solo/ng Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 I think +Adam+ is too overloaded for that. When human cloning tech is done, we will clone +Adam+ for that task ; ). ps. +Adam+ I love read ur news/reports. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gorgh Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 (edited) hello folks, I've noticed that our game is not playable due to fact, that the main character tends to fall down and it is quite iritating, I've fixed that by adding long platforms at the bottom of the page, I hope it helps, cheersdownload link:http://atarionline.pl/forum/?PostBackAction=Download&AttachmentID=9011 Edited May 18, 2017 by gorgh 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 I kind of like the blocky look - it looks as if it were a Time Pilot for Intellivision port. Or Lynx. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 I think +Adam+ is too overloaded for that. When human cloning tech is done, we will clone +Adam+ for that task ; ). ps. +Adam+ I love read ur news/reports. But then you have to clone KAZ also, since he had/has the same problem as Adam and thats why he is not very active anymore at atarionline... My personal / extremely subjective impression of the games: Crazy Cat: nice game, good controls, good gfx - but I am missing some enemies. And errm, after level 1 (without collecting everything), I got the congratulations screen and did return to the title, so it is much too short... Time Pilot: great gfx, unusual controls (for me!), never played this game in the arcades or on any other platform; need some training here, since I do not get far / get killed very often and fast (game over in less than a minute) and fight with the controls (usual: left turns left, right turns right, etc. but thats not the case here)... Headache: hmmm, I never use SpartaDOS or SDX, so it looks like this game is unplayable for me unless Homesoft creates a single XEX fileversion of it (or I find a way to use the batchfiles under a DOS 2.x)... Hot & Cold Adventure: good gfx (in level 1, I do not like them in level 2), good controls, but a little hard for me, always lose a life at the same spots, but thanks to the video at aol I know how to get further now, I think. This seems to be more of a jump-around and collect coins type game, thus a platformer and not a jump&run; would be cool to have some more elements or features from Super Mario (e.g. jump on the enemies to kill them)... Vox Regis: an economic simulation a la Kaiser, Santa Paravia, (german) or Ham(m)urabi, Kingdom, Safryland (english) and many others, alas completely in polish language and therefore unplayable for me. Hopefully an english version will be available someday... Black Rescue: simple but adequate gfx, good controls, seems very easy (too easy?) to me; row your boat to the right side of the first part of the screen and magically appear on the second part of the screen below, rescue a man there, wait until the helicopter is gone in the 1st part of the screen (it cannot reach the 2nd part of the screen) and row back to the left of the screen. When done, repeat. Looking forward to many more surprises at the next Wapniak party (or at Silly Venture party)... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 Or Lynx. Nah.... there we had better gfx Lynx could be 102x160 in portrait mode, Blitter for the sprites including colission detection.... or use landscape 160x102 but having the score panel on the side Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drac030 Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 Headache: ... Homesoft creates a single XEX fileversion of it I seriously hope that it is impossible: batch interpretation requires the SDX library, the SDX library is on the cartridge, and the cartridge is banked. I guess it would be much easier to create a standalone batch interpreter mimicking the behaviour of the SDX command processor. But it seems even easier to just run SDX. Your choice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 crazy cat has many problems on NTSC but it looks like the coders could easily fix though... played it all the way through anyway... nice game Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEtalGuy66 Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 f*cking awesome.. Any chance of a 5200 version of Time Pilot? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle22 Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 I can't read Polish either, but I don't complain, or worse yet feel entitled to an English version. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEtalGuy66 Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 I cant get TPILOT.EX_ to run on a real NTSC machine. TPILOT16.EXE runs great on my NTSC Rapidus 130xe... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 (edited) it runs... try using a loader... Edited May 19, 2017 by _The Doctor__ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 Made it to 2077 - 52,000. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEtalGuy66 Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 What loader works? It doesnt work using X TPILOT.EX_ from the SDX command line.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 I just stuck it into a DOS 2 file and it worked fine. Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 Weird - with it running there seems no usage of low Ram from $600-$1FFF (unless it clears it all?) Looking at the load sequence, you'd think it'd be fine with almost all loaders... maybe it stomps over some z-page stuff? EXE: Loading program 0006-3E89 to 6000-9E83EXE: Loading program 3E8E-3F1D to 5C00-5C8FEXE: Loading program 3F22-4117 to 7C00-7DF5EXE: Loading program 411C-411D to 02E2-02E3EXE: Jumping to 5C00EXE: Loading program 4122-4247 to 2000-2125EXE: Loading program 424C-5C4B to 3000-49FFEXE: Loading program 5C50-664F to 4C00-55FFEXE: Loading program 6654-6655 to 02E2-02E3EXE: Jumping to 2000EXE: Loading program 665A-698D to 2000-2333EXE: Loading program 6992-8EDF to 2338-4885EXE: Loading program 8EE4-98ED to 4900-5309EXE: Loading program 98F2-9913 to BF00-BF21EXE: Loading program 9918-9938 to BF40-BF60EXE: Loading program 993D-995C to BF80-BF9FEXE: Loading program 9961-9975 to BFC0-BFD4EXE: Loading program 997A-99B7 to AB82-ABBFEXE: Loading program 99BC-9A7B to AC00-ACBFEXE: Loading program 9A80-9F22 to AD00-B1A2EXE: Loading program 9F29-A7EA to B200-BAC1EXE: Loading program A7EF-A7F0 to 02E0-02E1EXE: Launching at 2000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle22 Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 Both TPILOT and TPILOT16 load fine from my Ultimate cart, but since I have an un-accelerated 802, the timing is way off. Also some graphic corruption on the 16 bit one. The 8 bit one works fine. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 Both TPILOT and TPILOT16 load fine from my Ultimate cart, but since I have an un-accelerated 802, the timing is way off. Also some graphic corruption on the 16 bit one. The 8 bit one works fine. That's the quirk. There's an optimized version for non Atari hardware, but there is no optimized version for original Ataris. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 (edited) I just tried apeloader and it worked fine..Ultimate cart loader , fine ..... I will try some others.... dos 2 is fine I guess my project for today will be.... see what DOS / loader runs Timepilot... most of us got lucky it seems Edited May 19, 2017 by _The Doctor__ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEtalGuy66 Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 (edited) Ok. Just confirmed it.. The 8bit version does run from the DOS 2.5 menu on a bone-stock 800xl. Guess I need to find a better loader menu for my floppy... Edited May 19, 2017 by MEtalGuy66 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miker Posted May 20, 2017 Share Posted May 20, 2017 Headache: hmmm, I never use SpartaDOS or SDX, so it looks like this game is unplayable for me unless Homesoft creates a single XEX fileversion of it (or I find a way to use the batchfiles under a DOS 2.x)... Yesterday I spoke with Pirx about making more "compact" version of Headache. Let's see what he can do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEtalGuy66 Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 Hi, im one of TimePilot coders. Final version should arrive soon. It going to have almost all missing stuff so far (like enemy bombs/rockets, squadrons, better enemy movement, different balance, airscrew animations). Global pacing (velocity) is slower because of lower playfield (it could be same as original). When the game is done we will release second .XEX with arcade pacing for TimePilot veterans. Our goal is to have TimePilot A8 version close to original as possible and running on Atari8 xl/xe 64k and of course to have best 8 bit conversion on Atari TimePilot should run without problems (pacing is a bit different but is fully playable); final version will have few tweaks for NTSC. This is an excellent game. Best to come out in a long time. Please continue the development. The game play mechanics are fine, as far as I'm concerned. With a comfortable controller, I can make it through several repetitions of all 5 time periods. It is challenging, but not at all unplayable. There is definitely room for increased enemy action and difficulty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pirx Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 Yesterday I spoke with Pirx about making more "compact" version of Headache. Let's see what he can do. So far so good, copied makebat.py to makepas.py, will see what happens out of it p. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNameOfTheGame Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 hello folks, I've noticed that our game is not playable due to fact, that the main character tends to fall down and it is quite iritating, I've fixed that by adding long platforms at the bottom of the page, I hope it helps, cheers download link: http://atarionline.pl/forum/?PostBackAction=Download&AttachmentID=9011 Nice game! I'm really enjoying it! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted June 8, 2017 Share Posted June 8, 2017 (edited) Just played this for the first time on real hardware today. I don't know if this was already mentioned in the thread here. Everything is working as expected except I'm getting graphic garbage on the first blue scanline (sky/background) of the play screen. The garbage is always located directly in vertical line with the player's ship or text that's displayed in the middle of the screen (level text, etc.). I'm playing on an unmodded NTSC 800XL. This doesn't show up in Altirra for me. Edited June 8, 2017 by MrFish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miker Posted June 8, 2017 Share Posted June 8, 2017 (edited) It's known issue. In fact the game was prepared for Wapniak 2016 party but due to some mysterious circumctances it hasn't been finished enough to show it publicly. This year guys put the stuff together and released the game. Unfortunately, it's still party version, and some things are missing, and there are some issues as well. So - stay tuned and wait for the final version. Edited June 8, 2017 by miker 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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