Wally1 Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 Far as i know 'Bug Attack' was the only solitary game that actually played a tune through the A8 internal speaker. Anybody care to confirm? have a great day 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxl Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 no https://xxl.atari.pl/games/mazezam/ https://xxl.atari.pl/games/isora/ https://xxl.atari.pl/games/deathchase-xe/ https://xxl.atari.pl/games/galaxian/ https://xxl.atari.pl/games/apple-invaders/ 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 Night Mission pinball was another. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nezgar Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 Not music, but Whomper Stomper (1984) would TALK through the 400/800 console speaker. Various Ultima's used it for sound effects, but the music would play from POKEY. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wally1 Posted September 9, 2019 Author Share Posted September 9, 2019 i stand gladly corrected. er actually i am sitting right now ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 40 minutes ago, Wally1 said: i stand gladly corrected. er actually i am sitting right now ? Don't be sad - now you have a bunch more games to try out Also, if you want to try a cool demo, there was a "stereo" song, I believe it was Yesterday bu The Beatles. It blanked the screen, had darkish green background. One channel of music played through the internal speaker, and the regular sound came from the TV. Awesome when I heard that, one of my earlier 300 baud downloaded BBS demos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxl Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 (edited) demo? here: https://xxl.atari.pl/beepem-all/ --- download: http://a8.fandal.cz/search.php?search=beep&butt_details_x= Edited September 9, 2019 by xxl 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wally1 Posted September 9, 2019 Author Share Posted September 9, 2019 (edited) the Beatles are great thanks for replies amazing sound from a tiny speaker! Edited September 9, 2019 by Wally1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E474 Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 Hi, Bug Attack is one of the games I still regularly play (along with Bandits), does it use hi-res graphics instead of character sets? I've always been impressed with just how fast the graphics are, as opposed to Bandits which has noticable slow downs when things get busy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nezgar Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 2 hours ago, Wally1 said: amazing sound from a tiny speaker! And to think that sound is coming from the GTIA - a "Graphics" chip. ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 30 minutes ago, Nezgar said: And to think that sound is coming from the GTIA - a "Graphics" chip. ? This is why I love the Atari 8-bit computers. The graphics chip can make awesome music. The sound chip can perfectly synch video to the TV raster. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faicuai Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 58 minutes ago, Stephen said: This is why I love the Atari 8-bit computers. The graphics chip can make awesome music. The sound chip can perfectly synch video to the TV raster. LoOoOoL ! Yeah, like these rock-bands where the drummer can also play the keyboard, the keyboard-lead can plays the bass, the bass-lead also plays guitar and conga, and the lead-singer can play them all... they just happen to focus on one specialty... :-))) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faicuai Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 9 hours ago, Nezgar said: Not music, but Whomper Stomper (1984) would TALK through the 400/800 console speaker. Various Ultima's used it for sound effects, but the music would play from POKEY. What's odd is that... Atarimania's copy DOES NOT modulate voice over GTIA audio channel.... That means more than one version exists... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nezgar Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 44 minutes ago, Faicuai said: What's odd is that... Atarimania's copy DOES NOT modulate voice over GTIA audio channel.... That means more than one version exists... Well, you know... I very well could be remembering wrong... To be honest I haven't actually booted up a 400/800 for many decades. Time for me to get this 400 into action again. Sorry for the mis-statement, and thanks for the fact check! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faicuai Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 25 minutes ago, Nezgar said: Well, you know... I very well could be remembering wrong... To be honest I haven't actually booted up a 400/800 for many decades. Time for me to get this 400 into action again. Sorry for the mis-statement, and thanks for the fact check! Well, in all fairness, I really don't know (!) I did not that game on my radar, but now I do (thanks!)... There is good work behind its gfx. presentation. I actually went ahead and searched (and binary-compared) all versions I could find (Holmes, Fandal, Atarimania) and to my surprise they are all binary-identical (!) HOWEVER, that still does not discard other possible versions, because (according) to Atarimania, the original is a DISK, not an .XEX as all repositories currently hold... Let's hope the original appears, some day... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wally1 Posted September 10, 2019 Author Share Posted September 10, 2019 Quote Bug Attack is one of the games I still regularly play (along with Bandits), does it use hi-res graphics instead of character sets? I've always been impressed with just how fast the graphics are, as opposed to Bandits which has noticable slow downs when things get busy. I remember the decomposing of the mushrooms and stuff, finely done. My guess is that it uses hi-res graphics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wally1 Posted September 11, 2019 Author Share Posted September 11, 2019 Quote 20 hours ago, Faicuai said: To be honest I haven't actually booted up a 400/800 for many decades. So then what do you like to compute with? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faicuai Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 18 minutes ago, Wally1 said: So then what do you like to compute with? That quote is fictitious. That is, a comment like such, from me, does not exist on this thread. I believe you refer to Nezgar? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 correct nezgar said those words not Faicuai Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarland Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 23 hours ago, Faicuai said: LoOoOoL ! Yeah, like these rock-bands where the drummer can also play the keyboard, the keyboard-lead can plays the bass, the bass-lead also plays guitar and conga, and the lead-singer can play them all... they just happen to focus on one specialty... :-))) The CPU can do graphics, GTIA can do keyboard (function keys), pokey does disk IO, keyboard and sound... This is a real mish-mash band! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nezgar Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 On 9/10/2019 at 6:25 PM, Wally1 said: So then what do you like to compute with? I have a half dozen each of various XL's and XE's and of course some 'exotic' disk drives with a long to-do list of cleaning and upgrading, but finally acquired a 400 last year. It also has upgrades planned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wally1 Posted September 11, 2019 Author Share Posted September 11, 2019 Sorry Faicuai I made a mistake. Thanks Nezgar. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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