Curt Vendel Posted December 27, 2004 Share Posted December 27, 2004 Hi everyone, Given Shaggy's 7800 homebrewerpoolza contest, what say someone takes the source to 7800 Desert Falcon I posted a while back and hacks it into Zaxxon for the 7800 !!! How friggin cool would THAT be !!! Curt 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireTiger Posted December 27, 2004 Share Posted December 27, 2004 But I love DF! I would rather someone hack DF and/or Zaxxon into split screen simultainous play two-player... DF -fix the bug that the lagging player gets baddies from the wrong levels. DF -fix the fact that there is a max life count. DF -fix the reported crashing problem. DF -uncode the glyphs and print out a booklet with all of the possible combos by type of result, level # encounterd, and difficultly level. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaggy the Atarian Posted December 27, 2004 Share Posted December 27, 2004 That would definently be a great project for the contest. Hacking would also be easier than starting from scratch for newbies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danno Posted December 27, 2004 Share Posted December 27, 2004 Hi everyone, Given Shaggy's 7800 homebrewerpoolza contest, what say someone takes the source to 7800 Desert Falcon I posted a while back and hacks it into Zaxxon for the 7800 !!! How friggin cool would THAT be !!! Curt link? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireTiger Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 meh the links aren't working 7800 Game Development... (Part 1 of 6) http://www.atariage.com/forums/viewtopic.p...ame+development 7800 Game Development... (Part 2 of 6) 7800 Game Development... (Part 3 of 6) 7800 Game Development... (Part 4 of 6) 7800 Game Development... (Part 5 of 6) 7800 Game Development... (Part 6 of 6) bah ...off to poke topics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireTiger Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 part 2 of 6 = http://www.atariage.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=51461 part 3 of 6 = http://www.atariage.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=51462 part 4 of 6 = http://www.atariage.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=51463 part 5 of 6 = http://www.atariage.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=51464 part 6 of 6 = http://www.atariage.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=51465 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory DG Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 Ah... How sweet would this be? (Color & resolution appropriate for the 7800!) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt Vendel Posted December 28, 2004 Author Share Posted December 28, 2004 Hi everyone, Given Shaggy's 7800 homebrewerpoolza contest, what say someone takes the source to 7800 Desert Falcon I posted a while back and hacks it into Zaxxon for the 7800 !!! How friggin cool would THAT be !!! Curt link? http://www.atarimuseum.com/ahs_archives/ar...hinx_source.zip This is the direct link, also lots of 7800 goodies here too: http://www.atarimuseum.com/ahs_archives/ar...chdocs-7800.htm Curt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Classic Pac Posted December 31, 2004 Share Posted December 31, 2004 This would be so cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeguychicago Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 That would be better than most of the Zaxxon ports out there, including the 5200 and Colecovision. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Azure Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 Reality Cheque. Glad to hear Curt is feeling better and up to dreaming up a new title for the 7800. It sounds great, except... Here's how I weigh in. Me thinks about the 7800 in 1984 (and beyond) and what represents what the 7800 woulda, coulda, shoulda been. In 1984 what was HOTT was Millipede, Crystal Castles and T&F. IMHO, in a world of games A thru Z, Zaxxon is at the bottom of the list, except for Zevious, which is my hack not yet produced. That doesn't count. With limited 7800 programming resources here, I vote for the following: #1 MILLIPEDE, to prove how much better it would have been on the 7800 v. the 5200. Wasn't the 32K Millipede a hack of the 16K Centipede on the 5200? We have a disassembly of Centipede on the 7800. Step one complete. #2 CRYSTAL CASTLES, we can use Bob's Bentley Bear which belongs in CC. Doesn't it? #3 TRAK & FIELD. Wasn't GCC working on this proto? #4 ZAXXON /// BLUE man /// Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hydro Thunder Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 And don't forget a 7800 Moon Patrol. But this is getting off the point that Desert Falcon, in concept, seems an easy -> Zaxxon hack. Easy and worthwhile. And conceivably completely awesome. Follow this up with a perfect port of Congo Bongo (you know, since it's isometric too and ran on the same arcade board as Zaxxon). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 Wasn't the 32K Millipede a hack of the 16K Centipede on the 5200? We have a disassembly of Centipede on the 7800. Step one complete. If you played them both for thirty seconds each you would see they are competly different in the programming techniques that they use. Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trebor Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 Reality Cheque. Glad to hear Curt is feeling better and up to dreaming up a new title for the 7800. Blue, Reality Cheque...Curt started this thread back in December 2004... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Azure Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 A hearty Boo Yah back at ya, Trebor. I wasn't opposing Curt's view. I hope he gets his game. However the Reality Czech still remains, as shown in reverse chronological order, 2013 I request MILLIPEDE on the 7800. 2004 Curt requests ZAXXON on the 7800. 1984 I was waiting for my "advance copy" of 7800 MILLIPEDE. And still am. Until we have MILLIPEDE, the 7800 remains a laggard in the Retro-Gaming world, IMHO. I'm not asking anyone to agree with me, it's just a simple opinion on a simple blog. Plus, we want to trade our MILLIPEDE for GCC's T&F from 1984. I know T&F is out there - I can feel it. Maybe it's just a prototype, but something to look at. A C025513 board with 2 x 27128 EPROMs. Just waiting to be hatched. 1983 The last time I played 5200 CENTIPEDE and/or MILLIPEDE. Point well taken, Allan, obviously from what you say it's clear that MILLIPEDE would be a build from scratch. We could look at the 78 CENTIPEDE source list to see what was done as a reference and possibly use some pieces from it. I need to find a working 5200, and a controller, a switchbox, and a compatible TV. I can do this, but not right now. Build MILLIPEDE and we'll get T&F!!! Thanks all, for your patience with me. Mighty Momentum is building again on the 7800...it's coming... ///BLUEman/// Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrekMD Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 This would be a great title to add to the 7800! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmel_andrews Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Seeming as though we are talking about diagonal scrollers, perhaps a better hack of DF would be into Blue Max or Blue Max 2001 (both are defo better then Zaxxon, even on the A8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamessmith106 Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 I'd be up for that and MILLIPEDE - the 5200 unreleased version of the latter is sure playable but the choppy animation of many of the critters suggests it was not a smooth final version. Any way of basing the 7800 version of ZAXXON upon the 800XL version of SUPER ZAXXON, which looked really good and has - seemingly - yet to be converted to the 5200? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stun Runner 87 Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 Great to see the atari legend Curt. I can't wait to see thus pan out. ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Great to see the atari legend Curt. I can't wait to see thus pan out. His last post in this thread was 11 years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinks Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 His last post in this thread was 11 years ago. Maybe he was being sarcastic? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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