+Al_Nafuur Posted November 12, 2020 Author Share Posted November 12, 2020 New firmware version v0.16.0 in PlusStore and GIT: New fonts New keyboard New display (more rows, more colors) Download buffer size increased (faster downloads) Animated loading logo Many bug fixes and tweaks 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Andrew Davie Posted November 12, 2020 Share Posted November 12, 2020 bug tweaks are my favourite 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Andrew Davie Posted November 12, 2020 Share Posted November 12, 2020 (edited) Incorrect info retracted from this post. Move along... nothing to see.... Edited November 12, 2020 by Andrew Davie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Al_Nafuur Posted November 12, 2020 Author Share Posted November 12, 2020 57 minutes ago, Andrew Davie said: bug tweaks are my favourite I forgot to mention all the awesome new bugs, we have now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Andrew Davie Posted November 12, 2020 Share Posted November 12, 2020 Really keen to see some early feedback on this release! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sramirez2008 Posted November 12, 2020 Share Posted November 12, 2020 7 hours ago, Al_Nafuur said: New firmware version v0.16.0 in PlusStore and GIT: New fonts New keyboard New display (more rows, more colors) Download buffer size increased (faster downloads) Animated loading logo Many bug fixes and tweaks Downloaded! The display looks great in S-Video! I went with the Glacier Belle font style, although I really like Trichotomic-12, so I may change to that. Test Results So Far: - Played a few games and they do seem to download faster. - I was able to successfully download the Communist Mutants Hack, that wouldn't start up (for me) yesterday evening - Used the Search ROM option (like the keyboard, easy to use) for Asteroids and the Asteroids Arcade Hack, Asteroids Vector failed to download. I was able to select other Asteroids ROMs from the search results (e.g. Asteroids and Asteroids Deluxe). - Thanks for animating the loading logo. I prefer to see it animated (thinking). 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Al_Nafuur Posted November 12, 2020 Author Share Posted November 12, 2020 41 minutes ago, sramirez2008 said: Downloaded! The display looks great in S-Video! I went with the Glacier Belle font style, although I really like Trichotomic-12, so I may change to that. - Thanks for animating the loading logo. I prefer to see it animated (thinking). Thanks to @Andrew Davie, he has done the animated logo, the new fonts, the new keyboard and all the colors (colours) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sramirez2008 Posted November 12, 2020 Share Posted November 12, 2020 21 minutes ago, Al_Nafuur said: Thanks to @Andrew Davie, he has done the animated logo, the new fonts, the new keyboard and all the colors (colours) Thank you all? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Al_Nafuur Posted November 12, 2020 Author Share Posted November 12, 2020 1 hour ago, sramirez2008 said: - Used the Search ROM option (like the keyboard, easy to use) for Asteroids and the Asteroids Arcade Hack, Asteroids Vector failed to download. I was able to select other Asteroids ROMs from the search results (e.g. Asteroids and Asteroids Deluxe). bug is fixed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sramirez2008 Posted November 12, 2020 Share Posted November 12, 2020 1 hour ago, Al_Nafuur said: bug is fixed. Confirmed? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sramirez2008 Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 Btw, Nice to see DPC+ functionality being worked on. Chaotic Grill works well. Also, the Parallax Scroll-Text by Alex is an amazing wip. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omegamatrix Posted November 14, 2020 Share Posted November 14, 2020 Atlantis has been modified for the PlusCart High Score Club. PlusCart user/tester can find the PAL, PAL60, and NTSC versions in the PlusStore directory "Public ROMs\PlusROMs\High Score Club" The NTSC version can be played online in javatari.js. The ROM-file can also be played with Gopher2600. The "PlusCart High Score Club" page for Atlantis: https://highscore.firmaplus.de/?game_id=25 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omegamatrix Posted November 14, 2020 Share Posted November 14, 2020 Berzerk has been modified for the PlusCart High Score Club. PlusCart user/tester can find the PAL, PAL60, and NTSC versions in the PlusStore directory "Public ROMs\PlusROMs\High Score Club" The NTSC version can be played online in javatari.js. The ROM-file can also be played with Gopher2600. The "PlusCart High Score Club" page for Berzerk: https://highscore.firmaplus.de/?game_id=26 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sramirez2008 Posted November 14, 2020 Share Posted November 14, 2020 3 minutes ago, Omegamatrix said: Berzerk has been modified for the PlusCart High Score Club. PlusCart user/tester can find the PAL, PAL60, and NTSC versions in the PlusStore directory "Public ROMs\PlusROMs\High Score Club" The NTSC version can be played online in javatari.js. The ROM-file can also be played with Gopher2600. The "PlusCart High Score Club" page for Berzerk: https://highscore.firmaplus.de/?game_id=26 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sramirez2008 Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 3 hours ago, Omegamatrix said: Berzerk has been modified for the PlusCart High Score Club. Just tested. Works as expected.? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ZeroPage Homebrew Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 28 minutes ago, sramirez2008 said: Just tested. Works as expected.? Uh oh, there goes my score! Hahah - James 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omegamatrix Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 1 hour ago, sramirez2008 said: Just tested. Works as expected.? 57 minutes ago, ZeroPage Homebrew said: Uh oh, there goes my score! Hahah - James I see a meltdown coming... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sramirez2008 Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 1 hour ago, Omegamatrix said: I see a meltdown coming... Need to test Atlantis next. Hopefully later this evening. Atlantis plays well? Please add some of the trak-ball series ROMs (e.g. Missile Control, Star Wars Arcade) to the HSC down the road and thanks for all the games that you have already added. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sramirez2008 Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 Btw, I see that the t-online news ticker displays some info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omegamatrix Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 3 hours ago, sramirez2008 said: Need to test Atlantis next. Hopefully later this evening. Atlantis plays well? Please add some of the trak-ball series ROMs (e.g. Missile Control, Star Wars Arcade) to the HSC down the road and thanks for all the games that you have already added. We were talking about how early exit would work with the trackball. Using right + reset would be an issues as the trackball could be holding the right direction bit in a low state. So that has to be resolved first. There's a thread about it in the club. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Al_Nafuur Posted November 15, 2020 Author Share Posted November 15, 2020 12 hours ago, sramirez2008 said: Btw, I see that the t-online news ticker displays some info. Yes it is an early PoC to receive data from a PlusROM backend and display it as text. It is downloading data for a newsticker of www.t-online.de (a german news website). Pressing the joystick button will load the next 4 news from the backend. I used one of @Omegamatrix's 36 chars examples (36_Char_201805011.bin). But It doesn't look nice on a white background and I think I generally mixed some things up in the ASM code when I changed it to 3E bankswitching (3E because of the RAM to store the downloaded data). The modified ASM code is in GITLab 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omegamatrix Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 Meltdown has been modified for the PlusCart High Score Club. PlusCart user/tester can find the PAL60, and NTSC versions in the PlusStore directory "Public ROMs\PlusROMs\High Score Club" The NTSC version can be played online in javatari.js. The ROM-file can also be played with Gopher2600. The "PlusCart High Score Club" page for Meltdown: https://highscore.firmaplus.de/?game_id=27 Meltdown is an unreleased, but finished prototype. Here are some instructions I've cobbled together from what I could figure out, and what I could find. Description: Rogue quarks have entered the Nuclear Reactor and are agitating the atoms! As the only remaining scientist you must destroy the quarks and cool the reactor before it destablizies and melts down. Controls: - Joystick Left/Right moves the Atomic Stabilizer. - Joystick Up/Down moves the Cadium Tube. - Left Difficulty Switch - Position B (easy): Atoms can be fired upon with no effect. - Position A (hard): Firing on atoms without quarks will strip them of electrons, and cause them to shrink. - Right Difficulty - Position B (easy): Quarks are bound within the grid, and can not wrap around grid edges. - Position A (hard): quarks can quantum leap (wrap-around) grid edges, i.e. they can be on bottom row and then go to the top row. *** Note for all games the higher the starting score the faster the game speed. Game Matrix: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Screen Starting Display Game Score Notes ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 1 0 3502 2 3,500 7503 3 7,500 11004 4 11,000 14005 5 14,000 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 6 0 Games 6-10: 3507 7 3,500 - Auto Alignment of Cadium Tube. 7508 8 7,500 - Left joystick moves Atomic Stabilizer Left/Right. 11009 9 11,000 14010 10 14,000 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11 11 0 Games 11-15 (two player action): 3512 12 3,500 - Left joystick moves Atomic Stabilizer Left/Right. 7513 13 7,500 - Right joystick moves Cadium Tube Up/Down. 11014 14 11,000 - Firebutton on either joystick inserts Cadium Rod. 14015 15 14,000 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: AtariProtos.com http://www.atariprotos.com/2600/software/meltdown/meltdown.htm 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Al_Nafuur Posted November 16, 2020 Author Share Posted November 16, 2020 37 minutes ago, Omegamatrix said: Meltdown is an unreleased, but finished prototype. Here are some instructions I've cobbled together from what I could figure out, and what I could find. I have never seen this before. It's a nice game, but it is getting frantic very fast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omegamatrix Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 You wouldn't know it by looking at it, but Meltdown is one of the most innovative old era games in terms of tricks. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sramirez2008 Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 2 minutes ago, Omegamatrix said: You wouldn't know it by looking at it, but Meltdown is one of the most innovative old era games in terms of tricks. Can’t wait to test this one.? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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