doctorclu

What kind of developer setup do you use out of curiousity?

Still say Lynx I. Better battery life in my experience, and just tighter all around.

So, any other Texas Atari gaming events coming up soon?

Fight For Life Beta (released by Jaguar Sector II) was even more playable and really enjoyed it. Raiden... man, that is the bomb... I don't understand why you would want to trade away that game.

Sure enough! I guess the USB/floppy drive I have on the Mac is not 100% PC format compatible. Anyway, it read fine in a XP machine, and here are the results. Enjoy... FORMAT.zip

I have a friend that needs a Supra Disk formatter, which I have found, and it would be helpful if I could read this disk and get him the program on the PC I have. What good disk utility (for the PC) is good at reading ST disks?

HAve to try out this version of Encounter on the TT someday.

What game was that? Which version?

I have two 2MB Alpines, one is on open loan to a fellow European developer. JustClaws. I would really like to get ahold of a Alpine. It strikes me as cool to write some code, run it right away on a Jag... see it crash, try a few other things, run it immediately, watch it crash...

doctorclu is a Bubsy fanboy. I think that is part of the reason I like Bubsy as much as I do, partly for the mentions I get. Yes, Bubsy is a lot of fun, but it is a hard game that takes time to learn. In a recent thread where you can find links to YouTube movies of all 15 levels... http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=85838 ... the advice we decided on was to get the level codes and play the game in this order... Ali Baba Levels 7-9 Jack and the Beanstalk 4-6 Alice in Wonderland 1-3 Hansel & Gretel 13-15 Play the 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Levels when you want extra credit. Lots of fun to be had though. Ok, for me, my fav games are... Bubsy Doom (When I'm not playing Bubsy, I play Doom...) Raiden Defender 2K -Classic Defender!! (man that was surprisingly addictive for a good month...) Tempest 2K (Video game crack!) Battlemorph Other games I've enjoyed a lot (played a bit but don't play often) Flipout DiamondJag JagTris Jagmania Gorf Atomic Painter Kasumi Ninja Ultra Vortek Both versions of Fight for Life Vid Grid Native Rayman Zool2 Skyhammer (once cheat codes were used) Soulstar American Hero I-War (because it is practically a TRON game) Alien vs. Predator (love being the Predator) Brutal Sports Football (Play a friend... forget the ball!!)(I think I need to make a add saying that.) Attack of the Mutant Penguins Cannon Fodder (Southpark with guns...) Missile Command (when it's not crashing...) Wolfenstein 3D (When I get tired of Bubsy and Doom I play this!) Battlesphere Blue Lightning is fun if you think of it as something other than a flight simulator... Iron Soldier 1 & 2 Breakout 2K!!! Phase Zero was ok... maybe I should play it more. Pitfall VLM gets use when the Jaguar is not played but used to play CD's (and those periods go on for months sometimes...) Club Drive (simple graphics, great to play with a friend.) Interesting games: (Tried for a bit, might try a bit more later...) Dino Dudes Ocean Depths Zoop Theme Park Syndicate Want to try (Really interested in but don't yet have...) Towers II Hyperforce Madbodies Atari Karts Games I want ported to the Jaguar the most: (games I think it needs) Joust Warlords (Just thankful that Battlesphere covered Star Raiders for me) Archon Well, that's that. As you can see I am a fan of a cat, but more a Jaguar than a certain Bobcat (Bubsy). Actually, it amazes me what I'll buy for the Jaguar that I won't even think about for any other system. And by the way much of the list above (Ocean Depths, Painter, JagTris, Native, JagMania, Madbodies, Gorf, DiamondJag, Atomic, etc) were all developed by fans like you and me, and are definately part of the Jaguar fun. And the best thing about the Jaguar to me is not so much that it is a Atari system, but that it is now PUBLIC DOMAIN! MOHAHAHAHAH!!! (Referring to how Atari (Hasbro) released the rights to the Jaguar to Public Domain in like 1999 or so. Kinda cool if you ask me.) Hey welcome and I'll talk at you later...

Interesting, they do sound a lot alike

Man, if American Hero cost millions to make, they were ripped off. Anyway, I think most of the money went to getting good women in the movie. Anyone have any idea where the movie went plot wise if the rest of the game were there? How many more women were there? I believe the love of his life was Laura right? You see her on the cover but not the movie. And what was his name? Jeffrey Bottoms... man what a wooden actor. Geez! Either that or he has this aire while acting this movie of "Man I can't believe I need the money this badly." But the women were good!

Hate the pulsars.

Oh yeh, the Wolfenstein ending! That is true. And you can see your own character if you do the two player Doom. "doctorclu...I would have thought you beat Jag Bubsy a zillion times already!?" -Kevincal Well, you see, I have refined my Bubsy skills on the first few levels. I actually like the Alice in Wonderland levels, so I never played the others until recently when I was making the YouTube movies.

I could certainly see that!

I just finished Bubsy... finally got around to playing the later levels after all the years of playing it. While Bubsy didn't dance at the end of the game (like in the first game), it was a ending that was cute and at least acknowledged there was a end. The lamest ending in all of Jagdom is Doom. There isn't an ending, and no boss. For one of the most awesome versions of Doom I have seen, that is the only thing that blares against it. I think the biggest downfall of the Jag games and endings is the cartridge size. There simply was not enough space to store all that went into the games. (Bubsy for the Jaguar OBVIOUSLY has fewer character animations than the counterparts on the SNES and Sega for example.) So I blame the lack of a good ending to storage space on the cartridges most of the time.

I really appreciate that. I was thinking of doing a cute video that has Bubsy and Zool in their Candy stages flashing back and forth... not so sure I could get as much into Zool2, so kinda see what you mean. Thanks for watching the videos. Hopefully now you can see parts of the game that look fun and can go directly to that when you feel like tinkering with Bubsy on the Jag. This does have me wondering if they have the warp level feature in Zool2 and other platformers and what other stages might be burried deep in the game that I have yet to try. I know for Bubsy the favorite level seems to be Ali Baba level (7-9) that are buried deep in the game, but you can warp to.

Ok, the conclusion to the Bubsy set of movies, here is level 15...

Real deal... Atari 800 (1979) boosted to 512K XE compatible ram with built in 256 mb flash disk thanks to MyIde cartridge. Works great! I call BBS's with it and hit the chat room and IRC chat with it. Sometimes even play video games.

Well Painter came in today. What a surprisingly cute game! I figured it would be roughly qix, maybe I tried a early version on my JUGS setup, but this really turned out alright. Good music, sound effects, and I like how you can leave gaps behind to stop the thing that is following you around. Good stuff.

Still amazes me how I really thought (here in Dallas, TX-USA) that the ST died shortly after the 520 ST. I remember it was all the rush on the 8-bit BBS's and then.. silence. 8 bitters that sold their system to have a 16 bit system that would come with the mods that many of them had and more quickly learned the disk system was unreliable (less reliable than what they knew in the 8-bit world at least), and that while 512 K on a 8-bit was awesome, it was under what was needed on a ST. The only thing that amazes me about the ST was how they had color so early on, unlike my Macs, which that came a lot later. Turning a ST into a cheap Mac was what brought many to the ST in the early days. That and Synth music and the midi abilities. When Macs started getting System 7 (which Spectre doesn't support) and color, I think it was all over then. The TT030 added some nice utility & speed (which a few businesses jumped on until they learned how hard it was to get more TT030's (short supply)), and the Falcon added a extra boost of curiousity in the ST line, but where in the world could the find that back here in the states most of the time? In the end, only the religious diehards would see what the ST line could do in 1993, and some would get clones for even greater speed. Me, I co-existed in a computer scene of Macs and PC's and ever Newtons, and didn't even KNOW any of this was going on till I stumbled across a struggling Atari user group in 1999. If not for them, I would probably be saying "ST... that died off in the late 80's right?"

So what games came with it? Let me guess... Myst Demo Blue Lightning Vid Grid Cybermorph.

Well the original Bubsy game was above all cute and fun. This was made possible partly by the involvement of Michael Berlyn (also a infocom writer) who made Bubsy and Bubsy 3D. What both have in common is a spirit of fun and zanniness above all. To matter the fact, great effort and resources are put into the games so that Bubsy had this upbeat and fun attitude and animation slightly more so than the challenges. That is why the original Bubsy had like 40 different animations to keep him fairly fresh in how he lived and died. Jag Bubsy maintained some of this, but many of the animations did not translate over as it seems like the animations were fewer. So with Jag Bubsy you have the cuteness still, but it more about the challenges and you have less lighthearted animations to make you forget just what a difficult puzzle you are undertaking. So with Jag Bubsy you find yourself getting killed more, and with more of the same animations more often than say on the original, so that is why I think many prefer the original Bubsy above all. Just my theory.

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Okay okay... someone suggested earlier that if later levels were played first Bubsy would have been more enjoyable. So FIRST TIMERS TO JAGUAR BUBSY... Take a suggestion from another player... play the segments in this order... Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves: chapter 7 - 812615 chapter 8 - 781367 chapter 9 - 126712 Genie Boss - Easy! Jack and the Beanstalk chapter 4 - 958936 chapter 5 - 739294 chapter 6 - 184792 The Giant - Kinda Difficult Alice in Wonderland chapter 1 - 111111 chapter 2 - 392652 chapter 3 - 458227 Mad Hatter - Fairly Difficult Hansel & Gretel chapter 13 - 672328 chapter 14 - 782389 chapter 15 - 672345 Hansel & Gretel - Hard Extra Credit: 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea Chapter 10 - 236721 Chapter 11 - 673167 Chapter 12 - 792323 Large Lobster - Quite Hard This is the order after playing it that it should have gone in, really based on the levels and more so the bosses. So start with Ali Baba and see what you think of it from there. Many have liked those levels best. When you get tired of the music, hit "0" and that kills the music but not the sound effects. Let's see, Bubsy's sayings are... "Oh sure, let's all torch the Bubster" (Alice in Wonderland) "Pilot's License? What for?" (Jack and the Beanstalk) "Keep it up! Just keep it up!" (Ali Baba) "Who do I look like? Flipper?" (20,000 Leagues) "Nothing can stop me now!" (Hansel & Gretel) At least I believe that is what he's saying. Some were recycled from the original Bubsy game, some were new. And yeh, they can get a bit old, like when I keep dying on level 15 and Bubsy is saying "Nothing can stop me now!" I'm sitting there going well, "Well, with the exception of the dripping jam from the ceiling, the bees, the pie throwers...."