Probabilitydragon

Wow, thanks, my little program is glad to be out here in the internet, not just confined to a floppy disk on my shelf!

In the first two parts, the original has the chords Cm G7, while my version uses C Bbm. The last part, after the improvisation, has the chords Fm C7 and Bbm.

It’s based on the Säkkijärven Polkka, which was recorded and released in the 30’s by the legendary accordion player Vili Vesterinen. It’s an accordion classic, based on polkas from around Säkkijärvi which was then Finland, now Russia. But I was being cheeky with the tune, flipping the scale from C minor to a scale you could describe as oriental sounding - C Db E F G Ab Bb. Doing a bit of improvisation based on that scale, too. In the last part, the scale is the same as in the original. For that part, the original tune transposes to F minor, which uses the same notes as the scale C Db E F G Ab Bb Also, my own accordion is being repaired at the moment, and I borrowed this cute little cherrywood Pigini accordion from the workshop, I kinda like it.

Not what you asked for but here’s my program listing, no typos I hope - 10 BASE=226 15 REM C=226 C#=212 D=401 Eb=377 20 POKE 53768,80:REM BIG MEGAHERTZ 30 POKE 53761,160:REM 1 OFF 40 POKE 53763,200:REM 2 ON $C 50 LASKURI=0 100 LASKURI=LASKURI+1 110 K=(INT(RND(0)*20))+1 115 SARO=192 116 IF K<4 THEN SARO=128:REM RANDOM SNARE 117 IF LASKURI=4 THEN K=1:SARO=128:LASKURI=0:POKE 710,LO:POKE 709,HI:REM SNARE AND COLOR FLASH 120 AANI=(BASE*K)-7 130 HI=INT(AANI/256) 140 LO=AANI-(HI*256) 150 POKE 53760,LO 160 POKE 53762,HI 170 FOR HIT=15 TO 2 STEP -2:REM VARY THIS LINE FOR TEMPO 180 POKE 53763,SARO+HIT 190 NEXT HIT 220 GOTO 100

Awesome! Thanks!!

Well, gotta dance with the devil... I would upload it here but I assume there is no way to host videos natively here on atariage. I suppose youtube is satan's domain, too ... although that would come with an embed if shared here? Might give it a go.

thanks! I can, if someone gives me an instruction of how to. I have an AVG cart with a partition I am using for BASIC saves, although with this one I was using my 1050. Anyway I would be happy to just type it, too - when I find the right moment for that.

The algorithm is like crack - it can feed your video to hundreds, thousands or hundreds of thousands of people who are not subscribed to you. I only got as far as around 16K views for my most viewed video - but it can be an easy way to get your music / material out to the people. I have reserved tiktok for "goofy" videos such as this one, the more official music releases can be found on my youtube channels @kiurelisammallahti8066 and @suomibhangra

Just having fun with my squeeze box and a simple BASIC routine on my Atari. I hope you enjoy. https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGJoDT3YH/ or, if you prefer instagram over tiktok - https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzUBEWUNaxn/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Thanks for the info and sorry for going off topic I think the image is actually 160x192, it somehow gave me the impression of 320x192 which I think would be something of an impossibility with that colour palette...

I have been following the Rasta thread occasionally. But my know how is still mostly from the 80's and I'm not really familiar with the technical side of how to make such images. Must be something else to it than gr.8 with P/M and interrupts right?

After a bit of a hiatus, I'm back playing Scorch! Amazing work! A question - how does one achieve 320 x 192 with so many colors in the splash screen?

ah yeah - I do recall the laser being somewhat unpredictable back in the days of playing Scorch on a PC, and there was a chance of it kinda hitting back to you. I _presume_ I was shooting a direct hit at my dear daughter's tank yesterday, as we were pretty much on the same level and my turret was at angle 0 - but instead of blowing up her tank, I was destroyed.

hey, just discovered the glory of the full version & played it with my kids. Thanks for the release, was lots of fun! Haven't yet tried the novelties, so there's still an element of discovery in upcoming games regarding bouncy castle et cetera... Biggest deviation from the original is that parachutes can't be active with shields, you have to make a choice which ones to use. Could be seen an improvement from the original, depending on your strategic point of view Also, the only instance I used laser it backfired on me... I think that's something which happens in the original, too - but I never figured out what was the logic! I think in the original it may have had something to do with force shields?

lots of stuff to learn there - I like the look of that bus noise

Hi! I've been recently poking around with my Atari, exploring colour character sets and sprites. Doing animated dragons at GR13 and working on a P/M dragonslayer. My skills at hobbyist level at most. With the default value 34 in the address 559, the on-screen players become a busy data flicker of 8x8 dimension pixels. Now, 1) what the heck is going on there, where's the data that is displayed in the player from? 2) I like that effect, any games/programs out there utilizing that?

I'll start a project to make an ATR of the disk, might take some time with my skills & being busy with work though... the communication channel between my mac and my Ataris has been my AVGcart with SIO and the SD card, but am I correct in assuming that it's not possible to put the ATR on the SD card so that it could be read by the mac?

Some more of my Atari stuff - floppy disks and tapes were recently discovered at the attic of a relative... I started to explore a floppy and found some basic programs that I had written as a kid back in the good old days. I ran one of the programs and heard disk I/O sounds on my CRT speaker. I aborted the program as I was not sure what it was doing. Then I listed it and apparently it was a program to write some data on the disk, connected to a program I was working on to help calculate attacks in pen-and-paper RPG Rolemaster with the aid of my computer. I ran the program once more to see what it does, and it apparently wrote a file on the disk. However going back to DOS 3 (one of the disks had that), the file index seems to be corrupt. I assume it is because I ran the writing program and aborted it. Now I can't load any of the BAS programs and can't read what's on the disk. That sucks as there were some childhood treasures in there. Are the files lost forever or is there a way to rescue them? I was using an 800XL and a 1050 disk drive, and the Master Diskette 3 supplied with it.

Guys, I created a kind of a space opera. It's called Space Habib and the style is a mixture of chiptune, synthwave, Middle Eastern inspired melodies, Bollywood, pop, you name it. The music was produced in collaboration with the Finnish synthwave artist Millennium Falck. Wy trusty 600XL has been responsible for a lot of the sounds and visuals. We had two shows in April here in Finland and I'm planning to do more shows in Autumn at youth centres et cetera. I thought some of the folks here at AA could find this interesting so here's a trailer and some images. The actor on the trailer is Remu Aaltonen who is a legend in Finnish music and he plays the space villain as a video projection. https://www.facebook.com/caisahelsinki/videos/1008631193395038/ On the pics, you can see Jeff Minter's Colourspace on the CRT being used for what it was designed for - visuals on stage. I'm thinking of building something that responds to sounds and sends signals to a joystick port so Colourspace could be sound controlled on stage.

Probably so, although in terms of cinema the score is 1-1 - there is an Old World as well as a New World version of Solaris, the Soviet one and the more recent Hollywood one. Lem is not that well known here in Finland to tell you the truth. I was a sucker for his books when I was a kid and there were good translations available at my local library. Some of my friends were into Douglas Adams, but I was not drawn to his books - and my friends never got the humour and philosophy of Lem. I was an odd kid in many other respects, too - my friends all owned a C64 while I had the very marginal Atari. At least in Finland the A8’s didn’t sell well at all. I used to listen to music like Level 42 and Nik Kershaw while Kiss, Twisted Sister and WASP were the norm. I could go on… Sorry for going of topic, but nostalgia and childhood reflection seems to be a big part of this forum anyway ?

Don’t we all love Lem on AtariAge? And Adams, for that matter - though I’m more familiar with Lem.

During initial naming of the tanks (and possibly initial settings screen if I remember correctly), shift key seems to function like return key. I don’t know if this is intentional or a bug. The shields market screen shows some random characters on some bottom rows.

After some very busy times, I finally had a moment of good Atari times with family, friends - and the latest build of Scorch. Thanks for the fun, keep up the good work! ??

AWESOME! Glad to see a new version. Title screen and all! Am I correct in assuming that the shields are still under development, or did I miss how to turn them on? Also, the shields seem to bee free of charge on the market.

Awesome - fav childhood game I never owned - can’t wait for the release!