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  2. Posted

    The trick to Bubsy is as follows....

     

    Like in Joust, be the one on top. You must pounce the opponent.

     

    To best do this, hit one button for "jump" and immeidately follow this with "glide".

     

    So you get used to this combination a lot in Bubsy. You Jump, and then glide. Jump, glide. You find an opponent.. jump, and then GLIDE down on top of them, making sure to land on their head.

     

    Granted the glide is a bit erratic, but after a while you get used to it, and it became essential.

     

    What other tricks are there? Looking ahead (the last red button) by holding the "look" button and looking around is also quite essential.

     

    Aside from that, memorize. Bubsy never changes where the opponents are, and that is a good thing in this case. So soon you can more gracefully land on three opponents in a row, and your score has an extra +100 more points with each person you hit while staying airborne doing it.

     

    That is the basics. Jump.. glide. Advise to help in the first level...

     

    1) Yellow jackets (bees) are actually easy opponents once you get used to them. Just make sure you are airborne when you charge them, and make sure you are actively gliding left or right towards them. Takes some practice.

     

    2) Tweedle Dee and Dum are tough.. at first. Make sure to jump and glide onto them, timing which balloon is being let go (balloons have a poison gas in them that will kill Bubsy if he hits them.)

     

    3) Snake... usually you can see just on the sides of the screen before he notices you. The eggs he throws are fast and deadly. But, remember, they face one way and cannot turn. If you can make a good jump and glide over them, landing behind him (or if the snake is on a table, run underneath him) you can come up from behind, taking all the time in the world to pounce him.

     

    4) Rabbits are a pain. They usually run around on those tables, and that causes more problems...

    a) be careful that you don't land on ornaments on the table. Steer around them, and time the jump on the rabbits so you are no where near the ornaments to get in the way.

    b) Make sure you GLIDE on top of the rabbit. If there was ever a picky opponent, it is the rabbit. Glide down and land right on his head! >Poof< no more rabbit. I hates wabbits.

     

    5) The chesser cats... forgot that as one of the unfriendlies on the map. Will have to change that. They appear out of no where, spit a bit, (deadly saliva I guess) and then vanish. Best advice is, once you remember where the cat appears, just get to the right or left of where he will appear, then once he does, just jump him before he has a chance to stick that tongue out. Easily done.

     

    6) The FLAMINGOS! Heheh... they are flamingos not ostrigeges.. heheh... oh well. Just make sure to land on the mo-hawk on their head. Careful that you don't land on a table while trying to get them.,

     

    What gets you killed?

     

    1) Water

    2) Falling too far

    3) Falling on sharp things

    4) landing too soon on something else other than your opponent. (IE. you try to jump on a flamingo, but you miss the mo-hawk on the flamingo and land on a table instead just short of the flamingo... then flamingo walks into you, and >pop<, no more Bubsy.)

     

    And with Bubsy it is all about timing, so put time on your side and GLIDE down on your opponent. :) Once you get that down, Bubsy is very enjoyable.

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  3. Posted

    "Hello Doc!

     

    Can you help me with Bubsy for the Jaguar? I have to play it with my young niece almost every week, but we do fail to complete any level! I even looked into the manual but can't find a hint about how a level is completed and on the internet i can only find the level-codes. Are there any maps available?

     

    Best regards

    Matthias"

     

    Well, I got this message earlier today, and I realize this is very crude, but it will show roughly how the first level plays out. I will try to come up with a better way of doing this in the future.

     

    But for now, for the curious, the level one map of Bubsy.

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  4. Posted

    " i just bought Tempest 2k and Bubsy waiting on them to arrive. but i really loved Wolfenstien 3D Zool 2 and Zoop so those 3 titles get my vote"

     

    Let's see, the first couple of games I had was Cybermorph (Ick!) Bubsy (which really grew on me and is practically all I play) and I remember Alien Vs. Predator and Kasumi Ninja being some early ones. And Tempest 2K.

     

    All I can say about the Jag is that it has a lot of variety, and one game will hook you at least and you will replay over and over.

     

    But I think you are at a fun stage of the Jaguar collecting. You honestly have not seen the total power of the Jag. And seeing each game and playing it for the first time is a trip!

  8. Posted

    My score: 146400

     

    Attention:

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    I will visit the states from the 23-27 of February, does anybody of you live in the near of Chicago?  

     

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    There is a 2600 fan named Dan in Chicago that works on the Jaguar newsletter and so forth. If nothing else you can find him at the Tuesday, Thursday chats at 8pm cst and Sunday 10 am CST at...

     

    telnet://www.atarinews.org

  9. Posted

    Never was impressed with the Commodore monitors.

     

    I used a 17" VGA monitor with the BAM! Box (the composite to VGA module) for a while, but it was too detailed and everything looked more blocky than usual.

     

    So I went back to the Magnavox RBG 80 monitors, which works well with the XEP 80, and I use another video monitor.

     

    I am getting really tempted to one day get a flatscreen TV with composite input and work with that. But I'll do that when the current monitors die. :)

     

    Of course by then we may have holographic screens or something. :)

  15. Posted

    Thanks! Thinking of modifying the Dream Station setup for the Jag a bit more in the future.

     

    The biggest challenge in the Jag realm is how to store carts in a way that you can easily find your game later. Anyone come up with good solutions for this?

  17. Posted

    Juno First, Mountain King - What are these?

     

    Robotron 2084 - Ick! I have it, I'll play it, but ick!

     

    Zork I - Love Zork, but you can only score so high.

     

    Pole Position - The best one so far, but want to know more about the top two and where I can find a image.

     

    Thanks!

  20. Posted

    What would be my favorite story?

     

    Probably when I was just getting back into the Atari scene in 1999 I tried following all Atari leads. Which was good, since most of the Dallas/Fort Worth Atari anything was drying up.

     

    There was a electronics store called Delta Electronics whose owner was once a big Atari user. Sadly the place was closing up. I saw a few parts here and there in the place. I think even a bin of SIO connectors. I didn't have much money at the time sadly. But I did see in the back one 800 XL with leather cover half buried in some junk.

     

    I pulled it out, and noticed it had some switches on the back that were custom added. I figured this would only be good. Asked about the price, and they knew I was a Atari user, so they said "How about $10?" I smiled, and paid the $10.

     

    Weeks later I finally got around to dismantling the 800 XL while talking to Rick D and a few others on the Thursday night chat. It was a lot of fun. We first found that the 800 XL had a Rambo 256K memory board.

     

    With the throw of the first switch, it would go from regular XL basic to XE basic.

     

    With the throw of the second switch, it would go from XL the XE operating system.

     

    And by holding down another switch (forgot which switch, and this was years later I learned this) it bring up the Omnimon!

     

    Though the Atari 800 is my ultimate Atari8 favorite, this computer has come in handy from time to time to try out new things beyond the 800's scope.

     

    So yeh, all that for $10.

     

    (Now that I think about it, the 800XL is in my picture in the "Show me your Atari 8-bit collection" message. It is sitting on top of the monitor with the leather cover.)

  21. Posted

    Being a Mac user practically since the days I exited the Atari 8 scene in 1989 let me just say that the Mac is the most UNFRIENDLY computer to use with a Atari 8-bit. It is that damned serial port on the Mac, and is even more unfriendly when they are just USB!

     

    Has anyone got Virtual PC and APE to work? I remember I tried the AT version of virtual PC and APE and that went over like a led balloon.

     

    Ever transferring files from the Mac to the Atari 800 via null modem seems to corrupt them. I just E-mail files from the Mac and that seems to work better.

     

    Oh... ever since I established my SIO2PC cable worked (Originally a SIO2ST cable) I have loved the ape software! Great stuff! I can play more software, but really I tend to use it as 48 meg (or whatever) hard drive more than anything. And when I am done with the hard drive, I can put it into sleep mode. Nice stuff.

     

    Doc Clu 800

  22. Posted

    I do actually have a 800 XL with 256 K rambo board which I pull out for special projects, but by and large I like the 800! Besides, Star Raiders, Archon, Wizard of Wor, Return of Heracles, Joust... my favorite games all play on the 800 just fine of course. Most of them are on cartridge.

     

    So how about the rest of you Atari 8-bitters out there? I got the idea of this thread from the Jaguar forem, which has been a lot of fun to watch.

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