Problem with player1color and pfscroll - need help

[Problem with player1color and pfscroll - need help]

I found a forgotten USB stick today with a stupid old version of DTC. Press fire while playing and Santa drops his pants... ain't it great? 🤪

 

chim-2009-ct-032e-down-pants.bas.bin

 

[2019 Atari Homebrew Awards: Nomination Results]

3 hours ago, ZeroPage Homebrew said:

2019 ATARI HOMEBREW AWARDS RESULTS

 

Thank you everyone for an amazing event today. Congratulations to all the nominees and the winners! You can watch the replay on Twitch or when it's posted on YouTube tomorrow!

 

Thanks for the great awards show and congrats to all the winners!

 

[ZeroPage Homebrew Twitch Stream]

I just stumbled over a few interesting homebrews i haven't heard of before... More games to play on the show! 😃

 

Murderer Behind The Door

 

Gene Medic

 

The Adventures of Grumpy Gramps & Skateboard Steve, Super Step Bros etc.

 

Also try this Lander game which is even harder than Deimos Lander:

 

Lander (2008) (Bastian Framke).bin

 

🤪

 

[The Wicked Father]

1 hour ago, Linndrum said:

Wow, that dude completely disappeared. None of his links exist anymore. Not even the Soundcloud page.

Indeed. But you can grab the Wicked Father ROM here:

 

https://atariage.com/forums/topic/276956-zeropage-homebrew-twitch-stream/?do=findComment&comment=4311416

 

[We need a better Pole Position!]

On 8/22/2019 at 10:27 PM, Thomas Jentzsch said:

I once did a hack (Checkered Flag) for Atari(?) where I also change the track. I can't remember though how much effort that was. 

 

The ROM was never released, but I suppose I have it somewhere on my HDs.

Is this the hack you're talking about? Looks like the ROM was released after all...

 

Checkered Flag (Pole Position Hack) (2005) (Thomas Jentzsch).bin

 

[Skelton+ question]

You can always check the HTML Manual here:

 

https://www.atariage.com/manual_html_page.php?SoftwareLabelID=2381

 

[ZeroPage Homebrew Twitch Stream]

13 hours ago, ZeroPage Homebrew said:

 

You're absolutely correct, tomorrow we have the EXCLUSIVE WORLD DEBUT of Champ Games 2600 homebrew port of Atari's 1979 Arcade Game LUNAR LANDER!!

 

MORE INFO: https://www.facebook.com/champdotgames/posts/2414286555494688

 

Great, i'm looking forward to see Lunar Lander on today's show!

 

I also just saw that there's a fixed ROM for Skeleton+ which should work on the Harmony Encore:

 

https://atariage.com/forums/topic/294531-skeleton-not-working-on-harmony-encore/

 

Looks like you can finally play one of the few spooky 2600 homebrews on the show. 😃

 

[Birthday Mania - Unwrapped]

22 minutes ago, classicgamer74 said:

I can't get the little guy to move.  Is anyone having trouble with this?  I can get him to blow out the candles when I press the joystick to the right but that's all. 

You need a paddle controller to play Birthday Mania.

 

 

[FREE GAME: Stephen Smith's ROAD DUEL for Atari 2600]

That's sad to hear. 🙁

 

Thanks for releasing the ROM. Road Duel was featured on ZeroPage Homebrew last year and this episode also has some informations about Stephen:

 

 

[Birthday Mania - Unwrapped]

Thanks for sharing! 🙂

 

[ZeroPage Homebrew Twitch Stream]

On 7/17/2019 at 11:32 PM, sramirez2008 said:

Developer Spotlight Episodes...Yes!  Do it...do it...do it!😀

 

Yep, that's a great idea. Developer Spotlights like Classic Gamer74's video about Edward Smith would be a nice addition to ZPH:

 

 

 

[ZeroPage Homebrew Twitch Stream]

I love watching ZeroPage Homebrew. Seeing you guys play homebrews and give feedback is fun to watch and also a great motivation to try and turn one of my lousy ideas into an actual game. Keep up the good work! 😃

 

Just thought of a few interesting games you haven't played on the show yet:

 

Space Battle by Dave Neuman:

https://atariage.com/forums/topic/89933-space-battle-update/

https://atariage.com/store/index.php?l=product_detail&p=848

 

Arctic Landtran by lord_mike:

https://atariage.com/forums/topic/121453-arctic-landtran-an-adventure-on-ice/

 

The Wicked Father by Junosix:

https://atariage.com/forums/topic/174302-the-wicked-father/

 

His Facebook page with the roms is not available anymore so i attach them here:

The Wicked Father (2011) (Junosix).bin

The Wicked Father Remix (2012) (Junosix).bin

 

Phantom II + Pirate by David Weavil:

https://atariage.com/forums/topic/89758-phantom-ii-pirate/

https://atariage.com/store/index.php?l=product_detail&p=843

 

Cheers!

 

 

 

[Diamond Drop]

Nice game, the simple concept translates well to the 2600. It's as challenging as the Steam version of Duet:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/292600/Duet/

 

 

[2019 Harmony Games -Final Round:Mappy (Best Homebrew Game)]

Just played a few rounds, great game!

 

But we should play with the left difficulty switch set to B. If you set it to A you become invincible.

[2019 Harmony Games Round 3- Space Game (best Bbasic Game)]

A little bit better, made it to the first boss:

 

12500

 

 

[ZeroPage Homebrew Twitch Stream]

John please get cracking on a port of Fire Truck with Driving controller compatibility. That would be a great co-op two player game.

 

While waiting for Fire Truck you can play Arctic Landtran. It's inspired by Fire Truck and also works with the driving controller:

 

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/121453-arctic-landtran-an-adventure-on-ice/

[Activision Tennis Hacks]

Looks like you're on a Tennis hacking roll.

 

I like this one, good old Bentley Bear should be in more games.

[2019 Harmony Games Round 3- Space Game (best Bbasic Game)]

Great game! It's really tough in hard mode but i'll keep trying.

 

Let me start with an easy to beat score:

 

10725

 

 

[New pacman for atari 2600]

 

I'm sure there are others that I'm forgetting to mention.

 

There's also Chaotic Grill , a great remake of Burger Time.

[2019 Harmony Games-Round 2 Miner 2049]

 

Aerlean 590

 

 

Small correction: Aerlan's best score is actually 718. Check the YT video:

 

https://youtu.be/DdCF22V0pfg?t=5508

[2019 Harmony Games-Round 2 Miner 2049]

Just played a few rounds and i am not amused...

 

904

 

 

[Interview with John Champeau Part II]

Wasnt there a prototype for Elevator Action?

 

Yep, there is a prototype for EA:

 

http://atariage.com/software_page.php?SoftwareLabelID=1034

[RVG Blast and RVG Blast 2 (Atari 2600)]

could anyone convert "2" for NTSC?

 

RVG Blast 2 is a PAL 60 rom so it will run on NTSC machines. It just needs a version with NTSC colors, should be easy to do.

[2018 Atari Awards Voting Information & Discussion]

I would much prefer to stick to 2600 only here. IMO that's complicated enough already.

 

Let the other systems organized their own awards if they like the idea!

 

Yep, i agree. Digging through all 2600 homebrews released in a year already takes quite some time.

 

IMO it would be best to keep these awards 2600 only and have separate awards for other systems.

[Text Minikernel]

Would it be acceptable aesthetically to have the text be below the score instead of the other way around as shown in the screenshot? I believe that I can eliminate the need to shrink the rest of the screen if I turn off the built-in score routine and provide my own implementation of it within the minikernel instead. Do you think that it will look fine that way, or at least be an acceptable trade-off to make this more compact?

 

I think displaying text below the score is just fine. Being able to use the full screen and text would be awesome.

 

Thanks for making this minikernel, looking forward to see how this develops.