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Golden Era Game of the Week 10/30/04: Swimmer
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 2:16 pm
by Weehawk
Golden Era Game of the Week
See introduction here
The Game: Swimmer
romname: swimmer
Screenshot:
(click to see current MARP scores)
Reward: $50 (usd)
Deadline for submission to MARP: November 5, 2004 2359 hours GMT
Further Bounty: none
Don't remember this one. Just found it while looking for something to play here. Not much to it really, simple, but sort of fun.
Use WolfMAME .88
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 7:24 pm
by LN2
John, you are killing me.
first, several of your recent picks are all games I used to play regularly in the arcades.
second, they are also games I have/had score set that were good for first or second place.
...to then easily get beat etc. from these contests which I can't even participate in.
Today, I actually started leaning toward perhaps getting a used PC portable...perhaps in the 1-2 GHz range so fast enough for at least all the golden era games in MAME.
..cuz the $1300+ I need to save for a nice new G5 will likely be months down the road....and ideally nowadays I really don't need that speed except for MAME...so getting a cheap PC for that...and just continue to use this older, slow mac for e-mail, web, and other net crap seems ok for now.
Odds are I will get Panther installed and running on this old mac...so can still work on that project....but any version of that likely wouldn't be done before spring 2005 at the earliest.
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 9:08 pm
by mahlemiut
$1300?
[12:36] <News> mahlemiut: 1300.00 USD == 1,898.3644 NZD
Macs are nowhere near that cheap down here....
http://www.bigbyte.co.nz/imac/index.html
Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2004 11:51 am
by LN2
Typically in other countries macs were about 50% more versus in the USA.
It seems that roughly 50% export price hike is still there.
I checked that link..that $2649.99 model they show is only $1299 USD in the USA which IMHO is a pretty decent price.
The 20 inch 1.8 Ghz iMac model in the USA goes for $1899 USD.
BTW my above noted prices from directly from the Apple Store here in the USA.
Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 6:23 pm
by The_Pro
LN2 wrote:
Today, I actually started leaning toward perhaps getting a used PC portable...
Come over to the dark side
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 8:35 am
by The TJT
The_Pro wrote:
Come over to the dark side
Nowadays you call it axis of evil...
Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 1:27 am
by dbh
Gee, Ian wins again...what a surprise
Weehawk, can't you find a game that he is unable to play?
Unfortunately, I didn't have much time to play this week so I'm actually happy with third. I'm sure I could break 100K on this without too much effort.
Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 2:13 am
by Weehawk
Results:
1st: Ian Sutton
2nd: gastrainga
3rd: Don Hayes
A close second by gastrainga, but Ian still appearing unstoppable...
Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 10:55 pm
by LN2
whoa, the MACMAME score held up!
I had played it a bit myself...got 108k...beating what I have at MARP.