8BIT 1337 Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 (edited) New best: 8375 13793 15110 This game seems "Elden Ring" tough. Not that I've played Elden Ring of course, I just gather that it is also hard Edited April 1, 2022 by 8BIT 1337 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littleman jack Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 littleman jr. scored 1011 on our strange, erratic copy. We'll try it on an emulator tomorrow night. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littleman jack Posted April 1, 2022 Share Posted April 1, 2022 I figured out why my disk copy was acting so strange. It was not able to function properly with my 1050 happy drive. Once I turned happy mode to unhappy mode then the game started behaving properly. And wow. It is a really challenging game. We'll have to spend some time practicing this one this weekend. littleman jr.------1908 littleman jack--------- a paltry 1456 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariSphinx Posted April 1, 2022 Share Posted April 1, 2022 4554 (gravity on) Amd people say Nintendo games are hard! This one is brutal. Not sure I like this one. Will give it some more time might grow on me. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted April 1, 2022 Share Posted April 1, 2022 57706 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littleman jack Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 Whew! This one is tough, but fun. Once you get the hang of shooting gravity balls and not getting too close to the explosion then you can really get some points. littleman jr. 2143 littleman jack 3025 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littleman jack Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 Slight improvements: littleman jr. -------- 3,739 littleman jack ------ 4204 lowest score ----35 therealbountybob, when you say "white-out mode", are you referring to when the screen goes grey/white and the ship becomes a flashing line? Is there any rhyme or reason to when or how this happens? It seems random, but it's hard to tell. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 6090 pts, reached sector 3 for the first time. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicMarc-er Posted April 3, 2022 Share Posted April 3, 2022 That took a lot out of me. Not sure I'll be able to top that. 10,734 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicMarc-er Posted April 3, 2022 Share Posted April 3, 2022 Just now, MagicMarc-er said: That took a lot out of me. Not sure I'll be able to top that. 10,734 Whoops. Here's the screenshot. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted April 3, 2022 Share Posted April 3, 2022 Tail of Beta Lyrae is the very first game I bought on floppy disk after purchasing my first computer, an Atari 800XL with a 1050 drive and 1030 modem. I played the hell out of this game, and would later buy and thoroughly enjoy Alternate Reality (The City and Dungeon), also from Philip Price and Gary Gilbertson (as you all know). Much fun was had playing their games. ..Al 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted April 4, 2022 Author Share Posted April 4, 2022 18 hours ago, Albert said: Tail of Beta Lyrae is the very first game I bought on floppy disk after purchasing my first computer, an Atari 800XL with a 1050 drive and 1030 modem. I played the hell out of this game, and would later buy and thoroughly enjoy Alternate Reality (The City and Dungeon), also from Philip Price and Gary Gilbertson (as you all know). Much fun was had playing their games. ..Al When I saw you had posted I thought uh-oh what have the guys been up to ok let's get some tables sorted... 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted April 4, 2022 Author Share Posted April 4, 2022 On 3/29/2022 at 11:15 PM, therealbountybob said: ... On 4/2/2022 at 4:03 PM, littleman jack said: ... therealbountybob, when you say "white-out mode", are you referring to when the screen goes grey/white and the ship becomes a flashing line? Is there any rhyme or reason to when or how this happens? It seems random, but it's hard to tell. On 4/1/2022 at 2:11 AM, littleman jack said: I figured out why my disk copy was acting so strange. It was not able to function properly with my 1050 happy drive. Once I turned happy mode to unhappy mode then the game started behaving properly. ... yes like screen above - if you play on and lose the life the landscape is grey and sort of desolate looking. Anyone else on the disk version getting this? My theories (1) the copy protection malfunctioning (I'm on an original disk) and deliberately doing it; (2) the # time played counter that saves to disk somewhere (anyone?) each time you load the game malfunctioning or not expecting so many plays and triggering the copy protection or (3) just a bug. Either way(s) does seem to settle down and you can get some good goes in 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted April 4, 2022 Author Share Posted April 4, 2022 Will be playing lots more TTOBL in the next few days, the gravity balls really get you when you try and attack everything on the first stage, have to learn to be patient when swooping down. Once you complete all the sectors the difficulty increases nicely but your skills will have improved so it's not too difficult by then first tables THE TAIL OF BETA LYRAE 1st graywest 110,092 13pts # 2nd McKong 57,706 11pts 3rd therealbountybob 33,757 10pts 4th 8BIT 1337 15,110 10pts 5th Deteacher 11,068 10pts 6th MagicMarc-er 10,734 9pts 7th MichaG 8,999 8pts 8th chevymad 6,409 8pts 9th carlsson 6,090 6pts 10th AtariSphinx 4,554 5pts 11th littleman jack 4,204 4pts 12th RedThunder 3,739 3pts 12th littleman jr 3,739 3pts 14th Caco 3,402 2pts # NTSC Bonus Point ACE MISSION press [5] to start on Ace skill level! 1st graywest 10,111 1pt 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariSphinx Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 6923 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Jefferson Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 This game is rough. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fres Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 Not easy for me. 6546. I'm hoping to get some more time in on this one to improve that score. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevymad Posted April 6, 2022 Share Posted April 6, 2022 11123 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted April 6, 2022 Share Posted April 6, 2022 (edited) I made it through the first run - 76562 Edited April 6, 2022 by McKong 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted April 6, 2022 Author Share Posted April 6, 2022 On 4/5/2022 at 7:40 AM, Shawn Jefferson said: This game is rough. 18 hours ago, Fres said: Not easy for me. 6546. I'm hoping to get some more time in on this one to improve that score. Needs a bit of time at the wheel - fire in small bursts, don't be too aggressive in the first sector. The game is testing but if you manage the first loop it's then progressive each time round. You guys can choose to strart with 7 ships (see first post) 6 hours ago, McKong said: I made it through the first run - 76562 Hopefully not too far behind you, got to sector 6 for 1st time after a good hours play, had a few greyouts, lockups and reboots before hand ? 42,650 Round 6 poll is open as many of you have seen! This round is slighlty longer than usual and ends 9pm UK time Weds 13th April 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graywest Posted April 6, 2022 Share Posted April 6, 2022 (edited) Uh oh, some of you guys are about to catch up! ? Tail of Beta Lyrae: 114,472 This really isn't much of an improvement from my previous score. On the second run, the second cavern sector is an ABSOLUTE NIGHTMARE that I can't seem to pass, no matter what. Those "backbiter missiles" in a confined space are the bane of my existence. Edited April 6, 2022 by graywest 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caco Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 6677 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 98696 - think that tops my score from last time we played 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted April 7, 2022 Author Share Posted April 7, 2022 Will be playing lots more TTOBL in the next few days, the gravity balls really get you when you try and attack everything on the first stage, have to learn to be patient when swooping down. Once you complete all the sectors the difficulty increases nicely but your skills will have improved so it's not too difficult by then first tables THE TAIL OF BETA LYRAE 1st graywest 114,472 13pts # 2nd McKong 98,696 11pts 3rd therealbountybob 42,650 10pts 4th 8BIT 1337 15,110 9pts 5th chevymad 11,123 9pts 6th Deteacher 11,068 8pts 7th MagicMarc-er 10,734 8pts 8th MichaG 8,999 7pts 9th AtariSphinx 6,923 7pts 10th Caco 6,677 6pts 11th Fres 6,546 6pts 12th carlsson 6,090 5pts 13th Shawn Jefferson 5,893 4pts 14th littleman jack 4,204 3pts 15th RedThunder 3,739 2pts 15th littleman jr 3,739 2pts # NTSC Bonus Point ACE MISSION press [5] to start on Ace skill level! 1st graywest 10,111 1pt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caco Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 ACE MISSION - 5091 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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