Another World for Atari 8-bit

[Syfo-Dyas]

http://files.frashii.com/~sp00nz/Doom/file...ari8-bit/games/

 

Anybody ever hear of this one before? Is this commercial, or is it a fan tribute? Works great under emulation, yet I can't get it to boot from my flash cart for some reason.

Edited April 22, 2009 by Syfo-Dyas

[Warriorisabouttodie]

http://files.frashii.com/~sp00nz/Doom/file...ari8-bit/games/

 

Anybody ever hear of this one before? Is this commercial, or is it a fan tribute? Works great under emulation, yet I can't get it to boot from my flash cart for some reason.

 

 

It's a fan made demo and it's just the first part, but it's pretty impressive. I've only played it on an emulator so I can't comment on real hardware.

[Tempest]

It's pretty amazing that they were able to pull off anything that looked like Out of This World (Another World) on the 8-bit. I've never played it, but it looks darn impressive. It's a testament to how far people are willing to go to port things to old computers.

 

So where's my 8-bit Defender of the Crown?

 

Tempest

[carmel_andrews]

I want Turrican...but there again that is as likely to happen as the likelihood of heaven/fox/eru et al doing numen 2 (but much better)

 

I thought someone was working on defender of the crown....or did i missunderstand

Edited April 22, 2009 by carmel_andrews

[Syfo-Dyas]

Having played a bit of this, I'm wondering why there are no point and click adventures for my beloved 8-bit.

 

Sadly I can't get this to boot off my 8Mb flash cart or through APE. Only emulation seems to work. :/

[ZylonBane]

Having played a bit of this, I'm wondering why there are no point and click adventures for my beloved 8-bit.

Because point-and-click adventures suck without mouse control.

[Syfo-Dyas]

I use a mouse on my Atari...

[a8isa1]

Having played a bit of this, I'm wondering why there are no point and click adventures for my beloved 8-bit.

 

Sadly I can't get this to boot off my 8Mb flash cart or through APE. Only emulation seems to work. :/

boots OK via my SIO2PC cable (using AtariSIO) with BASIC disabled.

 

Game/demo has problems though. Replays after character dies have data coruption for player.

[urborg]

Having played a bit of this, I'm wondering why there are no point and click adventures for my beloved 8-bit.

 

There aer few great point and click adventures on 8-bit Atari. Check out: Klatwa, Wladcy Ciemnosci, AD2044.

Point and click adventures becomes famous in early nineties. Too, late for 8-bit Atari. It was still alive only in Western Europe back than.

[Ross PK]

I'd love to see Sonic The Hedgehog on the 8-bit.

[+CharlieChaplin]

Having played a bit of this, I'm wondering why there are no point and click adventures for my beloved 8-bit.

 

There aer few great point and click adventures on 8-bit Atari. Check out: Klatwa, Wladcy Ciemnosci, AD2044.

Point and click adventures becomes famous in early nineties. Too, late for 8-bit Atari. It was still alive only in Western Europe back than.

 

[off-topic on]

Well, there are also:

 

- F.R.E.E. - Funny Risky Evil Escape, a gfx adventure by a french atarian, available in french and english language; there exists a demo version with two disksides and the full version with 5 disksides...

- TAAM - a german gfx adventure with 4 disksides

- Mystix 2 - another german gfx adventure with 2 disksides

 

Yes, they are all european and were made in the 90s. But afaik there is at least one (or more?) US-made gfx adventure, Gunslinger by Datasoft with 5 disksides: http://www.atarimania.com/detail_soft.php?...VERSION_ID=2354

 

Hmm, how about gfx adventures like Myst etc. where one can click onto objects that can be seen in the graphic (on the screen) ?!? Not completely impossible on the A8, but at the moment I only remember the german gfx adventures (with some RPG and action-adventure elements) named "Die dunkle Macht des Unriagh" and "Die dunkle Macht des Unriagh II" (which would translate into something like "The dark powers of Unriagh") where one can click onto some objects (2 or 3) in the graphic, their name gets highlighted and one may examine, get/take, destroy or ... them.

 

Alas, most of these adventures require a lot of space for the gfx and the click&point system and err, well, they often don`t have a big parser and not that many action(s) that one can make during the game - I often like the gfx of these adventures but find them otherwise quite boring and the disk-flipping annoying... -Andreas Koch.

 

P.S.: Attached the english version of F.R.E.E. - its the demo version of course... (I don`t have the full version and I doubt its still available)... requires a medium/enhanced compatible diskdrive or the emu, 64k RAM and Basic off...

[off-topic off]

Edited April 26, 2009 by CharlieChaplin

[Syfo-Dyas]

I was aware of a few of these, though as fate has it, I don't read German or Polish. None the less these english titles are new to me...

 

...Thankx!

 

What I really had in mind though was something along the lines of Space Quest or King's Quest which the 8-bit version of Another World reminded me of...

 

...well in looks that is.

[urborg]

I was aware of a few of these, though as fate has it, I don't read German or Polish. None the less these english titles are new to me...

 

Game "Klatwa" was also released in english version as "the Curse". You can find it on www.atarionline.pl

[eegad]

Spoiler anyone? I just tried playing this last night. Okay, get out of pool, go right and kick rats on 2 screens, enter third screen and immediately turn around and run left, past the pool, jump and grab the vine, swing past lion, run to right...and run and run.......and I ALWAYS get caught. How the heck do you do this????? (the funny thing is that I played this on my first Mac way back circa 1995 or so, but I've totally forgotten how it goes).

[Gunstar]

Having played a bit of this, I'm wondering why there are no point and click adventures for my beloved 8-bit.

 

There aer few great point and click adventures on 8-bit Atari. Check out: Klatwa, Wladcy Ciemnosci, AD2044.

Point and click adventures becomes famous in early nineties. Too, late for 8-bit Atari. It was still alive only in Western Europe back than.

 

I've loaded up and checked out as much as possible with all above, the problem is I can't read the language, so they are only good for those who can. I do plan on finally learning a second language (after attempts in high school and college with German and Spanish; was disinterested at the time), but It will probably be a more dominent language than Polish, no disrespect intended, looks like a fine language.