Mclaneinc Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Well that's my weekend mapped out, I'll go through the 835 odd games one by one, just one request to others doing the same, please give a brief explanation of how a game does not work rather than just saying "it does not work" as it may be down to a setting that needs to be passed down via the command line that I can dig out and pass on to Starwindz. Also, I implore people to test stuff with Altirra, no its not because I'm a huge Altirra fan but simply because A. The emulation is miles ahead and B. Altiira offers a huge number of command line fixes which Atari800win Plus does not, it simply makes more sense to test on Altirra first. Obviously I'll look at any problems with Plus and try and sort them out but for example, game that need to write to the disk to work would have to be manually set by the user whereas un Altirra we can set it for you so you can just carry on playing. Nuff said Paul... Gamebase Team Member.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starwindz Posted September 2, 2014 Author Share Posted September 2, 2014 (edited) 1.2.0 update - beta 1 will be uploaded soon... To-do-list to fix known issues and improve the features for the next update(1.2.0) (2014.09.03) 1. Games 1) Add: More games recommended by Mclaneinc - Abuse (basic) (great fun in the day) [DONE] - Alien Ambush [DONE] - Amphibian! [DONE] - Anduril II [DONE] - Ankh [DONE] - Ant Eater [DONE] - Astro-Droid [DONE] - Attack At Ep-CYG-4 (OS-B) [DONE] - Bannercatch [DONE] - Barbarian [DONE] - Beach Landing [DONE] - Bio-Defense [DONE] - Blaster (OS-B) [DONE] - Boulders and Bombs (OS-B) [DONE] - Breath of the Dragon (OS-B) [DONE] - Captain Cosmo [DONE] - Captain Sticky’s Gold [DONE] - Chess 7.0 [DONE] - Chicken (Synapse) [DONE] - Chimera (PAL) [DONE] - Chuckie Egg [DONE] - Citadel Warrior [DONE] - Crisis Mountain [DONE] - Da’Fuzz (OS-B) [DONE] - Dandy [DONE] - Dark Chambers [DONE] - Decathlon [DONE] - Deflektor [DONE] - Desert Falcon [DONE] - Dodge Racer (XL) (BASIC) [DONE] - Dyna Blaster [DONE] - Falcon [DONE] - Flight Simulator II [DONE] - Food Fight [DONE] - Gem Drop [DONE] - Genesis [DONE] - Green Beret [DONE] - Gridrunner [DONE] - Groove [DONE] - Head on [DONE] - HexagonXE (Not in gamebase) [DONE] - Hot Copter [DONE] - Humanoid [DONE] - Ion Roadway [DONE] - Jump Jet [DONE] - Krazy Kopter [DONE] - Landscape (1984)(Broderbund) (OS-B) [DONE] - Laser Gates [DONE] - Laser Hawk [DONE] - Legacy, The (Cartridge) [DONE] (Already added as ‘Final Legacy’ (ATR)) - Living Daylights, The (SIO patch turn off: /nosiopatch, -nopatch) [DONE] - Maniac Miner [DONE] - Matterhorn [DONE] - Mediator [DONE] - Micro League Baseball [DONE] - Midnight Magic (Not to be confused with Davids Midnight Magic) [DONE] - Molecule Man [DONE] - Monster Maze (Epyx) [DONE] - Moogles [DONE] - Moon Beam Arcade [DONE] - Moon Shuttle (Datasoft) [DONE] - Neptune's Daughters (OS-B) [DONE] - Night Driver [DONE] - Night Rally (slightly torn on this one, its good but is it worthy against things like baja buggies.) (OS-B) [DONE] - Night Strike [DONE] - Nuclear Nick [DONE] - Nucleus [DONE] - On-Track Computer Model Car Racing [DONE] - One man and his droid [DONE] - Onslaught (OS-B) [DONE] - Operation Blood [DONE] - Operation Whirlwind (OS-B) [DONE] - Orb of Zaramier (a game I got published BUT a good game, written by a UK Policeman.) [DONE] - Orbit - A Trip To The Moon [DONE] - Ozzy's Orchard [DONE] - Pacific Coast Highway [DONE] - Parallax [DONE] - Phobos [DONE] - Pipeline (Tronix) [DONE] - Planetary defense [DONE] - Pool 400 (god I lost days to this) (OS-B) [DONE] - Popeye [DONE] - Porky's [DONE] - Poussinet (OS-B) [DONE] - Pyramid Run [DONE] - Quest for the Maltese Chicken [DONE] - Rack Em Up [DONE] - Reaxion [DONE] - Retrofire [DONE] - Revenge II [DONE] - Robin Hood (Adventures of Robin hood, the) [DONE] - Sands of Egypt (OS-B) [DONE] - Screaming Wings [DONE] - Scrolls of Abadon [DONE] - Sea Chase [DONE] - Shadow Hawk One [DONE] - Sneakers [DONE] - Space Lobsters [DONE] - Spellbound (Mastertronic version) [DONE] - Spider City [DONE] - Spiky Harold [DONE] - Stargate [DONE] - Starquake [DONE] - Starion [DONE] - Stratos [DONE] - Swapz [DONE] - Thrust [DONE] - ThunderFox [DONE] - Time Runner [DONE] - Tower Toppler [DONE] - Track and Field AKA Los Angeles Games 1984 [DONE] - Tree Surgeon [DONE] - Tube Baddies [DONE] - Twerps [DONE] - Wall, The (Wall, The (1994)(Itay Chamiel)(PD)[k-file]) [DONE] - War games [DONE] - Whomper Stomper [DONE] - Xenon Raid [DONE] 2) Add: More games by starwindz - Henri [DONE] - Dr. Seuss Fix-Up The Mix Up Puzzler [DONE] - Games from http://www.xlatari.com/ (Astromeda, Dr. Seuss, Ducks Ahoy!, Nypy, ...) [sUSPENDED] 3) Add: More games by em_kay - Pathfinder: http://www.atarimani...inder_3900.html [DONE] 4) Add: More games by Tinman - Nukewar (BASIC) [DONE] - Galaxy [DONE] 5) Add: More games by CyranoJ - Astro-Droid (Same game recommended by Mclaneinc) - Neptune's Daughters (OS-B) (Same game recommended by Mclaneinc) - Nuclear Nick (Same game recommended by Mclaneinc) - On-Track Computer Model Car Racing (Same game recommended by Mclaneinc) - Robin Hood (Same game recommended by Mclaneinc) - Spiky Harold (Same game recommended by Mclaneinc) - Starquake (Same game recommended by Mclaneinc) - SWAT (Already added as LA SWAT) - Thrust (Same game recommended by Mclaneinc) - The Pawn (Text adventure game) [DONE] - Guild of Thieves (Text adventure game) [DONE?] (Command line graphic glitch?) - Jinxter (Text adventure game) [DONE] 6) Add: More games by TheEditor - Text adventure games(Infocom games) : Ballyhoo [DONE] : Cutthroats [DONE] : Enchanter [DONE] : Fooblitzky [DONE] (Not text ad venture game) : Hollywood Hijinx [DONE] : Infidel [DONE] : Leather Goddesses Of Phobos [DONE] : Mini Zork I [DONE] : Moonmist [DONE] : Planetfall [DONE] : Plundered Hearts [DONE] : Seastalker [DONE] : Sorcerer [DONE] : Spellbreaker [DONE] : Starcross [DONE] : Stationfall [DONE] : Suspect [DONE] : Suspended [DONE] : Wishbringer [DONE] : Witness, The [DONE] 7) Add: More games by davidmt - Nice text based games from http://atariage.com/...ext-based-game/ (Such as Enchanter series, Cutthroats, Planetfall) : Crash Dive [DONE] : Scott Adams Adventure [DONE] : Adventure No. 01 - Adventureland (US) [DONE] : Adventure No. 02 - Pirate Adventure (US) [DONE] : Adventure No. 03 - Mission Impossible (US) [DONE] : Adventure No. 04 - Voodoo Castle (US) [DONE] : Adventure No. 05 - The Count (US) [DONE] : Adventure No. 06 - Strange Odyssey (US) [DONE] : Adventure No. 06 - Strange Odyssey (US) [DONE] : Adventure No. 07 - Mystery Funhouse (US) [DONE] : Adventure No. 08 - Pyramid Of Doom (US) [DONE] : Adventure No. 09 - Ghost Town (US) [DONE] : Adventure No. 10 - Savage Island Part I (US) [DONE] : Adventure No. 11 - Savage Island Part II (US) [DONE] : Adventure No. 12 - The Golden Voyage (US) [DONE] : Adventure No. 13 - Sorcerer Of Claymorgue Castle (US) [DONE] : Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai (SAGA), The [DONE] : Questprobe #1 - The Hulk (SAGA) [DONE] : Questprobe #2 - Spider-Man (SAGA) [DONE] : Questprobe #3 - Fantastic Four (SAGA) [DONE] : Other Venture #2 - The Curse Of Crowley Manor [DONE] : Other Venture #3 - Escape From Traam [DONE] : Price of Magik, The [DONE] : Powerstar [DONE] (Atari800Win? Title graphic broken?) : Softporn Adventure [DONE] 8] Fix to run - Mighty Jill off [DONE] - Sidewinder (SIO patch turn off: /nosiopatch, -nopatch) [DONE] - Infiltrator (No disk 2) (by AHA) [DONE] - Star Fleet I (Virtual disk r/w) [DONE] (Virtual disk r/w Option for Atari800Win?) 9] Cheat version to normal version - Jungle Hunt (v1).atr needs to be swapped to the v2 version in the same zip, the first one is a cheat version. (by LidLikesIntellivision) [DONE] - H.E.R.O. (v1).atr needs the same thing doing, v2 is ok. (by LidLikesIntellivision) [DONE] - defender and dan strikes back are also cheat versions (by AHA) [DONE] - Some kind of feature which can show all internal files in the game file(.zip) and select one (by starwindz) [DONE] - Cheat version one by one check (by Mclaneinc) => Checking would be performed after 1.2.0 beta version released 10) Rename - Bang! Bank! -> Bank! Bang! [DONE] - (The) games (ex: OOO, The) (Check later) 11) Screenshots - Screenshots add [DONE] : Assembloids XE : Callisto : Creepshow : Cropky : CTetris4 : Cutthroats : Deathchase XE : Enchanter : Fill'er Up II : Final Orbit : Frogger : Heli In The Caves : Heli In The Caves - Extended Edition : Jawbreaker : Mini Zork I : Mr. Do!'s Castle : Onslaught : Preliminary Monty 12) Video system - NTSC or PAL specific games: Update gamebase setting=> Checking would be performed after 1.2.0 beta version released (Mclaneinc will provide more information about that.) 2. Extras 1) SAP tunes [DONE] - Tune remove: Chopper Rescue - Tune remove: Asteroids - Tune remove: Labyrinth - Tune add: Air Rescue I - Tune add: Henri - Tune add/remove: Check Saps.rar and More SAPS.zip (provided by Mclaneinc) - Feature add: Right mouse click on music icon to pause or stop playing tune 2) Atarimania comments [DONE] - Add: New user comments 3) Add Extras: - Infocom extras by Mclaneinc (Add later) - Crossfire reference softline pdf->many atari 800 games reviews???!!! (Add later) 3. Front-end 1) Fix game information: Unknown year: 9992 -> Unknown [DONE] 2) Speed search bug: In the case of two findings, unable to run the selected game (Ex: falcon) [DONE] 3) GMP file viewer? (Add later) 4) Scalable main window size (Add later in future version) 5) More gamebase information display for each game (?) (Add later in future version) 4. Etc 1) Note - ini\baseinfoall.inii should be re-initialized before releasing the update [DONE] - Add special thanks names: Persons who provide comments for improvement of gamepack (Add later) If there are another items to fix issues or improve the features, please let me know them. Edited September 2, 2014 by starwindz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LidLikesIntellivision Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 I can offer my help with testing the beta too. I have plenty of time this month 'cause I'm in holidays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starwindz Posted September 2, 2014 Author Share Posted September 2, 2014 Cool Cool! Looking forward to it, and I can certainly help test out the beta Thank you so much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starwindz Posted September 2, 2014 Author Share Posted September 2, 2014 I can offer my help with testing the beta too. I have plenty of time this month 'cause I'm in holidays. I also thank you so much. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starwindz Posted September 2, 2014 Author Share Posted September 2, 2014 V1.2.0 update beta 1 has been released. Please check out this link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 A repeat to any beta testers, please read my post here, it will help us if you follow the steps. Thanks Here's the link to the post.. http://atariage.com/forums/topic/226801-atari-800-best-game-pack-releases/page-13?do=findComment&comment=3065267 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LidLikesIntellivision Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 (edited) Suggestions Pressing 'enter' in the keyboard to play a game which name is highlighted (now we need to double click) The dialog box to select the game version shouldn't appear when there's only one game file. Bugs Beamrider version 1 freezes (both emulators) when you destroy the mothership in the end of each level. Version 2 is a hack without this problem. Commando gives the message 'unsupported cartridge size' in Altirra. It doesn't load in atari800win too. Neptune's Daughter version 1 doesn't work/load in both emulators. Edited September 2, 2014 by LidLikesIntellivision Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 (edited) Oh..There's a few things to fix with my 15 mins of play... Seems there's a LOT of cheat versions still in there and a few duff images and that's from a few mins of play... Starwindz, be prepared for a big list with alternates I of course will supply the fixes.. One thing I've noticed is that some multiple disk games select the last disk in the list by default rather than disk one at boot up.. Edited September 2, 2014 by Mclaneinc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 (edited) Neptunes daughter works fine on version one.. Could those people confirm with a screen shot showing the status bar / top bar please, I can get great info from that ... I have a feeling that people are missing rom images... I'll explain a little bit, Altirra and Atari800winplus do NOT come with rom images as standard , although they have been supplied it does not mean the emulator has picked them up Especially if you have changed Altira version to a newer beta that actually scans the roms. Failing to scan the roms in a newer version wil mean that internal default roms are used tha may bot be as fully compatible as the default real roms. In 99% of cases this is handled 100% but there *may* be cases where its not so I need the screen shot to pick up on this, on Win 7 there under there's the Snipping tool under accessories from the START menu, this would help a great deal... Please please confirm this...Would make mine and Starwindz debugging easier.. Edited September 2, 2014 by Mclaneinc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LidLikesIntellivision Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Neptunes daughter works fine on version one.. I have a feeling that people are missing rom images... Yes, you're right, I opened the Neptunes daughter's zip file and v1 had a size of 0 while v2 is 64KiB. I'll check this everytime I can't load a rom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starwindz Posted September 2, 2014 Author Share Posted September 2, 2014 (edited) @MclaneincCould you please check game names which have 'The' during one-by-one check? Edited September 2, 2014 by starwindz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 (edited) Will do... Just getting my daughter back to school but her IBS has went sky high today so I will start the one by one on the weekend... Edited September 3, 2014 by Mclaneinc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 (edited) Just a little quick bug.. If you set a tune playing and then right click on the music icon the tune stops BUT if like me you double click on a game to start it, the tune obviously starts again. Is it possible that the tune player can be stopped automatically once the emulator is started as well? Edited September 3, 2014 by Mclaneinc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starwindz Posted September 3, 2014 Author Share Posted September 3, 2014 (edited) Just a little quick bug.. If you set a tune playing and then right click on the music icon the tune stops BUT if like me you double click on a game to start it, the tune obviously starts again. Is it possible that the tune player can be stopped automatically once the emulator is started as well? I think it is a very elusive bug... I'll check it out son... Edited September 3, 2014 by starwindz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 I'll check it out son... Dad!!!...I knew you were out there somewhere 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starwindz Posted September 3, 2014 Author Share Posted September 3, 2014 Dad!!!...I knew you were out there somewhere OMG! It's a terrible typo('soon') on my smartphone. I'm very sorry. Yesterday I was on short business trip... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 Its fine, made me laugh, no offence taken.......Was obviously a typo.. If not I'm due a lot of back pocket money . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 One thing on the run up to the one game at a time check, the file selector that pops up where you choose to run a game makes the playing process unnecessarily extended by having to choose the image to boot, can lead to wrongly booted games and incorrect bug reports. What I thought you meant when you said you were adding it was that the user could set which is the default image to boot if there was a query, ie once set you didn't get that menu again.. Hopefully I can list which is the default image when I do my check and the menu becomes an option to turn on or off. Not being awkward, just trying to make the play experience swift and fun.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starwindz Posted September 4, 2014 Author Share Posted September 4, 2014 One thing on the run up to the one game at a time check, the file selector that pops up where you choose to run a game makes the playing process unnecessarily extended by having to choose the image to boot, can lead to wrongly booted games and incorrect bug reports. What I thought you meant when you said you were adding it was that the user could set which is the default image to boot if there was a query, ie once set you didn't get that menu again.. Hopefully I can list which is the default image when I do my check and the menu becomes an option to turn on or off. Not being awkward, just trying to make the play experience swift and fun.. Please test the new interface for selecting a game file to run. (Please see screenshots.) a8_best_gamepack_exe_1.2.0-beta1-test1.zip 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 Lots better....It really needed an option to select a default image so that's great. I've started going through the games and I'm testing all the versions in each zip, may take a while but it will be exact. I'll mark out what file should be the default. I'm also noting games that are running in NTSC instead of PAL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starwindz Posted September 5, 2014 Author Share Posted September 5, 2014 To-do-list 2 for V1.2.0 (2014.09.05) 1. New feature of front end (1) Pressing 'enter' in the keyboard to play a game which name is highlighted (now we need to double click) [by LidLikesIntellivision] (2) The dialog box to select the game version shouldn't appear when there's only one game file. [by LidLikesIntellivision] 2. Bug fix of front end (1) If you set a tune playing and then right click on the music icon the tune stops BUT if like me you double click on a game to start it, the tune obviously starts again. [by Mclaneinc] 3. Bug fix of games (1) Beamrider: Version 1 freezes (both emulators) when you destroy the mothership in the end of each level. Version 2 is a hack without this problem. [by LidLikesIntellivision] (2) Commando gives the message 'unsupported cartridge size' in Altirra. It doesn't load in atari800win too. [by LidLikesIntellivision] (3) Neptune's Daughter: Version 1 doesn't work/load in both emulators. (v1 had a size of 0 while v2 is 64kB) [by LidLikesIntellivision] (4) Pool 400: gamepack\atarimania\extras\Pool 400\pub_idsi.jpg (0 byte) [by starwindz] (5) Default game image file one-by-one check [by Mclaneinc] (6) Video system one-by-one check(NTSC/PAL) [by Mclaneinc] (7) Game name one-by-one check(',The') [by Mclaneinc] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetboot Jack Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 (edited) Just been playing this on my Mac - just great to have so much in such in easy to use package - awesome. A couple of observations: If a game has only two screenshots, then the third window on the left shows the previous game's screenshots if it had three. There are a couple of junk tittles in there: Mr Robot 2 and Mr Robot 3 are not games - just badly edited levels for Mr Robot Boulderdash Pro is another daft hack too Mission and Misja are the same game Gauntlet and Gauntletak are the same game Dreadnaught Factor 2 and Dreadnaught Factor 3 are just hacks of Dreadnaught Factor Night Rally is a poor hack of Baja Buggies And Tell won't run sTeVE Edited September 5, 2014 by Jetboot Jack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 (edited) Just been playing this on my Mac - just great to have so much in such in easy to use package - awesome. A couple of observations: If a game has only two screenshots, then the third window on the left shows the previous game's screenshots if it had three. There are a couple of junk tittles in there: Mr Robot 2 and Mr Robot 3 are not games - just badly edited levels. Boulderdash Pro is another daft hack too Mission and Misja are the same game Gauntlet and Gauntletak are the same game sTeVE The screen shot thing is a know issue on Starwindz list to sort out, found it with a couple of different games, I'd seen Gauntlet and Mission being doubles but not the other two so thanks for that Steve, will weed out the rest with the one by one game check.. Its gonna be big Edit: I see the screen shot thing isn't on the new to do list, I presume its because Starwindz is still carrying out a load of fixes still on the last version (I still feel guilty about how many bits I've put his way). Edited September 5, 2014 by Mclaneinc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 I've only just started but this is to show Starwindz the way the report will be set out for the one by one test. Atari report.txt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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