Combat Rock revisited

[Chuck Gill]

We were out and about today and ran across the Combat Rock gift pack at the Goodwill. It even has the super ultra rare picture label on the Atari game.

 

 

-Chuck

[Junie]

So what's going on Chuck did you actually find this or have you been playing with your printer?

 

Moycon likes to do spoofs with PCB's and screen shots, the bolgana sandwich gives him away

 

If this is an actual find perhaps some small pirate company did a few and didn't get anywhere with them like they had hoped.

 

The font on the cartridge label is even different than the other Combat Rock label I seen in another post.

[+uosipa llamxew]

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Edited September 23, 2005 by mojofltr

[Chuck Gill]

Junie,

 

MojoFLTR called it. I made the cart after Paul posted the Combat Rock bin. I did find the casette at goodwill on Friday. Then I made the label for it on my trusty (yet inexpensive) lexmark. I guess I'll have to find a balogna graphic.

 

-Chuck

[Scooterb23]

I don't know about bologna, Moycon may not want his image copied...how about a nice bagel sandwich?

 

[+uosipa llamxew]

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Edited September 23, 2005 by mojofltr

[Lemmi]

quote:

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Originally posted by MoJoFLTR:

What the hell is on that bagel?!

The fries don't look half bad though.

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It looks like a tonuge

[Junie]

quote:

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Originally posted by Chuck Gill:

Junie,

 

MojoFLTR called it. I made the cart after Paul posted the Combat Rock bin. I did find the casette at goodwill on Friday. Then I made the label for it on my trusty (yet inexpensive) lexmark. I guess I'll have to find a balogna graphic.

 

-Chuck

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I never knew that it was a new homebrew. Last I heard from that message thread was that everyone thought it was fake due to the different fonts in the title, but I never seen anyone say anything else.

 

Perhaps I should have paid more attention to the message thread after the first few messages

 

Well at least now I know Combat Rock is a new homebrew, guess I learn something new every day.

 

I myself have a Lexmark printer, mine is a Z11. I got it for free from a computer place called TNT Computers. They got it on a trade-in and it had some problems.

 

I took it home got the driver software from online, I used a power supply I had loose for it, and pulled in the printer cord. All that was wrong was whoever owned it tried to refill the ink cartridge. They didn't put the top of the refilled cartridge on very good and ink spilled and dried everywhere, when the power was turned on it just made noises and couldn't more.

 

After talking it completely apart and over an hour of cleaning the dry ink, I had a great working printer. I taped the top of the ink cartridge back on good and tight and it was still full of ink

 

Now I have used up almost all the ink, perhaps I will buy one of those $10 refills for it-- they seem to work great

[moycon]

Mmmmmmmmmmmm Sandwich.

 

 

P.S. Combat Rock is awesome. I have to load that at like once a week now. Its the most Ive played Combat since I first got my 2600 and Combat was the pack-in game.

[Paul Slocum]

Chuck, I'm glad you got the Clash album title reference. I wasn't sure how many people would remember a bad Clash album from the 80's.

 

Combat Rock is sortof a hack/homebrew combo. The Combat code is unchanged except that the sound is disabled and two subroutine calls are redirected. You'll notice it's a 4k game instead of the original 2k. My music player code is in the upper 2k. It's basically the beat player from the Synthcart but with the ability to play patterns in a programmed order.

 

BTW: The music pauses when you press Game Select because Combat clears a bunch of memory each time you press it, and it takes too many cycles for my music code to run without the screen rolling.

 

Here's the ROM image again if you missed it:

Combrock.bin

 

-Paul

 

[ 02-19-2002: Message edited by: Smart Patrol ]

[jahfish]

i love the clash ..... one of the best bands that ever existed .... they have mixed up so many music styles within their music ... what other punk band comes to your mind that also did jazz, reggae and interpretations of classic songs the way they did it?

 

they even had an atari game, combat rock!

 

 

 

ok, i'll have to mention bad brains for the reggae songs. those guys were also unbeatable on their live gigs ....

 

what about a hack for them?

 

"combat rock for light"?

[popeal]

Jah,

 

Well, with the band that mixes it up, I suggest a little Candira... they mix up the hardcore, funk, jazz, rap... it's all in the mix there as well... give it a shot if you haven't already.

 

Al

[Malix]

Sorry to get off topic but ja started it...

 

Man you have got to include Sublime in that list too.....they did it all.

[liquid_sky]

ahh sublime.. anyone heard the track of bob marleys trenchtown rock that fades into brad (r.i.p) singing? great track

[Cybergoth]

quote:

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Originally posted by jahfish:

i love the clash ..... one of the best bands that ever existed ....

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Actually, compared to the ultimate genious of The Damned, they are just as overrated as the Pistols.

 

Birth

School

The Damned

Death

 

 

 

Greetings,

Manuel -> Owner of the most impresive Damned collection you can get in Germany :-)

[jahfish]

throw away the pistols, and get out that old "sandinista" album .... the clash rules!

 

(they have to ... i must stay in the topic)