Simviation Forum - Portfolio palmtop

Oct 2^nd, 2004 at 7:14am

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I was watching Terminator 2 the other day and noticed the character John Connor using a small piece of Atari hardware to work out the pin no. for a stolen credit card and steal cash.
It looked interesting so I went to the Atari museum website and found out it was their palmtop computer the Portfolio, quite a neat little device for its day. Apparently the world's first palmtop running an 8088 chip at 4 mhz. 8)

http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/pccomputers/portfolio.html

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Reply #1 - Oct 2^nd, 2004 at 7:27am

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I was watching Terminator 2 the other day and noticed the character John Connor using a small piece of Atari hardware to work out the pin no. for a stolen credit card and steal cash.
It looked interesting so I went to the Atari museum website and found out it was their palmtop computer the Portfolio, quite a neat little device for its day. Apparently the world's first palmtop running an 8088 chip at 4 mhz. 8)

http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/pccomputers/portfolio.html

Hi 8...!
Many thanks for the info...
Very interesting... 8)...!

Cheers mate... 8)...!

Paul...8-bit Sinclair Spectrum, Commodore CPC 64, etc, and Atari 2600 user... Wink

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Reply #2 - Oct 2^nd, 2004 at 8:08am

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Atari 2600!! I remeber those Grin

I remeber some aircraft dogfight game I had on mine, I thought it was wicked 8)

My mate had a commodore Vic20 that was a weird thing. Think I went to an Atari800 after the 2600 then after that onto a BBC B micro.

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Reply #3 - Oct 2^nd, 2004 at 10:51am

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Since finding out about the Portfolio I have heard that someone that owned one overclocked it so that it ran at 6 mhz, but it drained the battery. Embarrassed

Funny you should mention about the 2600 console because I was just reading about the supercharger accessory that allowed games on analogue cassette to be used and effectively upped the 2600's RAM from 128 bytes to 6k. If you look at the screenshots for the game Frogger here it showed that the old 2600 could get very close to the arcade version.

http://www.atariage.com/software_page.html?SoftwareLabelID=196

ZX 80, 81, 48k Spectrum, Atari 800 & Vic 20, that's classic hardware. 8)

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Reply #4 - Oct 2^nd, 2004 at 1:29pm

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and think how much did we worry about FPS back then?

I was happy as Larry playing on my Atari 2600 it was the best Grin

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Reply #5 - Oct 2^nd, 2004 at 5:59pm

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Hi Lads...!
You can still play all your old 8-bit games to your hearts content...
...but this time on your PC, with amazing colour and sound... Grin

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Just do a search for "Emulators"...

Spectrum.
Commodore.
Atari.
Amiga
Megadrive.
etc....

Cheers all...!

Paul.

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Reply #6 - Oct 2^nd, 2004 at 7:13pm

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You know that using a emulator to play Megadrive games is illegal Fozz. Sega's been busy porting some of the old games to Gamecube so they're still for sale. I must admit that I love the old Sonic games and I use emulators to play them. Can't be bothered dragging the old Genesis out. Got too much hooked up to the TV already.

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Reply #7 - Oct 3^rd, 2004 at 4:46am

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You know that using a emulator to play Megadrive games is illegal Fozz. Sega's been busy porting some of the old games to Gamecube so they're still for sale. I must admit that I love the old Sonic games and I use emulators to play them. Can't be bothered dragging the old Genesis out. Got too much hooked up to the TV already.

A treat...!

Good old Sonic speeding round on the Megadrive emulator

Runs fantastically on the PC... Grin

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Cheers all...!

Paul.

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Reply #8 - Oct 3^rd, 2004 at 11:26am

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Sill one of the best games around. They're legal if you own the original game cart. Here's Sonic & Knuckles

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Reply #9 - Oct 3^rd, 2004 at 12:48pm

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The common emulator for the 2600 is Stella 1.1.4. You must try the game Jr. Pac-Man written by GCC, originally slated for 1984 release, but went on sale in 1987 because of the video game crash of 1984.
The ROM and screenshots are here. It plays better than even arcade Pac-Man and you get a big scrolling maze.

http://www.atariage.com/software_page.html?SoftwareLabelID=254

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Reply #10 - Oct 3^rd, 2004 at 1:31pm

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The common emulator for the 2600 is Stella 1.1.4. You must try the game Jr. Pac-Man written by GCC, originally slated for 1984 release, but went on sale in 1987 because of the video game crash of 1984.
The ROM and screenshots are here. It plays better than even arcade Pac-Man and you get a big scrolling maze.

http://www.atariage.com/software_page.html?SoftwareLabelID=254

As well as owning the original Atari 2600, permantly connected to my television set, together with a number of cartriges, I also play one of my favourite games on my PC Atari 2600 Stella Emulator...."Stargate".... Grin

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Fantastic shoot and rescue game... Grin

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For all your old Atari 2600 games, have a peek here...!

http://www.theoldcomputer.com/Libarary%27s/Emulation/Atari2600/Roms/Atari2600_ro...

...and remind yourself of the time when playing computer games was real fun*... Grin

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Cheers all... 8)...!

Paul.

* ...mind you...I'm very easily amused... Wink

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Reply #11 - Oct 4^th, 2004 at 12:07pm

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I was playing for 30-40 mins today and got 66,280 on Dig Dug (Namco) on my 2600jr console with joypad controller. I love making that MOS Technologies 6507 CPU and TIA chip sweat! Grin

I didn't get into much of a game plan, you really need to get the pookas and dragons at the lower levels to get big points.

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