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Are there any EPROM files available for Epson or Star Dot Matrix printers so that they would be able to print Cyrillic characters?
I would like to use my Atari 8bit as a distraction-free learning environment and printing word lists.
But next to the challenge to make the a8 operate on Cyrillic (I can type it without looking at the keys on my Mac) I do not worry about the Qwerty keyboard of the atari.
But the next challenge is to print it... and since my Dot Matrix printers do have an international font, but only for accents, I was wondering whether there would be complete ROM updates for these Cyrillic characters available.
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Wow this turns out to be an amazing topic!
Nice to read about the problem I described, and I keep my fingers crossed for fixed.
I remember I used BW DOS also quite a lot in the beginning of the MyIDE developed by @mr-atari when I had not the MyBIOS in Rom yet. Man, what a wonderful time was that. Using MyIDE with a booted OS from floppy disk and then booting BEWEDOS partitions from the MyIDE interface. It was a wonderful time. I used it quite a lot.
I am so happy to see that BEWEDOS is still alive (or alive again).
Speaking of the author... in the AssKicker Demo there is this hidden part. That demo was also written by him. I love that demo. Nice tune and such a funny story about those multitasking effects. Also very nice to see the Bewesoft LOGO in the scroller.
Greetz
Marius
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I have been using this DOS for a while in the past. It worked very nice, but... I had one serious issue with it. I was using it on a bigger partition and I use my Atari a lot for some kind of 'productive' work (writing txt's in a distraction free environment) and I experienced that the version of BW DOS I used was extremely slow when it comes to updating or replacing/overwriting existing files. It took even that long that sometimes I was afraid that my partition was 'screwed up'. That was the main reason I decided to move (back) to the disk version of SpartaDos.
Anyone else who experiences this? It might be fixed in newer versions of BW DOS? I had pretty full partitions, so I am not sure whether it is something that is easy to test on a new/fresh partition.
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Ok Dinky and I played on Expert level 2 player game! Went pretty well! The higher levels are very cool!
Dinky2008: 149100 Marius: 141850
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Well for me there is no need to make this round any longer. It was fun, but let's move on and let's vote in a poll.
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@therealbountybob We already played on Skilled together. But we were curious about Novice and we did want to play it. We already shared our 2 player scores on Skilled but we were amazed by our 400k scores and the fact that we had so many lives left that we probably would habe gone on forever haha.
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Dinky and I played also in 2 player game on Novice level just for the fun.
Here she is also much better than me. We stopped the game because we were getting little bit bored.
Dinky2008: 454350
Marius: 400400
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Dinky and I played also in 2 player game.
She is overall much more skilled than I am in this game.
Dinky2008 136050
Marius 121550
We played on Skilled Level.
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Joust - skilled 207000
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This is not my most favorite game. But, together with DInky it is also nice to play. This result was on my own.
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9 hours ago, adam242 said:
Enduro was already ported to the 8-bits, it's called The Great American Cross Country Road Race.
But seriously, thank you for this! Thanks to you, glurk, phaeron and others we are amassing quite a collection of 2600 ports.
Still hoping someone would take on Dark Cavern and/or Pressure Cooker...
No! The games have actually a lot in common but they have a rather different gameplay and goal. I love both games, but the more simple concept of Enduro has always been something that I missed a lot on a8.
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Sorry for bumping an old thread... but is there anyone here who knows how to jump to a level without having to play all the previous levels? I play this game together with my daughter but every day we have to start at scene A.
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Millipede 387623
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Getting warmed up! But this game is every time so cool again!
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Still a fabulous game! I will have to work a little harder to get to my previous hi-score! This is my all time favorite game!
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On 3/22/2023 at 8:52 PM, McKong said:
I really like it too, but I don't particularly like WarHawk, each to their own I suppose
Of course! My question was not meant to say something about the person who likes the game of course, and people are -OF COURSE- free to like what they want, that was not even the subject of my comment.
I love games on Atari 8bit, but in very general I could devide games in two categories. The games where one clearly dies of human fault during the game, and the games where you die because the gamelay isn't as smooth or too sensitive for losing a life (think of the problems in the 2600 E.T. game is an example of such a category)
The fact that people get much higher scores than my daughter and I get in this game, is definitely some proof that the problem is with us and not particularly with the game. Obviously it has some learning curve. But still, there are quite a lot very good games around where managing to get a grip on the controls (as a player) develops rather well without explicitly taking care of thinking or developing these skills as a game player. In Dawn Raider the fact that the game gives instruction after losing a life to find a safe spot suggests to me that the coder simply had no room left in the code (or lacked the skill?) Or perhaps had another reason to do this, but it is not a very pretty solution either (to my taste). It's like you have to do something that the game should take care of. And I feel the same about the controls in this game. When mastering the controls in a game is something you like, then I totally agree that this could be a fun game. But for me it is like I am focusing not on the game at all, but all I do is preventing to make a mistake and preventing myself for getting some frustration from the controls.
I think this is an interesting subject in general. And I am very aware that it is just my opinion, not facts.
There are quite some games with a somehow slightly stubborn control. For instance: I love Donkey Kong really a lot, but the control to get on the stairs is -especially for beginners- not very smooth. In The Goonies same thing. I love that game sooooo much. But only because as a kid I have invested seriously hundreds of not thousands hours of time to master the controls. I forgot that. But now when I see a novice player struggling with these controls again I dare to say that the controls are slightly "picky" .. coded too sensitive, or perhaps simply not coded in the best possible way.
It is a matter of taste, yes. But I can appreciate it when the controls are so well coded that I simply don't think about the controls and simply can focus on the game.
And yes: that endless shooting in Warhawk is annoying as well. It is now more a challenge who has the best wrist and hand haha. At the end of Warhawk I need 10 minutes or more before my hand finally wants to function again haha. That is also pretty ehm... odd.
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I really don't understand how you can be so positive about this game @therealbountybob? The game is so sensitive in controls and the chances to die are too big too my taste.
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Oh haha I thought I broke my record haha
Well I didn't...
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Bad idea. At least try to cooperate with Stephen J. Carden. The whole express net Networking system (which is AWESOME) depends on the fact that all nodes are unique.
Messages can travel between Pro boards. You even can see where a message has been before it reached the board where you are reading the post.
When there will come a wild growth of Pro boards where people have no idea of this and node #'s will be no longer unique, this rather brilliant technique won't work again.
So please don't release a hacked version of Pro and instead contact Carden.
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Does this round run till Wednesday March, 29th? 8pm GMT?
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498743 my hand needs an amputation!
No crash with a different loader, same xex file so probably problem solved!
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Problem... I was in (IIRC) stage 6 or 7 and I got 392529 points but then the game stopped working.
There didn't come anymore enemies but the game did not go further.... and it stayed on the screen you see in the picture.
My hand is dead now, but I have to say the game is very playable with manual fire. I don't know how to auto fire? Is that possible with a special joystick?
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On 3/16/2023 at 2:41 PM, therealbountybob said:
We'll go back to regular classic action on the next poll, suggestions still welcome on the games list thread
Try and get a set of paddles everyone as we will run a paddles games round soon too - though several of the games also support joystick mode
I love paddle games!
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Printing Cyrillic (Ukrainian or Russian) txt's with a dot matrix printer
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I got this reply on Facebook as well! I am going to test this now.
Is it possible to design printer-drivers for Panther. It might not work out of the box on my Epson. I also can not remember that I had this list of printers in my Panther setup...