Wrathchild Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 Hi, I've just been fixing up the ROM version of this game as it only worked on 400/800 machines and not the XL/XE series. I just wanted to check if this had been ported to the 5200 already as its not on the cart list? If not then I'll take a stab at it. Again, the original is a 16K image but appears not to have the space for the replacement stick handing routines and so will force me to use a 32K model. No real problem with that though. Regards, Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Helmet Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 I've never seen a 5200 conversion, but it would be cool to have. Fort Apocalypse is a great game. I'd also like to see Protector 2 converted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted February 8, 2010 Author Share Posted February 8, 2010 OK, that was a bit a of a fight before beating this one into submission As before, can people check this out and report back if its OK or has issues. Best wishes, Mark fa5200.zip 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bohoki Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 OK, that was a bit a of a fight before beating this one into submission As before, can people check this out and report back if its OK or has issues. Best wishes, Mark wow that is really keen i wish there was some way to do rampage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 Argg! I can't find my USB male/male cable for my Atarimax cart to try it. I'll pick one up today or tomorrow and try it on the real thing. It seems to hang after the title screen on Atari800MacX. Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted February 8, 2010 Author Share Posted February 8, 2010 (edited) Looks to be an NTSC issue with timings etc, I'll take a look. (slaps wrist for not checking that... again) [Edit] It was, there is one check for VCOUNT = 0 which never occurs on the NTSC due to the reduced lines available and the extra code for joystick reading etc running over. Fixed verison attached. Thanks for the report Allan - will you be doing a label again? Mark fa5200.zip Edited February 8, 2010 by Wrathchild Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2600 Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 (edited) Just tried it on my flash cart, but I can't get the joystick or the trakball controllers to do anything in terms of moving the chopper. The demo mode looks really cool though! Edited February 9, 2010 by Greg2600 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 Thanks for the report Allan - will you be doing a label again? Mark I will. Got to find a good scan of the box. Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted February 9, 2010 Author Share Posted February 9, 2010 Thanks for testing Greg2600. The game's own initilization was resetting all the Pokey/Antic and Gtia registers after my init routines had already cleared and set these appropriately. I removed these but there could be others. Is there a better emulator to check controls work properly? Atari800WinPLus doesn't quite do this properly I understand? Thanks, Mark fa5200.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2600 Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 What you changed worked, now the controller works perfectly in the 5200! Trak-ball no, but not all games worked on it. As for Emulators, I personally use M.E.S.S. but the controls worked on it before your changes. I think most of the emulators are programmed in such a way that it is hard to "trip them up." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kjmann Posted February 12, 2010 Share Posted February 12, 2010 (edited) How about something like this for the label? I was just messing around =) Edited February 12, 2010 by kjmann Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2600 Posted February 12, 2010 Share Posted February 12, 2010 This was the original Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kjmann Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 This was the original I know, but i never liked the original artwork. It always looked a bit hokey to me. =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 Well, here's a label for people who like the original artwork. Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted February 13, 2010 Author Share Posted February 13, 2010 I've used Allan's image as a base, moved the word 'Synapse' and squeezed a bit more of the cover scan picture into the same space. I do like Sal's version though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 I've used Allan's image as a base, moved the word 'Synapse' and squeezed a bit more of the cover scan picture into the same space. I do like Sal's version though Yea, that's better. I was going to go back and make more of the helicopter in the picture. Thanks. Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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