[2600 / 7800 ports]

AFAIK, Sirius is not a homebrew, it should have been released commercially back in the day but was never finished.

[onEscape Physical Release - Information and Ordering]

No worries, as far as I know, there are still enough copies of both versions.

[onEscape Physical Release - Information and Ordering]

Some more product photos with complete content of the box, showing both sides of the poster.

 

[Graph2fnt]

My entry in the Forever 2023 Atari Graphics Compo. It got 3rd place (as captured from my Atari).

 

Synthia.xex

[onEscape Physical Release - Information and Ordering]

Forever party has begun and we have the first batch ready!

 

 

[It's a small ATARI world - RAMBIT!]

On 1/24/2012 at 7:23 PM, Tin_Lunchbox said:

 

That's a great story, thanks for sharing it. I wasn't familiar with Rambit, I take it to be some circuitry that speeds up cassette-tape loading on the 410, the 1010, and whatever the other ones were. That's a nifty mod, but to me the niftiest yet would be a mod that allows loading from various places on the cassette, like a disk drive. In other words it would have some kind of smart rewind/fast forward capability. I guess no-one ever did that.

In former Czechoslovakia, there was a tape recorder "KZD-1" that could be interfaced with various computers including Atari, which could do exactly that. Here's a quick translation from this site:
https://pmd85.borik.net/wiki/KZD-1&setlang=en

Quote

"The KZD-1 cassette tape data recorder was manufactured by the ZPA Košíře cooperative and was used for fast data recording by sequential access. The medium used was a standard cassette tape, which had to be formatted before first use. The mean recording and reading speed is 48 cm/s, 96 cm/s for block seek, while the transmission speed itself reaches 10 kbps. Two versions were produced, the first in a table-top design for 230V mains power, the second (labelled KZD-1P) in a panel-mounted (built-in) design, requiring power from an external source (+5V, +15V, -15V, +12V)."

[Atari 130XE keyboard rebuild: vintage keycaps on modern switches]

Can't you add dye to resin before printing?

[onEscape Physical Release - Information and Ordering]

49 minutes ago, michomis said:

As Mq have already made ordering post on AOL I will transfer my order there.

Noted.

[onEscape Physical Release - Information and Ordering]

1 hour ago, Ray Gillman said:

Maybe post a gameplay video?  Watchout for those UK shipments.  One of my kids attended graduate school in Glasgow and sent her a violin from the USA and they stabbed me for a $60 customs fee holding on to her violin like an impounded car.

It's in the original game announcement thread (linked in the first post of this thread), but here you are, as captured from my Atari 800XE:

 

[onEscape Physical Release - Information and Ordering]

As has already been revealed in a post in the original game announcement thread, onEscape is going physical!

 

For the past two months I've been working on graphical layouts for the box, cartridge, manual and various goodies included with the game and the production is just about to start. We have chosen Mq Workshop (FloB, Tensor Trzaskowskiego) as our publisher and Mariusz is already working on the cartridges. Bocianu is in charge of communication with the print shop and he also did some updates to the game itself (namely the publisher's title screen and some more). The game itself is no different from the free digital release and was designed to work on any Atari 8-bit system with at least 48KB of RAM, PAL or NTSC. The images below are of the final product. More pictures can be found down in the thread.

 

 

The Content

 

This is what you will get:

 

• Full-color printed sleeve-type box
• Game cartridge in translucent black shell (XE-style) with color label (8Mbit MaxFlash type), black PCB with gold-plated connector
• Full-color 12-page manual and game history guide
• A3-format (420 x 297 mm) two-sided poster with game map on one side and hand-drawn pixel art on the other side
• 6 rounded rectangular stickers of about 50 x 33 mm

 

Pricing and Ordering

 

Soundtrack Edition: 53 USD + 7 USD for worldwide shipping
Update: As of April 8, all copies of the Soundtrack Edition have been reserved so only Standard edition is now available.

 

Standard Edition: 49 USD + 7 USD for worldwide shipping

 

You can sign up for a order in this thread and ONLY here (there are separate order threads on some of the Polish forums, too).
In your order, please state the number of copies.

 

We would like to have a small initial batch ready for the upcoming demo party Forever, held on March 17-19 near Trnava, Slovakia. If everything goes to plan, pre-orders should start shipping around the same time. Everyone who places a pre-order will be contacted to confirm the order and provide their shipping address.

 

Feel free to ask any questions regarding the boxed version of onEscape in this thread.

[Atari 130XE keyboard rebuild: vintage keycaps on modern switches]

7 hours ago, XL Freak said:

Through collaboration with @ScreamingAtTheRadio and @_The Doctor__, I have added several options for the inverse key legends. Now you have a stock sized inverse, a stock sized atari logo, a stock sized inverse atari logo, and a full sized version of all of those. six to choose from.

 

 

enjoy!

jesse

Cool, but everyone and their grandma want the classic Atari logo, not this modern-ish iteration.

[Altirra 4.10 released]

It seems that the emulator still does not remember disabling the stereo-as-mono setting. I am using the portable mode.

[Atari 8-Bit/5200 Homebrew Games Released/Completed/WIP in 2023]

Oh, were they? I did not know.

[Atari 130XE keyboard rebuild: vintage keycaps on modern switches]

20 hours ago, ScreamingAtTheRadio said:

Yes, the PCB and the plate designs are done, waiting for the end of the new year holidays in China to get prototypes fabricated. Now working on stabilizer adapters, flexible connector PCB and Pi Pico adapter board (which is not needed for use in an Atari). The PCBs will be fabricated with the ghosting diodes, resistors and LEDs surface-mounted at the factory, so assembly will just be your connector of choice, the power LED and the switches themselves.

That's a great news, fingers crossed!
P.S.: Just one little thing, though it's not a big deal: I've noticed you use the wrong Atari-like font for the labels (I guess it's SF Atari Sylfaen). That one has many characters wrong. I suggest using "Harry Fatt".

[Atari 130XE keyboard rebuild: vintage keycaps on modern switches]

Hi OP,

any progress regarding the new revision of the PCB with multi-switch support?

[onEscape - game]

21 hours ago, -^CrossBow^- said:

I'm sure this was asked during the stream last night but I was only listening in the background. But will the physical cart work on NTSC consoles? Will the palettes be adjusted for NTSC consoles? It might not matter for me since my VBXE is using PAL palettes anyway, but just curious?

 

The physical release should work on NTSC systems. Regarding colors, adjusting all of the graphics for NTSC palette would be quite a challenge, with nearly 60 images while most contain dozens of colors and are hard-coded in the game code. If possible, I will try to do some tuning at least to some of the colors where it matters (for example to not have green-ish underground tunnels).

[onEscape - game]

On 1/17/2023 at 3:30 AM, ZeroPage Homebrew said:

ZeroPage Homebrew is playing OnEscape on tomorrow's ZPH stream LIVE on Twitch, with an EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK REVEAL of the upcoming physical release mockups! Hope you can join us!

 

Tue Jan 17, 2023 | LIVE @ 6PM PT | 9PM ET | 2AM GMT+1Day

WATCH LIVE: https://www.twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew/
WATCH LATER: https://youtube.com/zeropagehomebrew/

Thank you James and Tanya for playing the game! It was fun watching you play.

[onEscape - game]

On 1/12/2023 at 7:41 PM, Beeblebrox said:

Yup tis great to have the CD but you are right - would have to dig out my CD player. Nice to own it and just play the digital tracks once converted.

 

I definitely would love to have this special edition boxed version in my collection. Great game.

The soundrtrack is already available at Poison's bandcamp: https://poison6502.bandcamp.com/album/onescape-game-ost

[onEscape - game]

The order does not matter. You have all the items you need so far (and some that you don't). 🙂

Spoiler

The next thing to do is to use the screwdriver somewhere.

 

[UGV installed in my 130XE - Great display output quality!]

4 hours ago, NISMOPC said:

As stated above. Are there any sellers in the USA for these?

Side note: My go to monitor is the Dell 2007FP 20.1 Inch Ultrasharp 1600x1200 Flat Panel Monitor. Has USB power port, VGA port, DVI-D port, S-Video port and Composite connection AND maintains a 4:3 aspect ratio screen. Currently own three of them all used. Two purchased at different times from Facebook Marketplace and another from Ebay.

Also own a 2007WFP since I got it super cheap. Same as above, but 16:9 ratio.

 

I had that one some time ago and while it seemed like a great display for my Atari, I found out that the S-Video and Composite inputs cannot handle PAL Atari signal. 😞

[Cybernoid WIP]

I thought the text line coloring seemed not noticeable enough so I tried to pronounce it a bit more. Also retouched the outer frame a bit. No .xex though, just manual retouching.

[Jordan vs. Bird: One on One? Never released on the 8-bit computer, correct?]

14 minutes ago, Justin Payne said:

@pseudografx Nice! What graphics mode does this target?

Most likely Antic 4.

[Jordan vs. Bird: One on One? Never released on the 8-bit computer, correct?]

Out of excess spare time, I just made this "what if" mock-up 🙂

Based on the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive version.

 

[Disk magazine Flop 67]

1 hour ago, adam242 said:

Wow, that intro demo is a real attention-grabber! 😍

And there's even an easter egg hidden.

[Lunar Patrol]

Lunar Patrol looks great, only the pits are a bit hard to spot since the colour difference is too subtle. At least the sand layer should be a shade darker or lighter than the green hills.