Battlezone image

[Paranoid]

Is the 8 Bit version of Battlezone available as a .atr or .xex file? I can only seem to find it as a .rom file... whereas the 5200 conversion is available in a few different formats.

[Rybags]

The ROM image seems to be 64K, which would make it hard to convert to EXE since it's a bank-switched cartridge.

 

Doubtful that anyone has bothered to convert it, since the 5200 conversion is already available.

 

IMO a crap game anyway, Encounter is 500% better.

[Tempest]

They're different games. The XE port was done in 1986 (I think) and the 5200 port was done in 1983. The XE port requires 64K, while the 5200 port requires 16K.

 

Tempest

[+warerat]

The ROM image seems to be 64K, which would make it hard to convert to EXE since it's a bank-switched cartridge.

 

Doubtful that anyone has bothered to convert it, since the 5200 conversion is already available.

 

IMO a crap game anyway, Encounter is 500% better.

 

I found the 2600 version of this game to be more colorful than the 8-bit.

[iratanam]

The 5200 conversion to Atari 8-bit is 16k

[Paranoid]

I found the 2600 version of this game to be more colorful than the 8-bit.

 

Was this sarcastic, or are you serious?

 

The younger fans can be kind of frustrating, in the sense that they have this unbiased perspective for judging certain titles, that, while not technically incorrect, often doesn't have the proper historical context for the title. For example, the observation that the 2600 version of Battlezone is the most colorful version available would be correct, but kind of misses the point.

 

It is odd that among the 5200 crowd, the 5200 Battlezone is widely derided as a fairly bad version, in particular for the variety of strange differences between it and the arcade version. The 8 bit version, on the other hand, is much more true to the arcade version.

 

I tried Encounter, and it is intersting, and familiar. Was it available for the C=64 or other platforms? I'm sure I've played it at some point... how many games can have you in a tank shooting ping-pong balls at diamonds that blow up into smaller diamonds???

[frogstar_robot]

I found the 2600 version of this game to be more colorful than the 8-bit.

 

I tried Encounter, and it is intersting, and familiar. Was it available for the C=64 or other platforms? I'm sure I've played it at some point... how many games can have you in a tank shooting ping-pong balls at diamonds that blow up into smaller diamonds???

 

 

I used to play a game on the ST called Backlash that sounds an awful lot like that.

 

http://www.vgmuseum.com/pics/backlash.html

[Paranoid]

Maybe THAT is where I remember this from. That sounds somewhat familiar. I was thinking I had played it on an Apple II at school or over at a friend's house or something obscure like that... but I did have an ST and a ton of weird titles for it at one point... well, and an Amiga, too...

 

Heh. Sometimes when I realize the warez I have *forgotten* about over the years... heh. I'm a software slut.

[Rybags]

Encounter was ported to the C-64.

 

But it paled in comparison, with much weaker sound effects, plus it was near unplayable due to a pathetically low frame rate compared to the Atari version.

[Paranoid]

Well then, it could have been on that platform as well...

 

All of those systems, I had hundreds and hundreds of flippys or 880k disks full of warez, and probably only played maybe a dozen games on each system with any regular basis.

 

I wish there had been modern multicarts back then.