Joust by Atarisoft for Commodore 64 RELEASED!

[Dutchman2000]

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2020/07/joust-full-game-released-today-after-over-30-years/

[+OLD CS1]

Oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy!

[Loafer]

This is pretty cool, plays great. Personally I have nothing against the graphics, they are more than "good enough" in quality. The sound though feels like it could have used a bit more love.  I like it, thanks for the news on this release!

[zzip]

9 hours ago, Loafer said:

This is pretty cool, plays great. Personally I have nothing against the graphics, they are more than "good enough" in quality. The sound though feels like it could have used a bit more love.  I like it, thanks for the news on this release!

Looks like a direct port of the Atari 5200/8-bit version.  It's a pretty good port, though I imagine the C64 could handle more colorful sprites?

[JOD-I]

forgive my nubeness.  is there a way to convert the .crt file to either a .d64 or .prg file that can be used on a sd2iec?

[+OLD CS1]

2 hours ago, JOD-I said:

forgive my nubeness.  is there a way to convert the .crt file to either a .d64 or .prg file that can be used on a sd2iec?

It is a cartridge file, which will (likely) reside at $C000.  BITD there were a number of programs to convert cartridge binaries into program (PRG) loaders.  I have a couple on disk stashed away, but you can likely find on in a quick Google.

 

Here are a couple of external sources with ideas:

 

Using VICE to do the job

https://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=176734#176734

 

An on-line CRT to PRG converter

https://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=728831#728831

 

 

[JOD-I]

Thank you for the info!  This will come in handy in the future Im sure.  Here is a file of joust that works on sd2iec. Got this from

CSDb.

joust.d64

Edited July 16, 2020 by JOD-I
giving credit to CSDb

[carlsson]

Yeah, a cracked/trained version of Joust appeared on CSDb the same day the CRT was released to the public. I suppose it was leaked to selected parties a little ahead of time, or otherwise some groups are stand-by 24 hours a day ready to crack whatever new just was posted.

[+save2600]

The round eggs can be forgiven, but those wretched sound effects...!  

 

Still, very cool to see after all this time.  

[+FujiSkunk]

Awesome news!

[Dutchman2000]

13 hours ago, carlsson said:

Yeah, a cracked/trained version of Joust appeared on CSDb the same day the CRT was released to the public. I suppose it was leaked to selected parties a little ahead of time, or otherwise some groups are stand-by 24 hours a day ready to crack whatever new just was posted.

It wasn’t leaked to anyone.  The only place that got it was games that weren’t. 

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I tried it under Vice.   Apart from the sound obviously, the other thing that annoyed me was having a white border.   I think it would look better if it was black to match the playfield.

[tjlazer]

Here is a plain .PRG file of the game!

joust.prg

Edited September 5, 2020 by tjlazer