Colecovision

[sportswizdan]

Ok, I know its a very old system but my daughter loves "cabbage patch kids-adventures in the park." On my pentium 4 with XP, I'm having troubles. When I use "virtual colecovision" as the emulator,the joystick works but I cant get any of the buttons to work for jumping. When I use "bluemsx" as the emulator, it loads but I cant pick player 1 or 2 from my keyboard, yet with other colecovision games I can choose between the players, just not with that game. Does anyone have any ideas or use a different emulator? I'm using a usb gravis gamepad pro as the joystick. Thanks, Dan

[dskillz1]

Pick up either MESS32 or
ADAMEM 1.0 http://www.komkon.org/~dekogel/files/coleco/adamem.zip

with
ADAMEMAM
http://www.komkon.org/~dekogel/bcb.html#applications

[Stingray]

Or buy a real Colecovision. She'll love you for it, and she won't be tieing up your computer when you want to use it.

-S

[TOK]

Or buy a real Colecovision. She'll love you for it, and she won't be tieing up your computer when you want to use it.

-S

I have a real Colecovision w/Atari 2600 adapter, NES, SNES, Genesis... All purchased new... I've pulled them out from time to time and it just gets to be too much clutter.
For me, emulation is the better solution.

[namzep]

Or buy a real Colecovision. She'll love you for it, and she won't be tieing up your computer when you want to use it.

-S

I have a real Colecovision w/Atari 2600 adapter, NES, SNES, Genesis... All purchased new... I've pulled them out from time to time and it just gets to be too much clutter.
For me, emulation is the better solution.

I tend to agree with this statement.  To have all of my consoles wired up (I think there are 9, currently) would be a huge pain.  Emulation with usb adaptors for controllers is the way I like to fly.

[ChadTower]

It is the same debate people have over MAME vs real game boards.

[Stingray]

Except we're talking about a lot less money and space for storage. I always take the real hardware over emulation when given a reasonable choice.

-S

[ChadTower]

Except we're talking about a lot less money and space for storage.

But you're not, if you factor in the nature of the items.  Someone looking to have cabs is going to have a room dedicated to them.  Someone looking to have consoles is going to have an entertainment center for them and the TV/VCR/DVD/etc.  They'd also expect to have everything hooked to one television.  I would argue that the real estate concept is tighter for consoles than it is for cabinets, for a lot of people.

[Stingray]

Which is why everyone should have a dedicated game room in the house with at least two televisions in it.

-S

[ChadTower]

At which point you have a full room, and can have cabs.  Same solution!

[Stingray]

At which point you should immediatly start working on the wife to allow you to put excess cabs in the spare room, living room, kitchen, bathroom...

-S

[ChadTower]

I told my wife I wanted to build a coffee table with an LCD and game embedded in it and she kicked me.

[Stingray]

I usually get a similar response. I did get away with adding an LCD TV in the kitchen. Next step, add a MAME computer then build controls into the countertop. You have to take these things in gentle steps.

-S

[ChadTower]

I'm too cheap for an LCD tv in the kitchen, and you can see our living room TV from the kitchen anyway.

[Stingray]

Unfortunately, my TV is against the wall that the living room shares with the kitchen, so it's completly unviewable from that angle. I guess I could have just moved the TV, but that's nowhere near as much fun as adding a new one.

Wow, we've really dragged this one about a mile off topic!

-S

[ChadTower]

Not if you go home and play Quest for Tires on your LCD.

[Stingray]

I will do so first thing. I don't want to be a thread wrecker.

-S

[ChadTower]

The Sting Hole - A Real Thread Wrecker