Armor Ambush vs Combat

[Armor Ambush vs Combat]

There also is "Conquest of the World" on the Philips G7000 / Odyssey 2 - I don´t know if anyone knows this game.

 

It had tank - tank fights , but it was also possible to use an airplane or a submarine.

 

So it also had tank - airplane or tank - submarine fights.

 

This game was one of the G7000 games with a large box , with board etc. just as "Quest for the Rings".

 

Thimo

[Armor Ambush vs Combat]

Which game is a better tank - battle game ?

 

Armor Ambush or the old ATARI Combat ?

 

Thimo

[Super Action Soccer and more for Coleco]

Anyone interested in Coleco games , I can offer Super Action Football - the soccer game , the Bitcorp games like Tank War and Strike it and Cosmic Crisis and several more.

Thimo

 

I mean games for the CBS Colecovision ,

 

Thimo

[Super Action Soccer and more for Coleco]

Anyone interested in Coleco games , I can offer Super Action Football - the soccer game , the Bitcorp games like Tank War and Strike it and Cosmic Crisis and several more.

 

These games are AFAIK PAL and NTSC compatible.

 

If anyone is interested - I may get more Coleco games , some of them may be quite rare.

 

There also are common games like Wing War,Pepper 2,Donkey Kong and DK jr , Carnival , Space Fury ,

 

Activision games like HERO and Pitfall 1&2 , Sunrise games like Rolloverture and Quest for Quintana Roo ; Motocross Racer , Tournament Tennis , Squish´em Sam , 2010 , Antarctic Adventue , Gyruss , Mr.Do , Mr Do´s Castle , Burgertime , Congo Bongo , Super Action Football , Zaxxon , Gorf , Grog´s Revenge and some more

 

Most of the games are boxed.

 

I may also get Intellivision games , but most of these are standard Mattel games except some CBS games like Mouse Trap,Lady Bug,Donkey Kong,Carnival and some Parker games like Popeye or Q-Bert.

 

Thimo

[How to make Sears Paddles ATARI compatible ?]

The following problem :

 

Sears Arcade II Paddles work with ATARI games like Super Breakout , you can move the bat , but not start the game.

 

Looks like the Fire button is different to the CX-30 Paddles.

 

Sears Paddles are only 1-Paddle/port , CX-30 or Telegames Paddles are 2-Paddles/port.

 

They do work , this can be checked on an ATARI 800 with the Paddle and PTRIG commands in BASIC and own games on the ATARI 8 Bit in BASIC would support the paddles.

 

But how can I make the Paddles compatible to Super Breakout,Breakout,Circus ATARI,Warlords etc.

 

Seems to be only a fire-button problem , what do I have to change ?

 

Thimo

[Anyone interested in Quelle games ?]

I may get large qts. of Quelle games.

 

boxed?

 

Günther

 

The games should be new/boxed , with manuals .

 

Thimo

[Some of my NTSC games on ebay]

I have some of my NTSC games on ebay , for example Lock n Chase or World Championship Baseball (aka Super Challenge Baseball) ,

 

look at

 

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewIt...item=3019997233

 

I also have all my PAL 2600 carts on ebay and many ATARI XEGS carts such as Airball , Rescue on Fractalus , Lode Runner , Crime Buster and more - these games are NTSC and PAL compatible and have English manuals , ATARI never made special European versions.

 

Thimo

[Which game is the "Joystick-Killer " #1 ?]

I´d say Activision´s Decathlon , just killed another Joystick with this game.

 

Especially "Quickshot" Joysticks won´t survive this game , but the last joystick "killed" was a CX-24.

 

The only Joystick that survived this game for years is the almost indestructible Competion Pro , I don´t know if this one was available outside of Europe , I think it was made in the UK.

 

Another games that can "kill" a Joystick (by playing them and not by causing so much frustration that the player throws the Joystick away - btw. the Competion Pro even survived that ...)

 

Thimo

[CX-24 Joystick problem]

Got some CX-24 Joysticks which don´t work - always moving down or to the left.

 

Anyone has schematics for the CX-24 ?

 

I want to repair them properly so that they´ll work forever (or the after the next game of Decathlon).

 

Thimo

[Anyone looks at "foreign ebays" ?]

I do but most of the time I get pissed off because either the seller doesn't take PayPal or money orders and/or doesn't ship to the U.S. !

 

And when they do (like you), they use cheap ass bubble envelopes that nearly 100% of the time assure that boxed games are crushed when they arrive.  

 

The paypal problem is the fault of ebay , they did not manage to give European users a good payment system since credit cards are not so common here.

If they´de allow to use normal bank accounts ,then everyone could use paypal , but not much happened at paypal.de in the last 2 years !

 

And I now use real packages , usually old PC Euro Boxes for sending stuff - I could not know that your postman is Rambo , but this won´t happen again - although it may be a little more expensive to send stuff becasue of the weight (250g max , no problem with the usual ATARI carts weighing about 100g , but a boxed BASIC Programming weighs 230g ...).

 

So this would not happen again and cannot happen with big packages , because I usually use original ATARI 6-packs.

 

You may buy another Fatal Run , this game would not be damaged in a PC Eurobox , I now have hundreds of these boxes , boxes of crappy PC games which I can sell for 1.- on ebay in the Jewel Case , so that no one needs the Euro Box (most people throw it away,anyway).

 

Thimo

[Doom doesn´t work on certain Jaguars ?]

I´ve bought my Jaguar in 1994 and all games work fine except Doom , this one crashes soon after the Start.

 

Not just one cart , all Dooms won´t work.

 

I´ve heard that there is something different in the early PAL Jaguars , since my uncle bought a Jaguar a little later and Doom just works fine on his system.

 

No other cart crashes on my system , and the CD games work , too.

 

Or is there anything special in a Doom cart ???

 

Thimo

["best" sprite on an ATARI 2600 ?]

You know , on an ATARI 800 , you may use all players and missiles for one large sprite or one multicolor sprite with added colors.

 

I want to know if it is possible to create a good-looking multicolor sprite an the 2600 - which is the max. size if you don´t use playfield graphics , just players and missiles.

 

I want to use a part of the screen for a static sprite, but this is far more difficult on the 2600 than on the 800.

 

Would it be possible to use a 16*16 sprite (that means 2 players with 8 pixel wide in best resolution) and use the missiles as overlay to add details ? I want to use high resolution , is it still possible to change colors each line ? (without using playfield / and with no sprite multiplexing).

 

It´s important that the graphics does not flicker...

 

Thimo

[Anyone looks at "foreign ebays" ?]

I mean other ebay sites than www.ebay.com - for example ebay UK , ebay France , ebay Germany/Swiss/Austria or maybe Asian ebay sites if there are any ?

 

Maybe it´s possible to find stuff there for a lower price than in the US - or you may sell stuff there for a higher price .

 

For example on ebay.de/ebay.at/ebay.ch , you´ll get more money for Commodore 64 games,since the C64 was very popular in Germany.

The C64 disk/cart games usually get more bids here - interesting are the US versions of Electronic Arts,Activision,SSI games etc. - which usually have better boxes than European versions.

 

The AMIGA was also very popular in Europe - especially UK and Germany , maybe Scandinavia and some games are really valuable.

 

But you won´t sell Sinclair games on ebay.de , since the Sinclair computers were only popular in England and Spain AFAIK - offer Spectrum games on ebay England and you may get more money for them.

 

You may also sell Nintendo/SNES or PSX role-playing games or others on European ebays,since they never made it to Europe - for example SNES Final Fantasy II and III , Chronotrigger,Mario Rpg or PSX Chrono Chross and others.Every collector has one or more adaptors (like me).

 

For ATARI gamers it might be interesting that some rare ATARI 2600 games are common in PAL countries - for example Spectravideo games like Master Builder.

 

Or ATARI 8 Bit games - the cart games like Crystal Castles are more common in Europe , I bought mine for 20 DM a few years ago , new and shrinkwrapped.You may also find lots of Tape-games especially in the UK , games by Zeppelin or Mastertronic.

 

Or you may find lots of Polish ATARI 8 Bit game which should be not common in the US.

 

US sellers may sell on European ebays , since all 2600 NTSC games usually work on PAL TVs , but not all 7800er games (the 5200 was not released in Europe).All NTSC 800 games seem to work fine except the artifacting problem.

 

Thimo

[Modern hard disk in Mega STE ?]

Anyone knows which drives are compatible to a MEGA STE ?

 

I still use my old 48MB HD , but after about 12 years , it gets more and more bad sectors and it´s time to replace it before nothing works anymore.

 

Can I use normal SCSI drives ?

 

I know that AMIGAs (I have an A1200) can use modern IDE drives with up to 4Gbyte without problems , but for bigger ones you need a new OS or some patch.

 

Is this the same on the ATARI ST ?

 

I don´t wand to get a big drive , maybe 1-2 Gbyte , this is enough for an ST with its small programs - compared to the huge PC programs.Never had a game with more than 5 disks on the ST , I think the one with 5 disks was Space Ace and this one isn´t really good ...

 

Thimo

[Dungeon Master Java]

You know , "Dungeon Master" is one of the great ATARI ST classic games.

 

Someone has made some kind of remake for JAVA , called Dungeon Master JAVA (it´s Freeware) , this is a very "open" game , because it comes with an editor and it is possible to use own graphics.

 

(You may even find new graphic sets when you use google and look for Dungeon Master).

 

Since it is written in Java , it should work on all platforms with a JAVA port - that includes LINUX and AMIGA etc.

 

Is there a JAVA port for the ATARI ST /TT or Falcon ?

 

If you know Dungeon Master,this game does not require big 3D gfx cards , it uses step-by-step 3D graphics , but the this is no "real 3D".

 

Should work on a VGA compatible ST , I think.

 

Thimo

[PAL on a NTSC 2600?]

Are the colors wrong when you use PAL games on NTSC systems ?

 

When I play for example a sports game like International Soccer or Super Challenge Baseball , everything that should be green is now blue.

 

This can look quite funny in some games.

 

Thimo

[Anyone interested in Quelle games ?]

I may get large qts. of Quelle games.

 

Quelle distributed many ATARI 2600 games in the 80s - AFAIK most of the games are pirated , but some are hacks and may be interesting for collectors.

 

All the games are PAL versions ,made somewhere in Taiwan or somewhere else in Asia.

 

Would it be interesting to sell these games in the US via ATARIAGE - as original PAL versions ?

 

Or would it be better to add an extra NTSC version /to change the ROM to NTSC ?

 

Since most of the games are pirated, these games would be more interesting for collectors than for players so that it should not matter if they´re PAL or NTSC ?

 

But some of the games may be unique , non-pirated games , these may be interesting for players , too.

 

Maybe some people are interested in the carts , in the PCBs of the carts , too.

 

I may also get several ATARI - made games , but most of these games are so common that nobody would be interested in PAL versions anyway - or anyone needs PAL Pacmans or PAL Double Dunks ?

 

It may also be possible that they still have other games , for example games by ITT or other European companies , don´t know it.

 

BTW : I may also get CX-78 Pads , which were very common in Europe , since ATARI sold 2 of them together with the 2600jr and usually the 32-in-1 cart ; also sold the 7800 with them.

 

I don´t like them very much , but I want to ask if anyone would be interested in them.People I know prefer the CX-40 , or the CX-24 or the Competion Pro (which was not made by ATARI)

 

Thimo Graef

[What do you think of PC versions of classic games ?]

Most of them are a pain in the ass to run... usually you need to use a program like Moslo to slow down your computer (and usually you have to keep guessing to find a proper speed), and even then, not all games can be slowed down properly. For the life of me, I cannot get Montezuma's Revenge to play with Moslo... all the enemies still move super-fast despite my 200MHz Pentium running at 1% speed. Also, many of the games do weird things, such as providing no way to exit the game (I guess they assumed you would just shut your computer off), or using bizarre key schemes. The graphics are often bad (4-color CGA), but that's not usually a big issue when playing such old games. PC speaker sound is not really a big deal, since it's not that big a downgrade.

 

--Zero

 

Because of this problem I still have my old 80286 AT , most games are quite playable on this system.

 

Or I can play them on the AMIGA (1200) emulating a PC , this is really slow , but good for games which are too fast on the 80286.

 

The biggest problem is that most of the games don´t have the "feeling" of the arcade/console versions and that CGA colors look extremely ugly.

 

And many games don´t support joysticks and playing with the keyboard is bad , too.

 

Thimo

[What do you think of PC versions of classic games ?]

There are PC versions of many old , classic games - for example the ATARISOFT games like Dig Dug,Moon Patrol,Pacman and Ms.Pacman , Donkey Kong and more.

 

Or a PC version of the classic Montezuma´s Revenge , or Burgertime etc.

 

And many more.

 

These games still work an today´s PCs (some need slow motion programs or are too fast) , the original disks are non-DOS boot-disks , but usually 5.25" , file versions work with DOS.

 

The games are in CGA mode and use Speaker sound.

 

What do you think of the PC versions of such old games ?

 

Thimo

[Anyone likes Roc ´n´ Rope]

I think this game is quite good , although the Coleco version looks much better.

 

But Roc n Rope on the ATARI 2600 seems to use lots of scanlines , so on some TVs it doesn´t work - this is a little bit weird.I have the PAL version of the game as Salu - re-released version , you know the version with black/white label and "cheaper" looking manual.These versions are very common in PAL countries , since the ATARI 2600 jr was sold for a long time in Europe/Australia.

 

BTW : There also is a "clone" for the ATARI 8 Bit called "Tales of Dragons & Cavemen" by AMC , which was quite good.I don´t know if it was available outside of Europe.

[ET in decent box... IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND!]

Don´t understand this - I have lots of new,shrinkwrapped ET´s - seems that ATARI sold a lot of these in Europe.They ´re in 100% perfect condition.

 

All the ET´s I have are NTSC versions , although they´re in European boxes - they work fine on PAL systems,but the colors are not correct.

 

I also several other ATARI games new in box , some NTSC , some PAL , you may ask for a list or look at the marketplace...

 

Thimo

[Rare Pal]

I would also say that Donkey Kong is hard to find. I only have it loose. Donkey Kong JR on the other hand is dirt common.

 

 

Jobf.

 

All the Donkey Kong jr. I´ve seen here in Germany are NTSC versions - is there a true PAL version or only this NTSC version with the added French manual ?

 

Thimo

[Decathlon crashes on 6-switch 2600 ?]

Don´t know why this happens :

 

Decathlon - which works fine on a 2600jr or a 2600 with 4 switches - crashes on a 6-switch 2600 the same way as on a 7800 :

 

You see the game for about 1 second and then a black screen.

 

This isn´t just one cart , all my Decathlon carts don´t work.I know that this game is incompatible to the 7800 , but why does it not work with an old 6-switch 2600 system ?

 

This is the SALU /HES reproduction , PAL , of the game.Did they change something ? All my systems are PAL ...

 

On the 7800 no Decathlon carts will work , not the Salu version,not the Activision PAL , not the NTSC version.

 

Is this a problem of the game or something wrong with the console ?

 

Thimo

[Is Dschungel Boy a hack of Pitfall ?]

I remember this old Quelle game Dschungel Boy (btw. the name is half German half English - correct would be Jungle Boy).

 

It was similar to Pitfall an AFAIK Quelle sold several pirate games , so anyone knows if this game is a hack of Pitfall or a just a clone programmed by someone else ?

 

Thimo

[Fractals on the Jaguar.]

Has anyone ever considered making a good Fractal generating program for the Jaguar? My friend got me interested in them years ago. Although I do not yet know much about the math behind them I would love to use the Jag to explore them. This could probably be a good project for  a new developer to learn to use the Jags hardware (with input from experienced developer). If there was a program like this on CD I would buy it in a minute.    

 

The math is very simple - the Mandelbrot-Fractal is based on the formula f(x)=x*x+c .

 

You don´t need division , just addition/subtraction and multiplication.

 

It is so easy , that it can be written in BASIC on any 8 Bit system with enough RAM.

 

But since it uses iteration it can take very long to create some "deeper" fractals , even on a modern PC - but with some clever tables and maybe not 100% exact calculating it should be possible on a Jaguar.

 

Thimo