Gaztee Posted November 7, 2011 Share Posted November 7, 2011 Last weekend 5/6 November a few of us packed our Atari goodies & headed north to Blackpool to take Jagfest UK to the masses!! Well, we just wanted to try & give the Atari scene in the UK a bit of a boost. I am hopeful that we did that! Now with this being a show that brings 1000's through the door, I thought I'd ask a certain Mr Domin if we could demo his upcoming release Impulse X for the Jaguar He kindly agreed to this, and I have to say I think the game got a pretty good reception. As things turned out, we were asked to run an Atari based competiton on Warlords for the VCS, but for whatever reason they couldn't get them to work! At this point we were looking for a hi score game & I suggested Impulse as its not out yet, & would show that there is still life in the old cat yet! I also said I would put up the prize of a copy of the game on cart for the winner (there's one order for you Matthias ) So my weekend was spent mainly keeping an eye on people playing the game & keeping details of the best scores. The game was eventually won by Scott Edwards of Manchester, who is now looking for a Jag on which to play his new game! The game was played pretty solidly for the whole 2 days & made at least one person change their view of the console & share them with the entire hall! I'm sure Matthias will provide us with more details soon, but the game will be offered on JagCD or cartridge & will be released at E-jagfest on 19th November! Here's a link to some photos of the event (thanks Groovybee ) http://www.flickr.co.../uberpixelphoto And a couple of my own (sorry for the quality!) too! 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted November 7, 2011 Share Posted November 7, 2011 Its a shame all the homebrewers weren't in the same room . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaztee Posted November 7, 2011 Author Share Posted November 7, 2011 Its a shame all the homebrewers weren't in the same room . If it hadn't been for the group photo at the end, we'd never even seen you!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted November 7, 2011 Share Posted November 7, 2011 And vice versa! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zerosquare Posted November 7, 2011 Share Posted November 7, 2011 Thanks for the report Gaztee, I hope you had a fun weekend As things turned out, we were asked to run an Atari based competiton on Warlords for the VCS, but for whatever reason they couldn't get them to work!Ah come on, how hard is it to run a game on a 2600 ? No red screens, scratched CDs or flaky drives ; you plug it in and it just works Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jag_Slave Posted November 8, 2011 Share Posted November 8, 2011 Great stuff! Cant wait to pick it up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fadest Posted November 8, 2011 Share Posted November 8, 2011 1000 people !!! Wow, this was a great event, next year, I will try to come, but Blackpool is not the easiest town to go in UK. I'm sure Matthias will provide us with more details soon, but the game will be offered on JagCD or cartridge & will be released at E-jagfest on 19th November! Great news !!! And I hope there will be a cartridge release. Unfortunately, I won't attend to the Ejagfest this years (unless I make a nervous breakdown that urgently need to be cure with some Currywürst %) ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrekMD Posted November 8, 2011 Share Posted November 8, 2011 Looking forward to this release! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syntexerror Posted November 8, 2011 Share Posted November 8, 2011 Ya great to see cant wait to grab this one up and try it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isgoed Posted November 8, 2011 Share Posted November 8, 2011 That looked like a great event! Can't wait for the Impulse X release! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 Looks like Impulse X is going to be more fun than Breakout 2k. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serblander Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 Looks EXCELLENT!! Really looking forward to this release! Also very excited about trying out both my rotary controller as well as a mouse! Very eager to see how it compares to one of my favourite games on the Atari ST: Arknoid 2. Only thing is, which to get? Cart or CD? Cart or CD... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
averybluemonkey Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 Really liking the look of this, will definitely be looking to pick it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinkoVitch Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Thanks for the report Gaztee, I hope you had a fun weekend As things turned out, we were asked to run an Atari based competiton on Warlords for the VCS, but for whatever reason they couldn't get them to work!Ah come on, how hard is it to run a game on a 2600 ? No red screens, scratched CDs or flaky drives ; you plug it in and it just works Hope you are sat down.. but... we had that JagCD Unit running for the full 2 days NO ISSUES!!!!!! :D 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaztee Posted November 12, 2011 Author Share Posted November 12, 2011 Looks EXCELLENT!! Really looking forward to this release! Also very excited about trying out both my rotary controller as well as a mouse! Very eager to see how it compares to one of my favourite games on the Atari ST: Arknoid 2. Only thing is, which to get? Cart or CD? Cart or CD... Easy BOTH Need to sort out a decent Rotary, now that more games are taking advantage of them! WOnder if Link would notice if I nicked his!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JagChris Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JagChris Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 I'm wondering if the final version will still use that webcode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nonner242 Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 I am so happy to see this release! Now the waiting that kills me....cant wait! Excellent Job guy, this looks like a must have for me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaztee Posted November 17, 2011 Author Share Posted November 17, 2011 I am so happy to see this release! Now the waiting that kills me....cant wait! Excellent Job guy, this looks like a must have for me! Keep trying to PM you, but I'm assuming that the inbox is full - HIT ME UP ;o) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nonner242 Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 I am so happy to see this release! Now the waiting that kills me....cant wait! Excellent Job guy, this looks like a must have for me! Keep trying to PM you, but I'm assuming that the inbox is full - HIT ME UP ;o) Im so Popular....not! You got mail! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jag_Slave Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Heya! Any updates for us? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaztee Posted January 23, 2012 Author Share Posted January 23, 2012 Heya! Any updates for us? It's unlikely to be soon from my last conversation with Mathias. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jag_Slave Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 Dang that sucks. More snags? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthias Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 Hello! Heya! Any updates for us? Recently i have added (for the cartridge-version) a packing-functionality for the selfdesigned levels to the game, so it can now save more than just 2 levels to the serial e2prom, the actual number of stored levels will depend on their design. And last weekend i added the functionality to test out the actual designed playfield immediately from within the editor. Kind regards Matthias 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaztee Posted January 23, 2012 Author Share Posted January 23, 2012 Hello! Heya! Any updates for us? Recently i have added (for the cartridge-version) a packing-functionality for the selfdesigned levels to the game, so it can now save more than just 2 levels to the serial e2prom, the actual number of stored levels will depend on their design. And last weekend i added the functionality to test out the actual designed playfield immediately from within the editor. Kind regards Matthias Thanks for the update Matthias, much appreciated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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