LatchKeyKid Posted June 14, 2022 Share Posted June 14, 2022 Well, I'd say you succeeded! About how many notes is that tune before it repeats? I'm curious how much space such a catchy intro (tune and programming) takes up as it's well worth it compared with other additions. Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/280211-amoeba-jump/page/7/#findComment-5073361 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dionoid Posted June 16, 2022 Author Share Posted June 16, 2022 On 6/14/2022 at 10:56 PM, LatchKeyKid said: I'm curious how much space such a catchy intro (tune and programming) takes up as it's well worth it compared with other additions. The music data itself is 64 bytes, where each byte contains the notes for both voices combined (voice 0 the lower 4 bits and voice 1 the upper 4 bits). And the code to play the music is 98 bytes. So that's 162 bytes all together, which means that the intro music uses almost 4% of the total 4K game code. 3 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/280211-amoeba-jump/page/7/#findComment-5074454 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LatchKeyKid Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 That's amazing for the catchyness of the tune with the intro! And that's only 4% of the smaller 4k cart too which makes it even more impressive. Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/280211-amoeba-jump/page/7/#findComment-5074494 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dionoid Posted May 2, 2023 Author Share Posted May 2, 2023 (edited) Yesterday I got my hands on a real nice Aristona CRT Color Television from the late '70s, which turns out to support PAL 50Hz only. So that means I can't play any of my PAL 60Hz homebrew games on this TV 😐 Because I still want to play Amoeba Jump on this retro TV, I decided to adapt the latest version 1.3 of Amoeba Jump to PAL 50Hz. In case anyone is interested, this version can be downloaded here. Enjoy! Edited May 4, 2023 by Dionoid updated link 7 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/280211-amoeba-jump/page/7/#findComment-5248951 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted May 3, 2023 Share Posted May 3, 2023 Very cool about the television, and awesome on updating the game with a proper 50hz PAL version! ..Al 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/280211-amoeba-jump/page/7/#findComment-5249094 Share on other sites More sharing options...
E. King Posted May 25, 2023 Share Posted May 25, 2023 Been playing Amoeba Jump recently and it is a very fun game. It plays great on the 2600 or 7800 and it looks cool on a CRT tv. I was able to manage 12k points last time I played and just thinking about now make me want to play it again. Thank you Dionoid. I will very likely pick it up again when the rom is sold through the VCS store depending on the price. 1 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/280211-amoeba-jump/page/7/#findComment-5259794 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dionoid Posted May 26, 2023 Author Share Posted May 26, 2023 21 hours ago, E. King said: Been playing Amoeba Jump recently and it is a very fun game. It plays great on the 2600 or 7800 and it looks cool on a CRT tv. I was able to manage 12k points last time I played and just thinking about now make me want to play it again. Thank you Dionoid. I will very likely pick it up again when the rom is sold through the VCS store depending on the price. IMO playing on a CRT is still the best, but not everyone has (or wants?) a classic setup at home. Anyway, great to you enjoy one of my games! 2 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/280211-amoeba-jump/page/7/#findComment-5260267 Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex_79 Posted July 5, 2023 Share Posted July 5, 2023 On 5/3/2023 at 1:33 AM, Dionoid said: Because I still want to play Amoeba Jump on this retro TV, I decided to adapt the latest version 1.3 of Amoeba Jump to PAL 50Hz. In case anyone is interested, this version can be downloaded here. Enjoy! I just tried turning on again this old B&W 12" CRT (from the mid '80s) that has been sitting in a closet for a few years and only does 50Hz too, and I thought the PAL 50 Amoeba Jump was perfect for this test! It brings back memories, as when I got my 2600 as a kid, I was rarely allowed to play on the living room color TV, and I mostly played in the kitchen, on a valve B&W set from the '60s, which was already over 20 years old at the time. (I remember that when switched on it only displayed a single bright dot in the middle of the screen, then the image slowly enlarged horizontally and vertically as it warmed up!) 7 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/280211-amoeba-jump/page/7/#findComment-5279418 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted July 5, 2023 Share Posted July 5, 2023 Very cool seeing Amoeba Jump running on that old B&W CRT! Is that actually a television or intended as a computer display? ..Al Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/280211-amoeba-jump/page/7/#findComment-5279419 Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex_79 Posted July 5, 2023 Share Posted July 5, 2023 (edited) It's a TV, from the (now closed) italian "MIVAR" manufacturer. It has 16 presets to store TV channels.😄 https://vintagelectronicsmuseum.blogspot.com/p/il-mivar-12bn4v-e-un-televisore.html Edited July 5, 2023 by alex_79 2 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/280211-amoeba-jump/page/7/#findComment-5279422 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted July 5, 2023 Share Posted July 5, 2023 11 minutes ago, alex_79 said: It's a TV, from the (now closed) italian "MIVAR" manufacturer. It has 16 presets to store TV channels.😄 https://vintagelectronicsmuseum.blogspot.com/p/il-mivar-12bn4v-e-un-televisore.html That's very cool, thank you for the additional information! Pretty wild how that one panel pops out to reveal more controls! ..Al 2 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/280211-amoeba-jump/page/7/#findComment-5279430 Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex_79 Posted July 5, 2023 Share Posted July 5, 2023 (edited) 22 minutes ago, Albert said: Pretty wild how that one panel pops out to reveal more controls! That's to setup the preset channels that you access with the front big numbered dial: you choose a position on the dial, then the green button sets the band (VHFI-VHFIII-UHF), the two black ones marked "sintonia" are used to scan the frequency, and the red button is to save it. Older European TV sets usually had a removable panel with a bank of trimmers and switches, one for each of the presets (like the one in this thread) Edited July 5, 2023 by alex_79 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/280211-amoeba-jump/page/7/#findComment-5279437 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted July 5, 2023 Share Posted July 5, 2023 I remember our old B&W TV had a similar drawer. But with manual dials for each channel, no scan buttons. And even my first, "portable" color TV still had these dials. 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/280211-amoeba-jump/page/7/#findComment-5279526 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted July 6, 2023 Share Posted July 6, 2023 Blasphemy.. Only 16 channels? To think how small that is compared to the number of channels we have access to these days. I remember in Maryland having to use a manual dial to access a station in Baltimore on UHF ( I think) just so I could watch Star Trek. 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/280211-amoeba-jump/page/7/#findComment-5280059 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted July 6, 2023 Share Posted July 6, 2023 23 minutes ago, Shannon said: Blasphemy.. Only 16 channels? That TV I was talking about had only 8 preset channels. Even even though we had a rotary antenna which allowed us to receive programs e.g. from the Netherlands, that was sufficient. 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/280211-amoeba-jump/page/7/#findComment-5280075 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smell Dawg Posted August 8, 2023 Share Posted August 8, 2023 On 5/26/2023 at 7:19 AM, Dionoid said: IMO playing on a CRT is still the best, but not everyone has (or wants?) a classic setup at home. Anyway, great to you enjoy one of my games! Originally purchased Amoeba Jump (and Tower of Rubble) through the VCS store; loved them so much that I also purchased the carts through AtariAge. Thank you so much for making the ROM available, too! Anything I ever had that could be considered a "classic setup" for display is long, long gone though 😅. Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/280211-amoeba-jump/page/7/#findComment-5295968 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalton Posted October 21, 2023 Share Posted October 21, 2023 Just wanted to say that I've discovered the world of homebrews two weeks ago or so and this game is soooo great! At the moment this is my favourite Atari 2600 game. I love everything in it - the character, the colors, the title music, and the gameplay of course. Being a software developer myself, I can't believe it's Dionoid's first program for Atari 2600. Thank you Dionoid! I've been playing it for hours on emulator, but I wanted to run it on the real hardware. Today I soldered a custom cart with "community" version (as well as a few other carts) - here is the process and the result: 3 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/280211-amoeba-jump/page/7/#findComment-5336065 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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