question regarding Atari vault on Steam

[Arnaud Giese]

How good is the online multiplayer mode for paddle games such as warlords?

[Arnaud Giese]

I guess no one here is using Atari Vault

 

[Amstari]

I have Atari Vault but I have never used the online multiplayer myself. I would like to try it though. 

[Arnaud Giese]

if you could test, that would be awesome. I couldnt find any video on youtube or twitch. Nobody seems to really care about it. I am just wondering if the system is laggy

[Ocelo]

There is no support for the paddles with the stelladapter for one thing. It makes for some lousy warlords gameplay using a keyboard or gamepad. 

[DragonGrafx-16]

Atari Vault was trash... it would not run on a low end laptop at all... the same laptop would run all the games just fine via MAME or Stella. They just had to overdo the menus and make them too effects heavy. It even had a budget physical PC release. For the intended audience of this game would tend to lead to older people many not having decent spec'd computers. 

 

For example let's say some 60ish year old guy walks into Walmart and sees this game and went "oh Atari I used to go to the arcade as a kid I'll buy this for my computer." He gets home, pops the disc into his old Dell or Acer PC With Windows XP on it and the game doesn't work. He then gets his son who is 'into' computers to fix it and finds out that the game needs a more modern operating system, so the son upgrades the PC to 8.1 or 10. They old guy tries the game again and it loads but takes a long time. He wants to play some Asteroids so he clicks on the game but then everything is moving really slow. "This isn't as good as I remembered" he would say so he then stops playing and never plays another video game again.

 

This game is so poorly optimized that I ended up refunding it on Steam. The only game on Steam I ever refunded in fact. How could you make an Atari compilation and not have it optimized to work on low end PCs? lol