Issue with Combat Leader on a 130XE

[Bloodcat]

I just recently got into the 8 bit line and saw the game up for cheap on ebay so I grabbed it.

 

The problem? It doesn't work, but in a weird manner.

 

My system: 130XE with 1050 drive.

 

The game loads and plays the intro music, but the picture of the tank is a garbled mess. Can get into mission select, but once it gets to the mission its all garbled and most of the time you can't even move the joystick.

 

Last night I tested it out in Altirra and got the same garbled mess. Today for laughs I set up Altirra to be an A 800 and it worked fine. But the confusion remains since when rebooting the program and having it go back to XE emulation it worked fine.

 

I would rather not hassle the ebay seller over a whopping 10 total dollars including shipping game not working if its really just not XE compatible but its not listed in any FAQs.

 

Anyone able to confirm/deny Combat Leader being unworkable on XEs?

[+orpheuswaking]

do you have a copy of the Atari Translator disk? If so try booting that first and then the game. It will at least narrow down if it's an OS issue.

[Bloodcat]

Don't have that yet. It's one of the things I am looking at getting in the future.

[+orpheuswaking]

If I can find a download of the game I'll try making a disk and give it a try

[Gunstar]

I'd be happy to send you a disk with the 800 OS translator on it. PM me if you are interested. For free of course.

 

I've never heard of combat leader though, not that I recall. I'll also see if I can track it down online and try it out.

 

By the way, Bloodcat, I highly recommend the next thing you get is an SIO2PC solution, probably the USB version, I recommend AtariMax for their version, but that's the only one I really know...so, someone else may have a better choice. But such a device allows you to set up virtual disk drives on your PC or laptop and then you can easily download thousands of programs online and basically use your PC as a hard drive for the Atari. Then, the games you really like you can buy in disk or cart form from ebay or whatever and have the nice boxes and manuals and such.

Edited November 15, 2011 by Gunstar

[Bloodcat]

I'm looking into some of the computer solutions as well. Ill probably end up going with a flash drive type that acts like a virtual floppy drive.

 

The Atari and the PC are in entirely different rooms. (Been working on doing a kind of sort of Let's Play around the Atari XE. Ive gotten some flack on my video doing the record with a video camera pointed at the screen. Can't do capture device since a 15'+ long cable snaking through 2 rooms just isn't doable! I'm trying to clean up my house not reclutter it with all new stuff! )

 

My goal is to only use programs that are either freeware (His Dark Majesty, Yoomp!), been released as such by the creators (Miner 2049er, Bounty Bob), or ones I have legimitately purchased in a legal format.

 

Even when emulating them. Heck, I even have a Commodore 1084 composite monitor I am playing the 130 on! (Bought it years ago for some other reason. Still works in spite of hanging out in the basement since 96.)

 

Combat Leader itself might be one of the first RTS games, even predating the Ancient Art of War series.

(And as usua; people basically attribute the genre to Herzog Zwei, since anything not well known simply can't be acknowledged. Its a shock Alone in the Dark even gets credit for what it did for the Survival Horror genre, and that's still discounting games like Project Firestart!)

[Gunstar]

If it's not a hit, it doesn't count...apparently, or it just doesn't exist. Reminds me of Star Wars when young Obiwan was at the galactic archives and the librarian said; "if it's not in the archives, it doesn't exist. The "we know everything, don't confuse us with the facts" liberal attitude.