Goochman Posted October 17, 2004 Share Posted October 17, 2004 Folks, This is a 2 week event ending 10/29 midnight EDT Play on default settings and use the UDPATED Dig Dug Rom or Datasoft disk release to play. Good Luck! Dig Dug digdug_r2.zip digdug_r1.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted October 17, 2004 Author Share Posted October 17, 2004 The dig dug to play should look like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted October 17, 2004 Author Share Posted October 17, 2004 47310 - initial attempt Ill be away a few days so no score updates most of this week - we've got 2 weeks to play this one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad2600 Posted October 17, 2004 Share Posted October 17, 2004 Add me to this club! I highly enjoy this game and I've started to really get the hang of it. It took a couple of tries to get the score below and I played on the default settings using my 800XL hooked to a C64 monitor. 24.170 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted October 17, 2004 Share Posted October 17, 2004 Add me to this club! I highly enjoy this game and I've started to really get the hang of it. It took a couple of tries to get the score below and I played on the default settings using my 800XL hooked to a C64 monitor. 24.170 Sorry, but as you might have recognized it alright... you are using the different version... not the version that is belonging to this competition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad2600 Posted October 18, 2004 Share Posted October 18, 2004 Awww... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted October 18, 2004 Author Share Posted October 18, 2004 Folks, I cant see anyone getting a good scoreon the original release due to its limitations - I will accept scores from either version but you are better off with the 2nd release vs the first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad2600 Posted October 18, 2004 Share Posted October 18, 2004 I do have Atari800WinPlus if you can point me to the ROM. Otherwise, all I have is the first version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted October 18, 2004 Author Share Posted October 18, 2004 Ive posted both .exe's to use with an emu Youve been warned on R1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Jefferson Posted October 18, 2004 Share Posted October 18, 2004 Well, that exe won't run on my real XL. I did some minor surgery on it and now it does, as long as I run it with the Translator disk. It was doing some PORTB writes, I NOPed them. It must still be doing some illegal jumps though, since it still won't work without the translator. BTW: I couldn't get it to work with the MaxFlash "translator" cartridge, I wonder if it is doing some writes to the cartridge space too? There's a section that does something like this: LDX #0 STA D000,X STA D400,X STA D200,X STA D300,X <-portB INX BNE backupthere digdug.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Jefferson Posted October 18, 2004 Share Posted October 18, 2004 Oh, and now to actually play it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Jefferson Posted October 18, 2004 Share Posted October 18, 2004 44500 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 47310 - initial attempt Ill be away a few days so no score updates most of this week - we've got 2 weeks to play this one Cool.... That will make it easier for me on my 4 day or 6 day in a row work weeks. I usually have enough time, but sometimes family matters interfere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Well, that exe won't run on my real XL. I did some minor surgery on it and now it does, as long as I run it with the Translator disk. It was doing some PORTB writes, I NOPed them. It must still be doing some illegal jumps though, since it still won't work without the translator. BTW: I couldn't get it to work with the MaxFlash "translator" cartridge, I wonder if it is doing some writes to the cartridge space too? There's a section that does something like this: LDX #0 STA D000,X STA D400,X STA D200,X STA D300,X <-portB INX BNE backupthere Yep definitely a cartridge check (I believe) anything that loads 0's into an address area like that is usually to foil copying attempts. Oddly enough it ends up screwing with the PortB like you said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Jefferson Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 47290! So close. This game gets pretty hard near the end, with all those "ghosts" flying at you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted October 22, 2004 Author Share Posted October 22, 2004 Sorry Shawn - 102610 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devwebcl Posted October 22, 2004 Share Posted October 22, 2004 Sorry Shawn - 102610 wow great score!!! I did 17k+, but I didnt know I have to capture the score before the "game over" or I lose it. well, I'll try harder, but I dont think I'll be first this time devwebcl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjk7382 Posted October 22, 2004 Share Posted October 22, 2004 Here is my score for now. And I don't see 100k as being too far out of my reach It is all how you handle the double enemies, and how you make your tunnels. 52,880 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted October 22, 2004 Author Share Posted October 22, 2004 136290 - Ill take a break for a bit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Jefferson Posted October 23, 2004 Share Posted October 23, 2004 Any hints? I'm finding 50,000 hard to achieve most games! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted October 23, 2004 Author Share Posted October 23, 2004 Its all about the bonus - dont worry about dropping rocks on the bad guys cause if you wait too long they will bury you. I usually go after the single enemies and pump them up on the way to a rock - wait for the early movers to come over and drop - find another rock to drop (enemy or not) and grab the bonus - then 'pump dem up' to finish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJ Posted October 23, 2004 Share Posted October 23, 2004 205,330 C'mon gang- you really need strategies for this 20+ year-old classic? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Jefferson Posted October 24, 2004 Share Posted October 24, 2004 I do! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+davidcalgary29 Posted October 24, 2004 Share Posted October 24, 2004 I recall getting a score of over 2,200,000 on one occasion, but just forgot to get a polaroid of it at the time (that particular game took over 5 hours to play). Is it just me, or does the difficulty ramping cease at level 24? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted October 24, 2004 Author Share Posted October 24, 2004 It ramps - but we need a game played in the last week or so Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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