retroillucid Posted February 14, 2020 Author Share Posted February 14, 2020 11 minutes ago, evg2000 said: will it be able to use the roller ball? or just JS? looks great! Only regular controller for this one since it was designed to use a controller only Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serguei2 Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 20 hours ago, retroillucid said: It has been decided to NOT make any Phoenix exclusive games Instead, we want our games to be compatible with BOTH regular ColecoVision AND the Phoenix If you insert one of our ''Wafer Cartridge'' into a regular ColecoVision, the game will plays just like a regular ColecoVision cartridge. If you insert it into the Phoenix, then the game will/could have more features/levels and/or better graphics Our very first ''Wafer Cartridge'' is going to be Dead Tomb The game is all done, we're entering the beta testing phase Unless I'm not aware, Dead Tomb is going to be the very first point n click game on ColecoVision This is a great news. It will keep original Colecovision alive. Does it mean new cartridges will have two roms? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loafer Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 This does look great. But I have to ask, does the decision to keep compatibility with the colecovision incur some limitations? Ie: does that limit the available size of the rom to the Phoenix ? Example let’s say the maximum addressable memory to the Phoenix is 512k, how does this limitation affect this dual support? What is the limitation on cart/wafer storage space? Software wise does it put the notion of potential “Phoenix remakes of colecovision titles” null and void? What is the status of venture dx in a case like this, as it now needs to support the colecovision as well, which I believe it didn’t previously? to be clear it makes total sense to go in this direction. As a software developer you certainly need to maximize your sales! It does bring a bit of a cloud to the uninformed as myself as to the possibility of achieving the pull potential of the Phoenix console so your comments on these questions are certainly appreciated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retroillucid Posted February 16, 2020 Author Share Posted February 16, 2020 5 hours ago, Loafer said: This does look great. But I have to ask, does the decision to keep compatibility with the colecovision incur some limitations? Ie: does that limit the available size of the rom to the Phoenix ? Example let’s say the maximum addressable memory to the Phoenix is 512k, how does this limitation affect this dual support? What is the limitation on cart/wafer storage space? Software wise does it put the notion of potential “Phoenix remakes of colecovision titles” null and void? What is the status of venture dx in a case like this, as it now needs to support the colecovision as well, which I believe it didn’t previously? to be clear it makes total sense to go in this direction. As a software developer you certainly need to maximize your sales! It does bring a bit of a cloud to the uninformed as myself as to the possibility of achieving the pull potential of the Phoenix console so your comments on these questions are certainly appreciated When you'll be inserting a ''Wafer cart'' into your console, you'll select the version you want to play; Regular or SuperGame, so both ''version'' are on the same cartridge. The size of a Wafer cartridge is up to 1mb It does not affect the remakes of CV games, in example we're currently working on Gorf SuperGame You'll be able to play it on a stock ColecoVision, but you'll get more stuff and better graphics if you're playing it on a Phoenix. (That's the whole idea of the Wafer Cart, or SuperGame if you will) VentureDX is now Venture SuperGame We should resume works on it later this year 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIAD Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 ? What if you play it on an ADAM computer? Will it play the enhanced version? ? That question is a bit of sarcasm, please do not take me literally as I already understand what version of the game will play on an ADAM. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youki Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 Do you have already some screenshots of the game running on a standard Colecovision? I'm always impressed by the graphics you manage to produce for the standard Colecovsion. Less impressed by the Phoenix one , they are very nice but due to lot of less technical constraint it impress me less. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retroillucid Posted February 17, 2020 Author Share Posted February 17, 2020 12 hours ago, youki said: Do you have already some screenshots of the game running on a standard Colecovision? Not yet, I'm currently trying to adapt the graphics to a regular ColecoVision I'll be honest, I'm having hard time mainly due the lack of color tones on regular CV Although, I think we can make it work 12 hours ago, youki said: I'm always impressed by the graphics you manage to produce for the standard Colecovsion. Less impressed by the Phoenix one , they are very nice but due to lot of less technical constraint it impress me less. Thanks for the kind words I understand working under CV limitations is way more challenging and complex than simply using the Phoenix's graphics limitations 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcelo Teixeira Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 Hi, Did anyone else buy the game to use on Colecovision with F18A? In the description on the website collectorvision.com says "(will also work with a modded Colecovision with F18A)", but when I put the cartridge I only get garbage on the screen. In another forum it was said that using the ROM file with an Atarimax SD worked, but it didn't the cartridge. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 Make sure you've updated your F18A to the latest revision - if you still have one of the original releases then there were some incompatible changes made that Dead Tomb /might/ require (I don't have the game to know). Alternately, does the game require the SGM RAM? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcelo Teixeira Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 15 hours ago, Tursi said: Make sure you've updated your F18A to the latest revision - if you still have one of the original releases then there were some incompatible changes made that Dead Tomb /might/ require (I don't have the game to know). Alternately, does the game require the SGM RAM? Yes, I have the latest version of the F18A, version 1.9. I also have SGM, but nothing makes the game work properly. My fear is that the cartridge has not been tested on a ColecoVision with F18A, although it appears in the description on the collectorvision.com website. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikrananka Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 9 minutes ago, Marcelo Teixeira said: Yes, I have the latest version of the F18A, version 1.9. I also have SGM, but nothing makes the game work properly. My fear is that the cartridge has not been tested on a ColecoVision with F18A, although it appears in the description on the collectorvision.com website. My experience is the same - F18A v1.9, SGM and the cart doesn't work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digress Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 I believe that text was old from original upcoming games announcement. I think that one sentences got left in there by a mistake. The game was designed to be a phoenix exclusive. The phoenix has both the f18a but it also has the SGM preinstalled. There was no way to guarantee that people had both for their system so it was made phoenix exclusive. The game can be made to run without the SGM but uses it for some additional sound fx. It will actually run on a standard colecovision but you just won't see anything. If you wait a minute you'll hear sounds & music though. It's possible to make a standard colecovision graphics version and maybe that'll happen in the future. Would require significant reworking of the graphics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikrananka Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 10 minutes ago, digress said: I believe that text was old from original upcoming games announcement. I think that one sentences got left in there by a mistake. The game was designed to be a phoenix exclusive. The phoenix has both the f18a but it also has the SGM preinstalled. There was no way to guarantee that people had both for their system so it was made phoenix exclusive. The game can be made to run without the SGM but uses it for some additional sound fx. It will actually run on a standard colecovision but you just won't see anything. If you wait a minute you'll hear sounds & music though. It's possible to make a standard colecovision graphics version and maybe that'll happen in the future. Would require significant reworking of the graphics. The game does actually work on a real CV with F18A and SGM when you run the game rom from an AtariMax. So I guess the incompatibility must be some way that the software and the cart hardware work together. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted May 9, 2021 Share Posted May 9, 2021 (edited) (scratch that, thinking the wrong direction) Edited May 9, 2021 by Tursi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lafe Fredbjornson Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 I am unable to get the rom I purchased from Collectorvision to run on CoolCV (latest version 6.9). All I get is a black screen with the intro music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikrananka Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 44 minutes ago, Lafe Fredbjornson said: I am unable to get the rom I purchased from Collectorvision to run on CoolCV (latest version 6.9). All I get is a black screen with the intro music. Dead Tomb makes use of the capabilities of the F18A which isn't included with any of the ColecoVision emulators out there at the moment. Hopefully the F18A will be added to some of them in the future. As such, the Dead Tomb rom file will only work on an SD card either in a Phoenix or an F18A equipped ColecoVision via an AtariMax cart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColecoGamer Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 @retroillucid Will there be another run of Dead Tomb? I’d love to play it on my recently acquired Phoenix console! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inky Posted April 18, 2022 Share Posted April 18, 2022 (edited) Is there a walkthrough or hints somewhere? I'm stuck. I got the nail and rock, pounded the nail into the trap door, and then the rope and ring disappeared. Nm. Figured it out Edited April 18, 2022 by Inky 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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