The Big Day (New Releases!)

[ZippyRedPlumber]

The time is now, Introducing "Lyra-Mania Day"

A Day of releases that have been completed and or touched back up. (Think of it like Nintendo's Direct)

 

Lyra the Tenrec is finally declared complete (again) for the 2600. Included in this final release are; box art, manuals, a label & 2 roms of the bin & a26 variety to work on any device that can play 2600 games.

 

Lyra_the_Tenrec.zip

 

Next up, is Lyra Dash. A quick 4k game I made within a week back in September of 2022, didn't release that eariler version until late January 2023. Picked it back up in March to add quality of life additions to make the game easier to play.

 

Instructions on how to play Lyra Dash:

LYRA DASH
Left switch controls the width of the obstacle
Right switch controls the speed of the eyeborgs
Fire makes Lyra jump. Holding up then pressing fire make Lyra perform a super jump.
Joystick controls the speed of the obstacle

 

Good luck & happy score hunting!

 

lyra_dash_2023y_Mar10_0320t.bas.binlyra_dash_2023y_Mar10_0320t.bas.a26

 

Finally despite it being in the 2600 forum, I present to you, the "open-beta" (that how the kidz say nowadays) for Lyra 7800 

 

 

Edited April 21 by ZippyRedPlumber
Forgot to include the one page manuals

[ZippyOasys]

Hi, it's me @ZippyRedPlumber My computer decided to log me off thursday night. When I tried to logged to log back in. It keeps locking me out for 59 minutes.

 

So until this gets resolved. I'll be posting on this account.

[+Random Terrain]

19 hours ago, ZippyOasys said:

Hi, it's me @ZippyRedPlumber My computer decided to log me off thursday night. When I tried to logged to log back in. It keeps locking me out for 59 minutes.

 

So until this gets resolved. I'll be posting on this account.

 

I've had so many problems over the years that I never completely trust the latest computer I'm using. I back up my stuff on external thingies, and have all my usernames/passwords printed out in alphabetical order (by web site name) in a notebook.

[KevKelley]

On 4/22/2023 at 7:47 PM, Random Terrain said:

 

I've had so many problems over the years that I never completely trust the latest computer I'm using. I back up my stuff on external thingies, and have all my usernames/passwords printed out in alphabetical order (by web site name) in a notebook.

Part of what pushed me to do more Atari programming was that my desktop decided to upgrade to the newest Windows. I actually preferred the new version vs the one I had before but I wish I would have known. It completely screwed up the drivers for all my audio recording and I got frustrated trying to fix it so I bought a small tablet to do my game development instead. 

[+Karl G]

On 4/24/2023 at 9:24 AM, KevKelley said:

Part of what pushed me to do more Atari programming was that my desktop decided to upgrade to the newest Windows. I actually preferred the new version vs the one I had before but I wish I would have known. It completely screwed up the drivers for all my audio recording and I got frustrated trying to fix it so I bought a small tablet to do my game development instead. 

Huh. Do you do all of your typing on the touch screen, or do you use an external keyboard?

[KevKelley]

3 hours ago, Karl G said:

Do you do all of your typing on the touch screen, or do you use an external keyboard?

I use a small keyboard that came with it. It is an older Dell tablet. Surprisingly responsive and functional.