+therealbountybob Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 (edited) LA SWAT + GRIDRUNNER Winning the "budget cassette games" poll and making it's HSC debut is the fun vertical walker LA S.W.A.T. along with the simple but awesome Gridrunner (re-release of the Llamasoft Classic). Either way we're in the grid and blasting Scoring probably like the last round with both games making one set of HSC points. Round closes Sunday 10th May 10AM UK Time (5AM EST) LA SWAT Desipite it's simplicity it has something about it, uphold the law! Fandal XEX atarimania COM(XEX) and info and a spirited comments section featuring the debate: Is it "Special Weapons And Tactics" or just a man with a Fly Swat? [Space=pause] GRIDRUNNER An intense blaster from the master blaser: Jeff Minter. No camels this time but I'm sure there are some creatures lurking near-by Start from the first level each go (press fire). Post the level you reached as this will be used as the tie-breaker. [Space=pause] Fandal XEX atarimania Info BLAST AT WILL! sorry Will Edited April 28, 2020 by therealbountybob Gridrunner level reached used for tie breaking so please post this! 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 Swat 5938 7839 8293 26306 39942 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 Gridrunner 5940 33000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimo Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 I think L A swat is one of the few cassettes I still have. Time to put those new belts on the 410 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted April 26, 2020 Author Share Posted April 26, 2020 12 minutes ago, mimo said: I think L A swat is one of the few cassettes I still have. Time to put those new belts on the 410 You're tempting me to get the XC12 out! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimo Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 16 minutes ago, therealbountybob said: You're tempting me to get the XC12 out! I've got 3 working xc12s but they don't match the 800 ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 SWAT: 22,102. Got to level 3. Haven't figured out how to not kill the hostage yet. LOL! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 (edited) SWAT randomly locks up on my 130XE. I tried both the version from Fandal and the version on Atarimania. Sometimes the game locks up rather instantly, sometimes I can play for a few minutes before it freezes. Since I've had a few games before that don't behave well on my computer, I wonder if I'm having some peculiar hardware/RAM failure that only shows up on every 50th or 100th game I'm playing. Edit: I have now tried nearly every version I could find on Atarionline.pl as well as the files on the CD/DVD that came with my SIO2SD. All lock up randomly, and some have really nasty graphics glitches sometimes. I should see if my NTSC 800 will play this game, or perhaps stick with emulation, assuming this is one of the rare games where my 130XE is faulty/incompatible. Also Gridrunner is a game I much prefer on the lower resolution VIC-20 than the A8 or C64 with its 40 columns. I can't put my finger on why, but the lower resolution VIC (which I think was the original system Jeff programmed it for) has a nicer feel to it. Perhaps if the A8 version had run in 20 column mode I would like it better but then again people tend to want the highest possible resolution on every game they're playing. Gridrunner - 13020 pts, got to grid 3 Swat - 3105 pts when it froze Edited April 26, 2020 by carlsson 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 First go at Gridrunner: 16,110! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted April 26, 2020 Author Share Posted April 26, 2020 (edited) @carlsson I'll upload my transdisked LA SWAT tomorrow evening. Did you try the .com file on atarimania (link on 1st post)? Not sure if it will stand up to a full play but might surprise us. Played a bit of Gridrunner - first life lasted less than 1 second!!! But starting to calm down and work out some tactics (brown trousers) and managed 37,678. Scoring slightly flawed but should work out ok. Please post the level you reached on the scoring go (5) and the best level you have reached (9). Edited April 26, 2020 by therealbountybob 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 26 minutes ago, therealbountybob said: Did you try the .com file on atarimania (link on 1st post)? Yup. Both the versions on Fandal, Atarimania, just about every version I could find on Atarionline.pl, plus four versions that came with my SIO2SD (which may be the exact same as the ones already downloaded). It is not like it crashes at the exact same spot. Sometimes I can play for 2-3 minutes and get close to the end of the street, sometimes it crashes within two seconds. Sometimes I get garbage graphics in front of the player sprite, sometimes the baddies flash. Assuming it plays on other PAL 130XE's, I would assume there is that odd fault inside of my computer that only shows up for a handful of games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devwebcl Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 (edited) SWAT: 5165. 32530 I've forgotten about killing hostages Edited April 26, 2020 by devwebcl new record 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devwebcl Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 The Sinclair introduction is cool: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-info/l/LosAngelesSWAT.txt 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted April 27, 2020 Author Share Posted April 27, 2020 18 hours ago, carlsson said: Yup. Both the versions on Fandal, Atarimania, just about every version I could find on Atarionline.pl, plus four versions that came with my SIO2SD (which may be the exact same as the ones already downloaded). It is not like it crashes at the exact same spot. Sometimes I can play for 2-3 minutes and get close to the end of the street, sometimes it crashes within two seconds. Sometimes I get garbage graphics in front of the player sprite, sometimes the baddies flash. Assuming it plays on other PAL 130XE's, I would assume there is that odd fault inside of my computer that only shows up for a handful of games. Try this it's an ATR with the game on made from a multiboot disk. I guess I transferred it to multiboot from my original cassette, might have been a single stage load so I didn't use transdisk IV this time LASWAT.ATR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pusakat Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 First attempts: LA SWAT: 3,817 Couldn't remember my Gridrunner score. Will try again tomorrow. Time to sleep. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 @therealbountybob Your version freezes just like all the other I tried. I probably should try to locate some really thorough diagnostic program for Atari. The built-in memory checker doesn't detect any faults, 3x16 yellow checks and then it repeats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted April 27, 2020 Author Share Posted April 27, 2020 1 minute ago, carlsson said: @therealbountybob Your version freezes just like all the other I tried. I probably should try to locate some really thorough diagnostic program for Atari. The built-in memory checker doesn't detect any faults, 3x16 yellow checks and then it repeats. Sounds like something to ask about on the main forum. Hope you get it resolved LA SWAT not as serious but my fire button packed up after 2 goes! Will fix that later but after switching to another stick reached level 4: 39,430 Gridrunner 53,890 (lv7) - (9 is the highest I've reached). Level 5 is insanely hard but sometimes I get past it 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 Grid Runner 41370 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 SWAT: 36,728. Had all 3 lives going into level 4...and promptly had my a$$ handed to me. My score would have been much higher if I hadn't shot the hostages on level 2 and 3. LOL! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 SWAT: 51,906! Made it to the end of level 4. Still killing hostages, though. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 Gridrunner: 20,740! I don't know how you guys are getting up to level 9 and above. It was all I could do to get to level 4! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+slx Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 Gridrunner, a solid last at 9130. This is frantic! SWAT 4.117 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fres Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 (edited) SWAT 2389 Gridrunner 2360 Edited April 28, 2020 by Fres Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graywest Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 (edited) LA SWAT: 39332 (Level 4) Gridrunner: 31080 Edited April 28, 2020 by graywest 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 Swat 46242 (Level4) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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