Dutchman2000 Posted January 28, 2021 Share Posted January 28, 2021 Here is an earlier version dated 9-7-83. In both bin and car formats. Rockball (9-7-83).bin Rockball (9-7-83).car 6 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dutchman2000 Posted January 28, 2021 Author Share Posted January 28, 2021 And here is the 6-7-83 version on autobooting disk. Rockball (6-7-83).ATR 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Level42 Posted January 28, 2021 Share Posted January 28, 2021 (edited) Nice, thanks ! Gee, I wonder what game inspired this ! Here's a video of it..... would be nice if someone would add sound EDIT: The ATR file I downloaded HAS sound..... Edited January 28, 2021 by Level42 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted January 28, 2021 Share Posted January 28, 2021 The 9-7 rom is weird. It seems to be exactly the same as the cartridge that was found (with roms labeled final) but the first half of the rom is empty or has been zeroed out. Maybe this is where some copy protection went? The roms play exactly the same otherwise and the rest of the code is exactly the same too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kr0tki Posted November 21, 2021 Share Posted November 21, 2021 (edited) I had some time to finally examine the ROM dumps. Turns out, Rockball is a 12 KB game. The final ROM dump of Rockball (published here) contains the same data in the 1st and 2nd 4 KB blocks. The 9-7 proto posted above differs from the final ROM only in that the 1st 4 KB is empty (zeros). So in reality it is the exact same version as the final one. As a side note, is Sept. 7th the correct date for this prototype? I'm seeing at AtariProtos that the 9/7/83 prototype is described as different from the final version, which conflicts with my findings. Which entry at AtariProtos corresponds to the ROM posted above? Edited November 21, 2021 by Kr0tki 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 Any chance someone could make an XEX/ATR of Rockball with no extra lives and only 3 lives to start with? Thank you https://a8.fandal.cz/detail.php?files_id=7332 We're playing a few games that have not been played before in the High Score Club... https://forums.atariage.com/topic/352304-hsc10-round-11-new-to-the-hsc-repton-more/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 Go for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 On 11/21/2021 at 4:56 PM, Kr0tki said: I had some time to finally examine the ROM dumps. Turns out, Rockball is a 12 KB game. The final ROM dump of Rockball (published here) contains the same data in the 1st and 2nd 4 KB blocks. The 9-7 proto posted above differs from the final ROM only in that the 1st 4 KB is empty (zeros). So in reality it is the exact same version as the final one. As a side note, is Sept. 7th the correct date for this prototype? I'm seeing at AtariProtos that the 9/7/83 prototype is described as different from the final version, which conflicts with my findings. Which entry at AtariProtos corresponds to the ROM posted above? I just saw this, I don't think that date is right since I have this version listed as having the zeroed out 4K and it doesn't have a date on it: http://www.atariprotos.com/8bit/software/rockball/unknown2.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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