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    Very cool, thanks for bringing yet another game to the Lynx! I'm curious which language you have coded it in, I'd love to develop for the Lynx myself eventually. I think it would be cool if there was a collection of smaller homebrew games on one cartridge that we could buy.

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    Ever see Zaku for the Lynx? It's a pretty cool game.

     

    The only downside to the Lynx is you're stuck cutting your face on 6502 assembly.

     

    C doesn't work so good on those. It does on the Amiga.

     

    Yeah, I have Zaku and like it a lot. It reminds me of a Treasure game for the GBA a bit. I intend on learning 6502 ASM eventually anyway, but I'm pretty sure C is still a usable language for writing simple games on the Lynx. The recent Frogger clone "Little Green Quak Quak" is written in C, and I would be happy enough writing a game of that complexity for the Lynx. I don't know C yet either, having only coded in Amiga E so far, but I don't think it would be too hard to learn.

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    I like quite a few Mac games from back when our family computer was a Mac and my only Amiga was a CD32. Now I play those Mac games on my Amiga 1200, like SimTower, Warcraft II, Theme Park, Prince of Persia II, Sim Farm, The Settlers II and more. The advantage of playing them on the Amiga is not only do they run at full speed (since there's no CPU emulation involved) but I can also multitask with several applications or games in AmigaOS at the same time. I'd recommend just getting a better Amiga than your A500 and use it to play games designed for both systems (and Atari ST too since that's another easy one for the Amiga to emulate).

  7. Posted · Edited by Moya Jackie

    Such a nice looking game and an incredible feat for a single person, congratulations on your work! I would love to order a copy and play it but I don't have an Atari Falcon. I was wondering if you would consider an Amiga port? I think it would be possible to make a game like this run even on a standard CD32, if not then any AGA Amiga with 2MB or more extra RAM should be suitable. There are even similar games which run on the 1MB CDTV, and personally if I were to make a game like this (which I've wanted to do for years after being inspired by Myst and The Labyrinth of Time)I'd make two versions of the game for CD32 and CDTV on the same disc, the code would be practically the same but the graphics for the CDTV version would be reduced to 320x480 in 4,096 colours.

     

    Can you tell us what language you coded it in? I'm only curious because I like to consider how it would be ported to different platforms, it's something I'd like to do myself very much.

     

    I have a Playstation and Dreamcast as well so I'd be interested in purchasing the game for those platforms too.

  9. Posted

    A copy of Kung Food I had only had for a few days after buying it brand new in the box stopped working. It would load the title screen and go no further. I also recently picked up a second-hand copy of Blue Lightning and it only works sometimes, I have to insert it a few times before it'll work. I always clean second-hand cartridges when I get them with a pencil erasor, and often in the past it has fixed non-working cartridges. It didn't fix this Blue Lightning one, so I might see if removing part of the bottom of the sticker helps.

  10. Posted

    My copy arrived today, I'm so happy! It's the best game, feels a bit like Treasure's Gameboy Advance games, I love the presentation! I only wish that Option 2 could fire the boot blasters like Option 1 does because I like to use the bottom fire buttons on my Lynx II in regular right-handed mode.

  11. Posted

    I spent $25 on a bottle of this stuff to try and get the scratches out of my Lynx II screen, but unfortunately it just made the scratch show up a lot more when the screen was turned on, like it sparkles and refracts the pixel light behind it or something. It did help remove the mild fogging that was around the plastic though, but it just made the scratches worse which is disappointing.

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    I also recently bought two of these Power Paks. I used my Lynx AC adapter to charge it for the full 12 hours. I waited patiently all day, and after the time was up I plugged it into my Lynx II and played a game. After about twenty minutes the power light started flashing, and it wasn't long after when the battery was completely drained.

     

    I was pretty disappointed, because it's a neat looking accessory and more comfortable for me since the regular 6-D battery pack is too huge to clip onto my skirt and I don't wear pants and my handbag is like a small pouch. I'm interested to know how to change the battery inside the Power Pak with a new one.

  19. Posted

    It seems like the pins were randomly put in game boxes, but the two boxes I have received with pins in them both had a sticker on the front proclaiming a pin or pins inside. My copy of Robo Squash came with just a "Lynx" pin.

  21. Posted

    I'm sorry for resurrecting an old thread but I have been thinking about this lately and there is some good discussion here about the subject. I also always wondered if there was a mascot character for the Lynx, and if there was why they never made a game about it. I was searching for Atari Lynx stuff on eBay and I came across this auction for a "Rare Atari Lynx Mascot Pin" with a little Lynx character wearing a t-shirt who reminds me a lot of Bubsy the Bobcat. So I did some more searching and found a second pin, this one the same character but the text on his t-shirt was clearer. It says "Lynx Optique" and appears to be unrelated to anything Atari.

     

    So I was wondering, does anyone know who this character is? I think he looks almost perfect for a video game mascot character. In fact I'd like to design a new Lynx mascot platform game and take inspiration from this pin for the main character. I don't think it's too late for a mascot character game, and we've learned a lot over the years about what makes a good platform game and what doesn't quite work.

     

    Here are the two pins so you can see what I'm talking about:

     

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    Another thing I've been thinking about lately is trying to make a Mario Kart-style game for the Lynx. If we were to make such a game, who should the assorted characters be? I think it'd be cool if they were mostly from existing Lynx games, as well as maybe introducing a few of our own new ones (like this new mascot character for example). I can imagine karts with Gordo, Louie and Scraps, Pounce, maybe a character or two from Gauntlet... who else do you guys think would be suitable for a Lynx Karts type game?

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  23. Posted

    Hello there! I'm an amateur game designer with lots of ideas and dreams, and a bit of experience making my own games and levels. I also still play the original Doom a lot, I'm a bit of a retro gamer and love working with limitations, and have always wanted to make a simplistic first person shooter. Is this the kind of game you'd like to make? Or perhaps you're more interested in some sort of 3D RPG dungeon-crawler? In any case, I'm very interested in helping out! My friend is a pixel artist who specializes in low-res, 12bit 16 colour artwork and would love to help out too. I'm just speaking for him for now since he hasn't signed up on the forum yet but intends to. We both have Lynxes and a Flashcart should be arriving any day now so we can test the game on real hardware.

  25. Posted

    I finally got my first Lynx pins which came bundled with Zarlor Mercinary. I was so lucky to get this one, my friend's copy didn't come with any pins and we both bought sealed copies from the same seller online. So I got the Zarlor Mercinary pin and an Atari Lynx pin, and both have a smooth, shiny back side to them.

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