Marius

I did not see it either. I love Qix!

Did you manage to do this or is the previously shared table updated?

503049 also started from 0 points this time. My wrist and left hand hurt like crazy haha. But totally worth it. What a game... WHAT A GAME!!

AVG, cart with amazing features, really could use some esthetically updates. Side loader is milestones ahead when it comes to User Interface and looks. I never scroll through windows, but simply type a keyword or part of that, so I don't care for screens with more titles listed. Search facility on Side loader is really fast. On a cf or sd card with thousands of titles 24 lines is still not much... Why did you post that comparison?

If we need to start at 0, no problem for me. I am still trying to improve my last score. Although I did not succeed yet, I still love this game SO MUCH. Millipede is so much cooler than Centipede.

For a very long time I had the same opinion. But at a certain point I really "needed" SDX. I believe that was when I wanted to use The Last Word on a harddisk partition (and no, I won't start using mydos!). First is was slightly more complicated than the average atari 8bit DOS, but once things are setup right, it works.... VERY WELL. To be honest, I find it one of the most compatible DOS'es for little Atari, and it is extremely versatile. There are actually 3 Dos'es I use most: 1. SDX 2. SpartaDos 3.3a 3. XDOS 2.4 by Stefan Dorndorf. The "fun" is that my main SDX partition (let's call that D1:) is a 16MB partition that boots SpartaDos 3.3a when SDX is not active. So SDX and SpartaDos 3.3a share the same partition. On a SIO only system, I prefer using XDOS. Really nice DOS with quite some cool adjustable settings.

Nice to have you here!

Best is to type here what is printed on the biggest chip, or better a detailed pic of that chip so people can read the label. It is quite common part so probably easy to flash. Ps. Please make also pic of sio2ide you have.

When it comes to flashing, I do not know anymore. I remember I flahsed my Atmega's using an external flasher. But there was (IIRC) on my sio2IDE a header.... I made back then a cable using a printer cable (still if I remember correctly). wasn't it an AVR header?

Yeah, but that is the (for Pal systems fixed) version of 1984. There is also a 1983 version, which has equal gameplay but does not show the scores of the spiders and the DDT looks slightly different. There are also two cart versions; there also does exist a 1984 cart version, which is equal to the file version. I applied the Fandal fix on that ROM.

Haha what a fun idea!

What I find very interesting in this game, is the fact that every crawling creature has it's own sound. This makes the game so funny for nut just visual but also audio senses. A few tips in this game: 1. The beetles with the prrrrrrrr sound do never come at the max left or max right position. So if you want to be in a relative safe spot when these approach you, pick that position. 2. Keeping the fire button pushed down is in most of the cases the best choice. But... beware the 'intervals' of the shooting can be risky when you approach the spiders, so better release the fire button then. 3. If you are in a swarm and you expect yourself to die there, look at your score. If you have lives enough left (so you can afford to lose one) and you are very close to getting a new life, choose for a kamikaze action. If you die with your score so close to a new life, you'll recover with the bonus life. If you die just after you received your bonus life then it might take too long before you get another life. 4. Try to learn (if you did not yet) the different sounds of every creature. I find it extremely helpful. 5. If a swarm is almost there (the game runs in cycles) make sure you have killed enough mushrooms around the DDT. As soon as the swarm start, shoot the DDT. It results in lots of points, AND it gives you for a few seconds a safe lane under where the DDT was. Stay there and the swarm will recover from DDT and then you have excellent position for shooting more of the insects. (Beware for the spiders though who are always in the swarms) 6. If no swarm is expected soon, shoot all the DDT's as well. Give quite some points! And did you notice that DDT increases the points you get for what you kill with DDT? I am still not sure, but it seems that killing a spider on a short position from DDT with the DDT results in 1800 points for that spider. It is always during a very short time visible that score, but I believe it says 1800.... wow! Well If I have more tips, I'll let you know. This is by far my most favorite and played atari 8bit game ever.

I always start with 30.000. I think these starting scores do not make much sense anyway. You can maintain max. 6 lives (no more bonus lives above these 6) so when you manage to keep 6 lives around 100.000, 200.000 or 300.000 points (max start score) it wouldn't even matter that much to me personally if one uses 300.000 as start point every time. But not every participant in the HSC reaches 300.000 points, so perhaps it is best to start with 30000 points every time.

Getting on fire.... 469301

NO THIS ONE DOES NOT COUNT (!!) But I was so proud of this score, I had to share it. Last month I played Millipede and I had quite an amazing score and shared it on WhatsApp with my Friend @Thelen. I also pointed him in the direction of this HSC. I hope he will join. But I will have to do some practice to get over this personal record. Since I did not play this one in this HSC round, it should NOT be counted.

Enjoy your weekend!

Wow amazing score! Very nice! I will still have a hard time winning this game... but I am motivated and if I don't win, it doesn't matter, since it still will mean I played millipede!

And please let me say THANK YOU SO MUCH! all for voting for this game. I have been 'begging' a lot for this one, so I am extremely thankful and pleased with it. Let us have some fun!

This game is actually the only game I consider my self a "master" in (and Ms. Pac-Man and Pac-Man Arcade as good second and third). I love Millipede though. It is all these years my absolute number #1. If there were no other games left, but millipede, I still would keep my Atari. It is amazing how much fun this game is.

The most important thing with Sio2IDE (well, the version I use -> 3.3) is that you need to defragment the CF card. If you format it and you copy all the files in one move, if everything works right the cart does not need to be defragmented. You do not need any files, but there needs to be a ini file (not sure though from memory whether it is called SIO2IDE.INI) ... in every directory there needs to be such a file. I will have to look for the exact filename. The Config program is called FDISK. I wrote years ago (2009 or so) a tool called S2ITOOL. It is only tested with the Sio2IDE 3.3 ... it makes it much more convenient to mount atr's and browse through folders. There is also the jukebox program. Sio2IDE is pretty obsolete these days, but it is still a cool little device. The successor with the USB port was not my favorite version. It had not a nice D1: D2: swap, which I loved on the 3.3 version.

Ok the best game ever!! 348042 and this is just a warming up

Hey @therealbountybob is there a chance you missed my 1st city lost score here?

Hopefully my last word on this matter (Lol, I also say this to myself...) If someone bought a cart from @video61atarisales, and he or she is not satisfied with the purchase, or experiences other issues. Please contact Lance from Video61 first, and he will work it out with you. There has been said enough about this matter. Atari 8bit is a lot of fun, and it is a loss to let negativity throw a shadow on the fabulous computer hobby. Happy Atari 8bit wishes to all of you! Marius

I noticed a while back someone posting a picture of a 'fake' device. Can't remember whether it was SIDE2 or U1MB, but it was an clone indeed. I responded to that post that it felt wrong that someone did this. I got a pretty annoyed and abusive answer. Pity that people do not simply buy the hardware. It is not that you or Lotharek make a fortune out of it. Good that you write about these things on the forum. I wished it wasn't necessary.

Grmbl when I typed my enthusiastic please-let-it-be-Millipede post, it was the only one with 6 votes (IIRC though)....