high voltage Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 any new minor updates? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Atari_Warlord Posted September 23, 2015 Author Share Posted September 23, 2015 It's been awhile since I've had any news to share, but I made some progress today. I talked with a very helpful person at the copyright office and my request is officially in the queue. Money has changed hands and the minimum turnaround they would promise is 15 weeks. That puts it right around Christmas or the beginning of January at the earliest. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
high voltage Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 I'm the first to say....COOOOOOLLLLLLL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IHATETHEBEARS Posted September 24, 2015 Share Posted September 24, 2015 Nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Atari_Warlord Posted September 24, 2015 Author Share Posted September 24, 2015 The government finally agrees with everyone that has researched this. All the "Happy Birthday" song copyright claims are invalid. Hopefully Time Warner has saved some of the money they took illegally to settle the class action lawsuit that is forming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trevgauntlet Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 The New Jersey State Library, located at Trenton, NJ, has The Newark Star Ledger achieves as well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Atari_Warlord Posted November 14, 2015 Author Share Posted November 14, 2015 I was pleasently surprised last weekend when a package arrived from the copyright office. I quickly opened it and found copies of the manual and computer code. The manual is 4 pages and appears to just be a sheet folded in half. Picture of the front and back cover: Picture of the inside pages: It took awhile to get the computer code into a text file and Thomas used his excellent skills to turn it into a playable ROM. There were notes in the documents that Mr. Tokar intended to port this game to other video game systems, which I'm sure he abandoned after selling only around 10 copies. There is still work to be done, but it looks like this project officially has legs now. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omegamatrix Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 Cool! Good to see the rom has been recovered. Reading the manual it is a paddle game (I was wondering about that). It kind of looked like Kaboom from the pictures I saw years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 Yea, it reminded my at Kaboom! too. But it doesn't have that rhythm which makes Kaboom! so special. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omegamatrix Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 Does it borrow code from other games? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rasch_C Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 Very exciting news! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 (edited) The title screen has some garbage above the message, probably just a place holder. There is space for ~2 rows above and below the message. The width is only 40 pixel. At the beginning the candles come with big vertical gaps, later on it gets more intense and you have to prepared to miss some. Here are some screenshots (the last one shows game over): Edited November 14, 2015 by Thomas Jentzsch 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 Does it borrow code from other games? I haven't checked with CloneSpy. But the code seems very unique. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supergun Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 Holy Cow! Waggie, you are the man!! All my doubts just went out the window!!! The only thing left to say is: GAME OVER MAN, GAME OVER! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omegamatrix Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 I found the old pictures on my hard drive: Now we can clearly see everything. I thought the man blowing out the candles was a air gun before... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LS_Dracon Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 So cool Waggie, thank you man! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 I uploaded a short video. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
high voltage Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 Awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
high voltage Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 (edited) The garbage above the on-screen birthday message could be the name of the birthday person. Weren't they personalized carts? Edited November 14, 2015 by high voltage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 Yes, they were personalized. I just have no clue where the garbage pattern came from. It seems not exactly random. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Atari_Warlord Posted November 14, 2015 Author Share Posted November 14, 2015 In the 2005 thread as well as the manual it mentions the name is below. It just might be an error he cleaned up later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 There could have been some decorative graphics or maybe the name of the person who wishes Happy Birthday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Atari_Warlord Posted November 14, 2015 Author Share Posted November 14, 2015 It kind of looks like "Personal Games" in cursive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LS_Dracon Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 Note on tv picture (cart) the background is light blue, (just like the title screen?) Perhaps the source is not the final revision. Arkyology and now Birthday Mania, what a great year, how many games are out there just waiting to be re-discovered? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Hunter Posted November 15, 2015 Share Posted November 15, 2015 Finally then... Thanks for all the effort you put into this, Waggie! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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