New Unreleased Colecovision Game - Star Fire

[hardcorehubz]

We've released a new Colecovision game that was previously unreleased called Star Fire by the late Chris Oberth that we recently recovered from disks we acquired after his death. Check it out here -

 

https://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2021/08/oberth-archives-one/

[mumbai]

Were the Boulder Dash sources extracted from those diskettes, as well?

[hardcorehubz]

17 minutes ago, mumbai said:

Were the Boulder Dash sources extracted from those diskettes, as well?

Not completely unfortunately as it had bad sectors, but we may be able to extract the bad sectors from another source disk that VGHF has once they get time to dig it out. We've also got some other options there we're looking into.

[TPR]

Wow!  That's fantastic!  That game is really fun!

[phattyboombatty]

This is really amazing. It’s a nice surprise to see the release of this game and it’s source code with zero anticipation! Thank you, thank you!!

[Tempest]

Wow, amazing.  I wasn't aware Chris had passed away.  I'm glad his legacy lives on though.

[Spector]

The file ends in .col, so do I need to change the extension to .rom or bin to get it to work on the Atarimax cartridge? 

[1980gamer]

Star Fire looks really fun.  RIP Chris.

[+GoldLeader]

22 hours ago, Spector said:

The file ends in .col, so do I need to change the extension to .rom or bin to get it to work on the Atarimax cartridge? 

Worked for me...Well,  it worked using the Phoenix SD card.

[NIAD]

On 8/21/2021 at 4:39 AM, Spector said:

The file ends in .col, so do I need to change the extension to .rom or bin to get it to work on the Atarimax cartridge? 

The file is just a raw dump with no special header or footer. Just rename it to starfire.rom or starfire.bin or leave as starfire.col if you so desire.

[Tempest]

So is the game more or less complete or is it an early beta?  From the video it appears you have infinite lives.  I assume the weird symbol next to the score would be your life counter in the final version.

[ZillaRUSH]

Fantastic game....and challenging!   A paddle might be better than a joystick?    Hope one day to have it on a cart!!

[Ikrananka]

This is simply awesome, thanks for sharing.

 

[Supergun]

So, had it been released, I take it that Star Fire would have been another Micro Fun title. Is there any mention of it whatsoever in any catalog or advertisement? Just curious if perhaps maybe we can find some reference to it somewhere.
 

EDIT: I got confused there for a second. The game I meant to reference was Boulder Dash. That was a title that would or could have been a Micro Fun release but never made it out the door yet was released by Telegames.

 

(the proto for Number Bumper, which was slightly altered and released as Amazing Bumpman by Telegames, was a Sunrise Software title)

Edited August 23, 2021 by Supergun