New video reviews: Amigos Plays Atari 800

[+BoatofCar]

Hi everyone, my buddy and I host an Amiga podcast, but there's a soft spot in our hearts for the Atari 8 bit line. We're going to start doing mini reviews of A8 games on our Youtube channel. Here are the first two.

 

Miner 2049er

 

Missile Command

 

Please let me know what you think or if you have any game suggestions!

[ClausB]

Star Raiders!

[Rybags]

Nice presentation method. So many old game and system review videos are ruined because too little effort was put into the production of them.

[+BoatofCar]

Thanks! I put a lot of work into getting everything set up just right, and I'm glad it's appreciated

 

I altered the original layout a bit to make the game screen larger. Here are a couple new ones.

 

 

 

 

 

ClausB, Star Raiders is definitely on the list!

[Mclaneinc]

Chopper Command!!!....Chopper Command...How dare you, wash your mouth out...

 

 

(said at the end of the video)

 

That aside, like the idea although the Chopper Rescue video was more you playing and no real review, yeah I know, its hard to play AND review especially with a game that demands you be very careful so please don't take it as a downer.

 

Keep them coming....

 

By the way, give Chopper Rescue more time, the later screens are great fun and its got that just one more go thing down to a tee...

Edited June 16, 2016 by Mclaneinc

[+BoatofCar]

Whoops, sorry about that! I had a feeling I was going to make that mistake at some point when I started

 

BTW, thanks for working on the Atari 800 Best Game Pack! I'm using that extensively.

[Rybags]

The aspect ratio doesn't look right. Atari doesn't have the fat borders left/right of the display like C64 does. For the most part you'd want about 336 hires pixels covering the screen horizontally where on C64 you'd probably see about 376. Vertically you'd probably want 240-248. Though you could crop each slightly to make it fill the screen better.

[+BoatofCar]

I see what you mean. I'll try to do away with those black bars on my next set of videos.

[Rybags]

It can get confusing if you use Altirra as the source of video capture. Generally you'd want to use View -> Overscan Mode -> Normal which should give you 336x240 pixels worth of display.

[+BoatofCar]

Awesome, thanks for the tip! It may still look a little distorted due to trying to "fit" the image into the monitor, but I'm sure it will be an improvement.

[Mclaneinc]

That's the problem of using bezels (I presume that's what you are using?) to do the picture in picture, wrong sized bezel and then it all goes to poop..

 

As for the gamepack, thank you for the kind words, sadly its very much on hold while both me (my daughter) and Starwindz are going through family illness..

 

I'm not saying its dead as I still have lots of work I meant to do for it but when the programming side (starwindz) is also one hell of a busy man with his job AND these illness issues its hard to get the time.

 

To Para phrase Arnie, "I'll try to be back"

[+therealbountybob]

Just watched the first one Miner 2049'er being played... extremely badly very funny when you were figuring out the controls and managed to move left just as the bug got you! I did find myself shouting at the screen to get the last few squares before going down the chute on level 2! Your play did show the learning curve on Miner which is another great thing about the game.

 

Strangely very enjoyable watching other people play, look forward to viewing another one on my next assemble

 

How about a scathing review of my game Ramp Rage

[Mclaneinc]

"extremely badly" Lol....

 

Don't muck around, tell us what you mean

 

Ok the chopper rescue play had me wanting to shout at the screen "noooo don't touch the.....too late"

 

But that's all part of the fun of the review

[+BoatofCar]

Just watched the first one Miner 2049'er being played... extremely badly very funny when you were figuring out the controls and managed to move left just as the bug got you! I did find myself shouting at the screen to get the last few squares before going down the chute on level 2! Your play did show the learning curve on Miner which is another great thing about the game.

 

Strangely very enjoyable watching other people play, look forward to viewing another one on my next assemble

 

How about a scathing review of my game Ramp Rage

 

I'm glad you enjoyed it! Ramp Rage, eh? I'll give that a go, sure!

 

Rybags, here is a newer video. Does this aspect ratio look better? I apologize for the sound--I thought connecting 2 USB mics would sync correctly. Nope!

 

[+BoatofCar]

A new video approaches!

 

 

I can't believe I never played this before. Fantastic game!

[Mclaneinc]

Is it a porno?

 

Just that its marked as private and won't let you watch it

Edited June 22, 2016 by Mclaneinc

[+BoatofCar]

D'oh! Fixed now

[Rybags]

That aspect ratio looks much better. I wonder though... can you apply barrel distortion to the video so it wraps to the rounded shape of the CRT?

Edited June 22, 2016 by Rybags

[+BoatofCar]

I'll look into it!

[+BoatofCar]

Astro Chase!

 

[+BoatofCar]

Hey guys, it's been awhile but I've got a new video! After many attempts, I was unable to get a clean video signal out of my 1200XL to my capture card, but I really like playing on real hardware, so from here on out all my videos will be filmed from my 1200XL attached to a 1702