"Universal Hero" unplayable on ATARI ?

[Lord-Chaos]

This is an old action-adventure game by Mastertronic , I think it was released in 1987 on tape.

 

But I have a problem with the ATARI version.

 

There´s a room with a computer and you have to use a disk to open some sort of force field.

 

In the next room there is the rocket ship fuel you need for your spaceship.

 

This works fine on the Sinclair Spectrum - you can use the disk and enter the password.

 

But the ATARI versions seems to lock , you cannot enter the password , the name from the ID card you find somewhere.

 

Is there a bug in the game or is there something different in the ATARI version ?

 

Thimo

[Avram]

I haven't played this game but do remember reading in the magazine Page 6 / New Atari User that the game contains a bug that doesn't allow you to finish the game.

 

Could this be the start of a thread - hideous bugs in atari software? One that bothered me was in Fued, again published by Mastertronic, that didn't allow you to pick up a certain herb, meaing you couldn't cast one of the spells.

 

Avram

[Lord-Chaos]

I haven't played this game but do remember reading in the magazine Page 6 / New Atari User that the game contains a bug that doesn't allow you to finish the game.

 

Could this be the start of a thread - hideous bugs in atari software?  One that bothered me was in Fued, again published by Mastertronic, that didn't allow you to pick up a certain herb, meaing you couldn't cast one of the spells.

 

Avram

 

I think it is a bug , because the Sinclair Spectrum version is playable , you can enter the password.

 

The ATARI versions seems to crash when you insert the disk.

 

I know the problem with "Feud" , too.Not possible to cast the "Lightning" Spell , because you cannot pick up one herb.

 

I think this is not the case in other versions (C64,Amstrad,16 Bit...)

 

But you can still finish "Feud" , so it is not unplayable -fastest way is too create a zombie somewhere in the path of your enemy.The AI is not good , so he will not avaoid your zombie and die quickly.

 

Thimo

[jindroush]

There´s a room with a computer and you have to use a disk to open some sort of force field.

Is there a bug in the game or is there something different in the ATARI version ?

 

Password is SLARTIBARDFAST and the game is know to be buggy. There's a corrected version out there, though.

[Lord-Chaos]

There´s a room with a computer and you have to use a disk to open some sort of force field.

Is there a bug in the game or is there something different in the ATARI version ?

 

Password is SLARTIBARDFAST and the game is know to be buggy. There's a corrected version out there, though.

 

Yes,this is the password from the ID card and it works fine on the Spectrum.

 

But on the ATARI , you cannot enter anything , the game locks , you can only reset the computer.

 

Mastertronic´s quality control for ATARI products must have been very bad.I don´t think that the programmers made an unplayable game - they made a better graphics (compared to Spectrum) , use software sprites quite well and then their game is unplayable - a bug at the beginning of the game ???

 

Were can I find a corrected version / or which bytes must be changed ? And is this the only bug ??

 

Thimo

[Sikor]

I remember, in any old polish magazine (maybe "Bajtek", maybe "Tajemnice Atari" - I dont remember now...) was way to finish this game. You can write question on polish Atari forum (for egzample: atariarea.nostalgia.pl). Polish sceners knowing english language, so, I think, it is no problem with this problem

[mariusz]

If somebody wants to have repaired version of UNIVERSAL HERO just mail me.