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Heya The Maxx, we'll be featuring No Touchy! LIVE on today's ZeroPage Homebrew stream on Twitch at 6PM PT/9PM ET! I know this is quite an old thread but I hope you can make it to watch the stream as we're also featuring your other game Danny! :-) Twitch Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew/ Other Games Today: - Danny (WIP) by The Maxx - Escape It by accousticguitar - The Gizzle Wap and the Strange Red Tree (WIP) by Jeff Smith EDIT: Here's the archive of the livestream!

Heya The Maxx, we'll be featuring Danny LIVE on today's ZeroPage Homebrew stream on Twitch at 6PM PT/9PM ET! I know this is quite an old thread but I hope you can make it to watch the stream! Twitch Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew/ Other Games Today: - No Touchy! (WIP) by The Maxx - Escape It by accousticguitar - The Gizzle Wap and the Strange Red Tree (WIP) by Jeff Smith EDIT: Here's the archive of the livestream!

Awesome! Thanks so much easmith, I've added it to the list of games to play on the Halloween special on October 31!

It is NOT an easy game, only one of us on the show yesterday could get to level 2!!

Heya Jared! We'll be featuring Lost Cat LIVE on today's ZeroPage Homebrew stream on Twitch at 2PM PT/5PM ET! Who doesn't love a game that involves rescuing a cat, can't wait to play it. :-) Twitch Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew/ Other Games Today: - Kuru Kuru Tsuchinoko (WIP) by mojofltr - Simple Horizontal Shooter (WIP) by Random Terrain - Castle of Doom (WIP) by Chris Read

Heya Random Terrain, we'll be featuring Simple Horizontal Shooter LIVE on today's ZeroPage Homebrew stream on Twitch at 2PM PT/5PM ET! I've always wanted to make a shooter like this and the foundation of a game you have here is amazing, I have so many ideas!! Twitch Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew/ Other Games Today: - Kuru Kuru Tsuchinoko (WIP) by mojofltr - Lost Cat (WIP) by Jared Gray West - Castle of Doom (WIP) by Chris Read

Heya mojofltr, we'll be featuring Kuru Kuru Tsuchinoko LIVE on today's ZeroPage Homebrew stream on Twitch at 2PM PT/5PM ET! Looks like a super fun challenging puzzle game. :-) Twitch Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew/ Other Games Today: - Simple Horizontal Shooter (WIP) by Random Terrain - Lost Cat (WIP) by Jared Gray West - Castle of Doom (WIP) by Chris Read

Heya atari2600land, we'll be featuring Castle of Doom on today's ZeroPage Homebrew livestream on Twitch at 2PM PT/5PM ET! Really looking forward to seeing how far we'll be able to get in the game. :-) Twitch Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew/ Other Games Today: - Kuru Kuru Tsuchinoko (WIP) by mojofltr - Simple Horizontal Shooter (WIP) by Random Terrain - Lost Cat (WIP) by Jared Gray West EDIT: Here's the YouTube archive video of the live broadcast! We managed to finish EVERY level and it wasn't easy, that's for sure. Great game atari2600land! :-)

Amazingly enough the burger parts are drawn exclusively with the playfield and I never would have guessed that by looking! The colours and movement as the burger parts fall don't give away that little secret at all. The chef is drawn with P0 only and is drawn at a constant 30Hz The enemies are drawn with P0 & P1 and seem to be drawn at 20Hz, 30Hz and once I even saw one drawn at 40Hz (3 out of 4 frames) The enemies don't vary much in their frequency no matter if they share the same vertical screen space as other characters or not. With the right flicker management the character flicker could be reduced to zero (60Hz) when they don't occupy the same vertical space. For a very similar style of character size and screen layout Mappy by Champ Games should be looked at for it's incredible flicker management. Amazing job splendidnut, this game is getting way better each iteration and going to be amazing when it's completed!

No problem MemberAtarian, we let people know last night when we showed the game that it's not done yet and that this is an early version of it. We often show early builds of games on the stream so they can see great new homebrew that is coming out. :-) Great job on the game, really looking forward to seeing new versions as they come out!

Tonight on ZeroPage Homebrew we have the EXCLUSIVE DEBUT of 'SPIES IN THE NIGHT 2'! We will be debuting Jared Gray West's sequel to his 2017 Atari 2600 Homebrew noir game 'Spies in the Night' on ZeroPage Homebrew!! This time you play the twin brother of the spy from the first game and you're INSIDE the lighthouse planting the bombs! Tune in to our Twitch stream tonight at 6PM PT/9PM ET for this and three more amazing homebrew games: Knight Guy in Low Res World, Choplifter! and the FINAL CART VERSION build of Amoeba Jump! http://www.twitch.com/zeropagehomebrew

Great work on the update MemberAtarian, it's really stable now! We'll be playing Choplifter! on ZeroPage Homebrew's Twitch stream tonight at 6PM PT/9PM ET! http://www.twitch.com/zeropagehomebrew

This looks and plays REALLY well MemberAtarianl! I'm looking forward to showing it live on ZeroPage Homebrew in an upcoming episode but the line count strays a lot from 262 (at various times to 263, 264, 267 and others) which would make the screen jump and cut out on non-CRT systems and through video capture hardware like mine. Press ALT-L to have the line count on the screen on Stella and watch for the line count of 262 to jump into the red to see this in action or press ~ to go into debug mode and watch the number move frame by frame with the left joystick button pushed in below as I've done. I'll keep an eye on this, great job! EDIT: Never mind about the scanline comments, you know all about them. Sorry about that! :-)

Could you make a badge for my wife too who will be coming down to PRGE? Tanya O'Brien ZeroPage Homebrew Vancouver, BC

ZeroPage Homebrew is proud to announce that we will have the LIVE DEBUT of WIZARD OF WOR ARCADE by Champ Games TONIGHT!! We will be broadcasting LIVE on TWITCH at 6PM PT/9PM ET! ZeroPage Homebrew Twitch: http://twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew Make sure you tune in as we will also be debuting Nathan Tolbert's multi-tap prototype that allows Wizard of Wor to play with two players AND the AtariVox!! See you tonight! EDIT: Here's the episode for those who missed it!!!

ZeroPage Homebrew is proud to announce that we will have the LIVE DEBUT of WIZARD OF WOR ARCADE by Champ Games TONIGHT!! We will be broadcasting LIVE on TWITCH at 6PM PT/9PM ET! ZeroPage Homebrew Twitch: http://twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew Make sure you tune in as we will also be debuting Nathan Tolbert's multi-tap prototype that allows Wizard of Wor to play with two players AND the AtariVox!! See you tonight!

Just added 'Elvira Mistress of the Dark' to the list! Thank you to Scott Dayton / neotokeo2001 who is sending me a cartridge copy of his homebrew hack of Chris Read's "Asses of Fire" game!! :-)

Tanya (sicksweet) and I put in our best efforts last night on the Twitch stream of ZeroPage Homebrew for Lady Bug and our top scores were: James (cimmerian) 66050 @ 1h42m56s Tanya (sicksweet) 36130 @ 1h24m10s You can check out the full stream here:

Thanks grafixbmp, that would be perfect but it needs to be a homebrew game for the show as we only play homebrew. Looks like Texas Chainsaw Massacre came out in 1982/83 during the production run of the console and unfortunately can't be counted as homebrew.

I'll be coming in on Thursday afternoon/evening and would love to help out!

Looking forward to getting another badge, love this idea!! Thanks Al. James Earl O'Brien ZeroPage Homebrew Vancouver, BC

ZeroPage Homebrew will be attending PRGE 2018 and conducting interviews with a number of Atari 2600 homebrew developers and distributors including: Albert Yarusso of AtariAge John Champeau of Champ Games (programmer of Lady Bug, Conquest of Mars, Mappy, Wizard of Wor + more) Nathan Tolbert (programmer of Anguna, Robo-Ninja Climb, Quadtari) Dan Kitchen (programmer of Crackpots, Ghostbusters, Double Dragon, Ikari Warriors and the upcoming homebrew games Keystone Kapers II & Bon Voyage) Please let me know if there are any other Atari 2600 homebrew developers or distributors that will be attending the Expo that you think I should interview for ZPH! :-)

Skeleton+ works for sure, I've added it to the list of Halloween Homebrew! Castle of Doom is definitely right on target for Halloween, I think I will have to branch out to 'spooky' to fill up the list. I've now added it. :-)

I'm just concentrating on the 2600 for now on the show. I'll be expanding out to homebrews on other platforms later on as I get my systems modded for RGB output, Intellivision will probably be next as I just got the RGB kit in the mail the other day.

There is a HUGE show this coming Wednesday September 26th!!! ZeroPage Homebrew will have the EXCLUSIVE LIVE DEBUT of Champ Games new game Wizard of Wor Arcade. We will also debut Nathan Tolbert's Atari 2600 Multi-Tap prototype that allows you to play Wizard of War Arcade with two joysticks in port #1 and the AtariVox+ in port #2! This is a show not to miss. :-)