Albert Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 Usually a busy time for Nukey who will finish the AtariVox+ logic. Yeah, we definitely need the AtariVox support fleshed out. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr SQL Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 Awesome! I need to work on getting boards made that will fit in the CBS carts. Those boards are the smallest I've seen of any third-party boards. ..Al Al, are you building CBS RAM games with the 256 byte chips or using Melody boards? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 Al, are you building CBS RAM games with the 256 byte chips or using Melody boards? It's likely to be a variant of a new board we're calling the Aria, which has 4K of onboard RAM. ..Al 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDS Games Posted August 30, 2015 Author Share Posted August 30, 2015 Usually a busy time for Nukey who will finish the AtariVox+ logic. We're at the tail end of summer so hopefully it won't be too long. Otherwise if he's absolutely indisposed for the foreseeable future, I can take a stab at the logic. Assuming I can figure it out. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 We're at the tail end of summer so hopefully it won't be too long. Otherwise if he's absolutely indisposed for the foreseeable future, I can take a stab at the logic. Assuming I can figure it out. No rush on my end, since designing and testing the board will take a bit of time, as well as having labels made to fit the CBS carts. And creating an appropriate manual for the game. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AW127 Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 (edited) Very cool. Good would be, if the joyports could be changed, that pressing the normal Player-1 Joystickbutton would start a 1-Player-game and not the 2-player-game. Like it is now, when you play alone, you must always plug the stick in the other joyport, because nearly all other games use the other port for playing one-player-games. And i also hope, that there will come a PAL60 version of this someday. Edited October 9, 2015 by AW127 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iesposta Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 Very cool. Good would be, if the joyports could be changed, ... .Who knew selecting a game variation would cause so much trouble and discussion? How about all those games that have 70 variations? You usually would just play the game that started. If 2 player selection wasn't clear, you had to look in the manual for the game selection grid and all the variations for one player, two player, and 3 & 4 for the games that let more than 2 play. Yes it has always been backwards, and people new to the game sometimes can't start game play. All I think you can do is Select one player yellow guy on right - so you plug the stick in the right side; Select one player blue guy on the left - so you use the left joystick plug; and Select 2 players same time which the left blue player uses the left stick and the right yellow player uses the right stick. If you only have 1 joystick plugged in the left side, select the left blue player and play a 1 player game and enjoy the speech taunts like the arcade version if you have an AtariVox+ with a speaker plugged into it which will only talk if plugged in the Right side joystick port. (Sorry no speech for two players same time). Maybe take turns in a one player game? . P. S. A lot don't know that Asteroids Selection 6 or is it 9 has less up/down vertical movement and more diagonal movement. As well as I just recently realized when it was mentioned that E.T. starts in hardest difficulty and version 2 is easier because there's one less person chasing you, and version 3 is easy difficulty as 3 doesn't have the scientist or the FBI people! It is wrong to start an adventure game mostly for kids off at hardest, but it was right to have the FBI and scientist at the start also like the movie. Imagine if no FBI or scientist chased you when you turned on the game. People would have said it is easy, but annoying that ET falls into pits a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-type Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 I had it in a book of video games as well. Can't remember which one either. it might have been this book: How to Master the Video Games by Tom Hirschfeld This was where I first remember reading about Wizard of Wor 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkdot Posted November 18, 2015 Share Posted November 18, 2015 Super nice! I just saw this. This could be the greatest hack of all, but them I've always been a huge WOW fan. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tremoloman2006 Posted November 18, 2015 Share Posted November 18, 2015 This will definitely be worthy of a CIB release! I'm definitely in for a copy! WOW is one of my all time favorites... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Alexander Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 I eagerly and patiently await the completion of this project. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 I eagerly and patiently await the completion of this project. Same. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+KaeruYojimbo Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 Played this for the first time tonight. Wow. Just, wow. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mountain King Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 Great job on this project so far! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 I have a ton of CBS carts for this project now. ..Al 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Alexander Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 I have a ton of CBS carts for this project now. ..Al Great to hear this project is continuing. And I am patient. Don't rush the project, When its ready its ready. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted August 4, 2016 Share Posted August 4, 2016 This is super cool. I have a feature request: can you swap the joysticks so that you can play a single-player game using the LEFT stick? The Atari Flashback Portable is coming soon, and it only has a left stick. It would be fun to play this (or the original Wiz of Wor) on that device. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iesposta Posted August 4, 2016 Share Posted August 4, 2016 This is super cool. I have a feature request: can you swap the joysticks so that you can play a single-player game using the LEFT stick? The Atari Flashback Portable is coming soon, and it only has a left stick. It would be fun to play this (or the original Wiz of Wor) on that device. You just hit Select until only the left side player is shown, and you can Reset that to start a game with the left stick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted August 4, 2016 Share Posted August 4, 2016 Sweet. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tremoloman2006 Posted August 5, 2016 Share Posted August 5, 2016 You just hit Select until only the left side player is shown, and you can Reset that to start a game with the left stick. Glad you aren't removing the option to use the right side. I'm so used to it being that way I think I'd find it annoying NOT to have to use the right side now. After all, that is the faithful configuration to the original. \m/ Keep up the great work guys! -Tremoloman 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iesposta Posted August 5, 2016 Share Posted August 5, 2016 Glad you aren't removing the option to use the right side. I'm so used to it being that way I think I'd find it annoying NOT to have to use the right side now. After all, that is the faithful configuration to the original. \m/ Keep up the great work guys! -Tremoloman But when you play the left side with AtariVox+ plugged in right side, then you will get the arcade speech! "The wee-zard of wor, ha ha ha ha." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tremoloman2006 Posted August 5, 2016 Share Posted August 5, 2016 But when you play the left side with AtariVox+ plugged in right side, then you will get the arcade speech! "The wee-zard of wor, ha ha ha ha." I've got an AtariVox+ so I'll give it a try when complete. I'd still prefer to play the right side though with speech. Beggars can't be choosers I guess Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AW127 Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 Really looking forward to the final version of this here. And also for a PAL60 version of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Helmet Posted June 3, 2017 Share Posted June 3, 2017 So you guys...was this abandoned? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iesposta Posted June 3, 2017 Share Posted June 3, 2017 So you guys...was this abandoned? I hope not. It would be my go-to AtariVox game along with "Man Goes Down". I haven't done all 70 some speech strings. But I believe there is enough. Who knew it said so much ? Who knew what was said is scripted to what is onscreen, and also which maze you are in? Who could understand or remember more than a few phrases? I don't, and I played the Arcade game a lot. It is also about 2-players at the same time -- which can't have AtariVox. Someone more advanced than CDS or myself needs to hack in the AtariVox speech, and any high score saves, unless it just gets released as a maze and sprite update with no speech. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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