Astrosmash - Super Pro - FREE

[intvdave]

Astrosmash does not need upgrading. Just the ability to start at a higher level. Get it for free at: http://intellivision.us/roms.php

[+fdr4prez]

Thanks, Dave!

[Rev]

Nice!

[Peripheral]

Thanks for all the game updates!

 

Most work as advertised, but for some reason Super Pro Astrosmash crashes when I try to configure a starting score.

 

It's .bin size (16384) is basically double that of the other Astrosmashes I have (astrosmash, astrosmash competition

and astrosmash/meteor, which are all 8192).  Perhaps something went awry in the build?  Or the standard .cfg is not correct?

Can you please take a look?

 

thanks!

[+JasonlikesINTV]

This is awesome.  I once broke 600,000, but it took a very long time and destroyed my hands.  I haven't had the motivation to play it much due to the slow pace.  I guess now I can get back to enjoying some Astrosmash 🙂

[Peripheral]

I played around some to try and narrow down the crash I'm seeing.

 

It seems to happen consistently if I try to enter an initial score starting with '1'.

Other digits sometimes work, sometimes not.

 

Here's a bit of the jzintv crash output:

 

jzintv:  Initializing Master Component and peripherals...
active x: 0, 159, 8 active y: 4 195, 16
ay8910:  Automatic sliding-window setting: 9
CP-1610          [0x0000...0x0000]
PSG0 AY8914      [0x01F0...0x01FF]
[Graphics]       [0x0000...0x0000]
[Sound]          [0x0000...0x0000]
Scratch RAM      [0x0100...0x01EF]
System RAM       [0x0200...0x035F]
EXEC ROM         [0x1000...0x1FFF]
Pad Pair 0       [0x01F0...0x01FF]
STIC             [0x0000...0x007F]
STIC (alias)     [0x4000...0x403F]
STIC (alias)     [0x8000...0x803F]
STIC (alias)     [0xC000...0xC03F]
STIC (BTAB)      [0x0200...0x02EF]
GROM/GRAM        [0x3000...0x3FFF]
GRAM (alias)     [0x7800...0x7FFF]
GRAM (alias)     [0xB800...0xBFFF]
GRAM (alias)     [0xF800...0xFFFF]
[Event]          [0x0000...0x0000]
[Rate Ctrl]      [0x0000...0x0000]
ICart   [R   ]   [0x5000...0x6FFF]
ICart            [0x0000...0x0000]
CP-1610 Snoop    [0x0200...0x035F]
Starting jzIntv...
HALT! PC=5029 Instr =    1603889 MS =   136921701] Snd:[  0.00%  0  2.000]
 

 

[+bhall408]

Has anyone ever done an Astrosmash patch/hack that lets you start a new game without hitting reset?

 

ie, make it so that at "Game Over" you can press a fire button (or perhaps a menu choice) to restart the game.

 

Maybe that wasn't done so you wouldn't accidentally start a new game w/o taking note of your final score? Or maybe to keep within the confines of not needing additional ROM chips (cost savings?)

 

A bonus (and way to solve the issue of accidentally starting a new game/not seeing your final score) would be to add a title screen that can display high score, sort of like how there are Atari 2600 mods that have done that.

    

 

 

Would be much nicer when playing with modern game controllers, and for people that don't realize you need to reset the hardware.

[Morpheus]

Me like it!🤠🤠🤠

Thank to you Dave!🙏🙏🙏🙏

[First Spear]

On 8/22/2022 at 2:40 PM, intvdave said:

Astrosmash does not need upgrading. Just the ability to start at a higher level. Get it for free at: http://intellivision.us/roms.php

You might want to get your shop setup for buymeacoffee. Even when you do free stuff, it might be cool to take a mini donation to get a cup of something to drink. The folks at Intv Prime just started one, so why not you?

 

 

[intvdave]

On 4/3/2024 at 11:50 PM, First Spear said:

You might want to get your shop setup for buymeacoffee.

 

Cool idea. Thanks for the suggestion! The roms I do sell supports the site. For those that download the free games, I just hope they play them and enjoy them. An email saying they enjoyed it would be the best payment. I can dream