Savetz Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 Charlie Kulas (who programmed the 8-bit version of Up'n Down and Musical Pilot) sent me some disks, which I was able to read. In our interview, Charlie mentioned Leafer Madness, a game that he started to write. It was demo'd at some publisher's booth at CES, and received a couple hundred orders, but the publisher vanished before Charlie finished the game. Well, thanks to him, we now have a playable demo (with music!), and the complete assembly source code. Check it out. Or, someone could dive in and make it a complete game. Some screenshots: I also found some concept graphics for Number Castle, a proposed educational game. Charlie doesn't think he did any code for this one. The ATR-format disk images are attached. Leafer Madness Ramdisk DEMO 1984-07-31.atr Leafer Madness Ramdisk DEMO 1984-07-31.atr Boot with BASIC disabled, it shows a title screen with bouncing letters. Press START. Joystick to control caterpillar. Move the caterpillar around, avoid spiders. Leafer Madness Scroll Demo side A.atr Leafer Madness Scroll Demo side A.atr boots to OS/A+. Many files to explore. According to label, type SCROLL.OBJ then RUN 3100 but that crashes for me. Leafer Madness Scroll Demo side B.atr Leafer Madness Scroll Demo side B.atr boots to OS/A+. Many files to explore. Number Castle Picture.atr Number Castle Picture.atr boots to Koala Micro Illustrator. Several pix on the disk, including Leafer Madness background and Number Castle concept graphics. Leafer Madness Dev Backup #1 1983-12-23.atr Leafer Madness Dev Backup #2 1983-12-23.atr Leafer Madness Dev Backup #3 1983-12-23.atr Leafer Madness Dev Backup #1 1983-12-23.atr Leafer Madness Dev Backup #2 1983-12-23.atr Leafer Madness Dev Backup #3 1983-12-23.atr Many files across these three disks, seems to be Mac 65 source code for Leafer Madness. UPNDOWN unprotected 1984-09-28.atr UPNDOWN unprotected 1984-09-28.atr seems similar to commercial release. Bad sectors 181-198. Didn't worry about them because UPNDOWN is already preserved. Musical Pilot ver 1.6.atr Musical Pilot ver 1.6.atr seems similar to APX release Dig in and post what you discover! -Kevin 14 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinroh Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 Rad Thanks Kevin. I was curious about this when you tweeted about it. I look forward to trying the demo of Leafer Madness it looks trippy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckybuck Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 I can't believe it, Kevin did it again! A game droped as a demo, now can be altered as a game due to the available soure code. So, we are able to make the dream alive. Kevin, again(!) endless thank youuuuuuuuuuu! :-))))) WOW! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 As always, please thank the author for us and a huge thank you to you Kevin for the hard work, time and effort in finding these people and archiving it.. Amazing stuff... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savetz Posted February 15, 2020 Author Share Posted February 15, 2020 (edited) Charlie sent me another batch of disks! In them, we seem to have: - source code, art, and a semi-working demo of unfinished educational software called Discovering Music - source code for a game called Wurmz which I haven't been able to run but might be like the Snake game? - some BASIC and ML development/idea test programs (see disks CK, Utility) - copies of Ballbalzer and Behind Jaggi Lines that require a weird two-step loader to run. (read the disk labels in "other peoples' software.jpg" for instructions) I've only given these a cursory look. As always, let us know what you discover! —Kevin Kulas disks batch 2.zip Edited February 15, 2020 by Savetz 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 T & F Software was the company that was to publish Leafer Madness: https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1984-05/page/n157/mode/2up 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 Nice find. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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