** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 1:19 pm 0

OMG LYNX I5 THE ROXXXXXXXRORROR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111!eleventyone

But seriously. Yes. It rocked. It should have been huge, but it was just too expensive compared to the gameboy.

guythp · Post by **guythp** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 3:05 pm 0

MadHippo wrote: Yes. It rocked. It should have been huge, but it was just too expensive compared to the gameboy.

The Lynx 1 was huge.