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i know its controversial to post c64 stuff on here but i also know that quite a few of you have played our other atari 2600 conversions so here is the vid of the latest one.

c64 conversion of the Kitchen brother's 2600 game has gone beta

beta version has just gone to the testers

Hi, our latest activision conversion to the c64 Crackpots is nearing the test phase and we are looking for some experienced 2600 version players willing to test the c64 version in Vice.

the c64 art reduced to the same 5 colours with plenty of scope at the top of the screen for some creative colour rastering above the column tops to give the illusion of more colour.

the DLI demo... there appears to be more that 4 colours in that as the raster effect is thru one grey but not another?

yeah the backgrounds are basically 4 colour plus effects on anything but the bedroom art and title screens are very much "free pixelled" so i would guess the c64 art would convert to 4 colours easier because the c64 palette has 3 luminosity levels plus black so any given colour will convert to either light, medium, or dark plus black which would be handy in converting it to 4 colour atari bitmap. the beeb has no such luminosity and all its colours are full on rgb so converting it will be more painstaking.

when you get to the cutscene stages, if any of the c64 art would be of use as a base, PM me, its probably alot easier to convert the c64 stuff to 4 colours and add colours by raster than it will be to decipher the pixel dither patterns of the beeb colours.

you can indeed push and hold and the little guy will pogo up and down the screen yes.

last post on the subject... proper gameplay video:

gameplay video

a gameplay video of it

Pressure Cooker is next

the igloo door flashes at only at night as its quite apparent in the daylight mode when a large black hole appears on the white igloo but not so much in the night mode, so it flashes then.

Just a heads up to say the c64 conversion of Frostbite has been released and is now available free from: https://csdb.dk/release/index.php?id=183742&fbclid=IwAR0iXZVo1MwnarlpjWA5XhTs5iMM_Mp-5nq9VBOH5GTOfpXgCHwbeE65sXw

just a heads up to say and c64 users amongst you can now get Frostbite for that machine from here free. https://csdb.dk/release/index.php?id=183742&fbclid=IwAR0iXZVo1MwnarlpjWA5XhTs5iMM_Mp-5nq9VBOH5GTOfpXgCHwbeE65sXw

cheers guys. heres links to youtube vids of the conversions if you are interested.

Bob Whitehead, the Kitchen brothers and Steve Cartwright. a small group of us are doing c64 conversions of early activision games that were never ported back in the day. so far we have done Chopper Command and Keystone Kapers and are shortly to release Frostbite followed by Pressure Cooker. facebook messages from none friends being the appalling mess that is is, we are looking for people already on their friends list with a view to informing them about the projects and hopefully getting their blessing for this not for profit venture. any help would be appreciated.

game features are in and being tested and tweaked. Awaiting sound and FX

latest wip

Tony will as usual release the source code for this like he has with Keystone Kapers and Chopper Command. so one of your A8 coders could convert this.

yeah ok we can do that too. WIP

apparently thats a small raster glitch. it will be fixed for the 1.1 release on the compilation cartridge

pressing the left arrow key on a real c64 or the key to the left of the number 1 on vice will toggle the music on and off.

thats very strange, as the game as been reviewed by multiple indie retro review youtube sites which you can google and pretty much every one of them has praised Saul Cross's music and been singing along with it as they play. each to his own i suppose.