Adventure II XE and Scramble Coming Soon for Atari 8-bits!

[Adventure II XE and Scramble Coming Soon for Atari 8-bits!]

With Adventure II XE coming out, I'm actively looking at acquiring an 800XL just for this one game as it looks so amazing!

[Remote Control joysticks with Mattel games?]

15 hours ago, Swami said:

Tried an actual 2600?

Unfortunately none available to try.  My heavy sixer is long since gone and back when I did have it I really never used this controllers as feeding it batteries was too expensive for us.

[Remote Control joysticks with Mattel games?]

I've got the Atari 2600 Remote Control joysticks and noticed that they don't work with the Mattel games (for 2600) I have.  I'm actually using these joysticks with a 7800, so perhaps a little bit non-standard configuration, but they work fine with all the other games I've tried.  Problem is specific to the Mattel games which act like they are getting random directional input and button presses.  Any workarounds for this other than just using wired joysticks (all of which seem to work fine with those games)?

[CBS electronics games trouble]

My Gorf and Solar Fox work fine on my 7800, but I have not done the AV mod.  I only have the Robot Tank mod.

[Ballblazer 7800 - Worth to buy?]

I have to go with no.  It's a powerful demonstration of the graphics ability that was possible.  The gameplay is, well, boring.  A good one to borrow for an afternoon rather than buy.

[Ars Technica piece on Prince of Persia by Jordan Mechner]

I remember how blown away I was when I first saw Prince of Persia running on an Apple II!

[What was the first system you programmed?]

First would have been an Apple II.  Whether + or e model first I'm not certain.  AppleBASIC.  Followed quickly by LOGO.  Then we got a PC and the languages I used really exploded!

[Rikki & Vikki]

On 12/24/2020 at 5:13 PM, Jinks said:

Many people never intended to play the game. 

This thinking should be reserved for the extremely crappy homebrews made that people buy only for their shelf. This game is meant to be played!!

 

That was similar to my struggle with trying to decide to buy it or not.  I wanted to buy it to make it worth the developer's efforts as it's an impressive game.  However, it's really not my style and I know I wouldn't play it much.  I opted to not buy and hope that others would buy it that would play it.

[New 7800 Game(s) from Atari Age???]

I'm super excited and hopeful for Arkanoid to come out sooner rather than later.  Definitely on my to buy list.  And I'll probably add a few more games to my cart at that time too. 

[What controllers do you have ? (poll)]

Why adapter for the Sega Genesis controllers on the 7800?  I remember using them on my 2600 natively.  What's different with the 7800?

[Which is the best Atari 7800 emulator?]

I've used a7800 and js7800.  I like a7800 well enough that I haven't felt the need to try bupsystem.

[WTB SCSI cable to connect 2 drives]

It figures...  I had a whole stack of those I didn't need anymore.  Couldn't even give them away.  Just recently sent them off to our wire recycler at work.  😞

[The Top 10 Atari 7800 Games of All Time]

Ballblazer may be a great demonstration on what kind of 3D graphics could be done, but honestly the game play is pretty terrible.  For having a POKEY chip in it the sound was unimpressive too.  I'm not sure that graphics alone should be enough to make the top 10.  I sought out and purchased a cart only to give it away after just a few weeks.

[Pitfall II on the 7800?]

Pitfall II worked on my 7800, but I already had done the Robot Tank mod before I even tried it, so not sure if it would have worked natively.

[GoSub 7800 for sale]

It's really a cool little game.  I tried out the WIP a while back and was very impressed.  If I didn't currently have a home budget freeze on ordering more games, I'd already have ordered!

[Captain Comic]

Wow, looking really good!  My memory of Captain Comic is coming back now!  I definitely played it back in the day, just been so long that it took awhile to remember those screens!

[Captain Comic]

Wow.  Brings back memories of DOS gaming.  I very much remember the name, but looking at some of the graphics online have no recollection of those screens.  Very cool!

[Arkanoid [WIP]]

7 hours ago, SlidellMan said:

By the way, I was going to bring up Arkanoid 2: Revenge of Doh in my porting suggestions.

I enjoyed Arkanoid on PC, but I spent a lot more time on Arkanoid 2.  Would love to see that as well eventually, but I wonder if the extra graphic and audio complexity would be an issue on the 7800?  Sound requirements might even be beyond a POKEY to do it justice?

[FS: SunBlade 2000 - SOLD]

Nice machine, back in the day I really wanted one of those.  Used to run my website, dns, and e-mail on Sun hardware, with a Sun desktop.  🙂  I'm typing on one of those keyboards (attached to a whitebox PC) right now!  Should have an official Sun mouse around here somewhere too...

[Arkanoid [WIP]]

On 7/11/2020 at 8:03 AM, mksmith said:

Next up - still tossing up whether to add the balls or enemies (procrastinating this one I think 🤪).

 

So, which did you choose?    Balls makes it playable, but IIRC enemies would have been something new?

[XM has shipped!]

I just really wish I could help out.  I'm not super strong in electronics, but have some background there, but am strong in software development, especially low level (having done Device Drivers and TSRs in DOS as well as Assembly Language for DesqView up through Windows 32-bit.  Some of it as a hobby, some professionally.  Unfortunately none of it is Atari specific though.  And there's this problem of having no spare time too.  😞

[What TV do you play Atari on?]

14" Zenith LCD TV that goes back to sometime in the early 2000's.  Using RF.  Some colors are a little dark on it, but overall does very good for a vintage LCD TV...

[FS: Astronomer (for the Atari 2600 / NTSC or PAL)]

Just ran across this.  Very cool!

 

Will have to see if I can work out getting a copy ordered!

[800xl's For Sale : FULLY SOCKETED]

Very nice indeed.  Oh so tempting.  Would love to have one, but then I'd have to find software, and there goes all my money.  🙂  Wouldn't mind writing software on/for it too, but well, I don't have enough time to program the systems I already have...  Time and money kill the best dreams!

[Atari 800 collection]

Nice collection!  Wish I lived closer, I'd be all over that!  But yeah, shipping stuff like that is challenging, risky, and expensive.  Best to sell local.