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One last thing, is it enough to qualify a physical cart release?

Sure! There's a lot of hacks that got physical releases.

replica carts are not homebrews... but some physical from the ground up designed cart pcb's are themselves homebrews. so you can have a home brew cart with non home brew software..

@Zoyous Do you have any samples of your work, or where to buy copies?

During the 90's and up till today my alternative to the Super Hero comics was ElfQuest.  

And you can read the earlier 40 years of material online for free!

https://elfquest.com/read/digitalEQ.html

Also a fan of Sam & Max, Freelance Police.   The Tick, as mentioned earlier, is a great spoof the superhero stories.   And Groo the Wanderer is a great spoof of fantasy (like Conan) stories.

@TwentySixHundred It's a lawyer friendly alteration of Princess Rescue, I wanted everyone to enjoy this great platformer even for those who like playing on real hardware. And don't worry I'll give MAJOR credit to @Sprybug

Ah ok that makes sense, i was just confused to whether you were Sprybug under a different alias or not. Thanks for clarifying that ?

5 to 99 is reasonable depending on the game. Games with less than 5 levels tend to feel incomplete and games with more than 99 feel insurmountable, to me at least.

I asked Mr. Owl...He said The world may never know...Then I asked Mikey and he just said he likes it!

"How many licks to the centre of a Tootsie Pop?" *CRACKKK* "The world may never know!"

Its actually around 150-275 for a mini one, 300-400 for a full-size one.

Yeah, William Tang has nothing to do with this. Apparently Melbourne House games used to be owned by Infogrames (Atari SA) but now have been transferred to Subvert Ltd / Subversive unless that is a dormant company and things are even shadier than they look. I read some kind of apology from Paul Andrews though, it looks like an aftermath cover up story.

Oh, it is more than Horace. Paul Andrews has issued takedown notes against World of Spectrum for Automata content, addressing the ISP directly instead of the site admin and even sending mail to the admin's girlfriend (!!) who has nothing to do with WoS. Paul has also been tagged for buying trademarks and then attacking the official owners of the IP with threats. Sounds like one big mess cooking, and almost makes Atari SA look like good guys in comparison...

I found a bit more of it here in this UK game forum. Paul Andrews definitely seems like garbage, even when saying he didn't mean to invoke a copyright strike. Can't tell if he's  stupid malicious (remember the Cardillo-Coleco dust-up?) or just plain malicious, but I wouldn't want anything to do with him. 

https://www.rllmukforum.com/index.php?/topic/313121-copyright-strikes-on-retro-game-youtube-vids-paul-andrews/

@carlssonIt only restricts to C:\Users\Steven and not C:\Intellivision, can you help me?

@carlssonIt only restricts to C:\Users\Steven and not C:\Intellivision, can you help me?

Does it mean that when you do echo %path% the path to the compiler and assembler - assumed that is what you mean by c:\Intellivision - is missing? If so, the default path can be altered this way:

1. Press Windows key + Pause/Break

2. Choose Advanced Settings

3. Choose Environment variables (button in the lower right half of the window)

4. Select the system variable Path and click Edit

5. Press cursor right so the default marking doesn't delete your current path, followed by ;c:\intellivision (note the semicolon) and press Ok

6. Ok, Ok, Ok and close the remaining window. Not sure if those changes get active for the next command prompt you open or if you need to reboot.

I might be barking up the wrong tree here, but I'm trying to understand your exact issue.

If you insist on reviving old, obscure IP (which perhaps noone maintains), you could do a Cuthbert game in homage to Steve Bak who passed away from diabetes in February 2019.
https://www.mobygames.com/game-group/cuthbert-series

I mean the Cuthbert series once were significant enough to warrant Activision sending a C&D to Microdeal for removing Cuthbert in the Jungle, being FAR too much alike Pitfall!

Monty Mole? The Monty series was relegated largely to the European Microcomputer crowd, but it was still fairly popular. C'mon, a mole in a tracksuit, what could possibly go wrong?

@Shawn Que Paso?

No Power sucks for sure! Once it was out here for about 25 minutes in the cold Winter, I got bundled up, lit candles and broke out my PSP about to watch a movie on the Really Small Screen when it came back on, Thank God!!

Power sucks? Like with a fleshlight? (Ugh!)

Venezuela, so sad

The 1sy few seconds looked good, then Sonic appeared.

There are good and bad examples of trailers for game adaptations using CG and live-action floating around right now. Detective Pikachu looks like a riot. Sonic makes me want to riot.

I just watched the trailer. My goodness, this looks worse than I could have imagined. Perhaps it is being pitched at someone forty-five years younger than me.

And then you said "Do you games"  I assume its DISLIKE games with Screen Crunch?  

@Rick Dangerous I meant Like do you like games with Screen Crunch?

No, I don't like screen crunch. But some of the games are still pretty fun regardless of this issue.

Yep! I remember our local KB toys at the mall had a smaller selection right next to the NES titles.

Oh yeah, Kay*Bee too! Probably Child World/Children's Palace as well.

Yeah, they were only sold in the big chain toy stores and not the discount chains or smaller stores that were Nintendo only.  All the older 8-bit games, and everything else, had to be from mail order...

@Kiwi@GoldLeader Thanks for your input, this was more of a survey like question. I am following Alan Sugar's philosophy, Make my coleco homebrews for the masses and not the classes as I see SGM games as classy games. So my goal is to make a game that doesn't require SGM/Adam.

I see.  I do love ColecoVision homebrews so I hope you succeed!  The original SGM was like a lot of things that have happened (in this hobby) where you see something in a magazine and everybody wants it but it never happens.  I think it was  a victim of the crash.

Vanguard uses 443 bytes of RAM.  So I don't run out of RAM to use for my games.  Sometimes I'll use the VRAM to uncompress game data to it to be access. 

My target is to have my game compatible for all Colecovision. 

Timex released a version of that stateside, but it wasn't a huge success.

I actually have a timex sinclair 2068, if I can find the spectrum rom cart that would be neat since I could then access most of the spectrums library, as it stands I have a whopping 3 cartridge games and a few timex sinclair 1000 cassettes

I knew it as the Timex Sinclair 1000, which I think is mostly the same? I loved programming it BITD.

Then I agree.

I used my Amstrad CPC 6128 (the one with color monitor and disk drive) as a console from 1989 to 1992! It was my first video game system, I was 9-12.

30 years later, I feel a bit ashamed of not trying at least to create a simple Basic game. But again, I didn't even know it was possible! (I actually watched a friend create a simple Basic program for some seconds, but my brain kind of ignored the whole situation as not-a-game and not-fun).

Of course, in my case the machine was not too affordable as a children's toy: my dad gave it to me (he was a Physics teacher and used it to simulate movements) when he bought a 286 PC, but it was like having a ZX Spectrum with 16 colors (and very big pixels) in half of the games.

I still can't believe the mysterious things my dad spent so many hours with on these old computers were not part of his job. All my life I assumed that, but the revelation came to me a few months ago.

Well the early home computers were more for beginners compared to the more expensive personal computers like the Apple II & IBM PC.  The games aspect was to make it easier for kids (and some adults) to get more comfortable with using the computer and eventually learn BASIC programming which teaches people how computers really work.

Once they mastered that part, then it's time to upgrade which means buy more add ons to do things like word processing or just get a much more powerful computer like a PC.

(As far Atari 8-bits go, the 400 was a low end model for people just starting out while the more expensive 800 was meant for more serious stuff like the Apple II was.)

It definitely is a 16-bit console, even more than the TI-99/4A is a 16-bit computer.

Actually I think the Unisonic Champion 2711 may have been the very first 16-bit video games console.

@carlssonI'm aware that it's a 16-bit console, I was referring to it from a graphical standpoint i.e. Graphics

I usually consider it as such, since it's firmly in that generation, but it depends on the context of the conversation.

A belated one? I wonder how Atari had fared if instead of trying different new architectures that didn't hold water, had decided early on to use the A8 chipset and put out the 5200 a full year earlier, perhaps even simultaneously with the VIC-20 (that pitched itself against the 2600).

Never played the 5200 much.  We were always an Atari home computer family and never had any Atari consoles.  The kids across the street did get it on year for Christmas and I really enjoyed that Football game they had for it. Was the best console football game to date inho.

Old?

Go for intellivision, the graphics and development may be significantly more managable.

Going to have to say Intellivision on this one first. I am really curious to see how it fairs on this system!

This was a public opinion type of question, thanks to all who have participated. I have to agree with @SlidellMan on this one. roughly 40-50% of Sonic 2600 is done (Graphics and Level designs). Work on the Intellivision version hasn't started yet sadly...

Adventure.

I think the homebrew "Lead" does.

There's gotta be tons of them!

...or contact Atarian63

Thanks for the Ideal suggestions.

As well as it could.

And what like 90% of 2600 games?

Dark Cavern for Atari 2600 only has one screen and it's fun as hell!

Tetris … anyone… most famous video-game-puzzler throughout all time and space…??

IMO, the XEGS as it was a (or another) consolized Atari 8-bit computer.  Also, the design of the XEGS screams 1980s even more than the black and silver electronic look sported by the 7800.

@BIGHMW, this post requires your superpowers.

IMHO 7800 is the better console, but XEGS has the better native library.  If you factor in homebrews, though maybe that tips the scale. 7800 homebrews are incredible.  2600 compatibility is also a big plus for me so I don't have to keep my 2600 hooked up.  I sold my XEGS, but still play my 7800 pretty regularly... I guess that says it all.  "Better" is personal preference.

I imagine he needs dentures now to eat carrots.

I knew I shoulda made a left at Albuquerque!

@SlidellMan Holy Crap, you're right! But that's not 'til November

I've not heard of any youtube channel.

I was just curious to see any other AtariAgers who like watching his videos. Plus, it serves as an Interest Check if anybody would like to play a homebrew rom based on SMG4.

Whats a "YouTube"?

^^this, but earlier. I think Micro Center had them for full price.

About 3 weeks ago. I stopped in at Half Price Books and they had cartridge only copies of Donkey Kong and Frenzy, plus a complete in box one of those ColecoVision racing wheel dealies.

A used game store less than 10 miles from my house has a console and games for sale right now.

Porn!

Dr. Mario's got the cure.... !