WASTELAND (2019)

[WASTELAND (2019)]

Hello everyone!

I'm Mike.
This is my first thread here and I'm proud to present you my newest Atari game called:
"WASTELAND"
Just finished it today (it's still a "RC / beta", tho)

This is my first Atari game after over 30 years.
I made some graphics for games in the early 90s but never managed to finish my own game back then...

It is emulator-compatible and has been tested in:

Altirra 3.10 and Atari800Win PLUS v4.0
also tested on real hardware ( Atari 800XL + SIO2SD )

ATR-FILE:
http://www.mikej.de/games/wasteland.zip

I hope you enjoy it...
-mike

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FSxPqohfrY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7eqea-pDVY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qOXv7mReWk

[Action! Include and Error 8...]

ok, problem solved!
it's was the data.act file.

I edited it and saved it meantime under Windows and forgot about it,
Action! apparently could read the file but just as a "plain text" (include itself worked, no warnings )
but the compiler didn't get it "as a code" and therefore was the "map" array still undeclared...

[Action! Include and Error 8...]

Hi,

after many, many years I'm coming back to Action! and I ran into a problem...

I have two ACT files :
first one is called "MAIN.ACT" and the second one: "DATA.ACT"

The "DATA.ACT" contains only one small array, nothing more.

I'm trying to include this small "DATA.ACT" into the MAIN.ACT.

 

File DATA.ACT looks as follows:

BYTE ARRAY MAP=[  55 55 56 57 58 59 58 57 56 55 56 56 57 55 ]
MODULE

and the MAIN.ACT:

INCLUDE "H:DATA.ACT"

CARD CH, DL

PROC SETUP()
 GRAPHICS(0) 
 DL=PEEKC(88)
 ZERO(DL,959)  ;Clear the screen
 MOVEBLOCK(DL,MAP,13)   ;put the data to the screen
 
;............ 
 



The code is of course a bit reduced here, but it's enough to describe where the problem is...

My problem:
I'm getting an Error 8 in line:
MOVEBLOCK(DL, MAP, 13)
pointing at "MAP" as "variable not declared"

If I put the array "MAP" directly into the "MAIN.ACT" everything works ok, but I want to have it outside in an external ACT file.

How can I include an external array without getting an Error 8 ?

 

 

 

[600xl and some dead keys..]

As Manterola mentioned, it was indeed a broken line (Line12) in the keyboard pcb.
Someone tried to fix it in the past (the path was already soldered).
The keyboard works now.
Thank you very much!

[600xl and some dead keys..]

Hello everyone!
it's my first post here (been lurking here for a while although),
My name is Michael and I've bought recently two 600xl.
(Owned one 600xl (later an 800xl) as a child).

One of them works perfectly, the other one has some keyboard issues...
Some keys won't work ( 5,8, T, I, G, K, B, M ,to be precise).

According to this thread [http://atariage.com/forums/topic/105170-600800xl-keyboard-variants/]
it's the "type 3" keyboard (by AWC, with springs and mechanical switches).
I've already detached it from the mainboard and the connector/band seems to be OK.
Since it has no mylar I also removed the cap from a "5" key (as an example) to see if the switch works and yes, it does.

My question:
What to do next?, do you have any ideas?
Thanks.