Lumpbucket #1 Posted June 15, 2004 As there are lots of talented 6502 programmers, who are also Atari fans, here, I thought you might like to know of an effort to fix the extra bases bug in Missile Command on another forum: http://www.wayoftherodent.com/forum/viewto...topic.php?t=877 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tempest #2 Posted June 15, 2004 I get a gateway timeout when I click on that link. What Missile Command bug? Tempest Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lumpbucket #3 Posted June 15, 2004 Odd, the link works fine here. When you get 800,000 + the "extra bonus" interval (set on dip switches) it erroneously gives you 176 extra bases, and also 156 when you wrap the score. Initially they were just wondering exactly what caused the bug, for the sake of interest. Now, being programmers, they noticed that it would be a bit tricky to fix the bug and keep within the ROM size. And you know programmers when they're presented with a challenge Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lumpbucket #4 Posted June 15, 2004 Uhm... i mean "bonus cities" not extra bases. Probably. I'm not up on all the Missile Command jargon :-) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cybergoth #5 Posted June 15, 2004 Hi there! Also I think the information Tempest was actually looking for was "Arcade" Greetings, Manuel Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tempest #6 Posted June 15, 2004 I've heard of this bug, but since I could never in a million years get that high I never really cared much. I'd be interested to hear what they find out though. Tempest Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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