three2em Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 For those (like me) who weren't quick enough to pick up a copy of Star Castle, D Scott Williamson has released a zip of the files that came included on the CD in the box, including ROMs, source code, et cetera. I'll be down in my basement the next couple of weeks going over this stuff. Link: http://starcastle2600.blogspot.com/p/star-castle-2600-story.html(scroll down to The Result) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 I'll be down in my basement the next couple of weeks going over this stuff. If you are interested, you can also download the Star Castle Arcade source code. Check my blog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andromeda Stardust Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 Just to clarify to people this is not related to the Star Castle Arcade recently released in the AtariAge store. both games were worked on independently, and sadly The Kickstarter ended in May 2012 and I only started collecting Atari around the same time. Star Castle 2600 was developed by an old hat Atari programmer, using 8k bankswitching and no illegal ops, just like they would have used back in the day. He did however manage to produce a run of cool transparent carts with flashing LEDs. Totally epic but there's no way to emulate the LEDs on a Harmony cart or in Stella. Star Castle Arcade is available now in the AtariAge store although I think the boxes may be gone soon if not already. I followed the development of both. Arcade obviously has a lot more polish but uses a 32kb Melody cart for DPC+ and high score saving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 (edited) Star Castle Arcade is available now in the AtariAge store although I think the boxes may be gone soon if not already.AFAIK Albert has made quite a lot of boxes for SCA, so they should not be gone too soon. Arcade obviously has a lot more polish but uses a 32kb Melody cart for DPC+ and high score saving.No DPC+, just pure 6507 assembly. Due to that, the cart used is a stripped down version of the Melody cart. Edited November 24, 2015 by Thomas Jentzsch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andromeda Stardust Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 AFAIK Albert has made quite a lot of boxes for SCA, so they should not be gone too soon. No DPC+, just pure 6507 assembly. Due to that, the cart used is a stripped down version of the Melody cart. Yeah, sorry. Zippy was the one that the boxes sold out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 Star Castle Arcade is available now in the AtariAge store although I think the boxes may be gone soon if not already. I followed the development of both. Arcade obviously has a lot more polish but uses a 32kb Melody cart for DPC+ and high score saving. As Thomas mentioned, Star Castle Arcade is NOT a DPC+ game, and does not use any additional hardware to do things the original 2600 wasn't capable of. The board does allow games to write to the cart, though, so Star Castle Arcade uses that capability in order to save high scores. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andromeda Stardust Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 As Thomas mentioned, Star Castle Arcade is NOT a DPC+ game, and does not use any additional hardware to do things the original 2600 wasn't capable of. The board does allow games to write to the cart, though, so Star Castle Arcade uses that capability in order to save high scores. ..Al Sorry I just assumed it needed the ARM to save on cart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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