Maze Craze - 256 Maze Version

[Maze Craze - 256 Maze Version]

I LOVED this as a 2 player game way back when - there was another thread talking about the best 2 player games - this is one of them - Quick, Fast, Hyper and the thrill of victory to run into your opponents face (until they hit the reset button)

 

Inviso mazes were the best!

[5200 Firebutton emu in Atari800win 3.1]

I hit just about every key but the left shift , but now things work like I expected

 

I think Atari800win 3.1 is the best 5200 emu as well - opinions?

[Best American software houses]

Synapse was def the best IMHO...........

 

Broderbund was also pretty good to the 8bit community as well.

 

MicroProse did some good stuff early on as did Avalon Hill(crappy games though )

[5200 Firebutton emu in Atari800win 3.1]

Does anyone know if Atari800win 3.1 emulates both firebuttons for the 5200? It appears to only support 1 firebutton?????

 

Jum5200 has some big collision dectection problems so Im trying to find a good, easy to use 5200 emu to run under windows.

[JetBoot Jack.com - revised]

The thing I liked best about the games posted is they had a quality graphics feel to them - too often the C64 versions of games came out looking better due to folks not spending a bit of extra time with the 8bits graphics capabilities - too bad they never were finished.

 

Shadow is very impressive with all the vents going on and the speed - then again the enemy stuff wasnt fully implemented

[Best music in an 8-bit game]

Alley Cat was really well done - add to that:

 

MULE

Ball Blazer

Ultima III/IV had some nice tunes as well

Alternate Reality City/Dungeon had some really good tunes!

[Quake 3 Adventure!]

Cant help with the MOD stuff - Im just a tester - Let me know when you want someone to run through the CTF map

[Quake 3 Adventure!]

Hehehehe - A bit off topic but its from the Atari 800 Ultima I release.

 

It used a video mode different than the other 800 Ultima releases

 

Now,

Any word on the Q3 CTF Adventure maps?

[RAM/ROM- and E2prom-browser]

Let the Jag play XBox live games (thats the online stuff right?) via broadband connection

[RAM/ROM- and E2prom-browser]

As for getting the Jag to run TOS, you'll prob have more luck getting MACOs than TOS. IIRC you never saw a 68010, 68020 or 68030 ST for a long time due to TOS almost being hardwired for the hardware within and not properly done via APIs through the kernal -

 

Anyhow,

Might be a fun project if youre stranded in Siberia for a winter or two

[Haunted House II/joystick problem?]

Well I got a Grinch lump of coal in my Xmas stocking - While playing Koffi my 5200 seems to have taken a dump - Sound is messed up and most carts wont go past the initial Atari Logo screen............

 

Pokey playing havoc or just SOL?

[MyIDE Experts]

Few more details:

 

1. I am booting from teh Driver diskette which has MyDOS on it

2. The manual tells you to run scandisk first vs fdisk to test the interface

3. I bought one of the 'special' edition carts which had everything needed for external use

4. If I turn on the HD after the XE the LED in the cart lights while the HD it spooling up then goes off

 

I just dont know where to go/test from here!

 

I found out my cable is setup for connecting in a certain order (blue connector to motherboard(myide cart), end of cable connector goes to 'Master drive', middle grey connector goes to secondary or 'Slave' drive)

 

So I know I have the cable connected properly.

[MyIDE Experts]

Folks,

 

For those few who have gotten a MyIDE cart to work(simply because there are so few of them ) I have a question:

 

I got a Rev3 MyIDE cart and am trying to connect it to my Quantum 1080AT Fireball HD. I can set the drive as a Master or Slave but for some reason the MyIDE cart doesnt recognize the drive. I get the following error with the scandisk.bas utility:

 

The Program Only Runs Under MyDOS

 

Interface not detected

 

Now,

Im not sure if it didnt find the MyIDE cart interface or the HD???

 

The LED light is not lite when I start up my 130XE -

 

Any hints or suggestions as to whats wrong? Could the IDE cable not be hooked up correctly(ie, does it go a certain direction)?

[Koffi: Yellow Kopter is done!]

Finally was able to play Koffi after looking at the box for 2 weeks!

 

Well done Ron - nice game - I hope you can port this to the 800 so I can get more enjoyment out of it. My 5200 stick is going bad - and Im not sure I want to keep dumping money into this machine

 

But back to the original point - Very fun and challenging - My 5200 will stay out of the closet a few more days while I try to get through all the levels

[DEFENDER cartridge has a bug!]

Cant remember my high score but I think I went for 4 mill on Defender - it took like 4 hrs to do..................

 

I dont think its a bug since the game continues to play normally no matter how high you score - I think the designers didnt want to occupy more than 2 digits for wave

 

The TGHS is around 10 mill by Ron Corcoran - only due to amount of time played and not skill

[Jag Potential]

I had 2 cool (IMHO) Doom2 maps I did - 1 was the staircase from hell (small, jagged and located in swamp hell - 1 misstep and you're DOOMED! The other was an 'Arena' type layout with the 'Rocket Boss' located in the middle - youre job was to run for cover anywhere you could and collect the keys while avoiding the Rockets - Kinda like a speedball type layout

 

My levels were EVIL.......................

[Quest and 2600 In A Flash]

Ack,

 

Too many people have viewd the website - can we get some more detail on the Flash Cart here for all to see!

[Trak Disk Drives (Compatibility)]

Myabe have him format the disks and send them to you for copying - that way you know they came from his drive working?

[Trak Disk Drives (Compatibility)]

I wonder if the Trak drives support 'ED'?

 

Can you check the format density of the disks your using?

 

Otherwise maybe the Trak drive needs alignment.

[Name This Game]

Mousk Attack was awesome and a great 2 player game - you could be soooooo Evil in it

[Atari laser printers (SLM804/SLM605)]

It was a tad slow but also 1/2 the price of other laser printers since it used the ST's memory for printing - ahead of its time again even though a 1 meg ST wasnt enough

[Good two-player games?]

Dodge 'Em is a great 2 player game to play with your brother IMHO - lots o fights were started in our house with this one

[Haunted House II Review?]

I had a weird problem with HH II that my 5200 fire button didnt work with it! It works with other games but this one its very picky. I had to get the Wico out which worked fine!

[Ultima]

Ultima II on the Apple was my first exposure and I was hooked. Ultima II had a few twists to it which made it difficult to finish - Find so and so under 'Atree'

 

The rockets and space travel were really fun!

 

Ultima III was a let down to me cause I finished it new in like 3 days - Ultima IV was another story - IV is the best IMHO and most folks would prob rate IV and VII as the 2 to play.

 

Yes, there are character references throughout the games Mr Smith

["Doom" vs. "Wolfenstein 3D"]

Wasnt Doom delayed for Wolf 3D - Didnt they do a prototype of the engine and found that Wolf 3D could be whipped out pretty quickly, hence Doom got pushed back so they could get almost a freebie with the Doom design?