JeremiahK

Maybe you could have left/right be for rotating left and right, and down+left/down+right be for strafing left and right. So you won't be able to back up without turning around. Just an idea.

Very cool! The fact that this fits in 4K is just amazing, but I agree with Thomas and Karl that you should pull out all the stops, allow yourself 16K or even 32K, and just go wild! As mentioned, some sort of HUD would be nice. Also, maybe moveable sprites / enemies / pickups (I didn't get very far, maybe these are already there!)

I like that doodle, too. It would be cool to have an outer space backdrop with abstract light streaks and colored blocks floating in a formation.

Very impressive! There is already so much going on, and it looks great!

As for the first part of your question, that's usually because you included macro.h, which defines its macros in one of two ways: with illegal opcodes, or without. You can define a variable named NO_ILLEGAL_OPCODES to tell macro.h to use the legal-opcodes-only versions, otherwise it uses the illegal versions. (You can look through the file macro.h to see how this is done.) If you don't define this variable, DASM will complain about it not existing, but everything will still compile just fine.

We hit a setback with the artwork. Our artist gave us a good starting point to work with, but we all know coders aren't artists. Right now I am working on it, but we can always go with a simpler design if we need to.

50,900 new score for me

45,100 This is my first time playing Atlantis. Fun, tough game! I rely on my center cannon, after it's gone, I try my best, but it ends up being "shoot randomly and hope something happens". A strategy seems to be to intentionally allow slow ships to get pretty low, holding up the faster ships, since they don't seem to pass each other.

Score to come, here's my celestial body entry (surprised nobody used this yet!) Asteroids - asteroid objects are seen: I will let the judges decide how many bodies this counts as.

Better Berzerk score, managed to wrap back to slow bots again for the first time! 6,130

5,700 Venture 1BB Forgettable game, not bad though. Only thing I would change is death by touching an enemies corpse.

Berzerk 9BB: 4,570 One of my all time favorite 2600 games, just wish I was a bit better!

Whoops, disregard...

Use the joystick to move the cursor to the block you want to move. Press and hold fire, and push the joystick in the direction you want to move it.

Good news! Over the last couple weeks, Jeff and I have been able to playtest the game a bit. We found a couple bugs, and have fixed them. We also finalized the game colors for both NTSC and PAL modes. (Big thank you to Thomas Jentzsch for helping with the PAL colors!) The game control switches have been changed: LEFT DIFFICULTY controls game difficulty A = 8-colors (hard) B = 7-colors (medium) RIGHT DIFFICULTY controls helpful hits A = no hints B = show hints COLOR/BW controls game board colors For NTSC/PAL displays, put the switch to COLOR For SECAM displays, use BW We are proud to say the game is now 100% complete! (Maybe 110% would be more accurate ) bblocks.bin

Thank you! This was an issue that I think should be fixed in the upcoming release. Jeff and I are trying to bug test a different issue right now, but expect a fixed version soon!

Stayed up way too late and managed to break 2M:

Even tackling one of these things (mainly the label art) or even help with suggestions would be a huge help!

~ What COMPANY do you want featured in Season 11. Suggest some games from that company. Imagic. My personal favorite game is Demon Attack, though I know it was played a couple years ago. Atlantis, Dragonfire, Fathom, and Laser Gates are some other great Imagic games. ~ Several games from the Arcade. Ms. Pac-Man, Jr. Pac-man, or Pac-Man 4K (technically a homebrew). Frogger, Missile Command, Phoenix, Space Invaders, Asteroids. ~ Several games that are RARELY in the HSC! I'm not 100% sure, since I haven't played much, but Solar Fox is a great game that I am sure some have never played. ~ 2 Paddle Games SCSIcide (also homebrew), Casino (the Poker Solitaire game variant is a lot of fun). ~ 3 Homebrew Games. I don't know which games were played, but here's a couple favorites of mine: Swoops, Spies In The Night, Oystron ~ Your Requests of any game you would love to play. I look and play ALL REQUESTS!!! Spider Fighter, Frostbite, Crackpots, River Raid, No Escape ~ Any Bonus games you would like to see done. (Games that would not be good for a regular pick but a nice bonus. Journey Escape

There were 2 issues. The Color/Bw switch was flipped from what it should have been, and the screen jumped if the progress bar was full. Both are fixed now! BBlocks.bin

There is another issue with the Color/BW switch not working, expect another update in a few minutes...

UPDATE: Jeff and I found a couple of bugs, including the hint bug. Both are fixed now. I changed the binary file in the release post from yesterday, so if you already downloaded it, please do so again.

Thank you, we are working on fixing this right now.

Thank you! I assure you, the past couple months have been mostly spent optimizing the code to save space. Getting 7 in a row is nearly impossible. You would need some sort of complicated chain reaction to cause it.