Tempest Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 Does anyone know the providence of the three Elf Adventure prototypes that surfaced several years back? Did they come from Warren Robinett himself? The more I dig into this prototype the more questions I have. Also, does anyone know if there's a good dump of the 4/22/83 prototype? The one that's floating around out there was dumped incorrectly. http://www.atariprotos.com/2600/software/elfadventure/elfadventure.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeafAtariFromKansas Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 I have 3 different dates of ELF Adventure which one of 3 prototypes scrambled during testing even runs in either normal or developer settings of Stella. 1) 4/22/83..... scrambled 2) 5/2/83..... worked 3) 5/25/93..... worked I don't know if they have a good dump of first date of prototype available out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted February 3, 2022 Author Share Posted February 3, 2022 4/22 is the bad one. I think I had @Thomas Jentzsch look at it once and he said that the second 2K wasn't dumped, just the first 2K twice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeafAtariFromKansas Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 Look like he created 2 of 3 versions of ELF adventure in same chip (4/23 and 5/25), is it true? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted February 3, 2022 Author Share Posted February 3, 2022 9 hours ago, DeafAtariFromKansas said: Look like he created 2 of 3 versions of ELF adventure in same chip (4/23 and 5/25), is it true? I have no idea. I don't own those prototypes and I don't know where they came from. At this point I'm not even sure if Warren was involved in programming them or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 (edited) On 2/3/2022 at 2:02 AM, Tempest said: 4/22 is the bad one. I think I had @Thomas Jentzsch look at it once and he said that the second 2K wasn't dumped, just the first 2K twice. Nope, the whole dump is broken. It seems like several address lines were not working. Each 64 bytes block contains of 8x the same 8 bytes. Edited February 4, 2022 by Thomas Jentzsch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted February 4, 2022 Author Share Posted February 4, 2022 12 minutes ago, Thomas Jentzsch said: Nope, the whole dump is broken. It seems like several address lines were not working. Each 64 bytes block contains of 8x the same 8 bytes. Sounds like the actual proto itself could be bad then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeafAtariFromKansas Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 6 hours ago, Thomas Jentzsch said: Nope, the whole dump is broken. It seems like several address lines were not working. Each 64 bytes block contains of 8x the same 8 bytes. 6 hours ago, Tempest said: Sounds like the actual proto itself could be bad then. that's why it get corrupted.. On 2/3/2022 at 7:46 AM, Tempest said: I have no idea. I don't own those prototypes and I don't know where they came from. At this point I'm not even sure if Warren was involved in programming them or not. Thanks for input... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4ever2600 Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 Tempest, from what I understand, Joe, John and Sean from the classic gaming expo / video game museum obtained this from Warren himself. Might be able to get more info from them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted February 11, 2022 Author Share Posted February 11, 2022 11 hours ago, 4ever2600 said: Tempest, from what I understand, Joe, John and Sean from the classic gaming expo / video game museum obtained this from Warren himself. Might be able to get more info from them. Oh? Ok I'll ask them about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted February 11, 2022 Author Share Posted February 11, 2022 12 hours ago, 4ever2600 said: Tempest, from what I understand, Joe, John and Sean from the classic gaming expo / video game museum obtained this from Warren himself. Might be able to get more info from them. Yep they came from the DP guys and yes Warren wrote it. That answers my questions. Thanks so much! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4ever2600 Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 No problem man. I specifically remember John telling me the story one CGE year asking Warren, something to the effect of, you've had this in storage all these years and are just telling us about it now?? Lol Not a direct quote mind you, but was still a cool story. Glad to help! Was just in the right place at the right time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted February 11, 2022 Author Share Posted February 11, 2022 BTW John sent me a working version of the 4-22-83 proto Elf Adventure (4-22-83).bin 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted February 11, 2022 Author Share Posted February 11, 2022 BTW anyone remember how to get the other two Elf Adventure prototypes to work with Stella? They both seems to crash but I remember there was a way to get them working. @Thomas Jentzsch Elf Adventure (5-2-83).bin Elf Adventure (5-25-83).bin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 Do you maybe have some developer options enabled? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted February 11, 2022 Author Share Posted February 11, 2022 4 minutes ago, Thomas Jentzsch said: Do you maybe have some developer options enabled? Yep I had randomize zero page enabled for some reason. Removing that fixed it. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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