eegad Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 First game I ever bought for my 400 in 1982 was Crypts of Terror on cassette. Stumbled upon it on atarimania last summer. Loaded it up on Altirra and got it to work, but didn't play it for more than a few minutes....put it aside for some future time. Just decided to play it more. But it won't load. I get it to load the intro and then the second part of the tape loads....but then it asks for the level to start at and I can't get past that, not even with the "magic" password posted on atarimania...it just jumps back to the level select screen. Can't imagine HOW it worked last summer and not now.....what setting or whatever might be different. Any ideas? Anybody have a save state for altirra for this game? Or maybe a xex conversion??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 (edited) Make sure the password is in CAPITALS Works here on latest Altirra beta... Here a version on protected disk Remember to use the fire button and NOT the enter or return key... Crypts of Terror (1981)(Inhome Software)(CA)BASIC.zip Edited February 5, 2017 by Mclaneinc 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eegad Posted February 5, 2017 Author Share Posted February 5, 2017 Thanks for the disk version - that works fine! (still no idea why the cassette version won't accept the password for me, but I guess it doesn't much matter now). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 Glad to help... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beamer320i Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 Make sure the password is in CAPITALS Works here on latest Altirra beta... Here a version on protected disk Remember to use the fire button and NOT the enter or return key... Many thanks for posting this - I have the originals but I've been after a 'file' version for years, looked high and low but never found one (until now!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 That is what this community is about...Every one likes to help... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firebottle Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 By the way... all the passwords were posted here: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/251224-old-game-that-used-upside-down-characters/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoldenGraham Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 (edited) Looking for an XEX rom download of this game 'Crypts Of Terror' for the Ultimate Cart in my 800xl. Enjoyed this game a lot back in the 80s but can't find file format anywhere that's compatible with my Ultimate Cart. I've tried the conversion tools too without any joy. Supported file formats are CAR, XEX, ROM and BIN. If anyone knows of a download of any on these formats anywhere or can create one for me or advise how to create/convert one that works with the Ultimate Cart, ideally XEX format, that would be fab ? Edited September 26, 2020 by GoldenGraham Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfollowell Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, GoldenGraham said: Looking for an XEX rom download of this game 'Crypts Of Terror' for the Ultimate Cart in my 800xl. Enjoyed this game a lot back in the 80s but can't find file format anywhere that's compatible with my Ultimate Cart. I've tried the conversion tools too without any joy. Supported file formats are CAR, XEX, ROM and BIN. If anyone knows of a download of any on these formats anywhere or can create one for me or advise how to create/convert one that works with the Ultimate Cart, ideally XEX format, that would be fab ? If you're talking about Crypts of Terror from Inhome Software, you won't find any of those formats available. It was a BASIC game released on disk or cassette. The only way it may possibly work is if someone wrapped it in some sort of loader software as an xex maybe, but I'm not sure if anyone has ever done anything like that for BASIC games. Edited September 26, 2020 by bfollowell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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bfollowell Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 There you go. I had a feeling someone would post in if there were something available. I thought I'd heard of something, but it's not something I've ever wanted to use, so I wasn't certain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 Except this is for individual BASIC programs, not disks which have several files. Unless I'm mistaken, Crypts of Terror has the intro, the main program and a .dat file so this won't work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwilbar Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 curious of anyone has ever made a 'rom disk'. Then a large (paged) cartridge could have an area that works like a RAM disk. It would still be quite a conversion.... and if course if you need to write to the 'disk' it wouldn't be useful.... but a cart image that made part of its area accessible as a 'rom disk' would be cool ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 5 hours ago, www.atarimania.com said: Except this is for individual BASIC programs, not disks which have several files. Unless I'm mistaken, Crypts of Terror has the intro, the main program and a .dat file so this won't work. Yep, will not work with Bas2COM or BAS2XEX or similar programs. But may work with asking Homesoft to do it for you... ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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