Wrathchild Posted January 30, 2011 Author Share Posted January 30, 2011 (edited) I guess the ROM version would be the best starting point but the Atarimania A8 version for me results in a 12K file that can't be used? Can someone supply a clean cart dump of this? ... Scrap that - the zip was 12K with a 16K ROM inside... starting to lose it now I've hit 40! Edited January 30, 2011 by Wrathchild Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
classics Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 is NECROMANCER convertible? Absolutely, yes. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted January 31, 2011 Author Share Posted January 31, 2011 (edited) Hi, Give this a try, this is just a few hours work but looks like it holds up under emulation, let me know if the controls can be improved in any way. Although its a 16K cart on the A8, it doesn't have any spare space needed for the supporting 5200 code and so I've simply expanded this into a 32K cart for the 5200. Regards, Mark necromancer_v1.zip Edited January 31, 2011 by Wrathchild Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 I did a quick 5 minute test on a real 5200 and it seems to work fine. I will play test it some more later to see if there are any bugs. Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
classics Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 Wow, that was fast... I wish I knew there was a 16k cartridge version before I did the disk version. :-) Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted January 31, 2011 Author Share Posted January 31, 2011 Oops, I'd only noticed the wink in your post Steve after I'd done the deed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DamonicFury Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 I did a quick 5 minute test on a real 5200 and it seems to work fine. I will play test it some more later to see if there are any bugs. Allan I also gave it a try... works great! Thanks so much for converting this one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2600 Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 Nice, game works great! Guess you'll have to find another convert there Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kruuth Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 This is amazing. Any updates on doing a camstudio on how you do the conversions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
classics Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 Nice, game works great! Guess you'll have to find another convert there Steve What are the odds right? :-) I did the disk version and he did the cartridge version, so there will be two versions around in case one has a bug. I think the disk version is much more likely to have a bug in the conversion somewhere, as it had to be moved around in memory in get it working on only 16k. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kruuth Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 Just throwing it out there, but any thoughts on doing Blinky's Scary School? It was a game that some of my relatives had in England back in the 80s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie_ Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 Thank you! Great game. Works good on the AtariMax USB cart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted February 14, 2011 Author Share Posted February 14, 2011 This is amazing. Any updates on doing a camstudio on how you do the conversions? Not yet, finally got around to putting camstudio on my Win7 box that I'm using for most things now. I'm working on another port but its a bit more involved and so haven't been tracking it. Maybe I'll pick one of the existing ones and redo-it piece by piece, or I could find another nice 16K title to do. Just throwing it out there, but any thoughts on doing Blinky's Scary School? It was a game that some of my relatives had in England back in the 80s. Lots of great Zeppelin titles (even their, well Domark's "Star Wars"). Most however are 64K titles and tend to use more than the 16K of RAM, so even after re-positioning the code things are still a bit tricky. I was looking into Zybex but this ended up needing more than 16K to run. Thanks for the 'thanks' to the others! Regards, Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kruuth Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 This is amazing. Any updates on doing a camstudio on how you do the conversions? Not yet, finally got around to putting camstudio on my Win7 box that I'm using for most things now. I'm working on another port but its a bit more involved and so haven't been tracking it. Maybe I'll pick one of the existing ones and redo-it piece by piece, or I could find another nice 16K title to do. Just throwing it out there, but any thoughts on doing Blinky's Scary School? It was a game that some of my relatives had in England back in the 80s. Lots of great Zeppelin titles (even their, well Domark's "Star Wars"). Most however are 64K titles and tend to use more than the 16K of RAM, so even after re-positioning the code things are still a bit tricky. I was looking into Zybex but this ended up needing more than 16K to run. Thanks for the 'thanks' to the others! Regards, Mark Ah yes, the RAM thing. Should have known. Oh well. Looking forward to the Camstudio of how you do things. I'd love to know how to do it. Maybe someone will see how you're converting them and step up to perhaps write a converter program that would simplify moving A8 games to the 5200. Keep up the good work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tezz Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 Lots of great Zeppelin titles (even their, well Domark's "Star Wars").Most however are 64K titles and tend to use more than the 16K of RAM, so even after re-positioning the code things are still a bit tricky. I was looking into Zybex but this ended up needing more than 16K to run. Thanks for the 'thanks' to the others! Regards, Mark Hi Mark, I tried to send a PM today but it wouldn't go through saying the error was "Array"? Regards, Tezz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kruuth Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 Anything on how to do conversions wrathchild? It's be nice to have more games for the beloved 5200 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted March 18, 2011 Author Share Posted March 18, 2011 Hi, trying to put close to my current 5200 port from the A8 as I just received some breakthrough help from phaeron who kindly looked into the issue for me. Hopefully I'll then be able to put some focus into a guide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kruuth Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 That's good to hear. It'd be great to have more ports available to us. Even better if someone could write a converter so it could be done faster too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted March 25, 2011 Author Share Posted March 25, 2011 Update made to the conversions page. Enjoy! I'm 99% confident that this should run OK now but there is a remote chance the calling of an NMI within an NMI could occur still (caused by an over-running DLI). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2600 Posted March 25, 2011 Share Posted March 25, 2011 (edited) Works great on MESS, have to wait until next week for the Atarimax SD cart for the real thing (sold my USB). Appreciate your work as always. PS: were you considering finishing Rampage, where it could be used on the 5200 SD? Edited March 26, 2011 by Greg2600 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DamonicFury Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 Update made to the conversions page. Enjoy! I'm 99% confident that this should run OK now but there is a remote chance the calling of an NMI within an NMI could occur still (caused by an over-running DLI). Encounter! Cool! Unfortunately, I couldn't get it running with my AtariMax USB card (on a 4-port 5200). Just got a black screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 Update made to the conversions page. Enjoy! I'm 99% confident that this should run OK now but there is a remote chance the calling of an NMI within an NMI could occur still (caused by an over-running DLI). Encounter! Cool! Unfortunately, I couldn't get it running with my AtariMax USB card (on a 4-port 5200). Just got a black screen. It works on mine. Did you set the right cart type? Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenfused Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 Encounter!. Cool. I had started a 16K (cassette) conversion but never got very far. Glad to see the 32K converted. A good example of what the 5200 could do. --Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DamonicFury Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 Update made to the conversions page. Enjoy! I'm 99% confident that this should run OK now but there is a remote chance the calling of an NMI within an NMI could occur still (caused by an over-running DLI). Encounter! Cool! Unfortunately, I couldn't get it running with my AtariMax USB card (on a 4-port 5200). Just got a black screen. It works on mine. Did you set the right cart type? Allan The AtariMax utility didn't ask for a cart type. I don't think that it asks for one when it's a 32K ROM. Is there a way to force it to a particular type? So far, I've been able to get just about all the ROM's I've tried to work with the cart, other than BBSB (of course). Some converted games seem to refuse to respond to the Start key, but I do at least get a title screen for them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DamonicFury Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 Update made to the conversions page. Enjoy! I'm 99% confident that this should run OK now but there is a remote chance the calling of an NMI within an NMI could occur still (caused by an over-running DLI). Encounter! Cool! Unfortunately, I couldn't get it running with my AtariMax USB card (on a 4-port 5200). Just got a black screen. It works on mine. Did you set the right cart type? Allan The AtariMax utility didn't ask for a cart type. I don't think that it asks for one when it's a 32K ROM. Is there a way to force it to a particular type? So far, I've been able to get just about all the ROM's I've tried to work with the cart, other than BBSB (of course). Some converted games seem to refuse to respond to the Start key, but I do at least get a title screen for them. Got it working... just tried it in a different slot on the menu. Many thanks for the conversion! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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