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  1. Posted

    Well,

     

    Jakub is from Poland and he seems to be very active at atarionline.pl forums, maybe you can register there and ask him for the source - alternatively I could ask him. Think that the sample is simply "Let's all chant" by Michael Zager Band, sampled with a 4Bit sampler (e.g. from Mirage or a selfmade one) and he added a machine language player and a nice equalizer effect.

     

    There are dozens, if not hundreds of 2Bit and 4Bit sample demos available for the A8. Think I have several sample players, but I am not sure if I have some sample player sources in Basic, TB XL or Assembler.  On Fandal's webpage you will find several demos with the search string "Digital" and "Sample" and also several games with sampled sound or sampled voices/speech:

     

    http://a8.fandal.cz/search.php?search=Digital&butt_details_x=

    http://a8.fandal.cz/search.php?search=Sample&butt_details_x=

    http://a8.fandal.cz/detail.php?files_id=323

    http://a8.fandal.cz/detail.php?files_id=1918

    http://a8.fandal.cz/detail.php?files_id=3139

     

    Antic or Analog also published a sample player (ASP) with sources and schematics...

    Sample_TOOLS.zip

    sample_text_and_source.zip

    Samples.zip

  2. Posted

    Cavernia has 16 levels afaik. But it's too hard/difficult for me, I absolutely hate these very small moving platforms that do NOT move your player (you have to jump on them and then move with them). The electric thingies in the game are also not nice. This is a love + hate game for me, I love the gfx, but hate the (too hard) gameplay.

     

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  3. Posted

    20 hours ago, Mr Robot said:

    Bounty Bob Strikes Back doesn't work with atari800 emulator either. The USGold Cassette version does but all other versions don't work properly on level 2. Been documented for years and still no fix.

     

     

    My solutions: a) use original BBSB cart, b) copy the US-Gold tape (and Americana tape) onto a bootdisk with e.g. Howfen tape to disk.

     

    Afair, there are already several fixed versions (level 6 bug and others) of BBSB available for download at AA forum...

     

  4. Posted

    13 hours ago, Eric Rousseau said:

    Don't know the power of ACTION language yet, it seems to be a high level compiler...

    I thought it was high level interpreter easier than basic but slower...

     

     

    regarding Action:

    - high level interpreter - correct, I think.

    - easier than basic - debatable, I think.

    - but slower - errrm, no, Action! is much faster than Basic

     

    You can find the Demo YBMB also at atarimania and read some comments there, e.g.

     

    "sikor - 04/06/2010: Great digitalized intro, programmers are Jakub Husak, programming language is ACTION!, not machine language!!!"

     

    "jhusak - 05/02/2014: I'm afraid Sikor, that I have coded it in machine language... MAC65."

     

    Thus, it seems Jakub Husak did not use Action! but MAC65 instead.

     
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  5. Posted

    5 minutes ago, Blues76 said:

    Is the code in ASM?

     

    Thanks,

     

    I think so, but errrm, as a non-programmer, I do not know. TIP Converter is a Java program that converts BMP, JPG, PNG pictures/frames into (A8) TIP format; while TIP Animator is an .EXE for the command line (I run it under Win XP) that generates the TIP animation (XEX-file) from the converted TIP pictures/frames and optionally packs it.

     

  6. Posted

    8 minutes ago, Blues76 said:

    Thank you so much. I will check it out today.


    What is TIP ? I heard that already and I'm not sure what it means.

     

     

    TIP = Taquart Interlaced/Interleaved Picture, it uses Gr. 9+10+11 for a max. resolution of 160x119 pixels (max. 160x100 with TIP Animator) and up to 256 colours. Here are some TIP gfx

     

    Alas, many TIP animations are painfully slow (and you could see the frame-drawing) when full 160x100 resolution is used, so I had to downsize them to even smaller visible sizes, like e.g. 100x70 or 80x50 pixels (the full size is still 160x100 pixels, but there is a huge black border around the visible animation).

     

     

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  8. Posted

    12 hours ago, Blues76 said:

    Ray Check demo is very interesting and cool. Amazing that they could do that with 320KB. The picture seems more vivid than Altirra is showing me.

     

    Maybe you also like these (only converted by me with some PC Tools, like TIP Converter and TIP Animator). They are all packed with Exomizer (to save diskspace) however, so you have to wait for unpacking. And errmm, since I only have PAL Ataris, I used a PAL palette (OlivierP)...

     

     

    Raytraced.zip

  9. Posted

    2 hours ago, hlabrand said:

    Shouldnt be a problem at all! But i was under the impression disks for the Atari 800 were 130kb. Shaving 5k off of the game without losing anything content-wise might be tricky but i'd like to look into it :)

     

    Crunching, compressing, exomizing, etc. may help...?!? There are various packers and compressors for the A8 available - on the A8 and on the PC. Since the adventure is mainly text, it should be possible to make it 30%-50% shorter with a good packer program...

     

    If the program still does not fit on a 130k disk or image, then simply use a 180k disk or image.

     

  11. Posted

    Hmmm,

     

    buying rare A8 items at ebay for a high cost to never use them is always risky (they might be defect, empty, etc.). Maybe the seller already knew the buyer (collector) would never use these items and therefore sold almost empty shrink-wrapped boxes ? If you do not want to open them, you will never know for sure (and the rattling may come from some disk-sized cardboards inside the boxes)...  ;->

     

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  12. Posted

    25 minutes ago, tschak909 said:

    Someday I wanna give the ppl involved with Homesoft a hug.

     

    -Thom

     

    Afaik,

     

    it is just one man who does all those magical A8 things (hacking, cracking, converting, porting, turning into stand-alone files, patching+fixing, etc. etc.).

     

  13. Posted

    3 hours ago, Gunstar said:

    Ok, I just thought it would work as-is since there are one or two other A8 games that are programmed to work with it as-is. (though I don't recall which ones off the top of my head)

     

    Afair, these two games are Gem Drop and Tetricize (sp?)

     

    Would be nice if Last Squadron would also work with two buttons on a standard (unmodified) Genesis/MegaDrive controller - maybe the author could make it selectable in the menu / options screen (1 button, Joy 2B+, Sega) ? 

     

    And as always, +1 for music on/off selection...  ;-)

     

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  14. Posted

    2 hours ago, pseudografx said:

    From the results, it is not clear to me what is the actual ranking. 🙂

     

    Red = final category ranking, thus:

    (first number = category 1-5, second number = number of votes)

     

    Category 1: Atariduino and MidiJoy 2.0

    Category 3: VIAtari

    Category 4: mod. of ROM pcb's for use with Eproms

    Category 5: alt. cart cases (3D print)

     

    Category is NOT the same as place, so the number of votes does not correspond to a place, but in which of the five categories the item lands. So, even though the "alt. cart case" [Alternatives Modulgehäuse] got 13 votes, this is NOT the second place, but the majority of votes to make it land in category 5.

     

    The Abbuc members do express with their vote more or less the value of the hardware and to which category it should belong: Highest value = category 1 (500 Euro), category 2 (300 Euro), category 3 (200 Euro), category 4 (100 Euro), lowest value = category 5 (consolation prize). Therefore each member did not give any points, but directly voted for the category (1-5) he wanted the item to be placed in.

     

    I do not know what would have happened if VIAtari would have got 11 votes for category 2 and also 11 votes for category 3 (but luckily this did not happen) - or if any other hardware item would have had the same number of votes for two different categories.

     

  18. Posted

    Afaik,

     

    MyCopyR 1.x originally came as a bootdisk, while MyCopyR 2.x came as a file. (But one could convert MyCopyR 1.x into a file with e.g. Supercopy by P. Jakubek and thats what I did at some point.)

     

    Since I do not use Happy drives, I never encountered that Happy bug; on the other hand I find the manual enhanced density function in 1.x quite useful. Both versions support ultraspeed with Happy, Speedy, USD, Hyper-XF and other ultraspeed capable floppy drives. Both can copy 90k, 130k, 180k and also support XRAM (press Control-B for a reboot option, then Start to execute it).

     

    Do not know anything about the history of MyCopyR, simply found both versions in the (german) HAPS library. One can also find them online e.g. at Pigwa in the Holmes collection (MycopyeR, MycopyR! 2.0 and MycopyR! 2.1). Looks like MyCopyR! is the correct name and I always typed it wrong as Mycopier... ;-)

     

     

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  19. Posted

    13 hours ago, Larry said:

    Copying a disk with one bad sector is no problem, but how about disks that have bad tracks or many bad sectors per track?  Can a stock 1050 (for example) deal with that without many, many retries?  Is there a sector copier that can just make one attempt and continue?  (I don't think so, but...) Of course, modified drives like Happy, Archiver, etc. easily do this. This problem rears its head when using patching programs like Chipmunk, The Black Patch, etc.

     

    Errrm, yes - Diskcopy from TurboDOS XL/XE can do that. Set "Continue on Error" to "On" and it will only try once to read a sector, if an error occurs it continues reading. BUT: Every error sector will be written as an empty sector.

     

    MyCopier 1.x and 2.x can also do this (and both write empty sectors for error sectors). While you have to set the option "continue on error" manually in Diskcopy, MyCopier does that automatically.

     

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  20. Posted

    11 hours ago, MrFish said:

     

    Yes, a rather odd exclusion for something going to a large (64 KB) XEGS cart. Having a look inside the cart, there seems to be ample free space for storing the title screen data.

     

    I added the title screen to an XEX version -- all variations of which are missing it, due to being conversions of either the cart or cassette versions. I also enhanced the screen some and started working on a more heavily enhanced version. 

     

    See in this thread: Hardball - Title Screen

     

     

     

    I never really thought the XEGS title screen was much of an improvement. I at least appreciate the attempt; although I think the main drive was about getting the large "Epyx" logo off the screen. The thing I didn't appreciate is that the game itself got downgraded in the conversion. It escapes me, right now, exactly what was left off of the cart version; but I believe it had to do with the options for gameplay, and possible one event (?). So, whenever I play it on cart, I go for the Atarimax conversion of the disk version of the game.

     

     

     

     

     

    Well,

     

    afaik the disk version of Summer Games can be played with up to 8 players - whereas the cart. version can only be played with a max. of 3 players. Both versions however miss an option in the menu: Choose several of the events you want! (You can only choose one event or all events, but not e.g. your favourite three events.)

     

    Most pirated disk versions I had of Summer Games had a defect world records table with Control and other characters in it. (I also had several versions of Winter Events with a defect highscore or world records table, but I could easily repair it.)

     

  22. Posted

    Well,

     

    at first I have to say, that I do not know if 5200 Tempest is a homebrew and still being sold or if it is "just" the 80s Atari version... so please do not throw stones at me.

     

    The simplest way to get an 8Bit conversion of 5200 Tempest would be: a) make a ROM dump of the 5200 cart. ROMs, b) send this ROM dump to Homesoft (E-Mail is available on his webpage), c) wait until he has done the conversion. In the past most if not all 5200 conversions were done by Glenn the 5200 man, but since 20 or 30 years Homesoft is doing most of the 5200 to 8Bit conversions...

     

    EDIT: Just read the description for 5200 Tempest in the AA store (normally I do not go there, since I do not own a 5200) and now I think it would be a good idea to ask the programmer Keithen Hayenga if he's okay with an 8Bit computer conversion of his code...  in the end, maybe Albert could then produce 8Bit computer carts of Tempest ?!?

     

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  23. Posted

    On 11/7/2020 at 9:33 PM, Poison said:

    I have short AVG2SIO cable. Is possible to buy somewhere SIO cable extension ?

     

    If you are interested I can send you one of the SIO-cables my friend made for me (length approx. 95cm, long enough I think)... it looks like this:

     

    AVG_SIOcable.jpg

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