+DjayBee Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 1 hour ago, JagChris said: It contains the what what? You got to give more info than that before I download 2GB of stuff. Protection from what? The disk image contains and SDriveMax emulates the copy protection. Therefore the game cannot detect any tampering because it "feels" like it runs from an original disk. The 2 GB are the full a8preservation torrent release which contains only dumps from original disks including their copy protection. It contains the ATX files for two slightly different releases of The City. Download it if you are on fast connection and delete the file afterwards if have no use for anything else in it. But better try first if using the joystick already solves your problem. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 make sure the D2S1 is writable? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+kheller2 Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 1 hour ago, Wrathchild said: make sure the D2S1 is writable? Page 1: Do not 'Write Protect the game disks or your Character Disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smoore Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 1 hour ago, kheller2 said: Page 1: Do not 'Write Protect the game disks or your Character Disk. Thanks both so much, changing the drives to R/W solved this for me. Apologies for dumb questions, I never owned a disk drive - only played this when I borrowed an 800xl and a 1050 - I had to make do with a 400 that I had upgraded to 48k with the 410 recorder. Skipped the XL series and went to ST and then Falcon - and now many years later still prefer the 8-bit games! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JagChris Posted December 14, 2023 Share Posted December 14, 2023 4 hours ago, DjayBee said: The disk image contains and SDriveMax emulates the copy protection. Therefore the game cannot detect any tampering because it "feels" like it runs from an original disk. The 2 GB are the full a8preservation torrent release which contains only dumps from original disks including their copy protection. It contains the ATX files for two slightly different releases of The City. Download it if you are on fast connection and delete the file afterwards if have no use for anything else in it. But better try first if using the joystick already solves your problem. Oh yeah hopefully so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JagChris Posted December 14, 2023 Share Posted December 14, 2023 So it works. I need to use the stick to back out of banks. However I can't turn left or right once out in town. Only forward back. That's odd. Tried two different joysticks. I bought both this and The,Dungeon back when I was a kid. Though had just burned out my 1050 playing Phantasie so I never really got into this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+kheller2 Posted December 14, 2023 Share Posted December 14, 2023 Read the manual! To Turn Right or Left, press the fire button while pushing the joystick to right or left. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8man2004 Posted December 14, 2023 Share Posted December 14, 2023 Will it run from the fujiNet ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JagChris Posted December 14, 2023 Share Posted December 14, 2023 4 hours ago, kheller2 said: Read the manual! To Turn Right or Left, press the fire button while pushing the joystick to right or left. Oh sorry. I actually read the manual the other night. Must have missed that part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+kheller2 Posted December 14, 2023 Share Posted December 14, 2023 4 hours ago, JagChris said: Oh sorry. I actually read the manual the other night. Must have missed that part. What is worrisome is that I can remember that from when I first played it in the 80's, yet, I have a hard time remembering what I did yesterday. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JagChris Posted December 14, 2023 Share Posted December 14, 2023 8 hours ago, kheller2 said: What is worrisome is that I can remember that from when I first played it in the 80's, yet, I have a hard time remembering what I did yesterday. I must have misplaced some of them through the years. My instructions say nothing much about controls. I seem to be missing the card mentioned earlier. The packaging is really nice and I regret not keeping better track of these things now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gravelpits Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 On 1/28/2019 at 5:52 PM, Gravelpits said: ...I thought it would be great if I could find the old AR tracks online and add them to my media library. Well, one thing led to another and the whole attempt became a project. I wasn't able to find all the tracks I wanted to include, so I went back to the emulators and into the games directly, where I captured the PCM (705 kbps) sound for each of the tracks. The conversion of Gilbertson's music to the C64 platform was disappointing, but I did include the main theme (wishing well intro), which showcases some of the differences between the two. All of this I put together in a track order that was pleasing to me, while adding the lyrics as metadata to each track for which lyrics were available. I threw together a "cover" using artwork from the gamebox and the AR logo. Finally, I converted them to 192kbps AAC in m4a containers. With the exception of some start/stop copy sounds at the beginning and end of some tracks, they all sound great. I would like to link to them here to make them available to the fan community, but I am concerned about violation of copyright, especially the reproduction of Mr. Gilbertson's intellectual property. I'll make them available if and when I get the go ahead from one of them. Mr. Gilbertson, if you're listening: even before I went back and captured the the in-game audio and edited it, I knew the lyrics to most of the songs. They have haunted me all these years. I took a few liberties with the track names. I wasn't thinking I would have to explain that when I did it because I hadn't thought to share them yet. They were just for me. I hope it's not a problem. Here is the tracklist: Alternate Reality -- The Music 01 - Abduction - City 02 - At the Floating Gate 03 - Armor 04 - Guild 05 - The Legend of Thoreandan 06 - The Dwarf Dance (Instrumental) 07 - Let In the Lite 08 - Moments in My Life 09 - Waves 10 - Death 11 - Abduction - Dungeon (Wishing Well Intro) 12 - Der Rathskeller Rock 13 - The Devourer 14 - Der Rathskeller Tune 3 (Instrumental) 15 - The Troll King 16 - Evil Guild 17 - In The Hall of The Goblin King 18 - Good Guild 19 - The Chapel (Instrumental) 20 - Death 21 - Into the Fray Bonus - Abduction - Dungeon - Wishing Well Intro (C64) Dear AR community, I recently revisited this thread and was saddened to hear of Gary Gilbertson's passing. A few years ago I made the above post describing my effort to capture the music from the original Atari 8-bit version of AR. I am very glad to have done it and I have actually listened to the music quite a lot more than I would have guessed. I have always wanted to make the music files available to the wider community, but I was unsure how to go about doing it without violating copyright or appearing like an opportunist, especially when there still seemed to be the possibility of an AR reboot in the works. However, the sad news of Mr. Gilbertson's passing coupled with the developments reported by @eobet regarding Mr. Price's firm intention to move on from AR has made me rethink my position. At this point, I cannot see any reason not to publish the music. Indeed, it seems to me that the good coming from making the files available to the community would far outweigh any foreseeable harm. Therefore, I am attaching to this post three versions of the music from AR in FLAC, ALAC and AAC formats. I hope you all enjoy listening to them as much as I have. RIP Gary Gilbertson. Best wishes to you all. The waves at home are pounding on the shore the snow here's falling just outside my door and all i want's to be with you once more but i'm told that this is one thing that i best stop hoping for they tell me to go on i ask them for how long they tell me to be strong to what you can't be wrong i'm lost without your love i need you here with me in this reality. PS: All audio was captured using the Atari800 emulator in PAL mode, not NTSC. PAL is 50 Hz and NTSC is 60 Hz, so if the music sounds slower than you remember and you are from North America, that is probably why. I am uncertain if Mr. Gilbertson intended for the music to be played on an NTSC or PAL device, though he probably wrote them and played them back on an NTSC device. I broached the subject with him, along with some other points, in a DM a few years ago after sending him the files to review, but he made no mention of it in his reply. Maybe he forgot to address it in his response or maybe the difference was unimportant to him. Nevertheless, if you're an NTSC purist, you're going to need to speed these up by 20%. AR - The Music (fixed).zip 10 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Thanks for posting - been listening to this great music the past few days 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gravelpits Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 On 7/23/2023 at 2:51 PM, eobet said: I had corresponded a bit with Gary Gilbertson before his passing, and I know there's quite a bit of music by him uploaded as unlisted Youtube videos. I guess the below post is what you were referring to, @eobet? Here is a post from @ARO2 (Gary Gilbertson) on @Jace Hall's "AR Music Recreated" thread, made during the COVID lockdown in April, 2020: On 4/19/2020 at 1:12 PM, ARO2 said: Well with this quarantine business I had a moment to dig up some old versions of my various AR tunes... As I recall you cannot link directly from this posting but you can copy and paste the selections. Note: The numbers after the song titles refer to yearly dates of... composed - audio version - video version. ======== https://youtu.be/FhPKnNkngGI Wishing Well 84-97-01 [Dungeon theme... yes I messed with it a bit in this 2001 version] https://youtu.be/AvnT5Gm-8HU Moments in My Life 83-97-01 https://youtu.be/nKHCNDbjeNo Let In The Light 83-97-12 https://youtu.be/INCqNLHRkd0 Into The Fray 84-97-06 https://youtu.be/gBnMPgzrdkU ARMOR 83-97-12 https://youtu.be/1K3IOcXu1Ik Ganthem 83-97-12 https://youtu.be/9PIQGzLnISQ Waves at Home 83-97-06 https://youtu.be/Qu8IXpBljjk DeathAR 83-97-12 ======== Some tunes that were slated to be used in ARO97 - which didn't happen https://youtu.be/N_1xmSUJR-4 Vanish 97-97-06 https://youtu.be/e-FlNb7AW30 Bring You Tonight 97-97-98 [remember - 20+yr old graphics] https://youtu.be/f5O6ECnQU0w Could We Be 97-97-98 [remember - 20+yr old graphics] https://youtu.be/FTCW7Rvf23I Good-Evil Guild 83-97-06 https://youtu.be/py4XnXG7CGY The Dark 97-97-01 https://youtu.be/_ihCO3yHGKQ Never Been 97-97-98 https://youtu.be/zt0JfRFRBJ0 Morning Sun 97-97-98 ======== Some tunes just for fun... https://youtu.be/7TyB8WJcgG8 Lyrae 82-18-18 https://youtu.be/ZpUQ3ELXZZ0 AR Overture 97-97-14 https://youtu.be/O0IhiIboKok I Am Pacman 97-97-19 [just for fun] As mentioned above, the videos are unlisted for searching, so don't lose these links! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xebec's Demise Posted August 2 Share Posted August 2 (edited) On 12/11/2023 at 12:16 AM, Rybags said: I had a cracked version of The City practically weeks after the game came out. I'm fairly sure the one on Atarimania is fine. Though a problem with the game is that even with multiple images mounted on multiple virtual drives, you'll probably still need to do disk swaps. You can eliminate all disk swaps with the AR Wrapper. @JagChris Edited August 2 by Xebec's Demise 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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