Mermaid

There's a thread with some posts about Andreas and news on the Spaceman Splorf rom files here. The files will be available for download later this year.

Thank you for your awesome homebrew videos and for the kind words, James. I was hoping there would be more Atari games from Pond in the future, but without Andreas and his magic skills I really don't know if it'll ever happen.

Don't worry, mermaids don't have toes. I have absolutely no problem with you releasing the ROM files whenever you feel the time is right. I'm just glad our game will be available to those who want to play it, and that Andreas' work will live on. Also, a massive thank you for publishing the Atari VCS version of Splorf! You made a dream come true.

I'll sort that out, don't worry. I miss him so much

Thank you! I just tried it myself, and it seems my web browser tries to block the download as well, probably because it doesn't like the domain. I've uploaded it to my own site now, perhaps you could try downloading it from there: https://cheesepirate.com/2600/Genesis_Project-Snow_Day.zip Please let me know if it works, if it does I'll add the link to pouët, if not we'll have to find some other solution! I do want people to be able to download it.

Thank you all for your kind comments! I'd never heard of "Pop!" before, as I didn't have a PC with Windows back then, but wow, that is super cute! I feel so bad for the poor balloon dog every time it fails though, I'm not sure I could bear to play it.

We made a little Atari VCS/2600 demo for the snow effect competition at the Fjälldata party this weekend, and I thought perhaps some of you would be interested. As usual Shadow did all the hard stuff, i.e. the code, while I did the graphics and music. Here's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv7-cQgxcHs The ROM file (PAL only) can be found here: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=93600

Thank you, the pictures were fun to do! Thank you to everyone else as well for your kind comments! You're correct; the man with the canine head is Anubis. In 2600 BC he was still the most important Egyptian god of the dead and the afterlife. The woman with a fish crown on her head and an Atari CX10 joystick in her hand is the fish-goddess Hatmehit, a goddess of life and protection.

Glad you like the visuals and sound! I gave your 1k minigame a try, it doesn't play quite like Splorf, with the huge walls and the heavy helicopter it felt different to me. The version in the video is a preview, so the difficulty hasn't been tweaked yet. The C64 original works great as it is, and this is intended to be a 2600 port of that game. Adding levels, powerups, lives, etc. would make it a completely different game.

It's been fun to do graphics for the 2600 version - the music was a bigger challenge, even with Kylearan's great TIATracker v1.1.

The source code has been released now, maybe someone here could use it as a basis for an updated A8 version of Ultima IV? http://magervalp.github.io/2015/04/12/u4-remastered-on-github.html

Thank you. She does look a little bit like me, perhaps.

her work Thank you for your kind words

The ST/Amiga screens are not that great, and running them through a converter wouldn't make them any better. Two of the intro pictures from the FM Towns version were used as a basis for two of the new C64 pictures, and the interior of the gypsy's caravan was partly based on the Amiga/ST/EGA version. I'm sorry you don't like my colour choices.

I'm sorry that the new intro graphics aren't to your liking. You only have to look at them when creating a new character, though, so it could be worse!