tep392

I'll see if I can figure out what is going on. Unfortunately I've been so busy lately that I haven't been able to do much play testing. The graphics engine was limited to 8x10 sprites so I had to do a little hacking to make the double height pac in the intermission. I should be able to figure it out. Something that might surprise people is that it appears 7800 Ms. Pacman was built directly off of this version. I've been able to use the 7800 source code to help me figure out the how the 8-bit version works. While the graphics code is completely different, the game engine, monster logic, etc. is about 95%, line by line identical. The variable tables are also virtually the same.

I'm planning to add high score save using the Atarimax flash cart, but it will only be the high score. No initials. My vision for this is for it to replicate the look and feel of the arcade original, which did not allow entering ones initials, as far as I can tell. The other mazes and game versions are not in the plans either. Thanks for the suggestion though.

I'll put the "start with firebutton" feature on my todo list. Thanks for the suggestion.

Thanks! I'll try those out on the CRT to see out they look.

Here's an xex to try out. There were a couple tricks Atari through in for copy protection, but I've found those so now it can run out of RAM. pacman.xex

I've played around with the triangle thing but never got it to sound right. I remember hearing your sample and it sounds great, I just havn't been able to recreate it. Please let me know if you ever find the source code.

Cafeman, I don't know much about the SIO devices, but the Atarimax flash cart do bank switch. The problem is that they have the fixed and banked regions opposite of what the XEGS carts have. When I ported your 5200 code I actually made two versions, one for XEGS banking and one for Atarimax, which was the version I used for hardware testing. I gave you the XEGS version because it would work with the boards available for producing 64k carts for sale on AA.

Hi All. Here's a version of Pac-man I've been working on. It's not complete yet, but it's far enough along to let people try out and get feedback. It's built off of Ms. Pacman but heavily modified. I've updated the monster logic and speeds to be a close to the arcade version as possible. I've upgraded the fruit sprites a bit to have two colors. I've also added PAL speed tables so that the characters will move at the same speed on NTSC and PAL machines. There are still a few things I need to work on. - The menu screen is going to be completely changed to look like the arcade version with animations. - I'm adding high score saving that will work with the Atarimax flash cart. - The colors need some tweaking. The file is a 16k bin that should be loaded into your emulator of choice as a standard Atari 16k cart. Let me know what you think. Tep392 edit: 28-Sept-2014 Here are the final shipping versions. The .bin is the full version and can be flashed to a 1mbit Atarimax maxflash cart. I also have official carts available for $30 plus shipping. PM me if interested. PacManArcadeFinalV2.0.rom PacmanFinal.xex

Looks excellent! Works fine in XL mode on the version of Atari800win I'm using. Also, the flashcart version I built a while back worked on both my 400(48k) and 800XL. May just be an issue with the version of your emulator. Perry

The scammer resides (or claims to reside) in the same state where that lot was shipped to, not in the same city - a 1:47 probability from my outside view, as picking one of the contigous 48 states seems a natural choice for a US resident scammer (there may be reasons why scammers prefers a state over others for this kind of fraud, but as I am an ocean away, I wouldn't know it). In the meantime, Mr. Scott was so kind and confirmed the contents of the package are as described in the first auction are still safely in his custody, and took quite a load off my chest with that confirmation. So, if anyone truly thinks that "mtspaceevolvd" actually has a lot that is composed of exactly the same items as the one I purchased two months ago, he may of course place a bid... Now, seriously: you'll most likely get either nothing or a package full of junk (so PayPal won't accept any claim of you that you didn't receive the item) from the current auction. If only there was a way to warn bidders outside of AtariAge... Thorsten Not quite. It's not the probability of him picking Utah. It's the probability of him picking the same state that the item shipped to, so you have to multiply the two probabilities. If you consider the population of Utah is smaller than many other states, the total probability whould be fairly small.

To be more precise, Mr. Scott is a friend of a friend. He contacted me, offered me to take a photograph of the package contents and obviously is a very kind and helpful person. Yet to my utter embarrassment, he feels I accused him of fraud, not "mtspaceevolvd" - apparently I didn't make it clear enough that I - for obvious reasons - suspect "mtspaceevolvd" and do not know who that person is and if he/she even possesses the goods he/she is offering (as Mr. Scott apparently hasn't been robbed during the last months, if noone intercepted the package, it is very unlikely he/she does) - and I thought I had made that clear enough (but as English is not my native language, I am certainly not able to assess that fully). I hereby publicly apologize to him for any possible misinterpretation of my previous postings. Your statement seems pretty clear to me, so if Mr. Scott is reading this and is a reasonable person, he should understand. I have to say thought that I think it's easy to assume something odd happened considering the circumstances. Scammers create fraudulant auctions all the time. But what are the odds that some random scammer would steal that auction description and choose Utah as his fraudulent address, which just happens to be the address of the 3rd party that the real auction shipped to? I think most people would conclude that someone with inside information created that second auction.

Is anybody attending who can video and share with the rest of us? Would be AWSOME to see these games in action.

I don't know about the monitor connection. I use the RF on my 800XL. For loading games, my preference is the Atarimax 8mbit flash carts. They are easy to use and have a nice on screen menu for game selection. The games also load very fast compared to the SIO port solutions. There are several SIO port options that many here use. Some are tethered to a PC for file downloading and others use flash memory cards. The trade off is storage capacity. Depending on how many games you want available, you might need several of the flash carts compared to a single SIO device. I think either the flashcart or a flash based SIO device would be good for use in a stand alone game system, if that is what you have planned.

I'm still getting this glitch on my NTSC 130XE. When I get the "Practice Recommended" message and then push the fire button... It then appears on the title screen as shown. Thanks for catching that. I think this version will fix it. Dropzone_ntsc_ver2.xex

In theory, it should play identically. The game is timed to the screen refresh rate (vertical blank interrupt) so I simply added some code at the start of the VBI to exit early once every 6 screens. The main code section just sits in a loop waiting for the vertical blank code to run. This effectively pauses the game for 1/60 of a second after every 5 frames so there is only 50 loops through the game code per second. I also fixed a glitch that skips the "dropzone" animation and makes the initial screen look like this on NTSC machines.

I was getting frustrated with how fast Dropzone ran on my NTSC machine so I did this little hack to slow the frame rate to PAL's 50hz. Plays much better now. Dropzone_ntsc.xex

I've seriously considered it, but doing the sound was difficult enough with no source code to work with. I'll reconsider adding HSC compatibility if a good debugger ever gets released.

What you suggest will take significant reprogramming of the game. It's discussed thorougly in this thread if you page back a bit.

I didn't realize Scrapyard Dog was hard to find. I bought it shrink wrapped off Ebay last year for $10. Picked up locally. I don't remember having any problems finding one at the time.

I'm pretty sure it was Asteroids. If it was a blue handle I would have ripped it off the wall and ran like a bandit.

Might be but the shell looked perfect. A definite candidate for a board swap.

I forget, but think it was something common like asteroids.

please excuse the poor quality pic. I saw this light sixer screwed to a wall at a local TGI Friday's. I guess the interior designer thought this was a good use for a vintage game system. To make it worse, the shell is in beautiful condition but they destroyed it by driving two huge screws through the top.

Holding the option key is supposed to disable the on board basic. Maybe your option key is bad.

Instructions say to turn whilst holding option and start.