Running Shamus on Atari800Win Plus 4.0

[majinbuu]

I've been at this thing for the last hour and now I'm hopelessly lost. I just cannot get the game to run. I can get it to the first screen where is says Shamus along with programmer and copyright information. I wait for the music to stop playing and that is as far as I have gotten.

 

I have tried OS-B, OS-A and XL/XE mode but no luck. Either crashes or gets stuck at the title screen.

 

Please help

 

Thanks

Sam

[Kr0tki]

Tried pressing Start?

 

Also, what dump of Shamus have you used? All dumps from Atarimania and Atarionline.pl work fine.

[majinbuu]

Tried pressing Start?

 

Also, what dump of Shamus have you used? All dumps from Atarimania and Atarionline.pl work fine.

 

I tried the version that came with Gamebase 800 version 6 and another Shamus (1982)(Synapse)[OSb].atr

 

Both didn't work.

 

Tried both versions from Atarimania and guess what, on standard OS-B setting it worked straight away.

 

Thanks for your help, I should have thought of it myself. I just assumed that the version from Gamebase should have worked.

[Wrathchild]

Tried both versions from Atarimania and guess what, on standard OS-B setting it worked straight away.

XL fixed version here.

[Rybags]

Plenty of Synapse games didn't work properly (or at all) on XL/XE.

 

With Shamus, Nautilus and Slime you could hold Start when the program finished loading and it would work - although Slime would still crash later in the game.

 

IIRC, they also performed a disk access when loading finished - if a disk drive was present for the tape version, or drive not present on disk version, the game would hang.

[deathtrappomegranate]

I tried the version that came with Gamebase 800 version 6

It's not worth bothering.

[majinbuu]

I tried the version that came with Gamebase 800 version 6

It's not worth bothering.

Yeah, I learned that the hard way. Spent a long time on trying to get it to work. Should have went to a trusted source in the first place

[Cybergoth]

Cleaned up the thread. Anyone interested in debating Windows 7, please find the appropriate subforum or do so via PM.