130XE games

[Thelen]

i was reading at the atari 130xe space harrier game, which is great !, but i was thinking what games are special written for the 130xe ?-which need the extra ram

 

TheleN

[Goochman]

Alternate Reality the Dungeon used the extra memory (pretty much sucked playing it without extra memory)

 

Great Game!

[Gunstar]

Yeah, that's the thing, there were quite a few games in the '80's that took advantage of the 128k, like all those mentioned above and more, but those games also worked on 8-bits with less memory, there was just more disk access and/or some things were left out; i.e. Questprobe graphic adventures had cool animations in them that only worked on the 130XE. Alternate Reality the City also used the extra ram if you had it...

[Callipygous]

In the eighties only Word Procs, Databases and Spreadsheets took advantage. In the nineties, alot of Polish/German/Czech stuff uses the extra RAM.

[Avram]

According to reviews I remember, Bop and Wrestle, wrestling game, and Infiltrator, both used the extra memory.

Though I might be wrong.

[capnarrr]

I'm pretty sure some of the later XEGS games (the ones with the odd shaped cartridge) took advantage of this memory. I could never get them to work on 64k ram systems.

[Callipygous]

Flight Simulator II and one or two others were 128K. Still, they should run fine on a stock 800XL or 65E. I kinda messed up my initial reply and agree with the main thing most have said - that some commercial games used the extra memory, but can't recall any that had to be run on a 130XE.

[Mindfield]

The only things I recall requiring a 130XE were a few demos that required the 128k to run. (Mostly those huge but gorgeous page flipping demos like the 8-bit conversion of the ST's "Shiny Bubbles" demo)

[Thelen]

today i opened up my 800XE machine, because the lowest row of the keyboard didn't do anything.. and i looked at the board, and there was standing : 130XE(64x4). is it so that a 800XE/(65XE-XEGS) uses the same board, only missing 2 32KB dram chips ? and if i solder them in ?

 

Thelen

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Originally posted by thelen:

today i opened up my 800XE machine, because the lowest row of the keyboard didn't do anything.. and i looked at the board, and there was standing : 130XE(64x4). is it so that a 800XE/(65XE-XEGS) uses the same board, only missing 2 32KB dram chips ? and if i solder them in ?

 

Thelen

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My 800XE missed the CO25953 (or PAL 16L8) logic chip needed for bankswitching. There was space for the chip but it was replaced with some jumpers. So look on your board for the chip. If it has one, then you can probably just put in the extra ram chips. If it isn't there, you should obtain the CO25953 chip first.

Or if someone publish the schematics of the internal structure of the CO25953 chip, you can build one with normal 74LSxxx chips.

 

Robert

[El Destructo]

Atari Planetarium used the 130XE RAM to store celestial data from the first side of the disk. Then you could flip the disk over to access the help files and never have to flip back.

 

Not strictly a game, but fun nonetheless.