no Qix for the 7800?

[no Qix for the 7800?]

Does this look familiar?

It's been so long that I don't remember for sure, but that's probably it. I've played a lot of C64 games.

[no Qix for the 7800?]

The math was to signify purchasing an XM and a game that utilizes its features.

Yes, I missed that. I apologize. I'm a 2600 fan and know very little about the XM. I started reading this thread because I like Qix.

 

Sorry that I missed that money for the game was included in your figures.

 

Hope you have a nice day.

[no Qix for the 7800?]

The XM doesn't cost $200.00.

You're right, but maybe Jaynz got $200 from the average of Trebor's numbers:

If $2 a day can be set aside, then the time frame is 3 to 4 months/12 to 16 weeks.

$2 x 12 x 7 = 168

$2 x 16 x 7 = 224

Average = (168 + 224) / 2 = $196

 

Knowing very little about the XM, I thought it was more than $149.99 based on Trebor's post. His other figure of $1 a day for 6 to 7 months is over $180.

 

I like Qix. The last version I played was for DOS, but I can't remember what I first played it on.

[How to load a ROM onto a cartridge]

you can get one of Atari Age's boards and put it in the original shell.

Will an AtariAge board fit in an Activision shell? I have no idea, but wanted to bring it up in case it might be an issue.

[Prototype/Homemade Atari 2600]

Here's a thread about the same picture.

[Sear's Telegames Pong Sports IV Owner Manual Scan]

There is one in user42's manual scan collection. If you don't want to download the whole set, the manual you want is in this file:

Man-2600.part08.rar

[Atari Age Roms]

Furthermore Air Raid is not a hack of Space Jockey. Air Raid did steal the graphics and sound effects, but it's really a separate game.

I can't understand how Air Raid could have so much of the same code as Space Jockey and not be based on it.

 

I have played both games, well attempted to play Air Raid on my Harmony at any rate since it slowly rolls on my CRT set. In space Jockey, you shoot horizontally; in Air Raid, you shoot vertically.

And yet the code for moving your ship left and right (Air Raid) or up and down (Space Jockey) looks very similar to me:

 

Other parts of the program have chunks of code that are identical.

 

Also the rules and objectives are totally different between games.

Just because the finished product is different doesn't mean they didn't originate from the same code.

[What makes a Supercharger game... a Supercharger game?]

It looks like this is the option you should experiment with:

-f#      Speed of load (0 - 4, Default=1)

Here's some info I found from the instructions for Makewav 4.1:

  -f -> (default = 2)
        This flag allows you to change the speed of the tranfer.  The valid
        range is 0-4 and the higher the number the faster the load.  Don't
        be surprised if the faster transfers are not reliable, they are
        really pushing the limits of the audio circuitry.  Suggested values
        for various media are:  Audio Cassette = 0, CD = 1 or 2,
        Computer = 2, 3, or 4.

I noticed the default changed from 2 to 1 for Makewav 4.2.

[Princess Rescue Now Available!]

You can play around with the debugger in Stella, and create a 'cheatcode' as well.

Here's the cheatcode I've been using to always have four lives:

 

e104

 

 

The current level must be stored somewhere in RAM; it would just be a matter of finding it.

Here's that info:

 

The world is stored in EB and the level is in EC.

 

It sometimes acts strange after changing the level. If you die, things seem to reset to normal on the new level.

[Atari 2600 homebrew distributors in Europe?]

Or was this some taboo question

Supporting Hozer is taboo.

 

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/212554-princess-rescue-now-available/?view=findpost&p=2829960

I would appreciate if people did not buy pirate copies of homebrew games from Hozer. Much less suggesting it right here on AtariAge.

[Unknown Prototype?]

The screen looks like CommaVid's MagiCard to me.

[Bermuda Triangle Prototype? Atari]

Here are some other threads about these:

 

What is this? Is there any value?

 

bermuda triangle white label

 

Data Age Loaners

[Interest Check - Desert Bus 2600]

On

, your Harmony cart has a file called "Choplift.bin". Is that Choplifter? Probably not, but it made me curious.

 

Back on topic, I'd never heard of Desert Bus before. It's interesting as a novelty item, but I'll pass on getting a cartridge.

[Dangerous Mouse Hunt (Gefaehrliche Maeusejagd hack)]

Ok heres a weird question, is there a list of all the pal original games?

This might be what you're looking for:

http://www.atarimania.com/pgelstsoft.awp?system=2&type=G&format=1&original=1&step=25

 

good job and thanks for your work dwane!!

You're welcome.

[Dangerous Mouse Hunt (Gefaehrliche Maeusejagd hack)]

Now and then I've tried making comments to the disassembly of this game. I wanted it to be more complete before uploading it, but for now I've lost interest in the project and decided to go ahead and upload it as is. I hope someone finds it useful.

 

To me the mountain in the background of this game looks wrong. If you set MOUNTAIN_FIX to 1, it looks better in my opinion.

 

I've always thought it strange that this game has a timer, but nothing happens when the timer reaches zero. You can change the value of TIMEOUT to change what the timer does. In order to get some free ROM to make these changes, I removed a couple NOPs that are near STA WSYNC. I hope this doesn't cause any problems. Despite me having a Harmony cart, I don't remember testing these changes on real hardware.

 

I did have options for a couple things that I removed from this copy. Since they came from someone else's code, I didn't want to use them without permission. With other things going on in my life, I may not be on here much/any in the near future and wanted to go ahead and post this.

 

This download is just a zipped ASM file.

Dangerous_Mouse_Hunt_(Gefaehrliche_Maeusejagd_hack)_2013y08m15d_05h09m.zip

[Looking for help in identifying this 2600 cart]

To me they look like:

StarMaster

Pooyan

Outlaw

?Frisco?

[Princess Rescue Binaries Released!]

Thanks Chris and Al.

[Looking for help in identifying this 2600 cart]

Probably would be easier to have the owner test the cartridge and see what games they are.

 

I actually started working on my post before you asked what games are on it. I find languages interesting and thought it might be neat to see what the Chinese said.

 

I agree though about finding out what the actual games are.

[Looking for help in identifying this 2600 cart]

I tried to convert the titles into text using a website. I may have made mistakes, but came up with this:

 

1 黃昏雙鏢客

2 星際大戰

3 大力士戰群妖

4 豬哥大戰

 

Google translations:

1 Dusk double fistful of dollars

2 Star Wars

3 Hercules battle Qunyao

4 Gentlemen Wars

 

EDIT: It doesn't appear that Chinese characters will display here. Here are Google search links for each title:

#1

#2

#3

#4

[So where can I get a prototype fixed?]

Thanks for the update.

[So where can I get a prototype fixed?]

UPDATE: This proto has changed hands, more to come.

 

In another thread:

That's it, I am leaving!

 

Any news about this prototype before you leave? I'm glad you were able to dump it and hope more info becomes available.

[Who Invaders - ?]

I found a picture of what you described. Just linking to it in case anyone else is curious like I was.

[Lunar Landings: 17 Telegames?]

Are you talking about Outer Space? Here's the manual for the same game under the name Atari sold it by.

[Harmony Cart 7800]

I guess this isn't going to happen?

 

Why do you say that? This year isn't over yet.

[Alien Greed 5 (take 2)]

Also, is the flickering too awful, or not?

 

The flickering doesn't bother me, but I loved Pac-Man on the 2600 back in the day.

 

Let me know your thoughts/feelings, or if you see any bugs.

 

I noticed a couple of things while playing this with Stella. I verified them on real hardware with my Harmony cart.

 

First, it is possible to coax the outlaw off the screen. Get him to follow you to the right hand side of the screen. Go to the top or bottom corner. When he gets close to you, go the other way (to the bottom or top). Sometimes while he is outside of the playfield box, the scanlines go to 263, but I assume that's because he isn't where he should be.

 

Second, when the cartridge is on the same side of the screen as the outlaw, you can sometimes touch the outlaw and it acts as if you touched the cartridge. This doesn't happen every time, but happens often enough that it isn't hard to do. I don't know if this is a bug or not, since you probably shouldn't be touching the outlaw anyway.

 

Good luck on your game.