Sails of Doom, new multijoy game

[Mathy]

Hello Steve

 

The joystick ports are placed at an angle to each other. All you can do is use (short) joystick extension cords, since you'll need a flexible connection. Unless you want to place one multijoy interface on top of the other (like a pie). In that case you'll need supports to hold both multijoy interfaces together. In which case you could choose to use two supports to connect both multijoy interfaces to the hub. The resulting hardware would look kinda like some kind of spaceship from Star Wars of StarTrek.

 

Sincerely

 

Mathy

[_The Doctor__]

to stack disks?

 

just use the d sub screw holes and maybe 3 or four metal or plastic strips with the appropriate hole drill in both ends, simple to do.

[Bartodziej]

On 10/15/2018 at 5:27 PM, R0ger said:

Finally I can announce my new multijoy game, Sails of Doom, is finished. It was released on FLOP62, discmag of Atariklub.cz.

 

You can get it from the magazine here: http://flop.atariportal.cz/index.en.php

You can discuss other magazine related stuff here: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/283991-flop-62-new-issue-of-the-floppy-disk-magazine

 

Here I want to show you the game itself, and answer any questions.

 

Basically it's a multijoy game for 2-8 players. You control small ship, and shoot other players. There is detailed guide on FLOP62.

The game does support NTSC. It is also playable in 2 players without multijoy, but it's quite watered-down experience. For the proper mayhem get 8 players.

 

Here are some pictures:

 

 

 

[Ray Gillman]

On 10/15/2018 at 6:47 PM, Mathy said:

Hello guys

 

Krupkaj makes nice ones. And I hope HardwareDoc will finish his UltraJoyPro interface. UltraJoyPro is an intelligent version of the multijoy interface. He's using my idea to cascade multiple interfaces together. That way, you could plug multiple UltraJoyPro four port interfaces together to get eight, twelve or sixteen player versions. You wouldn't have to solder a zillion small parts together and you don't need to buy an 8 port interface if most of the time you can't even get 5 people together. But if you bring your four port UltraJoyPro to a meeting and if other people do so too, you can plug your interfaces together to play an 8 or more player game. The UltraJoyPro interface will have more features, but I forgot all but the one I like best (because it's my idea )

 

Sincerely

 

Mathy

That is a fantastic idea because all I really want is four ports anyway. Multiplay games are so much fun it's almost the inner-true purpose of games.

Edited November 28 by Ray Gillman

[Ray Gillman]

On 1/9/2019 at 7:25 PM, Mathy said:

Hello Steve

 

The joystick ports are placed at an angle to each other. All you can do is use (short) joystick extension cords, since you'll need a flexible connection. Unless you want to place one multijoy interface on top of the other (like a pie). In that case you'll need supports to hold both multijoy interfaces together. In which case you could choose to use two supports to connect both multijoy interfaces to the hub. The resulting hardware would look kinda like some kind of spaceship from Star Wars of StarTrek.

 

Sincerely

 

Mathy

I would just use rubber bands around something if I wanted to stack them but nevermind what I think, I've built stuff that looks like birds nests stapled to a wood plank with a staplegun. Yeah I'm that guy!