Mclaneinc Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 Got to give the public what they want Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starwindz Posted July 6, 2014 Author Share Posted July 6, 2014 V1.1.2 released. Atari800Win Plus added again. Please update via online update... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 Starwindz, Was the Atari big in SK, were you an owner or did you come in via emulation.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starwindz Posted July 6, 2014 Author Share Posted July 6, 2014 Starwindz, Was the Atari big in SK, were you an owner or did you come in via emulation.. No, Atari was not big in SK. Apple II was super big in SK. I had real Apple IIe and Atari 2600 compatible gaming machine, but I learned Atari 8bit via only emulation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starwindz Posted July 8, 2014 Author Share Posted July 8, 2014 V1.1.3 has been released. Please update via online updater. * V1.1.3 update (2014.07.08) 1. New games added(11 games): - Apple Invaders, Aztec, Belljumper, Combat Leader, Gunfighter, Labyrinth, Labyrinthe, Leader Board II, Lord of the Orb, Lunar Lander, Spectipede Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Thanks Starwindz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 A Fantastic use of the GameBase engine, for sure -Thom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starwindz Posted July 9, 2014 Author Share Posted July 9, 2014 V1.1.4 has been released. Please update via online updater. * V1.1.4 update (2014.07.10) 1. New games added(6 games): - Kiki Pong, Lemmings, Mashed Turtles, Milk Nuts, Munching Mandy, Oilgame Deluxe 2. Screenshot mismatch fixed: Belljumper 3. Feature added: Update history Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starwindz Posted July 10, 2014 Author Share Posted July 10, 2014 Do you know the search and display feature of high score club data? Please see attached screenshots. The new season 11 data of high score club will be update in the next update. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 Just keeps getting better and better...Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greyfox Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Fantastic stuff, I've been out of the loop, but will be addressing this shortly...cracking work mate. Idea: any chance of adding an Atari sap player and collection within the front-end? To play classic Atari music either by playlist or random while browsing the front end? This would be the icing on the cake, combining everything within the one great gamepack?, maybe people have already asked for this, so if so, sorry for double posting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subby Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Very nice. Very, very, nice. Just heard about this on some Atari podcast. I'm ashamed to say I don't know how I missed it on the front page! Couple of comments, I had to download the "patched" A8_New.zip to get it to work on my W7x64 Pro machine. Works great now! On the frontend, the closure "X" in the upper right corner didn't work for me, I had to ATL-F4 to exit. On your website you have a screenshot showing it running on Mac OSX, I'd love to be able to run this on my Macbook Pro also. I didn't notice any instructions on how to do that though. Excellent work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKRetrogamer Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 (edited) On your website you have a screenshot showing it running on Mac OSX, I'd love to be able to run this on my Macbook Pro also. I didn't notice any instructions on how to do that though. The screenshots were uploaded by me, from my early Intel Mac mini running Mavericks. I'm using a commercial WINE derivative called Crossover http://www.codeweavers.com/products/crossover-mac/ which I received as part of a Mac OSX software bundle. It has options to install Jet and MDAC which are required to run the Gamespack. Using Crossover, installation is relatively simple. Create a "bottle" (It's based on WINE so "containers" are referred to as bottles) and install both Jet and MDAC from the add software menu. Open the C: drive on the bottle and copy in the folder containing the A8 front-end and associated files. If you own a copy of Windows, I guess it would also run just fine through VirtualBox. Better yet, Bootcamp as the computer is working full-time in a single OS, rather than dividing it's time and resources between multiple systems. Edited July 11, 2014 by UKRetrogamer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinman Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 The screenshots were uploaded by me, from my early Intel Mac mini running Mavericks. I'm using a commercial WINE derivative called Crossover http://www.codeweavers.com/products/crossover-mac/ which I received as part of a Mac OSX software bundle. So you're running an Atari emulator under a Windows emulator. I like it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starwindz Posted July 11, 2014 Author Share Posted July 11, 2014 Idea: any chance of adding an Atari sap player and collection within the front-end? To play classic Atari music either by playlist or random while browsing the front end? This would be the icing on the cake, combining everything within the one great gamepack?, maybe people have already asked for this, so if so, sorry for double posting Great and new idea! I will consider adding this feature to the next update. Thank you. ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starwindz Posted July 11, 2014 Author Share Posted July 11, 2014 On the frontend, the closure "X" in the upper right corner didn't work for me, I had to ATL-F4 to exit. It may be a front-end bug on some system. I'll check it out. Thank you for your comment. On your website you have a screenshot showing it running on Mac OSX, I'd love to be able to run this on my Macbook Pro also. I didn't notice any instructions on how to do that though. Crossover is the best but it is a commercial software. So you can find some instruction on my blog to run the game pack on Mac OSX via free software, Wine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subby Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Kinda hoping it was using the native Mac OSX Atari emulator. I've got Bootcamp and VMware Fusion, I guess I'll go that route on that machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKRetrogamer Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 So you're running an Atari emulator under a Windows emulator. I like it! Yeah. But apparently, WINE stands for "WINE Is NOT [an] Emulator", so I dunno any more... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKRetrogamer Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Kinda hoping it was using the native Mac OSX Atari emulator. I've got Bootcamp and VMware Fusion, I guess I'll go that route on that machine. The front-end is a Windows-only program which calls Windows versions of the A8 emulators. It's not aware of the Mac OS operating system or any Mac emulators. Running it via WINE makes the system appear as a Windows machine to the program. As with anything games-related or timing-critical, you may get better results running this under BootCamp rather than VMWare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subby Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Might be a false positive but I wanted to mention that the "non-patched" version of 1.10 A8.exe was removed by Avast Antivirus as being infected with a banking trojan. The version of A8.exe that is downloaded seperate does not cause any alerts. This is a different PC than I was working with earlier. And on this PC the frontend's X closure gadget worked correctly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starwindz Posted July 12, 2014 Author Share Posted July 12, 2014 Might be a false positive but I wanted to mention that the "non-patched" version of 1.10 A8.exe was removed by Avast Antivirus as being infected with a banking trojan. The version of A8.exe that is downloaded seperate does not cause any alerts. This is a different PC than I was working with earlier. And on this PC the frontend's X closure gadget worked correctly. I am surprised at troyan-suspicion of non-patched a8.exe by Avast It must be a false positive since the only difference of patched and non-patched a8.exe is some source code for update file download. Non-patched version a8.exe uses TDownloadURL function which has some kind of compatibility issue. So I replaced that code to new one in patched a8.exe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starwindz Posted July 12, 2014 Author Share Posted July 12, 2014 (edited) I have found 151 sap music files from 'Atari SAP Music Archive' which can be included in the next update of the game pack. 221B Baker Street Abracadabra Ali Baba And The Forty Thieves Alley Cat Archon II - Adept Archon Arex Asteroids Astro Chase Balloonacy Blue Max Bomb Fusion Boulder Dash II Boulder Dash Bristles Bruce Lee Canyon Climber Capture The Flag Carnival Massacre Cavelord Caverns of Khafka Chopper Rescue Claim Jumper Clowns & Ballons Commando Conan Dan Strikes Back Decision In The Desert Diamonds Dimension X Dog Daze Deluxe Donkey Kong Jr Donkey Kong Dragonriders Of Pern Drelbs Drol Easy Money Eckn Electrician Elevator Repairman Evader Final Legacy Flak Flip and Flop Floyd Of The Jungle (1982) FREE - Funny Risky Evil Escape Frogger Gemstone Warrior Getaway Ghost Chaser Ghost Ghostbusters Goonies, The Gremlins (5200) Groove Gunfighter Gyruss Hans Kloss HardBall Heavy Metal Hijack! House of Usher Hover Bovver Hydraulik Ice Inferno Into the Eagle's Nest James Bond Jawbreaker II Jawbreaker Jet Boot Jack Jumpman Junior Jumpman Jungle Hunt Kaiser Kangaroo Karateka Keystone Kapers Kissin' Kousins Labyrinth Last Starfighter, The Last V8 Lawkeeper Leaper Leggit Little Devil Loco Lords of Conquest Los Angeles Swat Mail Order Monsters Mario Bros. Master of the Lamps Milk Race Montezumas Revenge Moon Patrol Mountain King Mouse Trap Mr. Do!'s Castle Mr. Do! MULE Munching Mandy Murder On The Zinderneuf Nadral Necromancer Nightmares Olympic Skier Operation Blood Pac-Man Pacific Coast Highway Pengo Phantom Picnic Paranoia Pie-Man Pinhead Pitfall II - Lost Caverns Pogo Joe Pole Position Pooyan Preppie II Preppie Pro Mountain Bike Simulator Q-Bert Quasimodo Questron Realm of Impossibility Rent Wars Return of Heracles, The Seawolf II Seven Cities Of Gold, The Shamus - Case II Shamus Sky Blazer Spare Change Special Delivery Spelunker Spy Hunter Spy's Demise Star Raiders II Star Wars Starquake Stealth Tapper Trailblazer Vanguard (5200) Whistler's Brother X-8 Xevious Zenji Zeppelin Zone X Zorro Edited July 12, 2014 by starwindz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starwindz Posted July 12, 2014 Author Share Posted July 12, 2014 Just heard about this on some Atari podcast. How can I hear that Atari podcast? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starwindz Posted July 12, 2014 Author Share Posted July 12, 2014 (edited) Atari 800 Best Game Pack - SAP Music Play : Experimental Test It is just a test version and there are some bugs at present. (You can see this video in the high-resolution full screen.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A__H6_6yKbQ&feature=youtu.be Edited July 12, 2014 by starwindz 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greyfox Posted July 12, 2014 Share Posted July 12, 2014 Simply amazing work and so fast to implement it into the front end, kudo to you, and just another small suggestion to give the user the ability to switch the music option on or off if they choose too. One other thing I think that should possible be in the front end would be some images of the 8-bit range (which I can supply, fully remastered etc) with a small history on them , possible extracts from Wikipedia page on the Atari 8-bit, it won't be allot, just a couple of pictures and maybe one or 2 Atari adverts etc.. Maybe somebody here could do the write up for it?, just idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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