littleman jack

Astroblast, Warlords, or Demons to Diamonds are also worth a try

One of my favorites as well! Now I need to try the storage compartment. I always put my controller in a nearby drawer.

Preppie! Made it a little higher, 11100 My son (littleman jr.) tried and scored 6050. We both had a go at Star League Baseball and lost by more than 10 runs. So we'll have to practice that one a bit before posting.

Preppie 8270. This one is tougher and more repetitive than Preppie II, but a good challenge. Can't wait to try Star League Baseball as well. I loved playing that one as a kid with my brother.

So true! This game is awesome. He does rock!

Bought an Atari 800 cart from him. Excellent all around. Great game, fast shipping, packaged extremely well. Highly recommended.

This looks great! Thanks for the hard work. I definitely want one once they are available.

I'm going with games that I own that we haven't played yet this year. I know some of these have been played in recent years, but there's always a chance they might spark interest again in a new season. Here they are in the order that they appear in my stereo cabinet drawer. Preppie Preppie II Maniac Miner (not the same as Manic Miner) Jawbreaker Crossfire Canyon Climber Star League Baseball Jumpman Junior Adventure II XE Montezuma's Revenge King Tuts Tomb Joust Frogger Galaxian Basketball Star Raiders

Thanks!

I used the emulator years ago, on a different computer with a different version of Debian, so any configured files and roms from before are long gone. I also used altirra at one point, so I might be confusing altirra and atari800. In any event, thank you for the advice and suggestions! I think the next step now is to get the roms and configure my current atari800 emulator and then get playing. I prefer to use my real Atari 800 with disks and cartridges but, with a limited supply of games and money, I sometimes need to play in emulation. Thanks for the tips and info!

Thanks!

I tried running the atari800 emulator in Linux (Debian) for the first time in a few years. Previously I've had no trouble. I hit a snag that I've never encountered before and wondered if anyone has suggestions. When I tried running a rom and then an atr file, the message "cannot run, you need a real atari os" appeared. So I looked into the settings and it appears the os roms are missing in this version of atari800. Where do I get os roms? I looked in Atarimania but I can only find DOS files. Where do I find the os roms? I think my older version of atari800 must have had the os roms included. Thanks for any help!

Atari 800 The Tail of Beta Lyrae---90 minutes Preppie II----35 minutes Canyon Climber----20 minutes Preppie---40 minutes

A little late to the party. I'm sorry I missed the beginning of the season. This game, Pac-Man, and Shamus are my all-time favorite games. Here's my late entry: 84,100.

9448 Finally got to the 4th sector.

Another slight improvement. 7,145 After a few runs each time my score goes up, but it's hard to stomach the times where I shoot an enemy and the enemy doesn't blow up. Especially when I then end up running into the enemy and loosing a ship. However, the speed and the slight improvements are really exciting.

Shamus, Preppie II, Pinhead, any of the Pac-Man games, Montezuma's Revenge, and Star-League Baseball.

Finally made a little headway.------ 6,495 Still tough as nails.

My son, littleman jr.------ 4205 Me, littleman jack------ 5659

Such a tough game! My son said, "I think this game is mocking me."

I think there might be two different "Pac-Man 8k" games out there: one is a hack of the original official Atari release by Nukey Shay and the other is a homebrew by another programmer. I've played the Nukey Shay version and it is great. The other one looks excellent as well from what I remember seeing here in a thread on Atari Age. The hack has the same maze as the official release, but with better colors, fruits, sounds, and intermissions. The homebrew has a maze that looks more like the arcade version. But I could thinking of the homebrew with Pac-Man 4k. Is there someone out there who knows for sure?

Yes, it has a bat and a spider as the bad guys. Sometimes they seem to work together, other times not.

I forgot about that option. Thanks for the reminder!

Last week I bought a disk copy of Maniac Miner. However, I thought I was buying Manic Miner. It was a happy accident. I've really been enjoying Maniac Miner, and so has my son. He's played it more than I have. I'm sure we're going to play it a bunch again this weekend. It's challenging and fun. Reminds me a little of Pharaoh's Curse, but harder and with less going on. I've read oodles about Manic Miner in Retro Gamer Magazine over the years, as it seems to be one of their favorites (the original UK version, not the recent Atari 800 version), so I thought it would be a good game to look into. That being said, Maniac Miner is a US game that I never knew existed. It's from 1983, so I'm not sure how I missed it, except that there were tons of games back then. And maybe I lumped it in with the excellent Miner 2049er. What do you think about these two--Manic Miner and Maniac Miner? Any love for either out there?

Atari 800 (with my son) Crossfire--15 minutes Jawbreaker--35 minutes Jumpman Junior--45 minutes Maniac Miner--20 minutes Preppie II--60 minutes Star League Baseball--50 minutes Tail of Beta Lyrae--30 minutes