+karri Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 Easter greetings to the ones who happen to celebrate it. Several years ago I had some email contacts with Scott Adams, the author of a well known text adventure called "Pirate Cove". This game became an easter egg for the "Atari Lynx MegaPak I" game collection with his approval. I wanted to see if the game could be ported to 7800 as well. And here it is!!!! piratecove.a78 The game is pretty heavily modified in order to include graphics and sounds in the game. The controls are also a bit different as the 7800 keyboard appears to be "in the works" still. So you have to spell out what you want to do with the joystick instead. The FIRE button is <ENTER> The SELECT button is <WALKTHROUGH> cheat. (The 2nd FIRE button can also be used as a <WALKTHROUGH> cheat.) The reason I added an easy way to play through the game is that the Atari 7800 lacks save game functionality. So the <WALKTHROUGH> is intended to quickly get you to the place you left at during the last play session. Unfortunately the <WALKTHROUGH> does not always work correctly. This is because there is some random elements like the "tide". If you walk into the ocean in high tide you need to know how to swim. Thank you goes to lots of people on the 7800/Programmers forum for pushing me in the right direction. And @gambler172 for talking me into coding for the 7800 in the first place. And for testing plus advice. @RevEng for a lovely sfx library. @Pat Brady for sharing the right docs and the joystick driver. @rj1307 for Dragonfly making it possible to run my creations on the real unit. Alexis & Scott Adams for writing the original adventure. Enjoy it! Edit: For the ones who want to look at bits. You know '0' and '1' I also share the sources karri / piratecove / 7800 — Bitbucket 13 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trebor Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 My first computer was a Commodore VIC-20. I played through to completion all five Scott Adams titles: Adventureland, Pirate Cove, Voodoo Castle, Mission Impossible, The Count. Some great memories and times. All were cartridge based. I remember you had to type a POKE command to actually get the game to start - or was it a SYS command (?) - anyhow, pretty cool seeing Pirate Cove ported to the 7800. Thanks for doing that. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gambler172 Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 Hi Karri Simply great. One of my favourit SAGA Adventures. Wow....i would like to see ADVENTURELAND and THE COUNT ? Greetings Walter 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+karri Posted April 15, 2022 Author Share Posted April 15, 2022 Just now, gambler172 said: Hi Karri Simply great. One of my favourit SAGA Adventures. Wow....i would like to see ADVENTURELAND and THE COUNT ? Greetings Walter Don't even dream about it. Wizzy in next! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gambler172 Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 1 minute ago, karri said: Don't even dream about it. Wizzy in next! Sure....if I had such a great Adventure engine in 7800 Basic......? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trebor Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 Very clever to have the verbs and nouns prepopulate. I thought it was going to be character-by-character input. This way, it almost feels like a prelude to the SCUMM interface. *EDIT: For those playing along via emulation, under A7800, real-time save states are created by starting with the F6 key, and they are loaded by starting with the F7 key. Real-time save states are not unique to each game, but you have the entire alphabet (A-Z) and numbers (0-9) at your disposal to utilize (Just avoid leveraging a letter or number bound to a function of the console or controllers). 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Muddyfunster Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 53 minutes ago, Trebor said: or was it a SYS command (?) SYS32592 It's engraved on my brain. This was my favourite along side "Adventure Land". Now folks know why there is a screen in E.X.O. Called "Pirate Cove"... Great job @karri! 5 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ZeroPage Homebrew Posted April 19, 2022 Share Posted April 19, 2022 ZeroPage Homebrew is playing Pirate Cove on tomorrow's stream LIVE on Twitch, hope you can join us! Tue Apr 19 @ 6PM PT | 9PM ET | 1AM GMT+1Day WATCH: https://www.twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew/ Games: Baby Pac-Man (2019 Retail | 7800) by by Bob DeCrescenzo @PacManPlus and Kurt Woloch @Kurt_Woloch Pirate Cove (2022 Final | 7800) by Karri Kaksonen @karri (WATCH AT 1080P60 FOR BEST QUALITY) 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+karri Posted April 19, 2022 Author Share Posted April 19, 2022 Nice! Pirating rules! Me as Captain Hook in the Peter Pan musical last summer. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gambler172 Posted April 19, 2022 Share Posted April 19, 2022 8 hours ago, karri said: Nice! Pirating rules! Me as Captain Hook in the Peter Pan musical last summer. This would be a great label ? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mksmith Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 This is fantastic - well done! 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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