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  1. Posted

    By the way, have you ever played Tower of Doom -- great game

     

    The only thing I can remember playing on Intelevision was baseball and football. Is there an emulator somewhere?

     

     

    I was in a comic store the other day and saw Slashmaster manuals and basic set

     

    Isn't it HACKMASTER??? I've seen the spoof of Keep On The Borderlands, but I never looked at it. I've been playing 3rd edition D&D for the last two years after not playing for about fifteen years.

     

    WRL

  5. Posted

    However, could a game like Gauntlet or Dark Chambers (or a new game in the mold of an old D&D hack and slash style game) be made for the 5200? That would be my wish for a 5200 homebrew.

     

    Are you looking for an action type of game for the 5200 or something like The Bard's Tale and Wizardry?

     

    WRL

  6. Posted

    I have an 800XL and two semi-working 1050 drives. I can read from both drives, but I have trouble writing to or formatting either. I just picked up another 800XL and a 600XL from e(P)ay so I can figure out where the problem is. I also have a huge box of 5 1/4 diskettes full of software. There most be 200 floppies.

     

    WRL

  7. Posted

    Ron -

     

    Here is a whole book about sidescrollers -

    http://www.makegames.com/sidescroller/index.html

     

    As for detecting where the floor is, using the collision registers or a table both work. Also you can create a function that converts the players x-position into a character position. Then check what character is in the 'floor' below the player. If it is a character of 'no floor' the player falls or dies or whatever.

     

    The player's x position can be between 0 and 255 (or 00 and FF). In Antic mode 4 there are 40 columns (0 -39). You have to do a little testing to figure out what x value is the right most edge of character column 0 and what x value is the left most edge of character column 39. Then just subtract min_player_x from max_player_x and divid by 40.

     

    Then do the same thing with the player's y position to figure out the character row the player is on.

     

    WRL

  9. Posted

    It is easy enough to create a Atari readable disk from an .ATR file, which is a disk image, but my point is that not many people still have working disk drives or had them in the first place.

     

    There are less changes that have to be made to convert a 5200 cartridge image to a 400/800 cartridge image then to a 400/800 disk runnable program.

     

     

    Well, is there really any reason to make an 8bit computer ROM image if everybody is going to just run it on an Emu anyway?

     

    This is a really good point. I don't have an answer to that one! :-)

  10. Posted

    There are slight differences to making a cart on the 400/800 than on the 5200. These are just memory location difference, of course you have to make the regular 5200 to 400/800 memory/register changes too which should be included in the equates header file (if you are using one).

     

    I've been able to make carts (images) for both the 400/800 and the 5200 with DASM, but I haven't been able to make a disk loadable binary with it. I can however easily make disk loadable binaries with the Atari Assembler Editor and other 8-bit assemblers .... not fun ... but not to bad on an emulator running at 500% speed. :-)

     

    I'm not sure how many people still have working disk drives with their 8-bit machines so making Koffi as an 8-bit cart image might be a better decision. Let someone else (AtariAge) or whomever produce the actual cartridges ... that has got to be a lot of hard work on your part! SUNMARK has 8-bit cart cases and boards.

     

    If you make it as a disk based game, people can run it on an emulator or only if they have a working disk drive. If you make it as a cart image, it can be run from an emulator or anyone can run it on a REAL machine if they want to invest in the cart.

     

    Just my .02

    WRL

  13. Posted

    Cafeman -

     

    1. Display objects that can be picked up as background characters. This assumes that the objects can't move by themselves.

     

    2. When the player hits them, then remove the background characters and add the object data to the players pmg ribbon. The limitation here is that the object must be above or below the players "square".

     

    WRL

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  14. Posted

    All Your Prototypes Are Belong to Us

     

    This is a great parody of the classic saying "All your base are belong to us". Do a Google search and see how many times / parodies are out there.

     

    WRL

  15. Posted

    Xtronic's ... Datarase II (4 Eprom one)

     

    I don't see this eraser listed on thier website. Maybe I am just blind. Can I just put the chips in my tanning bed and hit "TROPICAL"! :-)

     

    WRL

  16. Posted

    Are you guys still happy with the Transtronics' Pocket Programmer and the Datarase?

     

    I was pointed to the Eprom Programmers at Jameco, but it seems like most of you guys are using the Transtronics equipment.

     

    The Als - You guys should put up a technical notes section on how to burn cartridges for the various Atari systems, including equipment and component suppliers.

     

    WRL

  17. Posted

    The other chapters are okay but I, II and III are not  

    reccomended mainly because they are very creaky early 80s  

    games.

     

    I have to disagree. You should play them in order as there are characters and such that show up again and again in the series. I remember seeing Ultima I on a friends Apple II and was blown away by it; of course he was blown away by Star Raiders. Ultima II was kind of easy as you could just sit off shore in a ship blasting monsters with your cannons and they couldn't touch you. I though Ultima III and IV were great.

     

    I think I have all the disk images for Ultima I - IV if you want them. I also have all the docs which I can scan.

     

    WRL

  18. Posted

    I believe the first three Ultimas were one disk, and Ultima IV was two, but I could be wrong (it's been a long time!)  

     

    I have Ultima I - IV sitting in front of me. Ultima I has one two-sided disk. Ultima II has two disks; one is double-sided and the other is single sided. Ultima III has one two-sided disk. Ultima IV has one two-sided disk.

     

    WRL

  21. Posted

    I would imagine 5200 adventure II having between 20 to 30 colors on screen - and if you doubt me I might be convinced to do a real mockup on real hardware!!!!

     

    I doubt you! Well, actually I don't really doubt you, but I would like to see you get 30 colors on the screen at once.

     

    While I think it may be possible to get that many colors on the screen during a DLI, but you would not have time to do anything else.

     

    WRL

  22. Posted

    I have an 800XL and two 1050 drives. I can read from both drives, but I can't seem to write to either drive or even format disks with them. I get a device timeout error, which I believe is an error 138. I though that the that drives might be a little off because of their age, but I also get the error when trying to write to my PC using an SIO2PC cable. Is it possible that the 800XL timing is actually off? And if so, how would I adjust it? Any suggestions?

     

    I have a box of about 200 floppies that I would like to move to my pc and then discard.

     

    WRL

  24. Posted

    A written code of conduct is a great idea, and I would be willing to draft one given suggestions from the community.

     

    I really don't think that a code of conduct is needed in this small community even though it spans the globe. We've aready seen what happens when members of this community don't repect each other. In the last few months both Hozer and Junie Creations closed up shop because the members of this community discussed what was going on. Within a few days, things take care of themselves once word gets around. No bureaucracy needed!

     

    WRL

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