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[LYNXGUY]

I always wondered if Adventure from the 2600 ever went to 8bit and if so where can I get it and if not why not ???

[rdea6]

To: 5200 but not 800xlxe.

[MrFish]

Cafeman is currently converting the 5200 version of Adventure II over to the 8-bits, with enhancements.

[atx4us]

Awesome!  Adventure is one of my all time favorite games on the Atari and now it's coming to my favorite computer of all time, too

[Rybags]

Adventure II is an entirely different game.

Adventure was 2600 only, someone did a clone on the computer, fairly sure it was done in Basic.

[accousticguitar]

IIRC the clone was never finished and played in slow motion.

[CharlieChaplin]

Well,

on my PC there is a subdir "Atari" and in this subdir is another subdir named "Unfinished". So here is the unfinished 2600 Adventure for the A8...

I doubt that someone will ever finish it, but anyways...

-Andreas Koch.

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[atx4us]

Thank you for sharing the copy of 2600 Adventure.  It looks almost exactly as the original.  But, it sure plays so slowly to the point of unplayable.  Am I doing something wrong?

[accousticguitar]

atx4us, on Wed Apr 4, 2012 5:23 AM, said:

Thank you for sharing the copy of 2600 Adventure.  It looks almost exactly as the original.  But, it sure plays so slowly to the point of unplayable.  Am I doing something wrong?

I don't think so.  That's the way it plays.

[Rybags]

I suspect it's written in Basic.

It'd be a good candidate to port in 100% assembler.  Fairly sure a fair amount of reverse-engineering has been done on the Rom.  Even if it hasn't, the game could probably be ported without too much pain, although about the only thing you'd keep is the algorithm for the enemy actions and the initial object placement.

[BillC]

Rybags, on Wed Apr 4, 2012 6:08 AM, said:

I suspect it's written in Basic.

It'd be a good candidate to port in 100% assembler.  Fairly sure a fair amount of reverse-engineering has been done on the Rom.  Even if it hasn't, the game could probably be ported without too much pain, although about the only thing you'd keep is the algorithm for the enemy actions and the initial object placement.

The ATR image contains both the BASIC file and a compiled version, called ADV1.COM. I was able to test this version on a 130XE by renaming it AUTORUN.SYS and re-booting with BASIC disabled.

[rdea6]

Even for compiled basic it is still very slow..  Poor Joystick control...