AD&D: Tower of Mystery

[Tempest]

Now that Tower of Mystery has been released on Atari 50, I thought I'd post my write up here to help people play the game.

 

I want give a shout out to @Thomas Jentzsch for looking through the code and figuring out how a lot of this game worked!  I wouldn't have been able to do this without him.

 

http://www.atariprotos.com/2600/software/towerofmystery/towerofmystery.htm

[+wavemotion]

That's very cool, Tempest!

From your page: "The second copy was found in the possession of programmer Jane Terjung who graciously allowed it to be preserved and distributed"

 

I assume distributed means just on Atari 50 (that is - no public dump is available... right?).

 

Any details on the 2K RAM access / banking on this cart?  I'm as much interested in that as I would be on the game itself.

 

 

[Tempest]

2 minutes ago, wavemotion said:

That's very cool, Tempest!

From your page: "The second copy was found in the possession of programmer Jane Terjung who graciously allowed it to be preserved and distributed"

 

I assume distributed means just on Atari 50 (that is - no public dump is available... right?).

 

Any details on the 2K RAM access / banking on this cart?  I'm as much interested in that as I would be on the game itself.

 

 

Well when I made that page the original plan was that the rom would be 'unofficially' available on the usual pages but that's changed unfortunately.  I'm not happy about it, but I have no say in the matter.  I'll have to update the page I guess.

 

Hardware specs aren't my thing.  Maybe @Thomas Jentzsch knows?

[Thomas Jentzsch]

10 minutes ago, Tempest said:

Well when I made that page the original plan was that the rom would be 'unofficially' available on the usual pages but that's changed unfortunately.  I'm not happy about it, but I have no say in the matter.  I'll have to update the page I guess.

 

Hardware specs aren't my thing.  Maybe @Thomas Jentzsch knows?

 16K E7 (same as e.g. Masters of the Universe)

[+bfstats]

Thanks to you and Thomas for the excellently detailed write-up. This game rivals the SwordQuest series, and I dare say is probably much better.

 

Need the ROM, Dude! If it does indeed use the same bankswitching as He-Man, Eckhard Stolberg's dumping software should recognize it.

 

[Tempest]

14 minutes ago, bfstats said:

Thanks to you and Thomas for the excellently detailed write-up. This game rivals the SwordQuest series, and I dare say is probably much better.

 

Need the ROM, Dude! If it does indeed use the same bankswitching as He-Man, Eckhard Stolberg's dumping software should recognize it.

 

It's a very deep game, especially for the 2600.  It's just a shame it was never finished.  I imagine there are still things hiding in the game that we've missed.

[classicgamer74]

Don't forget that you can play it on the DLC of Atari 50.  I haven't got around to playing it yet.