Running Retro-Ball on emulators?

[Keatah]

Anyone know how to make Applewin run Retro-Ball? It essentially freezes when looking to detect the VideoSync mod. The VS mod is simply a wire that goes from the composite-out back to the cassette port. Seeing that Applewin has nothing to do with the cassette port I suppose that's a bust. Unless a patch can be done somehow.

 

Microm8 from Paleotronic seems to run it. But that emulator requires an online connection and has a tedious menu and lousy way of handling disk images - enough to be annoying enough not to use. And it's full of other shit too.

 

Retro-Ball.zip

Edited July 30, 2021 by Keatah

[youxia]

1 hour ago, Keatah said:

that emulator requires an online connection

?

 

The game seems to work on MiSTer, so it's good to know they have replicated that mod. Are there any more games requiring it?

[Keatah]

Not that I’m aware of.

[magnusfalkirk]

I take it you have a Windows computer. It runs without any problems on Virtual II, but that is a Mac Apple II emulator. Any idea what the controls are?

Retro-Ball (Sierra Software).pdf

Edited July 31, 2021 by magnusfalkirk
found documentation

[Keatah]

Yes I'm on Windows. I don't know how well Virtual II would work on a Hackintosh, however.

 

I wonder if the puck is smooth moving in Virtual II? In Microm8, it is definitely not. On real hardware it plays as fine a VCS game, movements as slick as Spider Fighter or Demon Attack.

Edited July 31, 2021 by Keatah