ATARI Slide Show

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1. @OPTIMUS
   Sorry for the delay to answer….My friend only I can say is thanks a lot for all your themes my ps3 has a lot of them installed. Reason when I was asked if I wanted to do a tribute theme to you in that moment was next theme ..Here for me you’re a institution and a leyend. Sorry to hear that your condition is a degenerative and irreversible…waiting in faith that you can recover from this and you be the first man to fully recover for this condition. As I said I consider you as my friend if need some help only ask…I hope to be there to help. And for the ideas for animated themes I want to hear some of you soon ! 🙂 blessings to you and your family…

2. Thanks, mate, you’re so kind as always!

   Yep, same for me: from the day I joined this site, I befriended lots of people very quickly, as well as lots of guys spontaneously became my friends in a very short time… don’t know why, maybe because I helped lots of them since the early days by giving advices in the forum and in the comments space, or maybe because I always been like the “grandpa” of this site from the beginning :P… so, very quickly I found myself surrounded by lots of fans who always supported me and sometimes even defended by attacks of other users. Many of them even considered me as an institution… but the truth is I’m just a simple themes maker who loves to create and share themes for passion: that’s why, for example, I wanted to thank them all with a farewell theme when I had to leave this site about 1 year ago, and that’s why I always want to thank all those who appreciate my themes… it’s my nature 😀

   Lol! Yeah, I too am a very old player, more precisely, an “old school player” (that’s why my friend Doom asked you to make this theme ;)…)
   Think that I started playing with PONG: from there, I owned all the consoles and/or computers like Atari 2600, 5200, 7800, or the “8-bit family” like Atari 400 and 800, as well as Lynx, 520/1040ST, Jaguar and so on until today… aahh, those were good old days!

   Uh, sorry, you obviously couldn’t know…
   Well, I’m suffering a degenerative process of the brain cells which causes me several psychical and physical problems like memory loss, disturbed senses, limbs tremors and stuff like that. Unfortunately, this process is irreversible and is gradually shutting down all the brain functions until there will only be death (at least, the cure is slowing it down a bit)…
   But don’t be sad, my friend: I lived my life as best as I could and I don’t have regrets. Also, I will not die tomorrow for sure (I think :P)…
   Well, these are the reasons why I prefer to keep making standard themes: I really appreciate your willingness in wanting to help me make dynamic themes, but it’s ok… anyway, once I finished the other themes I still have to make, I could give you some of the ideas I told you about, so that you can realize them… 😉

   So, keep up your good work, mate!
   And, as I said other times, I HAVE to thank you for your appreciation… 😀

3. You know for real the first time I know a guy in the internet that I would consider my friend in a so short time. And its the first time I read a message left from a internet friend that make me feel sad and even a tear will jump from my eyes. You know, I’m a very old player to, i’m starting in video games with my first console long time ago that was an Atari 2600 for that reason I put that console in the theme and the reason that went I read the message from Doom that proposed If i can create a theme like this I can’t refuse the doom idea and I have to make it real and be my next theme automatically. I don’t know what its you’re health problems and what condition you have only I can say is thanks for all the themes you share it to us for long and I will pray for you’re prompt recuperation. Another thing if you feel good and in future change opinion and need help in how to create this animated themes I will give you all the help and files needed if you don’t have it yet and want to give it a try. You know my PS3 have many of you’re exelent creations long time ago, even went I don’t know how to create my own PS3 themes. You, Glowball and others from here great PS3 themes makes give me the motivation and the desire to start learning how to create my own PS3 themes. For people like you its that others like me start to create PS3 themes. Thanks again bro and god bless you ! 🙂

4. Sorry for my “absence”: when the site’s changed, I had some problem because I was no more able to login… but the site’s owner helped me (thanks a lot, mate! :D) and here I am!

   So… what do we have here? Ooooh maaaan… this theme will stay in my PS3 forever!!!
   You know, I’m a veeery old player and I still own an Atari 1040ST that still works perfectly: aah, good memories!
   Great theme, mate! You deserve all the respect of the world!
   Thanks a lot!!! (and thanks to you too, Doom! :D)

   By the way, in your “Bubbles” theme I read what you told me about dynamic/animated themes and… first of all, thank you so much, mate: you’re always so kind!
   Well, you know… when all this “dynamic stuff” started, actually, I was already studying an alternative procedure to get animated backgrounds somehow, and I even succeeded… The only problem was: how to convert them in a jpeg to use in a theme?
   Then, Zemboro’s popped out with his dynamic editor, so I started studying it in order to understand if it was possible for me making dynamic themes. Well, I was pretty skeptical about it, because I noticed the editor was quite limited and not so useful to make what I’d really wanted to make… also, I was already came to the inevitable conclusion that the only way to make a real dynamic theme is to use the Sony’s official SDK (but then came guys like you, GlowBall and others, and I have to say you’re doing veeery well!)
   Anyway, back to the speech, there are several reasons why I don’t make dynamic and/or animated themes, but the most important are…

   -first of all, specific tools and programs like Photoshop are obviously needed to create these themes… well, actually Photoshop’s not a real problem because I have another program which supports DDS files, but I would need other tools to put everything together anyway: honestly my computer’s almost old like me and it would go crazy at once, trying to manage all those tools… 😛
   -The second reason is that it takes time to make these themes, so I prefer to spend that time working hard on backgrounds and especially icons (as you’ve already seen)
   -The third reason is somehow related to the other 2:
   3a) because of my health problems, I’m wasting lots of money for a cure which will not solve my problems, but it is slowing them down in some way, so I can’t think to buy new tools or even a new computer which is able to support them.
   3b) because of my health problems (again) I don’t really know how long I have left, so I don’t know how long it would take to practice with dynamic themes, that’s why I prefer to keep making what I always made well so far: the standard themes…

   You know, I started making themes very long ago, even before joining this site: sure, I still have tons of ideas that I’d like to realize with the dynamic themes… but it’s ok, because I’m sure that thanks to you and the others, I’ll be able to see them anyway, sooner or later… 😉

   So, keep up the good work! 😀