Level42 Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 On Atarionline.pl A new 2600 conversion by Phaeron "Stampede" is Available for download. . Its amazing, its seems that Phaeron have the "recipe" on how to make such conversion. Maybe the info could be shared and we could have a team of programmers making many more of these 2600 conversion, Just a thought i had now. Anyway, its great playing actual 2600 games on the Atari 8-Bit : . Great Work Phaeron . Got a direct link or can you attach it here ? That site isn't actually very easy to search through, esp. if you don't speak Polish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Philsan Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 Got a direct link or can you attach it here ? That site isn't actually very easy to search through, esp. if you don't speak Polish The game was released on AtariAge: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/190482-is-round-up-the-only-stampede-clone/?p=2909682 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Level42 Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 Thanks ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atx4us Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 At the very least, you can run 2600 stuff outside the kernal without too much modification but inside the kernal where much of the graphics generation is taking place, you have to rework it and use alternate methods of showing some/all of the graphics. I've seen the "kernal" thing mentioned many times over the years but never looked into it. Doesn't the A800 have the kernal mode as well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Kernal as in graphics kernal just refers to a method of doing graphics. A8 can do it as well. With 2600, it's about the only way to do graphics as the registers for bitmaps of playfield and objects have to be loaded by the CPU as the display is drawn. On A8 that process is automatic, kernals are usually just for stuff like colour changes and positional changes to get more PM objects down the screen. Use of kernals is evident in games like Basketball and Miner 2049er, mainly done so in both for colour changes of the human objects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grevle Posted January 25, 2014 Author Share Posted January 25, 2014 (edited) About Cosmic Ark for the 2600 is there any A8 equalent ? this little game is fun and addictive .thats my opinion, hope this game get portet to the A8. Edited January 25, 2014 by Grevle 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 (edited) Afaik, Cosmic Ark and Atlantis were/are both available as type-in listings in Atari Basic (released in a german magazine as "Kosmische Arche" and "Atlantis") by Jens Berke: http://www.jensberke.de/atari.htm Here is a direct link to the disk-image with that game: http://www.jensberke.de/JBGAMES.ZIP Commercially only Atlantis was/is available on cart for the A8 by Imagic and hacked/cracked file-versions of that cart, e.g. here: http://a8.fandal.cz/detail.php?files_id=1253 -Andreas Koch. Edited January 25, 2014 by CharlieChaplin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grevle Posted January 25, 2014 Author Share Posted January 25, 2014 Ok i tried the Basic version and it just dont have colorful and hectic gameplay of the A2600 original. Heres a video of Cosmic ark for the A2600. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 Dropzone missing the chopper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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