Here's a new maze submitted by gambler172. With this binary file, I've also introduced a new hitting the wall sound. Tell me what you think of it and the maze.
I got bored, so I'm making this. I really need some Gosub maze submissions. GoSub is almost done, too. I think right after the maze contest is over (1/15/07), I might be really ready to call it finished. I don't know whether this little game (called "Meteors") is the next project or not, but I just wanted to share it with you and ask you if it should be my next project or not. To play the game, press the select switch.
I watched that Barbara Walters special on Heaven last night. The last thing I want to do is have a deep argument about religion here, but I had no idea that most everyone believes there is such a place. I thought it was very interesting, and had interviews with the Dalai Lama and an unsuccessful suicide bomber who was in jail (who said anyone who isn't Muslim is going to Hell). Another interesting thing is that the part about Islam beliefs that there are 72 virgins in Heaven doesn't come from th
Continuing with the Donovan song blog title theme, I had been a good boy about going to work every day, that is, until the illness struck. This is my second day I had to stay home from going to work. I think it'll go away by Christmas and I should be well enough to go to work Tuesday. Don't know what's wrong, my stomach has been hurting and I've been very tired. Well, anyway, gives me time to watch the mail. I've got four 2600 games coming to me soon. Anyone here a fan of Donovan, or is it just
I scrapped the minigame and tried (and the keyword here is 'tried') to make the title screen song bear some resemblance to the song "Atlantis" by Donovan. Why not "Yellow Submarine"? Because the submarine wouldn't be yellow if the game was in black & white, now would it? Anyway, what's the legal side of using copyrighted songs? Did XYPE have to pay royalties to the estate of Johnny Cash when they used "Ring of Fire" for its title screen? I'll work on the song more during the weekend, which
I had to modify this one, too, but Jeffy Arensmeyer made this one up. I've found that the narrowest possible paths, while the sub does fit, are also very difficult and most of the times downright impossible. Keep this in mind while making your mazes.
Altered binary file so it starts at it. This maze was sent in by Mike Rideout. Thanks, Mike! There is a contest and it ends at the end of January, so keep those mazes coming! Also, I am taking suggestions for a sound for when the sub hits a wall. The one in now is temporary.
The sound for the sub hitting the playfield is temporary. Does anyone have any good suggestions of a good sound? Use the Tone Toy and fiddle around.
AUDC1=? : AUDF1=?
Two more weeks until January, should have it out in January.
This latest version starts with a maze that came to me by R. Jones (I modified it a little bit, though. He still gets credit for it.) Pic, binary and Batari Basic file below. My last version of GoSub 'til at least tomorrow.
Here's the latest binary file. I changed the ET/Pac-Man level and expanded the last level into 2. I tried, but I couldn't squeeze both words of "The End" into one, so now "The" is the second-to-last level and "End" is the last. Since I made the ET/Pac-Man level harder, I moved it to third-to-last. R. Jones gave me a couple mazes for the contest and I'll add either one or both into the game today so look for it either later today or tomorrow.
Here's pics of a couple new levels (I replaced some of the old levels). I have room for about 4 more new ones before I don't have anything left in bank 2 (which is used for storing all the level design info.) So come on and get designing! The first one is E.T. on his side and Pac-Man, an homage to two of the worst games (or so they say) for the 2600. The second one was designed by gambler172 and the third one will be the last level (seems fitting because it says "The End.")
That means only 100 more until 1,000! Pretty astounding since I've only been here since the end of May. I love my Atari! In a blog a couple months ago, I might have said I'd get to 1,000 posts by Christmas. That definitely isn't going to happen. Maybe by Jan. 15. Anyway, I went to Game Crazy, and they had hardly anything I wanted. Same ol' 2600 games (ones I already have), same ol' two boxed Inty games, Burgertime and some casino one (usless to me since I don't own an Intellivision). 1 or 2 78
So see what you think of them. To activate the time limits, set the left difficulty switch to A at the title screen. Has anyone found the Easter egg yet? Here's a hint: It contains my name.
I got this Beck single "Loser," Loser being the hit song from his first commercial album "Mellow Gold." It has 4 songs that I have never heard before (and I am a huge Beck fan and have most of his albums.) "Corvette Bummer" sounds like something that would come off his latest album "The Information", "Alcohol" is Beck singing while playing guitar, while a rejected version of "Soul Suckin Jerk" runs a little over 6 minutes and "Fume" is one of the weirdest Beck songs I have ever heard. It ends at
First of all, I got rid of the missile firing. Just in case a lot of you clamor for it back, I've saved a backup of the 12-11-06a version. Second, now that the missiles are gone, I've slimmed it down to 8k. Before while it was technically 16k, in reality, it was only about 9k. 8k is a bit more reasonable for me to handle because there's only 2 banks instead of 4, which means, well, I'm lazy. I have managed to fit everything else in 8k with 262 bytes left in bank 1 and 762 bytes left in bank 2,
I've always wondered what this song was about, ever since I first saw the title of it on the internet a few years back. Well, I ran across it at a flea market and bought it. Thinking it was something like "He stole my chick away, he is going to pay" you know, something like that, it was a big let down to learn that the "He" he is referring to is none other than God. Ah well, now to find "If" by Perry Como. Actually, "If" is a pretty popular song title. Bread recorded a different song called If,
I'm going to start a unique 45 rpm record collection. It's all about songs with numbers as titles. I just got started with "98.6" by Keith (I like that song.) The only other number song I can think of is "867-5309" by Tommy Tutone. Anybody else know of any songs that are completely numbers? I'm not talking about part numbers, like "96 Tears" or "99 Luftballoons," although I fear it may have to come down to that, so give me those, too, actually. And no, Sesame Street songs do not count because th
We're supposed to have a big windstorm Thursday night. The biggest one of the season so far (or so they say.) And we just had a big windstorm last month! Anyway, I couldn't get on to the Internet last night because Mom was waiting for someone to call, so I just played a couple rounds of Midnight Magic and went to bed early. They cut off the water in the park today. They said it'd be back on by 3 pm. Here it is 3:20 and it's still off. Well, anyway, that's it for today, unless I think of somethin
Another DS game, putting my total at 41. Aside from collecting Atari 2600 games, I also collect DS games. I have most of the $20 ones (can't find Sudoku Mania or Dig Dug Digging Strike anywhere!) still need to get Whac-A-Mole (which I plan on doing tomorrow) and I may have to give up and get Sudoku Fever. I want Sudoku Mania though because it has a built-in random sudoku puzzle generator, while Sudoku Fever doesn't. Anyway, I'd have a review, but I got sidetracked by the bowling minigame. If you
I've had it with the constant ringing noise, so I put in an option at the title screen. If you don't want it, press Up at the title screen. If you pressed up and decide you want it back again, press Down. Simple, huh?
This is just a side timewaster I'm working on while working on GoSub. Right now, you need to dodge the rocks and shark (you don't have to, there's no consequences yet, although the number does go down, but once it gets to 0 it just goes back to 99. This springing up from the topic a few days ago about how Mike wanted to make a Toobin' for the 2600.
...Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?
That has to be one of the longest movie titles in history. Kind of like "The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain" or "Don't Be A Menace To South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood". Well, I just watched the MST3K version last night and I didn't get it. I forced my mom to watch it earlier today and she says it's weirder than Manos: The Hands of Fate. I totally agree. It really helps when Mike, Tom Servo and Crow are there
In this .bas file, (bank 3 is the one I'm working on right now), v represents what level you're on. To proceed to the next level, I put in v=v+1 once you get the treasure. But after the last level, I put in 'if v>16 then goto 4 bank1' (the title screen), and it won't work. I've tried putting it in various places, and still nothing. I put in 'if v=17 then goto 4 bank 1' and that didn't work either. It's like the stupid program won't listen to what I'm telling it to do! Argh! Anyway, help!
I'm just wondering, do you guys want to shoot stuff while navigating through the mazes? And if so, what? Should I have part of the playfield covering up the treasure and you shoot that away in order to get it? Or how about I use up the player1 sprite and add like the Loch Ness Monster or something? Anyway, I'm still working on this.
Like us on Facebook
Follow us on Twitter
AtariAge on Instagram
Watch us on YouTube
Chat on Discord